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Unity Technologies has closed a USD181 million series C funding round led by DFJ Growth and including China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital and Max Levchin, joining existing investors that include Sequoia Capital and WestSummit Capital.
DFJ’s Barry Schuler will take a seat on Unity’s board of directors.
“Unity’s platform has revolutionised the game industry by allowing any size studio from Indie to Triple-A to create beautiful and compelling games and experiences and monetise them with their advertising and analytics services,” says Schuler. “Now Unity is poised to accelerate the advance of AR/VR with their unique ‘write once/
Following the UK’s referendum result in favour of leaving the EU, Heritage Financial Services says it is in a strong position to navigate the unchartered waters ahead.
With offices in the UK, Guernsey and Malta, Heritage is well positioned to continue to service European and non-European clients and it should be a case of business as usual.
Whilst it is too early to predict how the relationship between the UK and the EU will be redefined, Guernsey’s own relationship with the UK remains unchanged. Guernsey is and will continue to be outside the EU and third country provisions in
BankerBay, an investment banking platform for M&A and private equity deals around the world, has closed a USD2 million convertible funding round.
Participants in the round included investors from prior rounds as well as new high profile family offices and global leaders in the investment banking industry.
The latest financing round will support BankerBay's continued global expansion, solidifying its presence in major financial markets through the build out of sales, marketing and business development teams in London and New York. In a bid to meet current demand from the corporate and banking worlds, through a combination of strategic partnerships
Law firm Goodwin has appointed Stephen E Lee as partner in the firm’s private equity practice based in Los Angeles.
Lee joins AJ Weidhaas, co-chair of the practice, who expanded Goodwin’s private equity platform to Los Angeles when he moved there last year.
“Steve’s arrival is the latest step in our strategy to bring Goodwin’s premier middle market private equity platform – which is already a recognised leader in Northern California, on the East Coast and abroad in London, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Paris – to our Southern California clients,” says Weidhaas. “Steve’s extensive network and significant experience in
The De Agostini Group and Activa Capital are finalising the acquisition by Activa Capital of a majority position in Atlas For Men, alongside the existing management team.
De Agostini is a family-owned private group active worldwide, with activities in several business areas: publishing, media, gaming and communication, as well as the historic activities in multi-channel publishing and selling. In 1999, the group developed a new business in distance selling, Atlas For Men, led by Marc Delamarre.
In recent years, Atlas For Men has become a European multi-channel leader in the distance selling of outdoor clothing for men, with a
Minella Capital Management (MCM) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in WE Donoghue & Co (WEDCO), a Massachusetts-based registered investment adviser specialising in tactical strategies with over USD1.6 billion in client assets.
Founded in 1986, WEDCO is a pioneer in delivering tactical allocation strategies designed in an effort to generate sustainable income while preserving capital in all market cycles.
WEDCO's strategies are offered via separately managed accounts as well as through the Power Dividend Index Fund and the Power Income Fund. The company's strategies primarily employ proprietary indices developed in conjunction with S-Networks Indexes and S&P Dow Jones
Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm, has appointed three new team members in London.
Livingstone has added to its media and technology sector team with the appointment of Hannah Pettitt as associate director and Christina Franzeskides as analyst, with Ian Guilfoyle joining the industrial sector team as associate.
Pettitt previously worked at Deloitte for three years focusing on a range of sell-side and buy-side transactions.
Franzeskides joins from PwC where she spent three years working with clients in the financial services sector practice before joining the firm’s specialist valuations team.
At Livingstone, both Pettitt and
Demica, a provider of working capital solutions to major corporates and banks, has made further multi-jurisdictional appointments to the firm’s origination team.
Angel Blanco has been appointed as origination director, Enrique Jimenez as senior supply chain finance origination director and Marc Wolf as origination director.
As origination director, Blanco has responsibility for originating receivables finance, trade receivables securitisations and supply chain finance programs mainly for Spanish and Portuguese multinational corporates and financial institutions. As part of Demica’s commitment to offering in-market accessibility to its clients, he will be co-located in Spain and London.
Blanco joins Demica from Santander
Perusa Partners Fund II has completed a majority investment in Senator GmbH & Co KGaA.
Senator, headquartered in Gross-Bieberau, had been owned by Merz-Pharma-Group since 1920.
In the previous financial year 2014/15 Senator generated nearly EUR50 million sales. The company currently employs around 350 people worldwide at the site in Gross-Bieberau, and at its foreign subsidiaries in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, China, and India.
Senator is one of the world’s leading suppliers of merchandising products and writing instruments. In addition to high quality ballpoint pens, the product range also includes mugs, writing cases, and accessories.
“Senator
Lendix has launched what it says is the first European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) dedicated to lending to very small businesses and SMEs.
Lendix SME Loans fund II has received the agreement of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and is the first SME dedicated ELTIF authorised in Europe.
The new European regulation, which gave birth to the ELTIF format and which became applicable by the Member States on 9 December 2015, aims to promote long-term investment in the real economy and fits into the 2020 Capital Markets Union action plan.
"This new fund format, passportable everywhere
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