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Hermes Investment Management’s infrastructure team has acquired an additional 17.1 per cent ownership stake in Southern Water on behalf of clients. This takes Hermes’ overall managed ownership interest to 21 per cent.
Following announcement of the sale of Future Fund’s stake earlier in the year, Hermes has worked collaboratively with multiple parties in order to ensure a positive transaction outcome. Southern Water is responsible for a region encompassing Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and East and West Sussex, supplying water to over 2.4 million people and wastewater services to 4.6 million people. The company operates across the entire water
transcosmos has made an additional investment in Social Gear, a company that provides social media operational support, and now owns 100 per cent of the company.
transcosmos has been providing Social Gear with social media operation and advertising support in multi-languages in Japan and ASEAN countries since first signing a strategic alliance agreement with the company in June 2015. With making Social Gear a wholly owned subsidiary, transcosmos, together with Social Gear, will drive efforts on developing services for Facebook while sharing technology, people and know-how.
transcosmos continues to enhance its services that support client companies’ activities in sales &
The unlisted natural resources debt fundraising market has developed since the financial crisis, with 54 funds closing since 2010 raising a combined USD29 billion.
The most successful year of fundraising occurred in 2013 when 15 funds reached a final close, raising a combined USD11 billion; by comparison, five funds raised just USD0.5 billion in 2014, and nine funds closed in 2015 securing USD5.5 billion of investor capital. Since 2010, 79 per cent (USD23 billion) of investor commitments have gone to funds with a primary focus on energy; vehicles with a diversified approach saw the next highest amount of capital, raising
The Biotechnology Innovation Organisation (BIO) has released a new report – Emerging Therapeutic Company Investment and Deal Trends – highlighting ten years (2006-2015) of biotechnology funding and deal making across five areas: venture capital, IPOs, follow-on public offerings, licensing, and acquisitions.
The report also offers clinical pipeline snapshots to provide context on the degree of industry partnering and the contribution of emerging companies.
“Investment and licensing are the lifeblood of today’s emerging biotechnology companies searching for cures and treatments for patients suffering from devastating and life-threatening diseases,” says Cartier Esham, PhD, BIO’s Executive Vice President, Emerging Companies. “This data will
Stratajet has secured a major USD8 million round of additional investment to grow its booking platform, which provides travellers with real-time and accurate private jet prices.
This latest round of investment, led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investors Playfair Capital and JamJar Investments, brings the total figure raised to date to USD14 million.
The funding has allowed Stratajet to invest in further developing Stratafleet – its intelligent quoting tool which is provided free of charge to aircraft operators – and will support the company’s vision to revolutionise private aviation by solving the industry’s problems of inefficiency and
Clearwater International Denmark has acted as financial advisor to the owners of StarCo in the divestment of major parts of their aftermarket business to German Bohnenkamp.
The StarCo Group has been family owned and expanding for more than 55 years. Today, StarCo has more than 700 colleagues, is represented throughout Europe and has an international manufacturing, assembly and distribution setup. The company delivers tyre and wheel solutions for a wide range of applications worldwide to manufacturers and aftermarket customers – from the smallest wheelbarrow tyre to the largest agricultural or industrial wheels. The StarCo Group had a turnover of more
Content activation platform Showpad has secured USD50 million in Series C funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous investors Dawn Capital and Hummingbird Ventures also participated in the new funding round.
The investment will be used to build on Showpad’s leadership position in the marketplace, accelerate the growth of its sales and marketing teams globally, and further enhance its platform.
The Series C investment comes on the heels of rapid expansion and customer growth for Showpad. The company has been more than doubling revenue for the last four years. With hundreds of customers worldwide, including Johnson & Johnson, GE,
NorthEdge Capital, the private equity firm focused on investing in the North of England, has appointed PwC dealmaker Dan Matkin as Investment Manager.
Matkin spent eight years working at PwC within the company’s Corporate Finance and Assurance divisions. In his role as Assistant Director, Dan led a number of private equity transactions and during the last year oversaw the GBP150 million sale of Poundworld to TPG Capital, the GBP52 million sale of Nexus Rental to Bowmark Capital and the sale of energy solutions provider Mark Group to NYSE-listed Sun Edison.
Educated at Newcastle University and a qualified Chartered Accountant,
Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd (MTSL), a provider of software solutions for online video advertising, telecommunications expense management and billing solutions, has completed a private placement of 648,475 ordinary shares, constituting approximately 7.5 per cent of the Company's outstanding ordinary shares, for an aggregate investment of approximately USD700,000.
The price paid per share of USD1.08 was equal to the closing price of an ordinary share on the NASDAQ Capital Market on Tuesday, 17 May, 2016. The private placement was approved by the Company's shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 16 May, 2016. The proceeds from the private
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Southern Air & Heat by private equity sponsor, MSouth Equity Partners.
Based in the Southeast, Southern Air & Heat is a leading provider of essential maintenance, replacement, and new installation services to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (“HVAC”) market. The company directly serves over 70,000 homeowners throughout its regional footprint.
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