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Ashurst has advised Recover Nordic, a portfolio company of the pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas, on the acquisition of Relita Industri och Skadeservice (Relita), a provider of damage control services in Sweden.
Recover Nordic, which was acquired by Agilitas in 2013, is the largest emergency response and damage control business in the Nordic region that mainly provides water and fire damage recovery services.
Prior to this transaction the business had operations in Denmark, Norway and Finland, and Relita will now give the group coverage in Sweden.
The Ashurst team was led by corporate partner David Carter, with counsel Fredrik
Amplience has closed of a USD10.5 million Series B funding round led by Octopus Investments, with participation from existing stakeholders and investors including Northstar Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Applience will use the funds to support its continued growth in the North American and Northern European regions.
Since opening its first US office in 2013, Amplience has enjoyed significant expansion across the region, a complement to the company’s growth in Northern European markets. This development is supported largely by a stream of strong customer wins, expansion of existing accounts, and the development of its AmplienceOne Big Content Platform. The
AKT IP Ventures has launched a targeted USD20 million incubation investment fund that will finance the creation and operation of IP-based businesses in the mobile, multi-touch, wearables, IoT, big data and medical technology sectors.
As an incubator and operator of emerging IP-based businesses, AKT IP Ventures offers a unique, constructive and creative alternative to the litigation model of patent monetisation. Employing a disciplined approach to bringing IP-based technologies to market, AKT IP Ventures turns patents into viable enterprises that create jobs, generate value and bring exciting new technologies and innovations into the marketplace.
AKT IP Ventures’ incubation investment fund builds
Swiss private equity investor HBM Partners (HBM) has acquired a minority stake in the Swiss company APR Applied Pharma Research SA (APR) for an undisclosed amount.
The fund’s advisor, Alexander Asam, will become a member of the Board of Directors of APR.
“We have followed the progress of APR for quite some time and are pleased to invest in APR. This investment underlines our strategy to invest in attractive, growing and internationally oriented firms. APR with its proven track record in formulation and development provides growth opportunities in various segments of the Healthcare industry,” says Dr Alexander Asam of HBM.
Gentoo Fund Services has expanded into Europe with the acquisition of SHRM Financial Services (Luxembourg), a Luxembourg-based provider of fund administration and domiciliation services.
Having gained regulatory approval, the 13 strong Luxembourg team will continue to serve existing clients, supported by Gentoo’s 29 employees based in Guernsey. The company will be renamed Gentoo Financial Services (Luxembourg).
The acquisition increases the group’s assets under administration to USD15bn. In addition to offering specialist administration services for private equity and family office structures, the Gentoo group also includes Gentoo Depositary Services Limited – the first non-financial asset depositary established in Guernsey under the
bfinance has appointed two new advisory professionals. Alexandra Martinez joins as a Director and William Nicholson as an Associate, both in the UK and Ireland Client Coverage team.
Martinez has over 10 years of experience in financial services, most recently consulting for pension funds, family offices and corporate investors. Prior to joining bfinance in January 2015, Martinez was a partner at Arbour Partners, an investment advisory and placement firm and a partner of St James’s Place Wealth Management. Martinez started her career as a management consultant at PWC and worked in the UK, USA and South East Asia. Alexandra holds
Oakley Capital Investments Limited which provides investors with access to the investment strategy of Oakley Capital Private Equity is planning a GBP130 million placing of 78,787,879 new ordinary shares at a price of 165 pence per share.
The Placing is conditional, amongst other things, upon the passing of a shareholder resolution to ensure that there is sufficient capacity in the authorised share capital of the Company for the directors of the Company to allot the Placing Shares and issue additional securities in the future if required. A special general meeting of the Company is therefore being convened for the purpose
Geneva-based alternative assets placement agent MCAM Group has appointed James Han as Managing Director for Asia, based in the firm’s new Hong Kong office.
Prior to joining MCAM, Han was Group Head of Private Placement Services at KTB Investment & Securities, one of South Korea’s largest independent investment banking and brokerage firms. Before that, he was a founding partner at Straight Wharf Capital Management, an Asian equity long/short hedge fund seeded by Julian Robertson’s Tiger Fund Management. Han’s career spans over twenty years and has included working for two leading US-based hedge funds including Balyasny Asset Management and Tiedemann Global
A shareholder group, including Statoil Technology Invest and Verdane Capital V have agreed to sell RESMAN to Nordic Capital Fund VIII.
Since its inception in 2005, RESMAN has rapidly evolved its innovative tracer and data analysis technology to provide a long term, reliable, risk-free and cost efficient alternative for reservoir monitoring. The company was formed in 2005 by SINTEF Venture and Statoil Technology Invest based on technology developed by SINTEF and IFE. Since its inception, the company has installed thousands of its proprietary Intelligent Tracer systems in hundreds of wells for more than 40 Oil & Gas operators worldwide.
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Two weeks after announcing Alain Ducasse Entreprise as the first borrower to use its SME lending marketplace, Lendix has brought in major new shareholders.
Decaux Frères Investissements, Banque Wormser Frères, Sycomore and 2twointernational family offices have joined the founding shareholders, providing EUR3.2 million of equity capital and committing EUR25 million to lend to SMEs on the Lendix marketplace.
Olivier Goy, president and founder of Lendix, says: “We are very excited to have such a diverse and solid shareholder base. It demonstrates the interest SME loans have for every type of investor.”
Gérard Degonse (Chairman of JCDecaux’s Supervisory Board and Administrator
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