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Forbion Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Dezima Pharma, a biotechnology company developing innovative drugs to treat dyslipidemic patients suffering from cardiovascular disease (CVD), is to be acquired by Amgen, Inc.
Amgen has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Dezima for up to USD1.55 billion from Forbion and other current shareholders, subject to obtaining US Federal Trade Commission clearance. Further details of the acquisition include an upfront payment of USD300 million, milestone payments of up to USD1.25 billion and low-single-digit royalties on net product sales above a certain threshold.
Dezima was founded in 2012 by Prof. John Kastelein, Professor of Medicine
SeniorAdom has recently completed a round of financing from Omnes Capital, 123Venture, SEB Alliance and AG2R LA MONDIALE.
Founded in November 2012, SeniorAdom offers new remote assistance technology. SeniorAdom’s next-generation technology automatically detects falls and sudden illness using a smart system of detectors (no cameras) connected to a central device. This central device is easy to install and use. It can simply be plugged into a power socket (no need for an internet connection because it has an embedded GSM mobile phone card). No special training is required.
In addition to falls and sudden illness, SeniorAdom’s solution can also
Mooreland Partners, an independent investment bank providing M&A advisory and capital raising services to the global technology industry, has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Adept Technology on its sale to OMRON Corporation.
OMRON plans to acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding shares of Adept, via an all-cash tender offer to be followed by a second-step merger. OMRON is offering Adept investors USD13.00 per share of Adept, which represents a 63 per cent premium over the stock's closing price on 15 September, 2015. This values Adept at approximately USD200 million. OMRON will fund the tender offer through cash
The Minister of Trade for Ontario, Canada, together with representatives from the DMZ at Ryerson University, a major university-based incubator in Canada, has visited the Innovation Birmingham Campus to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The MoU will set the context for a programme of joint initiatives that will enable tech entrepreneurs based in Birmingham and the city region to gain invaluable insight and connections into North America, while tech entrepreneurs located in Ontario will be able to access the UK and continental European markets through Birmingham. Representatives from the UKTI, the High Commission of Canada and NatWest Bank will
CR Holding (CR), the holding company of CR Investment Management, and K&K Group, have acquired the Airport Club in Frankfurt from Deutsche Bank for an undisclosed sum.
The Airport Club Frankfurt is a well-known premium business club located at the international hub of Frankfurt airport. The club, formerly owned by Deutsche Bank and Lufthansa, was sold to CR and Kofler & Kompanie after Deutsche Bank bought out Lufthansa. As part of the deal, the rental contract has been extended with the owner of the property.
Torsten Hollstein, Managing Director of CR, says: “The Airport Club Frankfurt offers an exclusive
The private debt team of Tikehau IM acted as sole arranger and provider of financing for the proprietary primary LBO of the Belgium company, Pennel & Flipo Sprl by IDI and Cabestan Capital.
Tikehau IM arranged and financed the tailored unitranche facility for this acquisition.
Pennel & Flipo Sprl represents the ninth transaction to-date in private debt by Tikehau IM and the 5th transaction for the Tikehau Direct Lending III Fund. The private debt team of 18 professionals, led by Cécile Mayer-Lévi and Jean-Baptiste Feat, has local deal flow teams in Paris, Brussels, Milan and London. This coupled with
Marwyn Value Investors has reached an agreement with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for the disposal of all the remaining shares in Entertainment One held by Marwyn’s Master Fund which will, on completion of the disposal, generate gross proceeds of approximately GBP142.4 million.
Approximately GBP103.4 million of that total will be attributable to the Company.
The disposal is conditional upon the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board having received notice from the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board that there are no objections concerning its proposed acquisition of shares in Entertainment One. Such notification, and the completion, is expected within 30 days.
AlphaClone, a specialist in alpha-seeking investment strategies, has raised USD2.25 million in Series A financing, led by fintech-focused venture firm Operative Capital.
The financing builds on a remarkable period of growth for the firm that saw advised assets grow fourfold to over USD200 million in the past year. The company intends to use the financing to accelerate new product introductions and build out its marketing and sales operations.
Designed to adjust automatically based on pre-set rules, AlphaClone's investment strategies seek to give investors the potential to outperform the broader market by accessing the investment ideas of the world’s most established
A new survey of managers of Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), a scheme designed to provide finance to UK smaller companies, by Tilney Bestinvest suggests that the current tax year is set to see a sharp contraction in VCT fund raising.
This follows one of the highest years on record in 2014/15 when GBP429 million was raised into VCTs.
Tilney Bestinvest found that 90 per cent of the 11 groups who responded to their survey believe fund raising will be less than GBP350 million and 45 per cent below GBP250 million this tax year. The average estimate for new fund raising
Quayside Fund Management has received authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland to act as Manager to UCITS funds.
Quayside currently provides third-party management solutions to investment managers looking to set up alternative investment funds (‘AIFs’), and will now extend this service to UCITS funds.
Eoin Smyth (pictured), CEO of Quayside, says: ‘Due to increasing client demand, we are delighted that Quayside has expanded on its AIFM authorisation in offering cost effective management company (‘ManCo’) solutions to our UCITS clients. Quayside provides a high touch quality service to its clients using state-of- the-art risk system reporting. Choosing a provider such
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