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
PSAV announced today it has acquired AVC Live, a specialist technical production company with a presence in London and the South East of the UK. AVC specialises in providing audiovisual and production services to hotels and venues and has an impressive client base throughout numerous sectors, spanning 34 years of
EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for SMEs, has launched Tech 40, a label recognising innovative European SMEs listed on the markets it covers. Each year Tech 40 will allow 40 top-performing European companies to benefit from premium services. It is one of a series
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