Katharine Hidalgo
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Blackstone Life Sciences invests $337m in Medtronic's diabetes arm
Medtronic, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a medical technology, services and products company
Astanor leads series-A round for Hyris
Neos Medica, IDB Holding – the holding company controlling Indena – and Pi Campus also participate
LDC-backed Linley & Simpson acquires Link Agency, Dawson Wake
Previous acquisitions were financed by Santander Corporate and Commercial Banking
Livingbridge invests in TitanHQ
Investment in the cloud security company is made through Livingbridge's Enterprise 3 fund
Bridgepoint-backed Fat Face in debt-to-equity swap – report
Deal would reduce Fat Face's present £120m borrowing levels via a debt-for-equity swap
BBB appoints Lewis La Torre as interim CEO
In October 2019, Keith Morgan announced that he would be standing down from the role of CEO
Maven invests in Redwigwam
Steve Harris joins as MD for technology and operations while Dawn Paine becomes marketing director
BGF invests €10.5m in Edgescan
BGF's investment is the first external capital or financing received by the company to date
CD&R-backed Huntsworth acquires Cormis
Cormis partners will continue to lead Cormis and join the Huntsworth division's leadership team
Cambridge Associates opens Munich office
Office will be led by Alex Koriath, head of European pension practice and regional head for Germany
BGF invests £10m in Decora
For 2018, the window coverings and blinds manufacturer reported £72.7m in revenue
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Startups slow down
The Unquote pod asks, when will VC activity return to normal? And how will venture funds rebound in comparison to the previous GFC?
Silverfleet's Ashton leaves position as partner
Ashton will continue to act as a consultant to Silverfleet and as a non-executive director for Sigma
BGF invests £3m in ROI
Headquartered in Manchester the company reports annual revenues in excess of £1m
BGF invests £6m in Amdaris
Headquartered in Bristol, Amdaris employs 200 developers and generates revenues of £7.2m
Panoramic delays fundraising to H1 2021
Panoramic Growth Fund 2, which closed on £65m in May 2016, is around 60% deployed currently
Temasek leads $28.5m series-B for Tropic Biosciences
New investors include Sumitomo Europe, Genoa Ventures, Agronomics and Skyviews Life Science
OrbiMed leads $70m round for Mereo
Mereo announces plans to advance Etigilimab (Anti-TIGIT) into a phase-Ib study in Q4 2020
Spectrum appoints Patey
Patey was a director at BDO before taking this position as lead advisory director
BMO appoints Baxter and Burnet to board
Listed private equity investor is currently valued at £315 per share, at the time of publication
Two thirds of PE professionals expect reduction in carry – survey
More than half of the private equity partners and directors surveyed also expect bonuses to reduce
Existing investors take part in $27m round for Verne
Investors Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst participate in the round
Torqx acquires Fabory
Grainger, the vendor of the company, mandated Rothschild to explore a sale process in November 2019
Alcuin sells AVMI to trade
AVMI reported EBITDA of £6.3m for the year ending on 30 June 2019 from revenues of £81m