Octopus Investments has made a GBP2m investment from the GBP30m Octopus Capital for Enterprise Fund into Monkey Bizness, a UK operator of family entertainment centres. The Octopus investment will be used to strengthen the business’ balance sheet and to finance additional new sites across the UK. Monkey Bizness currently operates
MidOcean Partners, a private equity firm with offices in New York and London, in combination with Allant management, has acquired The Allant Group, a provider of marketing optimisation solutions. "We have been following the developing trends in the marketing services space for several years and became increasingly impressed with Allant,
Black Opal Equity has been launched as a privately held investment firm that specialises in acquiring and actively managing established middle-market businesses in the US. The firm will invest in companies that service or partner with the infrastructure, essential service and government sectors in the US. It looks to acquire
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and AXA Private Equity have entered into a partnership to better support Québec- and European-based businesses with international development prospects. Through this joint effort, the partners will share their respective market knowledge and networks in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle-East
Peter Mills, Managing Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Fund Services Limited, examines Sweden’s redraft of the EU’s proposed AIFM Directive. There is a common agreement amongst the financial services industry that the proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers was drafted in a hurry and is capable of vast
International Biotechnology Trust, the investment trust managed by SV Life Sciences, outperformed the broader equity markets over the 12 months to 31 August 2009. IBT is the only biotech focused investment trust to carry both quoted and unquoted stocks in its portfolio. Over the 12 months ended 31 August 2009
Despite a difficult past 12 months for the private equity industry in Guernsey, characterised as elsewhere by depressed transaction volumes and limited capital-raising for new funds, there are sign
The past 12 months have seen a sharp fall in new private equity business coming to Guernsey and little transaction activity in either acquisitions or exits for existing funds.
In a new world where offshore financial centres are being called upon to adopt a wide range of regulatory and transparency standards in order to continue to access investment and other financial se
This year the private equity industry in Guernsey has been preoccupied to a lesser or greater degree by prospect of the European Union’s proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Mana
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