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Edmée van Dijk is joining Bluebee company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). VanDijk jopins the company from shareholder Delft University of Technology, where she was responsible for the investment portfolio of the university.
In this role, Edmée was a member of the board of directors of numerous spin-outs, including Bluebee. Prior to that she worked in Venture Capital firm TIIN Capital and she currently also advises the Dutch government in matters of early stage financing.
Van Dijk holds a degree in biotechnology, combined with a MSc in Management from Nyenrode and a Postdoc in Business Valuation at the Rotterdam
IK Investment Partners’ IK VII Fund is to acquire CID Lines, a provider of innovative hygiene solutions, from Gilde Buy Out Partners (Gilde). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Established in 1988 and headquartered in Belgium, CID Lines is a leading supplier of innovative hygiene solutions for the agricultural, food, vehicle care and institutional industries. With a network of over 750 distributors and importers, the Company exports its solutions to more than 90 countries. CID Lines offers its customers a complete product range of branded, effective and high quality solutions. Over the past years, CID Lines has
Next year will see the emergence of at least five Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses with a valuation of more than USD1 billion, and they will all be able to justify their valuations.
That’s one of the findings of Magister Advisors’ survey of the views of the World’s leading Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses, which was carried out in Q4 2015.
Jeremy Millar, partner at Magister Advisors, M&A advisors to the technology industry, who led the research says: “Globally, financial services companies spend close to half a trillion dollars on IT. This is the territory of thoroughbreds and workhorses, not Unicorns.
By James Local, director, Livingstone Partners – A market in a growth phase, with numerous high-performing businesses run by hungry entrepreneurs who are receptive to the idea of taking investment, and a good history of secondary buy-outs and trade exits. What’s not to like about the recruitment industry?
The recruitment industry is in a buoyant state right now. With the size of the UK workforce at an all-time high, that’s not surprising.
Hays plc, which we regard as a bellwether for the recruitment industry in the UK and globally, recently reported its first quarter results. Growth in the UK,
AFI Group, a UK-based powered access equipment rental and training businesses, has secured a GBP70 million refinancing from asset based lender PNC Business Credit as the Group looks to accelerate its growth plans in both the UK and the Middle East.
Led by Executive Chairman, David Shipman, who invested in the business back in May 2002, AFI supplies powered access equipment for rent and sale, along with a comprehensive range of related training courses, to a wide variety of customers and has developed via organic growth and targeted acquisitions into a business that today operates a fleet of over 5,000 aerial work platforms
Law form Sidley Austin has elected 24 new partners, effective 1 January, 2016.
“Our new partners share a strong dedication to the core values of our firm and exemplify Sidley’s commitment to excellent client service, integrity, diversity and collegiality,” says Larry Barden, chair of Sidley’s Management Committee. “These emerging leaders are an integral part of the future of this firm and we are incredibly proud to welcome them into the partnership.”
“These very talented young lawyers are embarking on an exciting phase of their careers and we congratulate each of them on achieving this well-deserved milestone,” says Carter Phillips,
An alliance of global investors, development banks, financial sector associations & NGOs has announced the formation of a GreenInfrastructure Investment Coalition at the COP21 Conference in Paris.
The founders have invited government agencies, international asset managers, owners & development agencies to join and work more closely on promoting large scale development and financing of green infrastructure.
The aim of the Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition (GIIC) is to support the financing of a rapid transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient economy.
The Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition will bring together key actors in the financial system via investor-government global
Schulte Roth & Zabel has appointed Jason L Behrens as special counsel in the firm’s New York office. He centers his practice on the structuring, formation and negotiation of private equity and hedge funds.
Behrens previously served as an associate at the firm and re-joins after having served as general counsel at ACE Portal, Inc.
Behrens has represented a wide variety of fund sponsors, asset managers and institutional investors in all stages of private equity funds, real estate funds, secondaries funds, funds of funds and other alternative asset classes, both domestically and internationally. He deals regularly with issues relating
Wearsafe Labs, a Connecticut-based technology company developing wearable safety products has secured a nearly USD3 million in financing round led by by former Goldman Sachs partner Ravi Singh, who has also been appointed to the Wearsafe board.
"In a market that is saturated with gadgets, there is a tremendous need for a personal safety device that is not only adaptable to every person's life, but one that works when it is needed most," says Singh, who spent 19 years with Goldman Sachs, eight of them as a partner, and is a private investor and advisor for several start-ups. He is
LeapFrog Investments is set to receive up to USD200m from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in what will be the OPIC’s largest commitment to date to any impact fund manager.
It also brings commitments to LeapFrog to over 1 billion USD, heralding the arrival of the first billion-dollar group dedicated to equity impact investing.
LeapFrog plans to invest the capital in financial services and healthcare companies, in both Africa and emerging Asia. By focusing on these underserved markets, LeapFrog portfolio companies recorded a 60% average revenue growth last year, and now serve 51.8 million people.
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