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Albion Ventures has sold The Place Sandwich VCT Limited, the owner and operator of the 37-bedroom Bell Hotel in the medieval Cinque Port town of Sandwich, to Shepherd Neame Limited, Britain’s oldest brewer, for GBP3.6 million.
Funds managed or advised by Albion Ventures backed the acquisition of the historic hotel in January 2005, since when a total of GBP3.1 million has been invested. Since acquisition, all the bedrooms and public areas have been subject to a substantial refurbishment, including the Regency Room and the Old Dining Room restaurant, with additional bedrooms created. Since the renovation, the hotel has won an
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Long Island-based investment adviser with defrauding investors in hedge funds investing in PIPE transactions and misappropriating more than USD1 million in client assets for his personal use.
The SEC alleges that Corey Ribotsky and his firm The NIR Group LLC repeatedly lied to investors to hide the truth that his PIPE investment and trading strategy was failing during the financial crisis. For example, Ribotsky falsely told investors that despite the adverse market conditions he could liquidate all of the PIPE investments in 36 to 48 months – a practical impossibility given the
BeCapital, a European private equity firm focusing on expansion capital investments in cleantech companies, announced the final closing of its first fund at EUR148.325 million, well above the EUR100 million initial target.
Initiated by BeCitizen, Cobepa and La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild, BeCapital gathered interest from a unique network of investors, mostly European families with well diversified industrial and geographical backgrounds.
BeCapital’s approach is based on the principles of Positive EconomyTM, a framework developed by BeCitizen, which asserts that economic growth can only be sustained if it preserves and restores the environment and natural resources. Furthermore, companies addressing these challenges will
ViewPoint Capital Partners has completed a round of growth financing for several million euros on behalf of adnologies GmbH, Europe’s leading provider of retargeting and ad serving technology and operator of the euroDX profile exchange. The company is planning further expansion at both national and international level.
A team led by Dr Ulrich Springer advised ViewPoint Capital Partners on all aspects of the financing round.
Headquartered in Hamburg, adnologies was established in 2006 as a provider of ad serving technology and offers state-of-the-art servers to be used as the basis for online marketing by agencies, publishers and network operators.
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Vision Capital has announced a partnership with Speyside Equity (Speyside), a Philadelphia-based private equity group, to acquire investments in its portfolio of two companies. The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory clearances.
Vision Capital will acquire a majority stake in German-based United Initiators and a minority stake in US based Sweet Ovations from Speyside. United Initiators, which has an annual turnover of over EUR150 million, is a leading speciality chemical business focussed on the manufacture of organic peroxides and persulfates, with operations in Germany, the US, China and Australia. Sweet Ovations is a leading supplier of custom formulated food ingredients
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has agreed to invest in Aesica Pharmaceuticals, one of the UK’s fastest growing companies. Completion, which is subject only to obtaining clearance from the German authorities, is expected to occur within the next four weeks.
Headquartered near Newcastle, Aesica has the expertise to both develop and manufacture primary (API) and secondary stage (finished product dosage forms) pharmaceuticals. Aesica partners with pharmaceutical companies throughout the key stages of a drug’s life cycle to supply product from the early stage through to final commercial supply.
Silverfleet Capital has agreed a majority investment with Aesica replacing that of LDC and
HALO Networks has closed a Series A round of GBP1.6m led by Nauta Capital and DN Capital.
Nauta Capital invested from its recently closed Nauta Tech Invest III fund of EUR105m. This is the 9th investment from this fund. DN Capital invested from its second fund GVCII and this is the 15th investment from GVCII.
HALO Networks, founded in London in 2011, is a company focused on improving the mobile data experience. Its first solution, a seamless and secure 3G to Wi-Fi offload experience for smartphone and tablet users, addresses the problem of mobile data network congestion caused by unprecedented
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has set out its ambition for the Luxembourg Fund Centre to be a global centre of excellence for the asset management industry, thereby creating opportunities for investors, fund professionals and the global community as a whole.
Marc Saluzzi (pictured), Chairman of ALFI, says: “The world we live in is experiencing rapid and radical shifts at political, social and economic levels; ALFI fully understands that this has significantly influenced investor demands for performance and safety, efficiency and innovation. ALFI has therefore developed its Ambition Paper which identifies five key objectives which we
Despite falling equity prices across Europe, there has been a sharp rise in the purchase of European blue chip American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) – securities issued by European companies and traded on US exchanges, says Chris Hanley, Regional Manager UK and Ireland, BNY Mellon…
Issuance of European ADRs has hit record levels in 2011 with 34.4 billion depositary receipts (DRs) being traded globally compared to 31.5 billion for 2010 – a 9% year on year increase. However, for August the figures show a dramatic 117% increase from 2.9 billion ADRs traded in August 2010 rising to 6.3 billion ADRs in
Ashurst and Blake Dawson have announced plans to combine their businesses in Asia and merge their operations globally, creating a new and powerful legal presence in the international market under the Ashurst name.
This follows a positive vote of both partnerships, which took place on 23 September 2011.
Ashurst and Blake Dawson have a shared vision to build a premier global law firm. At the outset, the firms will combine their practices in Asia to offer scale, depth and reach in the fastest growing region of the world. The combination will provide significant opportunities and competitive advantages, building on
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