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22 Nov 2024

HgCapital invests £11.7m in Empyrean Solutions

HgCapital Trust (HGT) says that it will invest approximately £11.7m in Empyrean Solutions, which it describes as a leading provider of risk and performance management software for financial institutions, alongside other institutional clients of Hg investing through the Hg Mercury 4 Fund. Hg says that the transaction follows a period of rapid growth and scaling, […]

22 Nov 2024
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Blackstone Loan Financing PPN sale could significantly accelerate wind down

Blackstone Loan Financing Limited (BGLF) says that it has entered into a conditional agreement for the sale of 100% of the Profit Participating Notes (PPNs) to an entity that is an affiliate of its manager. The transaction is subject to shareholder approval and certain other conditions but, if it proceeds, BGLF says that the deal […]

22 Nov 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 November 2024 – SBO

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 November 2024: Schroder British Opportunities (SBO) has announced a non-material change to its investment policy, whereby it will remove the following paragraph that makes reference to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: “The Company will focus on companies which the Portfolio Managers consider to be sustainable from an environmental, social […]

19 Nov 2024

Miton UK MicroCap throws in the towel

Miton UK MicroCap (MINI) has issued a statement saying that, following its engagement with shareholders on the future direction of the company – which MINI’s board said it would do given the level of redemption requests received for the 2024 Redemption Point – the board has concluded that it is the best interest of shareholders […]

18 Nov 2024

Worldwide Healthcare defends McCutcheon and Borho’s board seats

Worldwide Healthcare (WWH) has issued an announcement following up on the results of its AGM on 10 July 2024, where the resolutions to re-elect Doug McCutcheon and Sven Borho as directors of the company had more than 20% of votes cast against the respective resolutions (all other votes passed comfortably). The board acknowledges that some […]

18 Nov 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2024 – CAT, SRE, LMP

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 18 November 2024: Following its recently announced partial compulsorily redemption (which is expected to take place on 29 November 2024), CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities (CAT) will have redeemed the entirety of its interest in the Master Fund and distributed substantially all of the redemption proceeds it has received. Consequently, CAT’s board is […]

15 Nov 2024

Application for RTW Biotech Opportunities’ CORXEL’s Aficamten accepted by Chinese regulator

CORXEL Pharmaceuticals, a portfolio company of RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), has had a new drug application accepted by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). The application acceptance is for the use of Aficamten for the treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). RTW describes Aficamten as “an investigational, next-in-class selective small molecule cardiac myosin inhibitor”. The […]

15 Nov 2024

AVI Japan Opportunity publishes details of tender offer

Following its announcement on 14 October that it intended to offer shareholders annual tender offers (click here to see our coverage), AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) has now published details of the proposed tender along with a circular in relation to this. Shareholders have the opportunity to tender some, none or all of their shares at […]

15 Nov 2024

Gore Street Energy Storage secures larger debt facilities

Gore Street Energy Storage (GSF) has increased the size of two of its financing facilities – one at project level for its Big Rock project, and one at the company level. GSF’s wholly owned subsidiary, Big Rock ESS Assets LLC, which owns the 200MW / 400MWh Big Rock project in California, has successfully completed a […]

15 Nov 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 November 2024 – FP., LAND

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 November 2024: Fondul Proprietatea (FP.) has published its quarterly report for the three months ended 30 September 2024. The Adjusted NAV per share as at 30 September 2024 was RON 0.7319 per share, which is 10.76% higher than its value of RON 0.6608 as at the 31 December 2023. The fund’s […]