Electra Private Equity has reported an uplift in its diluted net asset value per share of 33p as a result of the successful IPO of UK motor insurer esure, its third largest investment at 30 September 2012. In 2010, Electra invested GBP30m (via the Tosca Penta Investments LP fund)
Argon Medical Devices, a portfolio company of private equity firm RoundTable Healthcare Partners, is to acquire the Interventional Products Business of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals. The Interventional Products Business manufactures and markets disposable and re-usable biopsy products for the diagnosis of cancer, drainage catheter products, and vascular interventional products. The
FPI Innovation Fund has attracted and arranged a co-investment of EUR10m into ANF Technology, the producer of NAFEN, the first ever superior-grade aluminium oxide nano fibre to be produced at commercially viable industrial volumes. FPI typically invests directly at the earliest stage in a company’s development, when risks are
Neuralstem has secured USD8m in debt financing with Hercules Technology Growth Capital to fund the company’s capital budget through late 2014. "This debt financing extends our cash runway well into late 2014 at a critical time in our clinical product development cycle. We have multiple NSI-566 cell therapy clinical
European private equity fundraising remains subdued, with volumes raised over the last four years (2009-2012) being only 40 per cent of those raised in the four year period prior to that (2005-2008), according to research carried out by Acanthus Advisers. However, for funds with well differentiated strategies and solid
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has received an irrevocable offer from an investor group for its entire stake in AXA Investment Managers Private Equity SA (AXA Private Equity). The proposed transaction would be structured with a view to protecting AXA Private Equity’s investment expertise and performance-driven culture, and to ensuring
import•io has raised GBP600,000 (USD900,000) from Wellington Partners, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, and long-time French technology investor Emmanuel Javal to help expand and develop its “big data” platform. import•io turns the web into a database, releasing the vast potential of the data trapped within the web. It lets companies,
Following the signing of a share purchase agreement between Abénex Capital and RG Safety’s shareholders, Salvepar has confirmed that the transaction is to be closed at a price in line with the net asset value as at 31 December 2012 and at a significant premium to the net book value.
NewWorld Environmental Infrastructure has invested in a six-project 11.6 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic electricity production project portfolio developed by Soltage. The projects will be located in Connecticut and Massachusetts and will commence construction this month. Soltage specialises in the development, design, ownership, finance and operation of solar power
Terra Venture Partners has held the first closing for its new fund at USD20m. The fund’s primary investors include a US private equity fund, a Brazilian bank, European family offices, and additional strategic investors, many of which have invested in Terra’s first fund. Terra is targeting USD50mn in
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