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Palamon Capital Partners has completed a GBP20 million funding round alongside two co-investors for portfolio company Feelunique.com, a UK-based online retailer of premium beauty products.
Founded in 2005, Feelunique is a leading online retailer of premium products in haircare, skincare, cosmetics and fragrances, selling full-permissioned stock from all of the major brands including Chanel, Dior, Lancôme and Estee Lauder. Palamon acquired the Company in December 2012 recognising the growth opportunity presented by the significantly underpenetrated online beauty retail sector. Since then, Palamon has strengthened Feelunique’s market position by professionalising its management and investing in infrastructure, including moving the firm’s logistics
Origami Energy has raised a further GBP13.7 million from its existing shareholders, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Octopus Ventures and two private individuals, together with a new investment from Fred Olsen-related companies.
Origami Energy has developed technology to monitor, communicate with and control a large distributed network of energy generating, energy using and energy storing assets connected to the electricity grid. Based in Cambridge and London, Origami Energy intelligently manages the capacity and modifies the flows of power at physical sites of power generation, energy demand and electricity storage by providing a marketplace where the supply and demand of electricity is matched
Ogier partner Nicholas Plowman, with senior associate Richard Bennett in the firm’s Hong Kong office, has acted as British Virgin Islands counsel to All-Stars Investment Cayman Limited in relation to the establishment and offering of All-Stars XMI Limited as a private equity fund raising vehicle investing in a USD1.1 billion capital raising by Xiaomi Corporation by way of series F financing.
The USD1 billion of investment marked China’s largest TMT deal of 2014 and the largest ever private placement of a China-based technology company. As a result of this financing, Xiaomi is now the highest valued technology start-up in the
The asset management industry has a central role to play in furthering good corporate governance in publicly traded family businesses, according to a report from March Asset Management which shows that good corporate governance has helped publicly traded family businesses become more profitable.
March CEO Miguel Angel Munoz says: “Diligent asset managers need to take corporate governance into account when valuing family businesses. Strong governance, together with the greater long term profitability demonstrated by family businesses, provides a compelling investment case. Managers have a central role to play in that process.”
Munoz’s comment follows publication of a report from
Hamilton Lane’s New York Credit SBIC Fund has successfully completed its first investment. In partnership with company management, the fund is providing debt and equity to invest in LeverPoint Management a Clifton Park, NY based fund administration business that offers full service accounting, tax and back office support within the alternative investment sector.
LeverPoint is a small business with a significant presence in the state capital region and plans to further expand operations in the state.
"LeverPoint represents the first of what we expect to be many attractive investments that we plan on executing across New York State through the
A team of French private equity and M&A lawyers is to extend law firm Goodwin Procter’s international practice into Paris, France.
Partners Maxence Bloch, Christophe Digoy, Jérôme Jouhanneaud and Thomas Maitrejean will open Goodwin Paris following completion of their notice periods.
“Goodwin’s clients are increasingly globally focused as capital today flows around the world much more freely than ever before,” says David Hashmall, Chairman of Goodwin Procter. “And as the world gets smaller, having a best-in-class French private equity platform that complements our strong offering in the US, the UK and Asia is essential for meeting our clients’ evolving
Gibson Dunn has advised William Hill on the acquisition of OpenBet for GBP270 million and its commercial agreement with NYX Gaming Group.
The Gibson Dunn team comprised of: corporate partner Jonathan Earle; associates Tony Downes, Hollie Cope Jones and Andre Van Zyl Gow; finance partner Philip Crump and associate Nisha Navekar; tax partner Jeff Trinklein and associate Panyota Burquoit. Partner Patrick Doris and associate Steve Melrose advised on the gaming regulatory aspects.
Earle says: "We are delighted to be able to continue helping a FTSE corporate client like William Hill on their key strategic transactions."
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Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), a provider early- and late-stage venture capital, private equity and strategic advisory services to the technology, media and telecommunication sectors, has appointed Jack Young as the firm's Partner in charge of global venture operations.
DTCP has also opened a new US office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
Young served previously as the Managing Director responsible for North America at Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Inc., where he oversaw venture investment and portfolio management for the region. He previously headed Qualcomm Life Fund and built it into one of the most
Business Growth Hub, part of Manchester Growth Company (MGC), has appointed Tanya Hemphill as Growth Start-Up Manager.
Hemphill will manage the Hub’s established team of business start-up advisors, who give entrepreneurs in the region the tools they need to set up and grow their own businesses through one-to-one support and specialist masterclasses.
Hemphill has previously worked in senior roles in communications and digital marketing, which most recently includes three years as Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Public Relations at the University of Chester, where she worked with business owners on knowledge transfer projects.
Hemphill says: “Growing a business from
Anstey Horne, a Chartered Surveyor firm, has secured a GBP6.5 million investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) to support its continued growth.
The London-based company advises commercial and residential clients on complex property matters such as rights of light, daylight and sunlight, party walls, neighbourly matters and general building surveying. Its leading team of 40 surveyors has worked on some of the most recognised developments in the UK.
Owners and directors Lance Harris and Graham North, together with their extensive senior management team, have further developed Anstey Horne’s established brand in London’s property scene. The business has experienced consistent revenue
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