IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone have a led a £3.5 million seed funding round in Imperagen, a life sciences company building unique technology to accelerate the development of enzyme biocatalysts. This represents the company’s first significant external capital raise.    The IP-rich firm is a spinout from the University of Manchester led by serial entrepreneur Dr Andrew Almond, who co-founded Conformetrix, now listed on AIM as C4X Discovery.   Imperagen will use the funding to support the development and validation of its ultra-fast enzyme engineering platform. Its ambition is to initially target its novel enzyme products at the manufacture of

Rêv Worldwide (Rêv), in partnership with funds advised by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight), is to acquire the Netspend consumer business from Global Payments in an all cash transaction valued at $1 billion.

Palatine has acquired a majority stake in Skills Alliance, a specialist niche workforce solutions provider for the life sciences, medical device, and animal health sectors. Operating internationally with offices in London, Frankfurt, Zurich, New York, Seattle, and Newport Beach (CA), Skills Alliance, works on a retained basis for some of the largest pharmaceutical and biotech firms around the world.     With a team of 130, Skills Alliance was founded in 2004. It comprises three business units, SA Executive, SA Staffing & SA Consulting and is led by an experienced and ambitious management team including CEO Carl Marotta and Dan

Aliter Capital (Aliter), a private equity investment specialist focused on small to medium-sized UK support services businesses, has completed its investment in Dudley based Concept Resourcing (Concept) as part of its recently raised second fund. Concept is a technology and field service engineering resourcing and recruitment business focussed on placing technology roles on both a temporary and permanent basis. Concept has a blue-chip customer base through strategic partnerships with world leading technology services providers and manufacturers in both the private and public sector, across the UK. The UK technology recruitment sector has recovered strongly from the pandemic with staff hiring

MEAG, acting as the asset management arm for entities of Munich Re, has agreed to invest $300 million for a 12% stake in global infrastructure investment firm HRL Morrison & Co’s (Morrison & Co) portfolio company Longroad Energy (Longroad), a provider of renewable energy project development, operating assets and services. MEAG joins an ownership group comprised of Morrison & Co’s listed infrastructure business, Infratil Ltd, and the NZ Super Fund, each of whom have agreed to invest an additional $100 million into the company, as well as Longroad management. Infratil and the NZ Super Fund will retain a ~37% stake

Godspeed Capital Management has invested in TSK Architects (TSK), a highly acclaimed architecture, planning, and interior design firm. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1960, TSK is a Southwestern US-focused architecture firm, providing architectural and interior design, master planning, construction administration, and consulting services for K-12 and higher education clients as well as Federal, State, and Local Government clients. TSK has earned over 90 design awards for design excellence, sustainable practice, exceptional service, and high-performing architecture, and was awarded the 2020 AIA Nevada Architecture Firm of the Year.   TSK joins Rachlin Partners as part

LDC has exited its seven-year investment in bathroom specialist Aqualisa to Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc in a transaction that values the company at £130 million.