The Emergo Group has launched Emergo Ventures, the new venture capital investment organisation within the Emergo Group. Emergo Ventures will provide start-up or growth capital to businesses with innovative offerings addressing unmet needs in almost any sector. Emergo Ventures will aim to identify and invest in businesses that have a
Intertrust Group Holding SA (Intertrust) has completed the acquisition of Close Brothers (Cayman) Limited and Close Bank (Cayman) Limited, after having received all regulatory and other necessary approvals. Intertrust and Close Brothers Group Plc already signed the sale and purchase agreement on 18 March 2011. All the activities of Close
Aoifinn Devitt, Portfolio Manager of the City Financial Asian Absolute Growth Fund, comments on faltering economic growth in China… “Pre-emptive moves by the Chinese government to contain inflation, via both interest rates and RRR hikes, are starting to bite. Although the investment managers that we follow would agree that it
Private equity firm KSL Capital Partners has completed the final closing of KSL Capital Partners III, which will specialise in investments in travel and leisure businesses. With in excess of USD2 billion in commitments, the final closing significantly exceeded the original target amount of USD1.5 billion. Investors in the
Foley & Lardner LLP has launched Foley Ventures, a USD4 million venture capital fund exclusively to invest in or with Foley clients. The development of Foley Ventures is a direct result of the firm’s extensive experience and insight gained through working with numerous private equity and venture capital funds and
EndoSphere Inc, a medical technology company developing a platform of endoscopically implantable devices for the treatment of metabolic diseases, including obesity and type 2 diabetes, has completed a highly oversubscribed Series A Preferred Financing round led by private equity firm Broadline Capital. EndoSphere Inc., which holds 23 US and international
Warburg Pincus, Trilantic Capital Partners, ZAM Ventures have all agreed to make an investment in newly-formed oil and gas exploration and production company Velvet Energy Ltd. Members of Velvet Energy’s management team and select board members, are also investing in the company. Velvet Energy, which focuses on the Western
Shield Therapeutics (Shield), the independent specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of late-stage hospital pharmaceuticals, has successfully raised EUR8.2m (CHF10m/USD12m) from Inventages Venture Capital (Inventages) in its first institutional (Series A) financing round. "We are delighted to have successfully completed this fundraising which serves as further validation
Texas-based private equity firm Teakwood Capital has acquied Clockwork Solutions Inc (CSI), a provider of total-life-cycle Performance Prediction and Risk Management solutions for asset-intensive major industrial companies, military organisations and government agencies. CSI delivers solutions that maximise equipment, system, and fleet availability while minimising life-cycle operations and maintenance costs. Equipment
With valuations for global equity markets currently not compelling and giving little room for the potential earnings disappointments that could accompany the slowing of the global economic recovery, Percival Stanion, head of Asset Allocation at Baring Asset Management, explains why, with the remainder of 2011 likely to be volatile and
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