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Aurora Capital’s portfolio company Alltub Group, a manufacturer of collapsible aluminium tubes, has acquired Karl Höll.
Headquartered near Düsseldorf in Germany, Karl Höll is a manufacturer of collapsible aluminium and laminate tubes with annual production capacity of approximately 330 million tubes globally.
The production capacity of the combined group will be approximately two billion tubes a year with annual sales in excess of EUR150 million.
Karl Höll offers a large range of products to major pharmaceutical and cosmetic players across Europe with a specific focus on Germany. The company has two production facilities in Germany equipped with efficient
Lemanik Asset Management, an independent Luxembourg-based asset manager with USD20 billion of assets held in 230 sub-funds, has chosen Linedata’s compliance monitoring software – Linedata Compliance.
To comply with the UCITS and AIFM directives, which impose rigorous controls and strict transparency discipline, asset managers need a risk management system and investment restrictions set-up that can be adapted to changing regulatory requirements and that minimises operational risk.
In view of the strengthening of regulatory constraints and the growing number of funds under its responsibility, Lemanik Asset Management has decided to manage its report production by itself.
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GCA Altium has acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders of Arrow Business Communications, a UK telecommunications provider, on an investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP).
The investment will help secure future M&A activity and fast track growth.
Arrow provides mobile, fixed line and IT support services to approximately 4,000 customers across the UK, including a number of blue chip companies.
The company has achieved significant growth via M&A recently, having completed seven acquisitions in six years, nearly trebling in size as a result.
Arrow’s product offering has developed over time from a mobile-led offering into
Micrima, the Bristol-based breast imaging company and developer of a radiowave breast imaging system, has closed on a new financing round of GBP2.6 million.
The new funding will support accelerated development of its patented MARIA technology, which aims to enable breast screening become safer, more comfortable and more accessible to a larger proportion of the global female population.
The company intends to start the commercialisation of its first system towards the end of this year.
“Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women between the ages of 35 and 55 in Europe and the leading
BlackFin Capital Partners is launching a venture fund focused on FinTech opportunities across Europe.
The venture fund, which will be supported by a new dedicated FinTech team led by Julien Creuzé and Maxime Mandin, will focus on the FinTech sector including all aspects of banking, payments, wealth and asset-management, brokerage, insurance, insurance distribution, financial software and technology, technology related to regulatory requirements, and financial media.
After a first wave of FinTech start-ups mainly focusing on distribution and customer relationship, new ventures are now providing full stack financial services rethinking the whole value chain, BlackFin says.
The fund
Demica, a provider of working capital solutions to major corporates and banks, has appointed Daniel Kustrin as chief technology officer.
Kustrin will be responsible for the firm’s technology needs, including overseeing the growth and development of Demica’s proprietary platform that enables the financing of over USD50 billion of trade receivables each year.
He will play a key role in the growth of the firm as it invests in new product development.
Kustrin joins Demica from Cardano Risk Management where he was global head of technology for development and infrastructure across locations in the UK and the Netherlands.
Law firm Howard Kennedy has kicked off the 2016/17 VCT season with the early launch of the Octopus Titan VCT from Octopus Investments. The new share offer from the UK’s largest venture capital trust is seeking to raise up to GBP120 million for its GBP309 million fund.
It follows last year’s unprecedented success, where Octopus raised GBP100 million in just seven months.
Octopus Titan VCT invests in a portfolio of early stage companies, a number of which have grown to be established house-hold names such as Zoopla Property Group, Graze.com and SwiftKey.
As well as being the first of the 2016/17 season, Octopus Titan
ASIFMA and ICMA have released a “Guide to Infrastructure Financing in Asia”, the first guide of its kind to outline how infrastructure projects can be financed in Asia including through the capital markets.
It is intended to help public authorities, project sponsors, project promoters and issuers interested in raising debt for infrastructure projects in Asia.
The guide is designed to provide practical guidance on raising debt finance through banks and the capital markets, taking into account planning and procurement issues in the transaction process. In particular, the guide focuses on the debt component of financing, rather than equity, and
Roundtree Automotive Group has formed a long-term partnership with Lantern Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Roundtree Capital Partners will focus on the acquisition of high-quality automotive dealerships throughout the US.
Roundtree is the holding company for retail franchises of automotive-related companies extending from California to Louisiana. The formation of Roundtree Capital Partners represents a continuation of a focused approach to acquisitions and building relationships across the automotive industry.
Roundtree’s acquisition strategy is to partner with local entrepreneurial dealership managers who maintain minority equity ownership and have a desire to significantly improve performance.
Six months after creating a consolidation platform in the aeronautical subcontracting sector, Mecadaq Group and Activa Capital have acquired RBDH Marignier, a manufacturer of precision-made gearings with a turnover of EUR8 million.
Located in the Arve Valley, Marignier is an independent subsidiary of the industrial group RBDH.
Its revenues have grown in recent years, notably thanks to partnerships with leading clients such as Zodiac Aerospace, Somfy, Dura Automotive Sytems, Alkan and Hutchinson.
Mecadaq Group has a turnover of EUR20 million in aeronautical subcontracting, mainly from high-precision aerostructural manufacturing, such as aircraft doors for civil aircraft manufacturers Airbus and
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