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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
Nauta Capital has completed the first close of its 2015 fund at USD70 million, resulting in total assets under management (AUM) of USD260 million.
The final close is expected during the first half of 2016 with a total fund target ranging from USD115 to 175 million.
Nauta Capital, which has offices in London, Barcelona and Boston, backs entrepreneurs committed to creating global capital efficient software companies in large markets with limited previous technology impact. Areas of interest include B2B software, disruptive digital media and enabling technologies for mobile and the internet.
Nauta has led investments in 30+ companies
Technology-driven electricity supplier Limejump has received additional funding to the tune of GBP1.4 million in a seed extension round.
This funding round sees the Government-backed Angel CoFund co-invest alongside JamJar, the investment vehicle from the Innocent Juices founders, and existing investor and shareholder Passion Capital.
The UK-based business, founded in January 2014 by Erik Nygard and Ning Zhang, utilises real-time data to ensure businesses can make their electricity supply work better for them. Limejump’s mission is to transform energy with data, by using a combination of software and technology to allow businesses to take part in – and profit from
Harris Williams & Co has advised The Mill, a provider of moving image visual content for advertising, to Technicolor for GBP190 million.
Harris Williams & Co. acted as the exclusive financial advisor to The Mill, a portfolio company of Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone). The transaction was led by Thierry Monjauze, Jonathan Organ and Mathew Tsui from Harris Williams & Co.’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group in London.
“It has been a pleasure to work with the management team of The Mill for a second time,” says Thierry Monjauze (pictured), a managing director in the firm’s TMT Group. “The Mill
AvidXchange, a FinTech provider of Accounts Payable and Payment Automation, has completed a USD225 million minority growth financing led by Bain Capital Ventures, with contributions from Foundry Group, NYCA Partners, KeyBank, Square 1 Bank, and TPG Special Situations Partners.
The company becomes a part of Bain Capital Ventures’ portfolio alongside companies such as LinkedIn, Staples and Vonage, as well as technology companies Experian, Billtrust and iPay Technologies. The company’s long-term partner, Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities LLC (“FT Partners”), served as exclusive financial and strategic advisor to AvidXchange in this transaction. AvidXchange intends to invest a significant amount
Silver Creek Capital Management, an alternative investment boutique focusing on private credit, hedge fund and real asset strategies, has launched a new joint venture with Plum Creek Timber Company enabling institutions to directly invest in timber assets.
Twin Creeks will provide institutional investors an opportunity to co-invest in timberlands currently managed by Plum Creek with the objective of growing the portfolio to approximately USD1 billion in valuation over time through opportunistic, selective timberland acquisitions from third parties. The venture is intended to be a long-term timberland investment with an initial 15-year term. The initial portfolio, valued at USD560 million, will
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