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Direct Petroleum targets AIM

Denver-based Direct Petroleum plans to raise £43 million, with the aid of broker Williams de Broe, for exploration in Morocco and Bulgaria before listing on AIM.

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Mediterranean Oil & Gas to float on AIM

Mediterranean Oil & Gas, chaired by Aussie entrepreneur David Lenigas, is bound for AIM after raising £11.7 million from investors with the aid of broker WH Ireland, in a placing at £1.

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£4.4m Application for OFEX

Labelling and packaging solutions business Application Developments is looking to raise up to £756,000, with the aid of St Helen’s Capital, ahead of a £4.4 million OFEX launch next month.

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MMC gives Ibis wings

Ibis Project Services, a Henley-based company providing project management solutions to UK housing associations, has received £1.8 million of expansion capital from venture capital firm MMC Ventures.

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Noble buys Sitka

Specialist healthcare investor Sitka, founded by former Schroders venture capitalist Gerard Tardy and Dr Louis Nisbet, who built up quoted biotech Xenova, has been bought by Noble Fund Managers.

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IPCC looks for £4.5m

Pharmacy and healthcare sector aspirant Independent Pharmacy Care Centres intends to raise a net £4.5 million through a private placing, with the aid of business angel network Beer & Partners.

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AIM beckons Elephant

Twickenham-based Elephant Loans & Mortgages, catering for the 'non-standard market', wants to raise £650,000 with an AIM float at 3p, advised by ARM Corporate Finance.

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Euro Capital raises £0.8m

East European-focused property hopeful Euro Capital Projects, which lost £164,000 in the six months to March, has raised £800,000 at a lowly 1p to provide additional working capital.

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AIM beckons Elephant

Twickenham-based Elephant Loans & Mortgages, catering for the 'non-standard market', wants to raise £650,000 with an AIM float at 3p, advised by ARM Corporate Finance.

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Euro Capital raises £0.8m

East European-focused property hopeful Euro Capital Projects, which lost £164,000 in the six months to March, has raised £800,000 at a lowly 1p to provide additional working capital.

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Hotbed lures City veteran

Christopher Holdsworth Hunt, the former boss of AIM-focused stockbroking firm KBC Peel Hunt, has joined the board of high net worth individual investment club Hotbed, as a non-executive director.

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AIM Flotation plan for Davenham

Davenham Group, an asset-based lender to small and medium-sized companies, hopes to raise £27.5 million by floating on AIM in the near future, with the aid of broker Panmure Gordon.

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Business battle of the sexes

Are women superior to men in business? Are the gents quicker than the ladies when it comes to decision-making? And is it really true that women excel at multi-tasking while men can only cope with one job at once?

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Aiming for high growth – Entrepreneurship Survey

Less than ten per cent of early-stage entrepreneurs expect their businesses to be employing 20 or more individuals within five years, according to a new worldwide survey from research collective the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.