Atlantic‐Pacific Capital, a privately‐owned placement agent and advisory firm, has held the oversubscribed final closing of Clearview Capital Fund III with USD325m of capital commitments. The fund, managed by Clearview Capital, received support from a broad group of institutional investors including endowments, foundations, pension programmes, consultants and high‐net‐worth family
Silicon Valley Bank, a financial partner to technology, life science and cleantech businesses and their investors, is celebrating the first anniversary of its UK branch. The only bank dedicated to the innovation sector in the UK, Silicon Valley Bank has grown its client base significantly since opening the branch
Medium-sized European companies – accounting for around one third of the region’s economy and employment – are likely to struggle to meet their multi-billion financing needs in the next few years, as banks reduce their lending to the sector, according to Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. S&P has launched Europe’s
London listed private equity firm JZ Capital Partners has reported a net asset value of USD643m for Q1 2013, an increase of 5.4 per cent on Q1 2012’s figure of USD610m. NAV per share meanwhile totals USD9.90, while on 14 June 2013, the firm paid a semi-annual dividend of
Octopus has launched a new venture capital fund that will enable investors in the Octopus Titan VCTs 1-3 to continue to benefit from the star performers in their portfolio, while ensuring the VCTs remain qualifying and able to support more UK smaller companies. The fund launch came after a
Anderson Strathern’s Glasgow commercial real estate team of solicitors has advised jewellery firm ROX in the latest phase of its expansion plans south of the border to prime locations in Leeds and Newcastle. ROX is investing GBP2m to open its first stores outside of Scotland in a move expected
Ian McVeigh (pictured), co-manager of the Jupiter UK Growth Fund comments on recent developments in the UK banking sector… We welcome the decision to push forward the return of Lloyds Banking Group to full private ownership. Lloyds Banking Group’s confident response to the Prudential Regulation Authority report on its capital
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Mubadala Development Company, the Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company, have launched a USD2bn co-investment fund to pursue opportunities in Russia. The definitive agreement was announced at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2013 by RDIF chief executive Kirill Dmitriev and Mubadala
BDC Venture Capital intends to invest more than CAD100m into current and future scalable energy/cleantech opportunities. "The rising cost of energy and resources, as well as the transition to a low-carbon economy, has caused a surge in cleantech innovation in Canada, and this country has the opportunity to be
A team of academics have called on the private equity industry to be more transparent after their study found that a large section of it increases unemployment while actually worsening the performance of the companies taken over. In the first statistical analysis of the private equity’s institutional buy-outs (IBO), which
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