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Carey Olsen’s Jersey investment funds team has advised Gurr Johns, a global independent art advisory and appraisal group, on the launch of Gurr Johns Capital Credit Partners (Gurr Johns Capital) – a new fund dedicated to providing innovative and flexible solutions to investors in the global art and collectibles market.
Established as a Jersey Private Fund (JPF), Gurr Johns Capital recently held its first close and has a fundraising target of $100 million.
The fund will support Gurr Johns’ established service offering, with Gurr Johns Capital having a specific focus around creating bespoke financial solutions for individuals, galleries, companies and
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active investor – has reported strong deal flow in Scotland and Northern Ireland in the first half of 2022, with close to £25 million having been invested into growing businesses, while exit activity has delivered a 3.5x return off four exits.
BGF is a long-term patient investor, making initial investments between £1 million to £15 million for a minority equity stake. Deals completed to-date in 2022 by BGF’s Scotland and Northern Ireland team come from a range of sectors, including life sciences, technology, manufacturing and healthcare.
Since the turn of the year,
Global cryptocurrency trading platform KuCoin’s venture capital arm – KuCoin Ventures – has made a strategic investment in Torches Finance, the decentralised lending protocol based on KuCoin Community Chain (KCC).
Torches Finance is a KCC-based lending protocol that integrates functions such as lending, leveraged mining, and NFT. So far, Torches Finance has opened deposit and lending services for BTC, ETH, KCS, USDT, and USDC. Torches Finance has made serious efforts to enrich usage scenarios, innovating token incentive models and implementing strict risk management measures. The Torches Finance usage scenario foresees users gaining token benefits through various channels, including, but not
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated consumer and technology focused private equity investor with over £1 billion in assets under management, has backed a management buyout of Access Partnership (Access), a global firm providing advisory services to technology businesses globally in the fields of regulation and public policy.
Founded by its CEO Greg Francis in 1999, Access advises blue-chip technology and telecom clients on achieving entry to new markets on fair terms and maintaining access to existing markets around the world. Access also advises governments, multilateral organisations, and regulatory authorities to ensure that new technology is appropriately regulated. Headquartered in
IT-Salonen Ltd. Through the acquisition, iLOQ, a pioneer in digital access management, will further strengthen its programming capabilities.
Under the trade name DreamIt, IT-Salonen specialises in providing a wide range of IT services and various cyber services, and also develops software products.
Kodinportti is a digital user interface for residential and commercial properties.
Over time, all of DreamIt’s Oulu-based employees will move to iLOQ’s product development team in the company’s headquarters in Oulu. DreamIT also has employees in Tampere and Helsinki.
Ideagen, a specialist in compliance software for regulated industries, has secured an investment from Hg, a leading software and services investor.
Following a positive shareholder meeting on 23 June, 2022, which showed support for Hg’s offer for the business, Ideagen has now delisted from on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market.
Established in 1993 and headquartered in Nottingham, UK, Ideagen’s software helps companies comply with regulation and manage risk. It is a leader in the $30 billion-plus regulatory and compliance software sector, serving highly regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, banking and finance and insurance.
The
Headline, a tech-enabled global venture capital firm, has closed $954 million in new capital across three distinct early-stage funds: Headline US VII, a $408 million North America-focused fund based out of San Francisco; Headline EU VII, a €320 million pan-Europe-focused fund based out of Berlin; and Headline Brazil III, a BRL915 million Latin America-focused fund based out of São Paulo.
Founded in 1999, Headline will use these three new funds to continue to utilise its global team and an data-informed investment approach to identify, track, and invest in the fastest growing early-stage technology companies at the Seed and Series A.
Eurazeo has closed the sale of its majority stake in the Orolia group, a specialist in R-PNT (Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing) solutions and applications, to Safran for €189 million.
Concord Capital Partners has appointed Samuel Landman as chief investment officer (CIO).
The commercial real estate veteran will work on the acquisition, financing, and disposition of real estate assets to help drive the firm’s growth.
Landman has more than 17 years of experience sourcing, acquiring, developing and structuring multifamily, industrial and office projects nationally and globally. As a key member of the Concord investment team, Landman will lead the firm’s corporate equity and debt strategies, focusing primarily on investor relations, partnerships and joint venture structuring.
Landman’s hire is part of Founder and CEO Reuben Robin’s decision to refocus his firm’s
The Sterling Group has completed its acquisition of Ergotron, a global company focused on improving how people work, learn, play and care for others.
The Sterling Group will support Ergotron as it enters a new phase of growth, just on the heels of celebrating 40 years in business.
For decades, Ergotron has been using human-centred design principles and the Technology of Movement to build environments that help people thrive. A pioneer of the sit-stand movement in the workplace, Ergotron offers award-winning standing and mobile desks, ergonomic wall mounts and monitor arms for office and industrial settings. Ergotron also has a
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