
LBO funds hit by economic fallout from Covid, says eFront
LBO funds recorded a significant fall in returns during the first half of this year, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.

LBO funds recorded a significant fall in returns during the first half of this year, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.
AccessFintech, a fintech company evolving the financial industry operating model through data and workflow collaboration, has completed a USD20 million Series B funding round led by Dawn Capital, Europe’s largest venture capital fund dedicated to B2B software.Existing investors JP Morgan, Citi and Goldman Sachs contributed to the round, and Deutsche
Chicago-based private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE) has completed a platform investment in TCG Legacy (TCG Legacy), a leading marketing solutions provider, specialising in printing and packaging services for pharmaceutical, consumer products, technology and higher education companies and institutions.TCG Legacy offers a wide array of marketing solutions and in-house
Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC) has acquired Brandywine Coach Works (Brandywine), a multi-site auto repair operator headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and formed Quality Collision Group (QCG), a holding company that will pursue strategic acquisitions of auto repair facilities throughout the US. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.QCG is

OakNorth Bank is sector-agnostic, focusing mainly on lower mid-market businesses and established property developers/investors, and is active throughout England with offices in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and East Anglia. The bank, which has UK restaurant fast food chain LEON in its portfolio, has continued to lend throughout the pandemic
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Habib Abdur-Rahman, Principal, Corporate Development as its internal ESG lead. Within this new role, Abdur-Rahman will be responsible for overseeing the accelerated adoption of a standardised ESG framework, including implementing and enhancing ESG alignment across all business lines and geographies.
Canadian private equity group Novacap has acquired an interest in AGA Financial Group Inc (AGA), one of Quebec’s leading employee benefits advisory firms and third-party administrators of group insurance and retirement plans.AGA helps businesses across Canada develop and administer tailor-made group insurance plans. AGA was founded in 1978 and has
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has listed its portfolio company Mintra Holding AS, a provider of on-demand digital learning and enterprise HCM software solutions for safety-critical industries worldwide, on the Merkur Market of the Oslo Stock Exchange.
B-North has raised a further GBP1 million as it moves closer to obtaining regulatory approval.B-North teamed up with County Durham fintech specialist, Growth Capital Ventures (GCV), to announce the fundraise, which is part of a GBP20 million series A fundraising round designed to give B-North the necessary capital to finalise
Nu Quantum, a quantum photonics specialist, has raised GBP2.1 million in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Ahren Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital have also followed-on from the company’s pre-Seed investment round last September, with Seraphim Capital joining as a new investor. The
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