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High Access Maintenance, the Manchester headquartered ‘working-at-height’ specialist, has secured a GBP3.3 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to pursue further growth across the UK.
Founded in 2005 by chief executive Niel Bethell, the business carries out at-height work for major property management firms including CBRE, Savills and Allied London.
Generating turnover of GBP5m through its planned project and reactive services, services include roof, gutter and lighting maintenance and high level cleaning, glazing and coating services.
Bethell and his management team already employ the highest number of at-height operatives in the North West and plan to
Global law firm White & Case has advised Avast Software on its agreement to acquire New York Stock Exchange-listed AVG Technologies, a developer of business, mobile and PC device security software applications, for a total consideration of USD1.3 billion.
“White & Case has forged a close relationship with Avast in recent years by advising on a number of key transactions, including the initial private equity investment by Summit Partners in 2010 and the minority investment by CVC Capital Partners in 2014,” says White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw, who led the firm’s deal team. “Advising on this exciting acquisition is
Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risks such as accident or loss of employment, has closed its Series A investment round, raising its target of GBP3 million.
NVM Private Equity invested GBP2 million in early June 2016 to complete the round after earlier investments from an existing institutional shareholder.
The cash injection provides a timely boost for Lending Works, which is on the brink of launching its new Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA), in addition to confirming new partnerships, announcing key hires and introducing new loan products as part of the firm’s ambitious growth
France-based SME lending marketplace Lendix has received its formal CNMV accreditation to operate as a P2P lending platform in Spain.
In April 2016, Lendix completed a Series B financing round of EUR12 million led by major institutional investors including CNP Assurances, with the objective to become a leading Continental Europe actor of P2P SME financing with major ambitions in France, Italy and Spain.
The Spanish entity will be the first Lendix international market to open. It will target financing of credits to SME, for amounts ranging from EUR30,000 to EUR2 million, duration of 18 to 60 months and at
Black Swan Data has closed its Series B funding, raising a total of GBP6.2 million. The round sees Albion Ventures join initial institutional investors Blackstone and Mitsui, to help further accelerate Black Swan’s international growth and expansion of its product platform, ‘The Nest’.
Founded in 2011 by Steve King (CEO) and Hugo Amos (CSO), Black Swan has achieved outstanding growth based on its unique capability of applying big data and predictive data science techniques to consumer marketing.
It works with many of the world's leading consumer-focused brands including PepsiCo, Vodafone, Samsung, Disney and Panasonic, to help them think differently
Less than a year after the creation of its buy-and-build platform, Alliance Etiquettes has acquired Imprimerie D3, its fourth build-up acquisition.
Founded in 1987, Imprimerie D3 is located in Cépie, in the Languedoc-Roussillon Midi-Pyrénées region, in the department of Aude.
Led by Anthony Gleize, the company has 16 professionals.
Imprimerie D3 joins the Alliance Etiquettes Group, chaired by Olivier Laulan and hitherto composed of Groupe Laulan, Groupe Enes and Maumy Impression.
Laulan says: "We are delighted to welcome the Imprimerie D3 team to the Alliance Etiquettes Group thereby strengthening our presence in this important French wine region.
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Marc Russell-Jones as head of business development for EMEA.
Russell-Jones will be responsible for driving the growth of MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions across hedge funds, fund of funds and private equity/real estate funds in the EMEA region. These solutions include fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, custody, depository, trustee, fund of hedge fund financing, FX and wider banking services.
Formerly head of asset manager sector solutions for the Nordics and UK at State Street, Russell-Jones brings over 15 years’ experience from business development roles
BGF’s (Business Growth Fund) South West team, based in Reading and Bristol, has invested GBP12 million in Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group (SSW) to support the acquisition of Bristol based Avonline Satellite Services Holdings (ASSH).
Following the acquisition, SSW, which is headquartered in Bicester, will become the largest satellite broadband operator in the UK with significant economies of scale in terms of purchasing power of satellite broadband spectrum. The acquisition will see its customer base expanded to circa 35,000 throughout 31 countries in Europe.
A new GBP10 million investment comes on top of a GBP2 million investment made by BGF
Private equity firm Altus Capital Partners has named Heidi Goldstein as Partner.
Goldstein has been a member of the Altus Capital investment team since March 2006, most recently as a Principal, and has been actively involved in many of the firm’s investments during this period. She currently serves on the Board of International Imaging Materials, Inc, Rocla Concrete Tie, Inc. and Nichols Portland, LLC.
Russell J Greenberg, Managing Partner, says: “Heidi’s promotion to Partner is in recognition of her many contributions in successfully sourcing and managing investments in the Altus Capital portfolio.” Greg L. Greenberg, Senior Partner, added, “We are
Prestige Capital Management has launched its Commercial Finance Opportunities Fund on the Sweden-based Mutual Funds Exchange (MFEX) platform and has launched a dedicated Swedish Krona (SEK) hedged share class.
The fund aims to achieve consistent absolute returns in most market conditions, using a diverse portfolio that carefully manages individual client and sector asset allocation risk. Prestige targets long term, consistent risk-adjusted returns with low systemic or market risk.
Target returns are 5-7 per cent per annum, with a target volatility of 1 per cent per annum.
By investing in a diverse portfolio of specialist loans, the fund aims
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