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ECO Plastics has completed a GBP6m funding to finance continued expansion over the coming year.
Existing shareholders Ludgate Environmental Fund and Robeco SAM Private Equity have both participated, providing capital which will be dedicated to short-term added-value expansion opportunities.
The company’s existing debt provider, Close Brothers, has committed additional working capital facilities to support growing sales revenues.
Capable of processing 150,000 tonnes of mixed plastics a year, including some 40,000 tonnes of bottle-grade rPET pellet, the business’ Hemswell site is already the largest of its kind in the world.
The funding round is the second that ECO Plastics has embarked
Restoration Partners’ first investment opportunity through its recently launched Restoration Alpha Angels network of active investors has helped m-commerce payments platform provider, paythru, raise over GBP700,000.
John Shackleton, the former chief executive of Open Text, is joining the board of paythru with immediate effect. Shackleton’s career spans over 30 years in software and services management.
Restoration Partners established Restoration Alpha Angels in the second half of 2012 to provide its investor contacts with access to a small number of pre-qualified, heavily screened, high quality investment opportunities from within the Restoration Partners’ client base.
All opportunities presented to Restoration
Land mine clearance group MineTech International has been acquired by a German group in a deal arranged by Livingstone Partners.
MineTech International provides land mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) services for governments, NGOs such as the United Nations, and private sector businesses within the oil and gas sector.
Livingstone advised the shareholders of MineTech, including private equity investor MML Capital Partners, on the sale.
Headquartered near Gloucester, MineTech was established in 1989 to work in former conflict areas across the developing world, clearing “explosive remnants of war” so that land can be redeveloped for humanitarian and commercial purposes.
What many investors currently perceive as safe haven assets could turn out to be the snake lurking in the grass next year, says Johanna Kyrklund (pictured), Schroders’ Head of Multi-Asset Investments…
Against a backdrop of on-going fears of downside risk, political uncertainty and lacklustre economic statistics, higher risk assets such as equities and high yield debt have quietly delivered strong returns in 2012. Of course, safe assets like government bonds have also continued to perform as rock-bottom interest rates underpinned the asset class. Could 2013 signal a more meaningful move out of safety into risk, out of quality into value?
European private capital group Metric Capital Partners (MCP) has completed its investments in Áras Sláinte and Global Diagnostics, subsidiaries of the Dublin-based healthcare business Centric Health.
Áras Sláinte (AS) is a provider of primary care in Ireland, offering a range of services to the Irish market through its GP practices, urgent care clinics and occupational health clinics. Locumotion, a subsidiary of AS, places doctors from around the world into GP and hospital positions across Ireland, Australia and the UK.
Global Diagnostics provides managed radiology solutions to public and private healthcare providers to improve quality of service and access for
AXA Private Equity has signed an agreement with Equistone Partners Europe and the management team of Alvest to sell the company’s entire capital to LBO France.
AXA Private Equity first invested in Alvest six years ago and has since actively supported its management in the company’s international development strategy.
The completion of the transaction remains subject to approval from regulatory authorities.
Alvest, through its TLD subsidiary, is a French industrial group and global provider of ground support equipment for airports. The group also produces and markets high-tech adhesive films, which are used for aeronautical applications.
Having been a majority shareholder
Falconhead Capital, a private equity firm specialising in growing consumer-focused businesses, has sold its portfolio company Competitor Group to Calera Capital.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in San Diego, Competitor Group is an endurance media and event entertainment company dedicated to promoting the sports of running, cycling and triathlon. The company was founded by Falconhead in 2007 through the simultaneous acquisition and combination of three separate endurance sport event and publishing enterprises. Under Falconhead’s leadership, Competitor Group’s revenue has more than tripled through strategic acquisitions and a range of other organic growth initiatives.
The company’s
Companies working in, or looking to set up in, the space community at Harwell in Oxford will benefit from GBP1m funding to help them to go further and faster towards commercial success, according to David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science.
The investment in innovative R&D projects is part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Launchpad initiative which supports business groups, suppliers and associated institutions who work together in the same location.
Willetts, speaking at the European Space Solutions Conference, said: “Space is one of our most promising sectors and the government is determined to foster innovation and help companies invest
Mid-market business management solutions provider Access Group has acquired fundraising and CRM software specialist thankQ in a GBP2.7m deal.
The acquisition, which is the seventh deal for Access in the past 12 months, sees the group strengthen its not-for-profit (NFP) offering, where it already has over 530 customers using its finance and human resources solutions.
The latest addition to the portfolio means Access will provide a fully-integrated finance and fundraising CRM system to the sector.
In September, it acquired French-based innovative business intelligence specialist Prelytis for EUR4m.
Chris Bayne, chief executive for Access, says: “Having worked closely with
Dyal Capital Partners, a private equity fund managed by Neuberger Berman Group, has received USD1.28bn in client commitments to make minority investments in the management companies of established hedge fund firms.
The fundraising effort exceeded Dyal’s goal of USD1bn. Investors included sovereign wealth funds, public and private pensions, multi-employer pensions, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, family offices and private banks.
Dyal’s strategy is to purchase minority equity interests in a portfolio of approximately 12 to 15 institutional hedge fund management companies, diversified by strategy and geography. These relationships will be structured for the long term, as Dyal has raised a
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