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NEWSLETTER | 9 Feb 2021

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Bain Capital Private Equity (Bain Capital) and Cinven (the consortium) have entered into definitive agreements to acquire Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI), a division of Lonza AG, for a total enterprise value of CHF4.2 billion.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has entered exclusive negotiations to make a majority growth investment in DL Software, a France-based group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software providers.

JP Jenkins launches new direct dealing service

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

JP Jenkins, an established UK trading platform for private companies, has launched a new online trading platform JPJ Direct.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) showed extraordinary resilience in 2020 despite the challenges of the pandemic, according to a new survey of VCT managers conducted by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC).

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Orion Innovation (Orion), a digital transformation and product development services firm, is to acquire Tellence Technologies (Tellence), a privately-held technology services company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Wombat, the UK’s first thematic & curated fractional investment platform, has closed a GBP2 million seed round to help the fast-growth business serve consumers’ increasing appetite for shares investing.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Surface Transforms, which manufactures next-generation carbon ceramic brake discs for the automotive and aircraft industries, has raised GBP20 million in a financing round led by Zeus Capital.

Puma Private Equity completes GBP2m investment into Ostmodern

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments has completed a GBP2 million investment into Ostmodern, a digital product design and technology business that creates innovative video platforms for some of the world’s leading entertainment companies, including Formula One, Arsenal, Channel 4 and Fox.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Kester Capital (Kester) has made an investment in Optibrium, a drug discovery software provider to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Inflexion reinvests in BES

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Inflexion has reinvested in the British Engineering Services Group (BES) to support the company’s continued growth. Inflexion has been an investor in the engineering testing, inspection and consultancy services specialist since it led the carve-out from RSA plc in October 2015.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

BCF Equity Partners (BCF) has completed the acquisition of CF Social Work (CFSW) with the support of an acquisition funding package from Allied Irish Bank (GB) in Nottingham.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Homa Games, a mobile developer and publisher with more than 30 apps in its portfolio, has raised a record USD15 million Seed round from Idinvest Partners, e.ventures & renowned business angels.

BV Investment Partners makes majority investment in SupportNinja

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made a majority investment in SupportNinja, a high-end outsourcing solutions provider.

Bootstrap Europe backs Habito

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Following the close of its recent GBP35 million Series C investment round, digital mortgage and home-buying company Habito has secured additional backing from Bootstrap Europe, a technology growth debt fund that works with disruptive scale-ups making an impact.

Tue | 9 Feb 2021, 11:55

Rapidly growing SME lender Grow Finance has strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of a chief operating officer.