Although the coronavirus pandemic has set back plans for many GPs, a number of mid-market and small-cap buyout vehicles are on the road in the DACH region, along with several venture capital funds. Harriet Matthews
S7V and Presight Capital have backed a €4m extension to business banking startup Penta's series-B funding round, bringing its series-B total to €22.5m.
Private equity portfolio companies are largely weathering the storm caused by the coronavirus crisis, new research from risk management firm Willis Towers Watson shows.
In this round up, China records a trade surplus in July that exceeds expectations by a large margin, the central bank reviews the monetary policy from the second quarter and sets a direction for the
Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Henlius Biotech has won approval from the Mainland securities regulator to sell a chunk of new shares.
BMW Finance, a subsidiary of German carmaker BMW, sealed a Rmb500m ($72m) three year dim sum bond on Thursday. It was the first publicly sold offshore renminbi trade by a corporation since November last year.
Canada-based Flinks, a financial data platform, has closed its Series A round on $16m, with NAventures leading the round.
Platinum Equity has acquired the digital film distribution business of Deluxe Entertainment in partnership with the company’s former CEO Cyril Drabinsky. Deluxe was founded in 1915 as a film processing lab within Fox Film Corporation.
Watco Companies, a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital, has agreed to acquire the short line rail assets and related equipment of six North American manufacturing sites from Dow Chemical. Watco is a provider of transportation
Foam Fabricators, a portfolio company of Compass Diversified (CODI) since January 2018, has acquired Polyfoam. Polyfoam is a manufacturer of protective and temperature-sensitive packaging used in the medical, pharmaceutical, grocery and food industries. The company
San Diego-headquartered HCAP Partners has promoted Bhairvee Shavdia to principal. Ms. Shavdia joined HCAP Partners in 2015 and has been active in building and implementing the firm’s impact investing methodology that supports the creation of
Venture capital houses Alta Life Sciences and Kurma Partners have led a €3.5m series-A round for Barcelona-based biotech startup Deepull.
Sequoia Capital India has hauled in $1.35bn across a pair of new funds targeting venture capital and growth deals across southeast Asia.
Several firms are raising funds targeting a single medical field, such as cancer, ophthalmology, cardiology or neuroscience
Digital business bank Penta has collected €4m in a new funding round, adding to the €18.5m it raised in March for its Series B. The capital infusion was supplied by S7V, Presight Capital and two
