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Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset manager for alternative investments, has held successful final closings for its two current infrastructure funds, with total commitments of some €1.5 billion.
The flagship fund of funds “Golding Infrastructure 2020” closed at €943 million, significantly above its target of €700 million, making it the biggest fund in Golding’s company history and one of the largest fund of funds on today’s infrastructure market overall.
“Golding Infrastructure Co-Investment 2020” meanwhile, also closed well above its original target at €578 million, thanks to strong investor demand. In each case these impressive results were due around half to
Ark Kapital – a data-driven precision finance company – has doubled its equity funding from €15 million to €30 million in an acceleration round, six months after closing one of Europe’s biggest seed rounds at €165 million.
The new round was led by banking icon Annika Falkengren with participation from all seed investors (LocalGlobe, Creandum) and angels (Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, Zettle founder Jacob de Geer, EQT Ventures founding partner Hjalmar Winbladh, founder of Embark Studios Patrick Söderlund).
The company also welcomed a new angel investor on board – one of the worlds most prominent gaming founders, Timo Soininen of
Apricity, a UK-based virtual fertility clinic, has raised €17 million in a Series B round led by MTIP, the Swiss healthtech investor, with participation from Barcelona-based specialist consumer fund Iris Ventures.
The new funds will be used to accelerate Apricity’s growth in the UK, expand geographically (to Spain before the end of the year, followed by Germany and Italy), and further develop its technology, as it continues on its mission to become the leading fertility player in Europe. This includes expanding its at-home services to include at-home ultrasound scans in select areas.
Launched in the UK in 2018 and originally
Welkin China Private Equity Limited (WCPE) is to launch an IPO on the Premium Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The Company is targeting a raise of up to $300 million and expects to publish its Prospectus in the coming days.
WCPE is a newly established closed-ended investment company and will be the first fund listed on the London Stock Exchange dedicated to investing in unquoted Chinese companies.
The Company will offer public investors exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio of Chinese private equity investments across a range of sectors, stages, maturity levels, and managers,
IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, has appointed Luba Nikulina as its inaugural chief strategy officer to lead the development of IFM’s global strategy with a focus on private markets solutions.
Based in London and joining the global executive team, Nikulina, who has over 25 years of investment industry experience, joins from WTW (previously known as Willis Towers Watson), where she was Global Head of Research, advising some of the world’s largest asset owners on strategy, governance and investments, managing a team of over 100 analysts. During her time at WTW, she worked in London
Cleantech startup Penrhos Bio, which aims to revolutionise global industry with its anti-biofilm technology, has secured £1 million investment with the support of St Andrews-based impact investment firm Eos Advisory.
The investment will accelerate the commercialisation of its patented platform technology, Remora, developed in collaboration with Unilever, that protects surfaces against bacteria, fungi, and algae. Remora provides a real and sustainable alternative to disinfectants and antimicrobial agents in domestic and industrial settings.
Founded in 2019, Penrhos Bio is already working with multiple corporate partners in industries including agritech, marine, renewables, and healthcare ahead of its first phase of commercialisation.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) prohibited three merger & acquisition deals in 2021/22, the highest on record in a single year. The number of blocked deals in 2021/22 equates to 5.5% of all deals reviewed by the CMA that year, says Thomson Reuters.
In the previous decade, the CMA only prohibited an average of one transaction a year, around 1.5% of M&A deals reviewed.
Warsha Kalé, Senior Legal Editor at Thomson Reuters says that whilst the number of prohibited deals may still seem low overall, this increase supports the idea that the CMA is reviewing more significant transactions post-Brexit
MRH Trowe (MRHT), an owner-managed commercial lines insurance broker in Germany, and a portfolio company of AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a specialist mid-market private equity investor in financials, technology and related business services, has acquired a majority stake in afm Holding AG (afm), a top-25 industrial insurance broker with a long operating history in the country.
afm is based in Hamburg and has been a key player in the German insurance landscape for almost 30 years. It serves more than 70,000 clients across the commercial and high-value private customer segments of the market. With 200 employees, including a network of
Mindset AI – which helps businesses within the knowledge economy to digitise their services and scale their expertise – has raised £1.65 million from Mercia and angel investors. Mercia has invested from its EIS funds.
EQT has set the target size for the EQT Infrastructure VI fund at €20 billion. The actual fund size is dependent on the outcome of the fundraising process and may be higher or lower than the target size.
The EQT Infrastructure VI fund’s investment strategy and commercial terms are expected to be materially in line with the predecessor fund EQT Infrastructure V.
To ensure continuity between two fund generations, EQT’s capital raisings usually follow a cycle with successor funds targeted to be in a position to commence investment activities when the predecessor fund is close to being fully invested. This
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