Returns from venture funds globally reached a record level in Q2 2020, despite the Covid-19 crisis, and remained high as the year progressed, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. Up to the end of Q3, 2020 has been an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds
Alternative data specialist Eagle Alpha, has added AI-driven financial information technology provider Causality Link’s data to its library of alternative data supplied to asset managers, private equity professionals and corporate enterprises. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Sector-specialist M&A advisory firm Ciesco has reported global resilience in the tech, digital, media and marketing sectors in the face of the Covid crisis. Ciesco tracked global M&A activity in these sectors, reporting 1,091 M&A transactions in 2020, with announced deal values of USD55.9 billion. This value excluded the one
Given the economic instability generated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, European private equity deal activity showed remarkable resilience last year, according to Pitchbook’s 2020 European PE Breakdown. The report found that private equity deal volume rose to a new quarterly peak in Q4 last year, closing more than 1,200
The total value of UK listed companies taken private by private equity firms increased from GBP2.3 billion to GBP21.1 billion in the last 12 months, shows new research from accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP.
A new report by technology-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance, has revealed that despite Covid causing a 50 per cent year-on-year collapse in Tech M&A activity in the second quarter, a remarkable bounce-back led to a spate of M&A activity in businesses focussed on Digital Transformation, resulting in a near
Despite the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and slow economic recovery, global venture capital (VC) investments during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 remained robust and were nearly at pre-pandemic levels. Albeit, the number of VC deals witnessed a continuous decline for the seventh straight quarter, there was an
Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of The Big Issue, and the University of Oxford’s Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) within the Blavatnik School of Government, have release the ‘Exploring Social Investment – An Indigo Technical & Learning Report’ detailing their collaboration towards data sharing in the social outcomes
Fast-growth UK businesses closed 2020 in their strongest position, attracting more than GBP3.8 billion of Venture Capital (VC) investment during the final quarter of the year, according to new figures. Despite further Covid-19 related restrictions being in place, Q4 was the strongest quarter of the year for VC-backed deals, according
The total number of registered Jersey Private Funds (JPFs) has grown by almost two-fifths year-on-year, according to the latest figures, as the structure continues to assert its appeal for cross-border alternative fund structuring. According to the latest quarterly statistics collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission and published by Jersey
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