IK Investment Partners, a Pan-European private equity firm, has agreed with the owners of Agros Nova, ITR Investment Partners, to acquire a majority stake in the company. Agros Nova is a diversified food and drink company in Poland. Terms of the agreed sale are not disclosed. Headquartered in Warsaw and
Limited partners are driving big changes to their private equity portfolios in response to new economic realities and dramatic falls in their overall returns from the asset class, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer. The proportion of LPs who have made lifetime portfolio returns of ten per
Venture capital firm Panoramic Growth Equity says its Panoramic Enterprise Capital Fund 1 has made an initial close at GBP34m. The only SME growth fund to close in the UK in the last year, it has already exceeded initial fundraising targets by GBP1.5m. The fund has secured significant funding from
Origo has raised approximately USD30m, before commissions and expenses, by way of the placing of 82,200,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.0001 each in the capital of the company. The shares were placed with investors at a price of 25 pence per share. Liberum Capital acted as broker to the placing.
Private equity firm Riverside has completed its first exit of 2010 with the sale of environment consulting company Entrix to Australian company Cardno. Founded in 1984, Entrix has 33 offices in 17 states and three countries and offers environmental and natural resource management consulting services. Under Riverside’s ownership, Entrix expanded
Private equity firm Riverside has acquired Lewis Computer Services as an add-on acquisition to the Healthcarefirst platform. Founded in 1984, Lewis provides software and complementary products designed to help home care companies manage their businesses and clinical operations. This is Riverside’s 43rd healthcare acquisition. It is part of the Riverside
Soonr, a provider of cloud applications for protection and synchronisation of critical files and mobile productivity, has secured an additional USD4.5m of financing from existing investors and HighBAR Ventures, an early stage and structured venture capital firm. The funding will be used to grow sales, marketing and partnership efforts and
Argosy Capital, an investment fund manager focused on lower middle market operating companies and real estate, has held the final close of Argosy Investment Partners IV at USD180m. The close of the fund brings the total assets under management by Argosy Capital to more than USD500m. The close of this
Dechert plans to open an office in Dublin, making it one of a handful of international law firms to establish a presence in Ireland and the first major onshore transatlantic funds practice to do so in Dublin. The office will focus on advising investment funds, their investment managers and other
Investment managers must take lessons from the credit crunch to their portfolios, Collins Stewart’s global strategist told a wealth management conference in Guernsey this week. Modern portfolio theory failed prior to the crisis because it did not account for the fact that at times of extra stress risk levels rise
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