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Keensight Capital supports Smile in planned acquisition of Open Wide

Open source solutions provider Smile is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Open Wide, a move that will broaden the Smile’s offering while strengthening its position in the open source sector. European growth private equity investor Keensight Capital, the majority shareholder in Smile alongside Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (Cabestan), has

oOh! acquires Inlink Group, driving further Digital Leadership

oOh!media Limited is to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of Inlink Group Limited (Inlink) for USD45 million. The acquisition is in line with oOh!’s digital strategy of driving engagement with audiences through digital screens in high dwell time locations and will further drive oOh!’s digital market leadership.

An examination of emerging managers in private real estate

With some of the biggest names in private equity real estate raising ever larger funds, this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight looks at how emerging managers are faring in the fundraising market and how investor appetite for new firms is changing. The fundraising environment for emerging managers* seems especially

Leland Funds launches Leland Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index Fund

The Leland Family of Funds, in conjunction with Thomson Reuters, has launched the Leland Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index Fund which, as its name suggests, tracks the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index. Launched in October, 2012, the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index is an investable index that tracks the performance

Lovell Minnick Partners closes fourth fund with USD750m of commitments

Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has completed fundraising for its fourth institutional buyout fund, reaching the cap of USD750 million and surpassing the USD550 million target. Lovell Minnick Equity Partners IV received commitments from many limited partners who invested in

State Street’s GX Private Equity Index returns 2.2 per cent in Q2

State Street Corporation’s GX Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, saw an overall return of 4.2 per cent in the second quarter of the year. The index is based on directly sourced limited partnership data and represents more than USD2.2 trillion of private

Oberthur Technologies postpones IPO due to ‘current market conditions’

Oberthur Technologies (OT), a  provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, has decided to postpone its Initial Public Offering (IPO) over concerns about current market conditions. Didier Lamouche, CEO of OT, says: "The decision taken with our majority shareholder Advent International is a natural one given the current

New 301 INC fund to seed emerging consumer food brands

301 INC, the new business development and venturing unit at General Mills, has launched a new multi-million dollar capital fund through the CircleUp marketplace to seed emerging consumer food brands. CircleUp connects consumer and retail brand entrepreneurs to accredited investors through its online platform. By using powerful technology and a

Israeli PE deal-making plummets in Q3

Israeli private equity deal-making fell to a mere USD419 million in 20 deals in the third quarter of 2015, following an exceptionally high Q2/2015, when 27 deals accounted for USD1.6 billion (the third highest quarter in the last four years). Moreover, the amount was 43 per cent below the five-year

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