Mark Spinner, partner and Head of Private Equity at Eversheds, outlines his views on the news that Sweden will attach an annex dealing with the pay of private equity fund managers to the latest list of suggested amendments to the EU’s draft alternative investment funds legislation. The suggestion emanating from
Venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners has launched its eighth fund, Highland Capital Partners VIII. The new USD400m fund will continue to fuel the firm’s focus on early through growth stage investments in healthcare, internet & digital media and technology companies. "We are very appreciative for the continued backing of
CDC Group has become the first development finance institution to make a private equity investment focused solely on Sierra Leone since the end of the country’s civil war in 2002. CDC will commit USD5m to Sierra Investment Fund, which will invest in small and medium sized enterprises and start ups
Just when you thought that the guards had at last wrested control of the asylum back from the inmates, here comes another proposed feature of the European Union’s proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers that takes one’s breath away. Not content with amendments that would all but bar non-EU
Meidlinger Partners’ new investment vehicle, Meidlinger Partners Sustainable Investments, has completed its first closing. Limited partners committed USD4.25m to the round, and Benchmark Asset Managers, a founding investor, expects to add an additional USD10.75m toward the fund’s target size of USD100m. The fund provides expansion capital to proven companies in
Life Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BioTrove, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of instruments and consumables for genomic analysis, screening and molecular diagnostics. Life Technologies is a biotechnology tools company. Both companies are based in the US. Earlier, BioTrove raised venture capital funding from Catalyst Health Ventures,
Caring.com, an online destination for people caring for aging parents and loved ones, has closed USD10m in series B financing, led by new investor Shasta Ventures. Existing investors DCM and Split Rock Partners, also participated, along with support by individual investors. "We’re excited to invest in the large and growing
Private equity firm 3i reduced its net from GBP1.9bn at 31 March 2009 to GBP854m at 30 September 2009. It also reduced its gearing from 103 per cent at 31 March 2009 to 31 per cent at 30 September 2009. Realisations exceeded investment by GBP317m during the six months to
JVP and Giza, two Israeli venture capital funds, have made an A-round investment in XtremIO, an early stage venture developing solid state drive data storage systems. XtremIO’s solutions are designed to deliver high performance in enterprise storage environments, while addressing existing storage device limitations and data network connectivity challenges. Ehud
Maven Capital Partners has completed the exit from Cyclotech by way of a trade sale to M-I Drilling Fluids UK, a member of the M-I Swaco group based in Houston, Texas. Clients of Maven originally invested GBP1.4m in May 2007 to provide Cyclotech with development capital to expand existing operations,
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