International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised the UK Department of Health on the launch of the global Dementia Discovery Fund. The Dementia Discovery Fund is the world’s first venture capital fund dedicated to funding pre-clinical research for a cure or treatment of dementia and is a collaboration between
Hedge fund launches are under the spotlight in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q3 2015. Alternative mutual funds saw a significant rise in their share of new fund launches in Q3 2015. These structures accounted for 13 per cent of the new launches monitored by Preqin’s
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q3 2015 examines current closed-end private real estate funds in market, looking at target capital, primary geographic focus, time spent on the road and a sample of the largest funds currently fundraising. The number of closed-end private real estate funds in
Private equity firm GTCR has closed the previously announced sale of AssuredPartners to Apax Partners. Founded in 2011, AssuredPartners is the an independent P&C insurance brokerage with offices in over 30 states, the District of Columbia and London. Through Assured’s network of agencies, the Company provides property and casualty and
Luxembourg's funds industry is marching ahead as Europe's leading funds domicile if figures released by the Association of the Luxembourg Funds Industry (ALFI) are anything to go by. According to ALFI, March saw the Grand Duchy enjoy record net sales and a growth of AUM. Total assets now total EUR3.53
Eze Software Group is to acquire TKS Solutions, a specialty software provider of shareholder and partnership accounting tools. The value of the deal, which is expected to close next month, has not been disclosed. TKS Solutions’ core product, known as Penny It Works, will add partnership and shareholder reporting capabilities
Worthy, the online marketplace for pre-owned luxury goods, has raised USD8 million in a Series B funding round led by Carmel Ventures (Carmel Ventures), a member of the Viola Group. As part of the investment, Carmel's co-founder, Shlomo Dovrat, joined Worthy's board of directors. Other investors in the current round
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed itsacquisition of DigiCert, a global SSL Certification Authority (CA) and the leading provider of trusted certificate management solutions. Prior investor TA Associates and DigiCert management and employees will remain significant shareholders in the business. DigiCert provides digital certificates to over 115,000 customers in
Scepter Partners is proposing to to acquire 100 per cent of Santos Limited, an independent oil and gas company in Australia, at AUD6.88 (USD4.97) per share in cash. If implemented, the offer, which values Santos at AUD7.1 billion (USD5.1bn), would provide shareholders with a 26 per cent premium over the
The Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), an indicator of future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements, forecasts modest growth for the volume of global M&A deals announced through the first quarter of 2016. M&A volumes are predicted to increase by about seven per cent through the first quarter of 2016 compared
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