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Vistra has launch its Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC) service, which aims to provide a tailored proposition built around the key phases of a SPAC to address each stage of growth – beginning with an IPO through to de-SPACing and business growth.
Leveraging Vistra’s extensive expertise across multiple jurisdictions, sectors, and intermediary relationships, Vistra supports a wide range of SPAC scenarios. Vistra also provides leading entity expertise with over 200,000 entities under management, including Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
“As we experience accelerated change across the business landscape globally, SPACs have picked up pace and continue to develop as an
UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised Kortext, a Bournemouth-based university-focussed digital teaching and learning platform, in securing a GBP15 million series B investment from DMG Ventures, the venture capital arm of Daily Mail and General Trust plc, that has previously backed companies including Cazoo and Zoopla.
Kortext has been a Shoosmiths client since its founding by James Gray in 2013. The firm has acted for Kortext in all its prior funding rounds, raising GBP19 million since it began trading. DMG Ventures led the company’s series A round in 2019 and was the sole participant in this latest round.
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International web hosting business, Miss Group has acquired Spanish-based ADW Europe SL as part of its ambitious buy and build strategy.
The acquisition of ADW Europe SL is the fourth to be completed by Miss Group this year to date and adds a further 1,400 international SME customers to the Group. It’s the first Spanish bolt-on to Profesional Hosting, which was acquired by Miss Group in 2019. The combination of the two businesses is expected to accelerate revenue and EBITDA growth for the Group in the Spanish market.
In February 2020 Perwyn, the family-backed private equity business, acquired a
Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a credit facility to support Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC) with its acquisition of language services provider thebigword Group (thebigword).
Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Leeds, United Kingdom, thebigword Group is a global language technology company comprised of thebigword, TBW Global and WordSynk. thebigword, which is one of the largest language technology companies in the world, is a major supplier to the UK and US Governments and other NATO members around the world, as well as some of the largest companies globally. Thebigword has over
PayFacto Payments (PayFacto), a provider of payment solutions and point-of-sale technologies, has secured an equity investment of up to CAD150 million, in a funding round led by private equity firm Flexpoint Ford with participation from BMO Capital Partners.
PayFacto, one of Canada’s largest non-bank payment processors, is a leading provider of high-quality, fully integrated payment processing technologies and hospitality technology solutions for over 30,000 merchants in Canada, the US, and the UK. The growth equity investment will be used to finance PayFacto’s significant expansion in the US market, leveraging its acquiring bank partnership with Community Federal Savings Bank (CFSB). The
TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook), an international investment management firm, has made a strategic investment in global business advisory firm EisnerAmper.
TowerBrook’s significant capital infusion will help drive EisnerAmper’s long-term growth initiatives, which include accelerating the evolution of service offerings, investing considerably in talent and technology, and strategically expanding via organic growth and targeted mergers and acquisitions—all directed at exponentially enhancing client service.
Going forward, EisnerAmper LLP, a licensed CPA firm, will provide attest services; and Eisner Advisory Group LLC, will provide business advisory and non-attest services.
“EisnerAmper and TowerBrook share common goals to provide superior client service, accelerate growth, create
US-focused startup Team Odeon has raised EUR2 million in funding towards its higher education and career choice focused website, Degreechoices.com.
Investors include venture capital fund Lighthouse Ventures, a group of European private equity investors from the performance marketing sector, and its founder Ory Weihs.
Founded in late 2020, Odeon offers user focused data driven information, and tools to simplify education and career choices. Although their clients are higher education programs, their target audience and ultimate end users are potential students.
The business works on performance-based models, matching high intent, well informed candidates with their best possible educational choices. “The company
OfColor, an enterprise SAAS provider focused on the financial health of employees of colour, has secured a strategic seed investment from funds advised by PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
OfColor is on a mission to help employees of color earn and keep more of their income. The Company aims to integrate the best from fintech and behavioral finance into a single platform, leveraging the combination to improve the financial health of minority employees. Financial terms were not disclosed.
OfColor was founded by CEO Yemi Rose after a nearly two-decade corporate career
Macfarlanes has advised the management team of Pulsant, a UK provider of data centre and cloud infrastructure, on its sale by Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners to private equity firm, Antin Infrastructure Partners.
Pulsant provides data centre and cloud infrastructure to over 1,000 businesses in the public and private sectors, serving its clients from its portfolio of 10 data centres across seven cities in the UK.
Following completion of the acquisition, Pulsant’s management team will work alongside Antin Infrastructure to implement a growth strategy which will capitalise on the increasing demand from businesses for reliable and
Crehana, an education technology platform for companies and individuals focused on closing the reskilling and upskilling gap in Latin America, has raised USD70m in a Series B round led by General Atlantic.
This round represents Latin America’s largest Series B funding for an education technology company and comes just months after Crehana raised a USD13M Series A extension round. Crehana will leverage the funding to expand its enterprise solution, launch operations in Brazil, and invest in new products and technologies.
Founded by Diego Olcese, CEO, and Rodolfo Dañino, COO, in 2015, Crehana is disrupting the Latin American workforce development
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