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Global Life Science Ventures (GLSV) has appointed Dr Bert SJ van Toor as investment manager. As a member of the GLSV investment team, Dr van Toor will operate from the company’s Zug office in Switzerland. He will be actively involved in evaluating potential investments, developing GLSV’s portfolio of companies in the life sciences and providing […]

Apax Partners has announced the formal opening of its Nordic office and the appointment of Lars Johansson, a senior partner of IT Provider, as director and head of Apax Partners’ Nordic operations. Lars will be supported by Simon Lindfors, who was previously a partner at IT Provider. Andrew Barrett, director of Apax Partners, currently based […]

Scholz & Friends, the Electra-backed advertising and marketing communications agency, is facing legal action over the squeeze out of its minority shareholders. SdK, the German small shareholders’ association, issued a statement in which it hoped to prevent the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders and stock market delisting. It views the shareholder price of €2.20 per […]

Terra Firma Capital Partners has sold UK pub company Wizard Inns to the UK’s biggest regional brewer, Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries (WDB), for £89.9m. Terra Firma, led by chief executive Guy Hands, was managing Wizard on behalf of Hands’ previous employers, the Japanese Bank Nomura. WDB now owns 100% of the company. Wizard Inns has […]

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UK venture capital firm Northern Venture Managers (NVM) has sold its stake in infrastructure contractor TJ Brent for an undisclosed fee. May Gurney, the construction services business, now holds a 100% stake in the Cornwall headquartered company after Matrix Private Equity (formerly GLE Development Capital) and the Brent management team also sold their interests in […]

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