The Africa Health Fund, which is managed by private equity fund management company Aureos Capital, has invested USD4.5 million in Ghanaian hospital C&J Medicare. The Africa Healthcare Fund was established in June 2009 by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the African Development Bank, and
Changes to tax regimes, notably in the UK and US, are focusing attention on tax efficient remuneration structures and incentivisation structures for closed-ended fund managers and their teams, says Simon Burgess, head of Real Estate Fund Services – EMEA at State Street… Carried interest, as the profit share paid to
Stone Point Capital has formed Access Point Financial, Inc, a newly-created specialty finance company focused on the hospitality industry. Access Point is a full-service lending and advisory platform that will provide financing to qualified franchisees of major hotel brands throughout the United States. The company expects to originate over USD1
TribeHR Corp, a leading social human resources platform for small and medium business, announced today that it has secured a USD1 million round of seed financing from Matrix Partners. The company will use the funds to drive product development and expand sales and marketing programs. TribeHR offers a unique web-based
By Simon Gray – A debate is underway in Luxembourg about whether this civil law country, already a major European hub for private equity acquisition and transaction vehicles, should wholeheartedly embrace the Anglo-Saxon common law concept of the limited partnership in order to seize a larger share of the global
By Olivier Sciales and Rémi Chevalier – Luxembourg’s private equity industry faces a range of challenges but also opportunities as a result of the implementation of the European Union’s Directive on Alternative investment Fund Managers, which was agreed by the European Parliament in November 2010 and formally adopted by the
By Simon Henin – If there’s such a thing as a winner from the recent economic downturn and the growth of regulation in the private equity industry, arguably one might be Luxembourg. As private equity investors have become more cautious, fund managers have looked for reputable and well-regulated jurisdictions to
By Simon Gray – The advent in July 2013 of the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive could help Luxembourg to consolidate its position as a domicile and servicing centre for private equity funds and acquisition vehicles, according to industry members and analysts in the grand duchy. Luxembourg is
Tradition Midstream has closed a USD200 million equity commitment from Denham Capital. The funding will help the company take advantage of the increasing need for new and expanded infrastructure required by the continued growth of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil production in the United States today. “There
Private equity firm Insight Venture Partners has provided equity financing for digital photo business Photobox’s GBP120m (USD195m) acquisition of Moonpig. of Photoways Holdco Ltd, a vehicle owned by digital photo business PhotoBox, in connection with the acquisition by Photobox of Moonpig for £120 million (US$195 million). The cash component of the purchase
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