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Michiel Kotting is to private equity firm Northzone as a General Partner.
Kotting has spent the last five years at Accel in London. As a Partner focusing on fintech, security, infrastructure and marketplace businesses, he sits on the board of Accel’s investments in Catawiki, Fiverr, Vinted, Packlink and KNC. He was also closely involved in their investments in Spotify, Avito, Funding Circle, Calastone and Aorato.
Kotting got his start in tech when founding Digital Jones, an artificial intelligence company, which he sold to Shopping.com, where he joined the management team. His experience further adds to the strong entrepreneurial profile
Noerr has advised Holtzbrinck Ventures and Rocket Internet on the sale of the start-up Classmarkets (Berlin) to the Scout24 Group. The parties have agreed to keep the price of the purchase confidential.
Classmarkets is a leading supplier of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for online classified marketplaces of publishing and media companies and runs around 70 online marketplaces (real estate, job vacancies and cars) – in particular for regional publishing companies. The meta-search engine “Immobilo” also belongs to Classmarkets.
Noerr often advises on significant transactions in the private equity and venture capital sector, with recent mandates including for example the Apollo
IMAP Hungary-MB Partners and Concorde Corporate Finance have merged to form Concorde MB Partners, offering M&A advisory services in Hungary.
The new company has several decades of transactional experience and expertise, both in the large capital markets segment and private transactions (Concorde) and the SME segment (IMAP Hungary-MB Partners).
The merger reflects the significant changes that have occurred in the Hungarian M&A market since the early 2000’s following in the steps of the German economy. There, the key to competitiveness is not based on larger companies, but by locally owned mid-sized companies scattered around the countryside “Mittelstand”. The birth
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation has led a USD12 million venture loan facility for Digital Signal Corporation (DSC).
DSC, a specialist in human identification and identity management solutions, is backed by leading venture capital firms, including SilverHaze Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. DSC will use the proceeds for working capital purposes.
“We are pleased to lead this venture loan facility for DSC,” says Gerald A Michaud, President of Horizon. “The company’s 3D facial recognition technology provides a differentiated security and fraud prevention solution, which has significant commercial applications in both the public and private sectors. Our growth capital will
Funds advised by CVC Capital Partners (CVC) have taken a significant minority stake in PT Softex Indonesia.
With market-leading brands – Sweety, Softex and Confidence – PT Softex Indonesia boasts top three market share positions across the baby, adult and feminine care product categories. PT Softfex Indonesia is perfectly positioned for growth, which will be further accelerated by CVC’s growth capital investment.
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, with 45 per cent of Indonesia’s 250 million people under the age of 25 – a trend that is set to continue, with approximately four million children expected
Catella acted as financial advisor to EQT in connection with the acquisition of Eton Group from Litorina. Catella also advised on Orkla-owned Cederroth’s sale of Allévo to Karo Bio.
“These transactions once again demonstrate the value of Catella’s specialist knowledge and broad network of contacts for M&A transactions in the consumer sector. Furthermore, Catella has during the year been involved in a number of transactions in the sector as financial advisor, including on the ownership changes in Teknikmagasinet, Linas Matkasse and Swereco Group,” says Fredrik Bergholm, Head of Catella Consumer.
Catella acted as financial advisor to EQT in connection
Salvepar has invested EUR25 million in equity and convertible bonds of France-based health and fitness gym provider Neoness alongside the two founders, Céline Wisselink and Marie-Anne Teissier, who stay in control of the company.
Neoness is the first French fitness network to offer competitive prices (standard offer at EUR10 per month) while keeping quality infrastructures and services in line with premium networks: large and spacious gyms, Precor equipment, group classes with coaches under LesMills and Zumba licenses.
Transparency and conviviality are Neoness’ core values, with the aim of making fitness available to the largest number: clear and simple prices,
The Global Fund Media newsletter team is taking its customary year-end break, and will resume business as usual on Monday 4 January.
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We wish all our readers the very best for the festive season, and we look forward to working with all of you in 2016.
Monroe Capital acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on a USD25.1 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Complete Nutrition by private equity sponsor Dominus Capital.
Based in Omaha, Nebraska and founded in 2005, Complete Nutrition is a distributor of high-quality nutritional supplements and franchisor of health-focused retail stores with a concentration on providing effective sports nutrition, weight loss management, and general health programs for customers.
The company focuses on providing personal service, less intimidating store environments, and high quality products to help people live a healthy lifestyle. Complete Nutrition works with various health care
HIG Capital, LLC (“HIG”), a leading global private equity investment firm with $19 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company
Eletromidia, a portfolio company of HIG Capital, has completed strategic investments in DMS Publicidade Mídia Interativa (DMS) and Telefónica On The Spot Soluções Digitais Do Brasil (TOTS).
DMS and TOTS operate out-of-home advertising in the subway systems of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, respectively.
These transactions significantly expand the reach and depth of Eletromidia’s advertising network, providing more value to clients and agencies. With over 11 million unique impacts daily
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