According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), which manages a global proprietary database of private equity activity across emerging markets, 89 funds raised USD22.6 billion in the first half of this year, versus USD23.5 billion raised in all of 2010, putting emerging markets on track to potentially double
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation has sold APS Energy Services, a full-service energy service company, to Ameresco, Inc, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company. Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to Pinnacle West. The transaction was led by Brian Lucas, Luke Semple and Tiff Armstrong from
Investment firm TPG Capital is to become a major shareholder in Saxo Bank. Following a purchase agreement signed this week, a TPG Capital affiliate will acquire a 30% stake in the company (along with an option to increase its stake to 40%) from existing investors, including General Atlantic, a global
Harvest Capital Strategies, the alternative asset management arm of JMP Group Inc has formed Harvest Capital Credit LLC, a specialty finance company providing structured credit to small businesses. Richard P Buckanavage, who was formerly president and chief executive officer of Patriot Capital Funding, Inc, serves as president of Harvest Capital
In connection with its conditional acquisition of a portfolio of 38 mid-market buyout co-investments in an all share transaction valued at approximately USD91.9 million, JP Morgan Private Equity Limited (JPEL or the Company) has been informed that Liberum Capital Limited, acting as broker on behalf of the SPL Funds, has
Jersey Finance chief executive Geoff Cook on the latest developments in the island’s fund industry post AIFMD… When I last wrote about the Jersey Funds sector in April of this year, issues and concerns surrounding the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) were finally beginning to settle down, and we
Aleva Neurotherapeutics, a company developing next-generation implants for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in major neurological indications such as Parkinson´s disease or depression, has closed a Series A financing round totalling EUR 9.5 million. Aleva was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Microsystems Laboratory.
An SEI Quick Poll shows a significant increase in the percentage of pension portfolios investing in alternatives when compared to the previous three years of polling. This year, nearly eight out of ten (78 per cent) pension executives surveyed in the SEI Quick Poll reported their organisation had some allocation
Blue Sky Funds Management has appointed Jane Prior, former international Nabarro associate, as its commercial manager – a newly created role, which will further reinforce the firm’s stringent corporate governance approach. Prior will provide in-house counsel for the development of Blue Sky’s fund offering and advise on a range of
Infinity Group has launched Chongqing Infinity Funds, cooperations between Infinity Group and the Chongqing Banan District People’s Government that will be available both in RMB and US dollars. The Chongqing Infinity RMB Fund is Infinity’s 11th city-level RMB fund. It is also Infinity’s first fund in China managed by its
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