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Motion Equity Partners is to sell pet stores retailer Arcaplanet Group to the Permira Funds.
Arcaplanet Group was founded in 1995 by Michele Foppiani, who still runs the Company as CEO. The Group operates a chain of circa 150 stores which sell over 10,000 SKUs, ranging from pet food to accessories and to healthcare products. The Group has also developed its portfolio of four different owned brands: Start, Expecial, Next and HiFish. In 2014, Arcaplanet Group launched its online retail activity.
Over the recent years, Arcaplanet Group has built its successful growth story through the new stores opening (from
– a Polish market specialist in advertising and marketing technology. The growth round is a combination of a capital increase and acquisition of shares from Dirlango, a company controlled by Łukasz Wejchert and Maciej Żak. Innova Capital is continuing to increase its exposure to the fast growing tech market.
“As part of our investment strategy, we increasingly back innovative companies with a clear technological DNA, and high growth potential. Netsprint with its leading marketing position and scalable platform approach fits well into our investment criteria. We are hugely impressed by the Netsprint team and their fast product innovations. We believe that
HookLogic has secured an investment from LUMA Capital Partners, the recently formed venture capital fund of LUMA Partners, an investment bank known for its strategic industry maps known as LUMAscapes. HookLogic is one of the first investments for the fund.
In a recent blog post, LUMA explained the reasoning behind the investment, citing HookLogic as “leading the industry in three market trends that we are watching closely: e-commerce properties transitioning to media companies, results-driven advertising versus proxies, and mobile growth.” The post went on to note that HookLogic is “one of the few companies powering a true marketplace at scale
The Partners of Lonsdale Capital Partners, Alan Dargan, Ross Finegan and David Gasparro, have closed the firm’s first fund, Lonsdale Capital Partners LP, at its target and hard-cap amount of GBP110 million.
The fund reached its final close after nine months of fundraising.
Lonsdale’s fund will continue to invest at the smaller end of the mid-market, in UK and European companies with an enterprise value of between GBP10 million-GBP50 million. Lonsdale will invest GBP10-15 million of equity (including add-on acquisitions) per transaction, taking a majority stake in strong, proven businesses.
Between 2008 and late 2015, Lonsdale invested on
Schweiger Dermatology Group has closed USD35 million in private equity financing led by LLR Partners. The Company manages Schweiger Dermatology, PLLC and Schweiger Dermatology, PC (collectively, SDG), a provider of medical, cosmetic and surgical dermatology services in New York and New Jersey.
Schweiger Dermatology operates 20 locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester County, Rockland County, and New Jersey. Under the supervision of Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schweiger, SDG provides dermatology services to over 150,000 patients annually. The Company provides advanced treatments for all skin care needs and offers unique patient benefits including same-day scheduling. This investment
Infrastructure firms are unique and exhibit lower revenue volatility, higher payouts, with considerably less correlation with the business cycle, according to a new paper produced by EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra), in partnership with the Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA).
“Revenue and Dividend Payouts in Privately-Held Infrastructure Investments”, which is drawn from the EDHEC-Meridiam/Campbell Lutyens Research Chair on private infrastructure equity investments,
also reveals that the existence of “infrastructure business models” (contracted, regulated and merchant) each with its own unique cash flow dynamics, are more alike amongst themselves than compared with the rest of the corporate universe.
The paper uses
Investment into venture capital (VC)-backed companies in the United States has slowed in back-to-back quarters, according to Venture Pulse, the quarterly global report on VC trends published jointly by KPMG International and CB Insights.
The US saw only USD14.8 billion invested in Q1 2016, a slight increase (six percent) from Q4 2015, while the number of actual deals declined, slipping an additional two percent from last quarter to 1,035 deals. These two quarters are a major slowdown from an otherwise record year for VC investment in FY15.
“Though we feel there is a considerable amount of dry powder in the
CORDET has held the first close of its debut fund, CORDET Direct Lending with commitments of approximately EUR200 million from both Northern European and international institutional investors.
This first close is the first admission of investors to the Fund which has a hard cap of EUR600 million.
Jakob Lindquist and Magnus Lindquist, Co-Managing Partners of CORDET Capital Partners LLP, says: “We are proud to have such dedicated and strong support from our investor base and to have achieved this important milestone in the firm’s development. We look forward to growing the business and our investor base further.”
CORDET focuses on
The 2015/16 VCT season has drawn to an unexpectedly successful close, with VCTs raising record-breaking amounts.
And law firm Howard Kennedy has once again been at the heart of the VCT community, advising over 80 per cent of all funds coming to market in 2015/16, including the largest fund raise by Octopus Titan VCT, which increased its offer from GBP80 million to GBP100 million following exceptional investor demand.
Howard Kennedy has acted for 16 individual VCTs seeking to raise a total of GBP421.7 million. In the 2015/16 tax year a total of GBP457.5 million was raised by VCTs – the
The Halifax Group (Halifax), in partnership with management, has completed an investment in Familia Dental Group Holdings. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Familia, headquartered in suburban Chicago, provides quality, affordable dental care to underserved populations in smaller markets across five states. The Company provides general dentistry, orthodontics and oral surgery services to over 250,000 patients annually. The business was founded in 2008 by CEO and Founder Dr Koushan H Azad, and now has 31 clinics, half of them in the Upper Midwest, with several expected openings slated for later this year.
“Halifax has been focused on the
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