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Month: November 2020

Axcel buys three staffing agencies

Axcel has acquired three Danish staffing agencies – TeamVikaren/PersonaleBørsen, Protemp and Moment – and merged them into a combined entity.

Chequers, Paragon to acquire Silverfleet's 7days

Chequers Capital and Paragon Partners are to acquire medical workwear business 7days, a portfolio company of Silverfleet Capital.

VCs in €3.5m round for Cumul.io

Axeleo Capital, LRM and SmartFin have led a €3.5m funding round for analytics software provider Cumul.io.

EMZ Partners acquires Assepro

EMZ Partners has acquired a majority stake in Assepro, a Switzerland-based insurance broker.

Omnes, Bpifrance back €12m Series A round for cancer treatment side-effect drug developer AlgoTherapeutix

French biotech company AlgoTherapeutix has raised €12m in a Series A round led by Bpifrance through its InnoBio 2 fund alongside co-investor Omnes.

Silverfleet hits 3.1x return from sale of medical workwear maker 7Days

The firm is passing the parcel to Chequers Capital and Paragon Partners

Abris Capital buys Scanmed for PLN 340m

Private equity firm Abris Capital Partners has fully acquired Polish clinics operator Scanmed from Life Healthcare Group Holdings for PLN 340m.

Covid online shopping boost sparks Revlifter growth as VC pair invest

Gresham House Ventures and Maven Capital Partners have backed growing e-commerce deals business RevLifter.

The number of unicorn companies jumped to 500, combined market value over $1.5tn

Opalesque Industry Update - In 2013, when the term unicorn emerged, only 40 private companies had a valuation of one billion dollars in the world. Since then, the number of these financial giants surged, rising

Active ETFs and ETPs gather a record $58.69bn in YTD net inflows as of the end of October 2020

Opalesque Industry Update - ETFGI, the independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that actively managed ETFs and ETPs saw net inflows of US$7.28 billion during October, bringing

Pandemic spurs UK companies to tap London equity market at fastest pace in over a decade

Companies on the London Stock Exchange have raised over £26bn this year

What a Biden administration means for British fintech

Wall Street veterans, the battle with big tech and a new immigration policy will all be part of Biden's new fintech playbook

‘Desperate times need desperate measures’ – City reacts to UK’s Spending Review

'Today isn’t the right time for tax rises', but they are coming

Silverfleet Capital seals 3.1x return on healthcare workware business 7days through sale to private equity pair

Silverfleet Capital has scored a 3.1x return selling its majority stake in 7days, a German supplier of workwear for the healthcare industry, to fellow private equity firms Chequers Capital and Paragon Partners.

H2 acquires Optegra

H2 Equity Partners has acquired ophthalmology chain Optegra from Eight Roads, Fidelity International’s private equity arm.

SR One set to deploy $500m fund following GSK spin-out

Simeon George, CEO of life sciences investor SR One, speaks to Unquote about raising its first-time fund, the ongoing importance of its relationship with GSK following its spin-out from the company, and the firm's deal

Abris Capital makes Polish healthcare play with Scanmed buyout from Life Healthcare Group

Abris Capital Partners has agreed a buyout of Polish healthcare network operator Scanmed from Life Healthcare Group.

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Credit managers hold off new launches

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Credit managers appear to be in a bit of a holding pattern according to new data from law firm Ropes & Gray. The pandemic has disrupted new launches and is

AMB :- Swedish pension fund giant AP1 and LGIM launch sustainable EM equity fund

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Swedish pension fund Forsta AP-fonden, better known as AP1, has seeded what it describes as "the next generation of index funds" for emerging markets responsible investors, in partne...Article Link

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