Association of Investment Company (AIC) figures show that GBP365 million was raised by the VCT sector during the 2010-2011 tax year; more than the GBP344 million that was raised in the 2009/10 tax year and the fourth highest amount since VCTs were first launched in 1995. Ian Sayers, Director General,
The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) has announced the First Close of its RMB Fund – the Shanghai Blackstone Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership). Blackstone has received commitments from Chinese government entities, state-owned enterprises, and large domestic corporations. The target size of the Fund is RMB 5 billion and is
Promus Equity Partners LLC, the private equity arm of Promus Capital, has acquired ProSteel Security Products Inc. Terms of the deal have not been released, though the firm said that senior debt was provided by US Bank. Based in Provo, Utah, ProSteel is a leading provider of gun safes marketed
USA Synthetic Fuel Corporation (OTCQB: USFC), a cleantech company focused on ultra clean btu converter commercial deployment, is to receive up to USD20m in investment funds from Kodiak Capital Group, LLC, a New York-based institutional investor. "We are pleased to receive this commitment from Kodiak, a well respected team that
Private equity fund administrator Langham Hall has been appointed as the Guernsey administrator to Cubera VI, a secondary fund focusing on purchasing LP shares in Nordic buy-out funds. The advisor to the fund is Cubera Private Equity AS a Nordic investment firm specialising in secondary transactions in the Nordic
CI Capital Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City has announced the final closing of its CI Capital Investors II, LP fund with USD620 million in commitments, exceeding its target of USD500 million. The managing principals of CI Capital are collectively the largest investors in the fund.
Luxembourg Fund Partners has launched the Salus Healthcare Fund I – LFP Prime SICAV SIF SA, a diversified regulated investment vehicle created to invest into an evolving, high quality and high growth property asset class. This will benefit from the huge growth in the Care Homes, Retirement and Assisted Living
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), the European private equity firm that specialises in the financial services sector, is to acquire Cabot Financial, the consumer debt purchasing firm, from Citi. The purchase will create the UK’s biggest debt purchasing and collection business as AnaCap will integrate Cabot Financial with Apex Credit Management,
First Reserve Corporation, a leading private equity firm in the energy and natural resources industries is to acquire Metallum Holdings SA (Metallum Group), a European based base metal refining and recycling company, for EUR670m. Metallum Group specialises in processing and converting low grade copper scrap into metal. With key operations
Pond Ventures has completed its fourth portfolio company exit in six months with the acquisition of Nanotech Semiconductor by Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) for USD34 million, plus a potential earn-out of up to USD6 million if certain revenue targets are achieved by Nanotech over the next 12 months. The
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