Private equity fund manager Clessidra SGR is to acquire a majority equity stake in the Florentine maison Roberto Cavalli. Founded in Florence in the seventies, Roberto Cavalli has become a brand of reference in the international luxury goods market, thanks to an extensive network of about 200 mono-brand boutiques.
SK Capital Partners has closed its previously announced acquisition of a controlling interest in AEB Group, a spcecialist in wine ingredients with growing positions in beer ingredients and food detergents. SK Capital’s majority ownership was acquired via a capital increase and a purchase of shares from existing investors including Investindustrial,
Merger and acquisition activity has held up in the UK during the first quarter of 2015 despite the uncertainty created by the election, according to the latest PCPI/PEPI Index from BDO Corporate Finance. The index, which tracks the multiples paid by trade and private equity buyers for private companies found
London-listed private equity fund JZ Capital Partners has acquired SAC, an operational van leasing company based south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Led by CEO Rene Ubbesen, who has been with SAC and its predecessor company for over 20 years, SAC’s business model is based on flexible short and long term leases
Private equity fundraising through the first quarter is examined in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q1 2015. Q1 2015 has seen a marked drop in the number of private equity funds closed, down from 324 in Q4 2014 to just 166 in the first quarter of
In the Bain & Co Global Healthcare Private Equity Report 2015, the prominence of early stage investments in the healthcare sector is a recurring theme, detailing how larger funds are continuing the trend of investing down market. Preqin’s Funds in Market online service tracks 99 early stage venture capital vehicles
Following on from last week’s article, which identified groups that found success through the first three months of 2015, this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q1 2015 looks at which funds and strategies struggled to perform in Q1. Discretionary CTAs CTAs experienced a revival in the latter
Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, is to acquire HealthcareSource, a provider of talent management solutions for healthcare. The transaction is expected to close within approximately 30 days, following satisfaction of customary conditions. President and CEO Peter Segall will continue to lead HealthcareSource following the transaction. “HealthcareSource has established
Echo an up-and-coming technology company focused on improving the accessibility and usability of day-to-day products has launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdCube. Echo’s Connect charge-key recently achieved substantial success on Indiegogo, raising over USD56,000 in pre-sales doubling its USD10,000 target in the first 72 hours, and attracting over 30 potential
Silicon Valley-based medtech company Scanadu has received USD35 million in Series B funding round led by Fosun International and Tencent Holdings Limited, with participation from China Broadband Capital and Iglobe Partners of Singapore. A-round investors Relay Ventures, Redmile Group, Ame Cloud Ventures and Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of The
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