Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised the shareholders of Go Geothermal Ltd on their sale to the Stockholm exchange listed group, NIBE Industrier AB (publ.). 

North west based multi-family investment office, Arete, has announced it has led a private investment into business solutions group, Leonard Curtis, in a deal which values the business at £40m. The deal, which saw a £15 million investment into the professional services firm, was a venture led by Arete in partnership with Svella.

SnapDragon Monitoring, an online brand protection business, has raised £1.2m in its latest funding round - bringing the total raised to just over £3m - from ACF Investors, Mercia, and Scottish Enterprise, to help brand owners identify and remove fakes, copycats and online threats, using intellectual property to do so.

The YFM Equity Partners-backed passive fire protection specialist Checkmate Fire has joined forces with Rosse Systems, 

The corporate team at leading UK law firm Shoosmiths have made a record-breaking start to the year, 

LawtechUK has published a feasibility study and proof of concept for a new technological approach to the late payment challenges facing British business  – an ‘SME online dispute resolution’ platform, produced in partnership with a consortium of legal, technology and alternative dispute resolution experts from the University of Oxford, Oxford Computing Consultants, Resolve Disputes Online and Jur. 

PALATINE-backed Construction Testing Solutions (CTS), a leading provider of construction consulting and testing services, has completed the acquisition of Silkstone Environmental Limited (SEL), a multi-disciplined consultancy specialising in minerals and waste management planning & permitting, site investigation, environmental monitoring and surveying.

After a year of record growth, national courier company Speedy Freight has announced investment from BGF – the UK’s most active growth capital investor – to accelerate its ambitious expansion plans.  

Your FLOCK, a remote work tech startup that helps increase employee engagement by discovering a team’s core values, has secured £240k from GC Angels and a private angel to bolster its development team and scale the product’s growth.  Based on pioneering methodology from Stanford University and the University of Manchester, Your FLOCK helps employees become more engaged and businesses to become more productive and successful by helping to develop cohesive and employee engagement driven company cultures. 

M40 Offices has received a £250,000 funding package from the East & South East Midlands (ESEM) Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).

Tech Nation has launched the Diversity & Inclusion Toolkit; a comprehensive guide to address diversity challenges in tech companies and the UK tech sector, in order to help build a strong, diverse and inclusive tech sector.

A software platform that helps businesses to connect with staff is aiming to double in size after raising a £780,000 investment.

WorkBuzz has secured the funding from Mercia and Foresight, both investing through equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) alongside private investors. The Milton Keynes-based company, which currently employs 16 staff, is planning to create 15 new jobs this year - and to achieve 100% growth in each of the following two years.