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Hamburg-based firm Detlev Louis Motorrad-Vertriebs GmbH has been sold to US holding company Berkshire Hathaway, which is headed by Warren Buffett.
The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the competition authorities.
A team from CMS in Germany led by lead partner Dr Thomas J Meyer advised the executor, Dr Peter Hertel of Hamburg law firm Krohn, on all legal aspects of the sale. Dr Hertel was acting on behalf of Ute Louis, the widow of company founder Detlev Louis, who died in 2012. The estate of Detlev Louis was under the executorship of Dr Hertel when the sale took place.
Shark Punch has finalised a USD1.2 million seed funding round led by Supercell investor London Venture Partners (LVP) and DN Capital.
In addition, the company is launching its new game discovery platform: Playfield.io.
Playfield is a social discovery and community platform for games. Playfield helps players find games they care about, and allows developers to connect directly with their gamer communities.
”We started the company initially to develop a new game called The Masterplan, but after many discussions with other game developers, we realized that discovery is a massive problem for both developers and players. The question is rarely
Pereg Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that operates in the United States and Israel, has completed initial fund raising for Pereg Ventures Fund I.
The firm primarily provides Series A and B financing to ventures delivering innovative market intelligence and analytics solutions for consumer-driven corporations.
"We are delighted to officially launch our initial investment fund," says Itzhak Fisher, Chairman and General Partner for Pereg Ventures. Although Pereg Ventures is a fully independent venture capital firm, Nielsen is providing a significant strategic investment in support of the fund's launch. This is part of a broader portfolio of innovation initiatives including
Finistere Ventures, a California-based innovation capital firm, has held the first closing of its new USD150 million Agtech Fund, Finistere II.
The fund focuses on new technology solutions in food productivity, sustainability, and nutrition to address the ever-decreasing agricultural land resources, climate change, and changing population demographics. Finistere is collaborating with Bayer CropScience, AVAC Ltd, and other partners to identify and invest in world-class technologies across early-to-growth stage companies in the Agtech space.
“We are excited by the promising technologies and companies in the Agtech space that need both capital and the strategic, technical, and operating expertise that we bring
Albion Ventures is investing up to GBP9.5 million in Radnor House School (RHS) to fund the acquisition of Combe Bank School, a co-educational independent school for students aged three to 18, in Kent.
In 2010 Albion invested GBP8.7 million in Radnor House School, a new co-educational independent day school for students aged 7- 18 in Twickenham, South West London. Since then the school has performed exceptionally well and has established an excellent reputation. Since opening its pupil intake has increased to 360 currently and this is predicted to rise to a near capacity 420 by September 2015.
In Combe
Eccrine Systems has raised USD1.5 million in seed funding. Investors include CincyTech Fund III, management, and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor co millionunity.
Formed in late 2013, the advanced sweat sensor company is developing disposable electronic patch systems based on innovative research and intellectual property that originated from the University of Cincinnati and Air Force Research Labs at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
“The implications for real-time trending and interpretation of sweat biomarkers, derived from very tiny amounts of sweat captured under a small electronic patch, are profound”
According to Dr Jason Heikenfeld, lead UC
llluminate Financial Management, the capital markets-focused financial technology venture capital firm, has invested in CloudMargin.
CloudMargin’s cloud-based solution, which launched in 2013, is a cross product cloud-based collateral and margin management technology solution that costs a fraction of competing products. It was developed to cater specifically to buy-side and non-bank institutions such as corporates, hedge funds, insurers, pension funds, asset managers and more.
The move marks Illuminate’s first investment in a fintech firm since it was launched last year by industry veteran Mark Beeston, who previously managed ICAP’s post-trade risk and information division. Illuminate’s investment is the only institutional funding
“Global deal activity jumped 47% between 2013 and 2014, highlighted by large deals,” wrote John Primack in an article for Fortune.com. “Global merger and acquisition activity hit USD3.5 trillion in 2014, which is up 47% from the year before.”
Primack noted that the data from Thomson Reuters “suggests that large deals in 2014 – 95 valued at USD5 billion or more – were a key driver, given that the overall number of global M&A transactions only climbed by 6%.” Of the 15 largest acquisitions, 10 were from companies based in the United States, “where volume climbed by 51.4% to USD1.53
High Road Capital Partnershas sold portfolio company All Current Electrical Sales, marking the fourth exit for the firm’s debut fund, High Road Capital Partners Fund I.
All Current is a leading specialty reseller of electrical components utilised across a broad range of commercial and industrial end markets. Transaction terms for the sale, which closed on 17 February, have not been disclosed.
All Current was acquired by EBSCO Industries, through its new platform investment division, EBSCO Capital, and management. EBSCO is a privately owned, family business headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, that seeks to acquire quality middle-market companies and grow their
Cordiant, a leading emerging market private debt fund manager, has raised USD350 million at the final close of its latest debt fund, the Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund IV (CELF IV).
The fund’s primary focus will be on senior, secured loans issued to emerging market private sector borrowers, with an emphasis on diversification across countries and sectors.
Investors in the fund include insurance companies, pension funds and other provident funds.
CELF IV will allow institutional investors to take advantage of the growing imbalance in the emerging markets between the escalating demand for bank style funding and the shrinking balance
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