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Shoosmiths acted for the management team of Coryton Advanced Fuels Limited, the market-leading fuel blending and consultancy services business, on a significant investment from Lyceum Capital to accelerate the firm’s international expansion.
The investment will enable the company to grow its range of added-value services and production capacity in the UK, develop existing export markets in Germany and expand into new markets in the US and Asia.
Based on the Thames estuary in Essex, Coryton develops high performance fuels for the aviation and motorsport industries, as well as bespoke and standardised fuels for the automotive sector, where its products are
Funds advised by Change Capital Partners have today sold their circa 50 per cent interest in Macduff Shellfish Group (Macduff) to Canadian-based Clearwater Seafoods in a transaction valuing the company at GBP98.4 million.
The sale will result in total investment returns for Change Capital of 2.7 times invested capital.
Macduff was founded in 1985 by the fifth generation of the Beaton family which has been actively involved in the seafood industry for more than 120 years. Based in Mintlaw, near Peterhead in Scotland, Macduff has factories in Mintlaw, Stornoway and Exeter.
Change Capital invested in Macduff in 2011
Middle-market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has made a strategic investment in Carson Air , a provider of fixed-wing air ambulance services, air cargo services, and flight school training in Western Canada.
“With the support of Wynnchurch, Carson Air is well positioned to pursue strategic growth opportunities. Our management team looks forward to partnering with Wynnchurch to continue to grow our business and enhance service to our existing customers,” says Kevin Carson, President of Carson Air.
Frank Hayes (pictured), Partner at Wynnchurch, says: "Kevin Carson and his management team have done an exceptional job of developing a highly regarded,
FilmTrack, a provider of content and rights management for the media and entertainment industry, has secured an additional USD10 million in growth capital.
The new investment is comprised of USD5 million in venture debt financing from Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, and USD5 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank.
FilmTrack streamlines the complex intellectual property management lifecycle with its flexible and powerful cloud-based platform. Its applications suite spans sales, finance and legal functions and is available from any connected computer or device. Many of the world's top media and entertainment companies, such as CBS,
Venture capital (VC) attorneys, Frank Grant, and Ryan Azlein (pictured), are to join Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth as shareholders and will lead the expansion of the firm Venture Capital, Start-Ups and Emerging Companies practice groups.
Prior to joining Stradling, Grant spent 10 years in Silicon Valley and 8 years in the LA market, most recently as Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie, where he advised early stage companies, entrepreneurs and investors. He's also held corporate development and senior counsel positions at Nortel Networks and Kennedy Commercial.
Grant brings both legal and business acumen to his client's issues, having earned
Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity (MSPE) has completed a majority investment in CoAdvantage, one of North America’s largest professional employer organisations (PEOs).
MSPE partnered with the current management team who will remain in place and continue to drive organic and acquisition growth.
CoAdvantage offers small and mid-sized businesses a comprehensive package of outsourced human resources solutions enabling them to reduce their administrative burden, ensure compliance with employer regulations, and gain access to affordable employee benefits. The company integrates payroll and tax processing, employee benefit plan administration, risk management, government compliance and other human resources services into a single vendor
CreditEase China has held the first close of CreditEase Israel Innovation Fund (CEIIF), the firm’s first Israel-focused venture-capital/private-equity fund, at USD30 million.
CEIIF is managed by Israel Innovation Investment Management Ltd, a Cayman Islands-based manager that is jointly owned by CreditEase and its founding managing partners, Tayman Kan and Benjamin Weiss.
The new fund focuses primarily on private technology companies located in Israel and the US It considers opportunities across a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, media, telecommunications, health care and smart materials, and will invest in a mixture of early- and later-stage opportunities.
"The first closing
European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have access to nearly twice the amount of funding as their US counterparts, yet bank loans remain the most common form of SME finance in Europe.
This leaves huge scope for small businesses to tap additional funding sources for loans, bonds and equities, finds new research by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME). However, many SMEs remain unaware of the options available to them.
In Spain and Italy, for example – where small businesses tend to lean most heavily on financing sources, such as banks – Italian SMEs received EUR233 billion
Private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Frank Russell Company’s asset management business, Russell Investments, from London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in a deal valued at USD1.15 billion.
As part of the deal, which is subject to the usual regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first half of 2016, Reverence Capital Partners is making a ‘significant minority investment’ in Russell Investments.
“We are delighted to partner with such an established and highly respected market leader in the investment management industry,” says Todd Crockett, a Managing Director at TA Associates. “We believe that the breadth of Russell Investments’ investment and implementation operations, as well as its orientation
George Whitehead (pictured), Venture Partner Manager at Octopus Ventures, comments on the British Venture Capital Association’s Innovation Nation report…
The BVCA’s Innovation Nation report highlights some very positive UK figures, which speak to a number of important factors. The top line is that UK economic growth is the fastest in Europe. This alone is important, but for us at Octopus, the really interesting figures are those around innovation and high-growth business development. In 2014/2015, UK VCs completed 780 deals with a combined value of GBP2.5 billion, and in the same year the UK saw a record number of new businesses
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