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Derbyshire-based CW Sellors has secured funds from MEIF Maven Debt Finance, part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) which is managed by Maven Capital Partners.
Along with the expansion of its facilities, the funds will also help the business increase its sales and marketing activity.
Founded in 1979, CW Sellors has managed to establish a successful online presence along with a good reputation as a retailer of jewellery and luxury watches across Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
CW Sellors plans to use the funding to expand its design and manufacturing centres with a newly built facility, and to create new jobs
Inflexion has sold medical data disseminator Pharmaspectra to US-listed health information company IQVIA in a deal valued at $100 million, according to a report by Unquote. The exit has generated a 25% IRR for Inflexion.
Inflexion acquired Pharmaspectra in 2019 via Enterprise Fund IV, and the deal is Inflexion’s fourth Fund IV exit following the sales of Goals Soccer Centre, Halo Technology, and Virgin Experience Days.
Inflexion has reportedly made nine exits to date in 2022 with a combined valuation of GBP2.5 billion.
E.ON’s current venturing team, Future Energy Ventures, has established a new, independent Luxembourg-domiciled venture capital fund, Future Energy Ventures Fund I SCA SICAV-RAIF.
This launch marks a new chapter for the venturing team in its mission to create a decarbonised future through Europe’s leading energy transition venture fund. E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure, has committed to be an anchor investor to the Fund.
In an important step towards the first closing of the Fund and the venturing team’s planned independent future outside of E.ON, BaFin, Germany’s financial regulator, has granted a license to
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) committed a minimum of $404 million to private equity investments in Asia in the second quarter of 2022, according to Deal Street Asia.
Blackfinch Energy, part of Blackfinch Group and a leading investor into UK renewable energy, has made three new hires in its national team, with Alan Gorman, Vuong Nguyen, and Sam Dickerson joining as Investment Director, Investment Manager and Senior Commercial Portfolio Manager, respectively.
The move follows an announcement last month that the firm had expanded its UK-based renewable energy portfolio with its first subsidy free wind farm in Scotland achieving commercial operation, and that it had increased its total annual renewable energy capacity from 104 Gigawatt hours (GWh) to c. 118 GWh.
Bringing more than 20 years’ experience and an
Beemok Capital, the family office of businessman and philanthropist Benjamin Navarro, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cincinnati’s Western and Southern Open tournament from the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Navarro and Beemok Capital have demonstrated a years-long commitment to the advancement of tennis in the United States with substantial investments in programmes and infrastructure to support all levels of tennis development. Beemok also brings extensive operational and hospitality expertise to the Western and Southern Open, having recently completed a major renovation that transformed Charleston’s Credit One Stadium into a
Assetz Capital, a specialist SME finance platform, has formed a new funding relationship with Aeon Investments, a London based credit-focused investment company.
Over the next three years, Aeon Investments will inject an initial £200 million of investment into SME loans arranged by Assetz Capital, enabling the business to provide commercial mortgages of up to £10 million on commercial investment properties. This enables Assetz Capital to further diversify its commercial mortgage lending and expand its capacity to lend across the broadest range of commercial properties used by UK SMEs.
The new funding comes at a critical time for SMEs, which
Altamont Capital Management has become a signatory to the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s (ILPA) Diversity in Action initiative. The Diversity in Action initiative’s goal is to motivate market participants to engage in the journey to become more diverse and inclusive and to build momentum around the adoption of specific actions that advance DEI over time.
Signatories undertake essential DEI actions that span talent management, investment management and industry engagement.
Altamont joins the list of ILPA signatories four months after joining Ownership Works, a nonprofit with a mission to increase prosperity through shared ownership at work, as a founding partner. Altamont is
Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Aneeqa Zamal as compliance executive in its Global Compliance Solutions business.
Apex Group’s expanding Global Compliance Solutions team offers a global network of compliance experts, supporting clients to meet their operational and regulatory obligations across international financial hubs. Clients include leading fund and asset managers, placement agents, FX brokers, fund distribution platforms and investment advisors.
Initially based in Apex Group’s London offices and supporting global clients, Zamal will report to Hari Bhambra, Global Head of Compliance Solutions. She will be responsible for advising and guiding clients through UK and cross-jurisdictional compliance matters, licensing and
CoVenture, an asset management firm investing across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies, has added to its team with the appointment of Naved Sheikh as general counsel.
Prior to CoVenture, Sheikh was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he served as lead counsel for the infrastructure, secondaries, Asia-focused private equity and growth capital teams and other private investing businesses within Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Sheikh also perviously served as in-house counsel at Blackstone and as an associate at the global law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Sheikh earned his law degree from Cornell Law School
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