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Schroders appoints Nicole Kidd to lead Private Debt in Australia

Schroders has appointed Nicole Kidd as Head of Private Debt for Australia as the firm continues to enhance its private assets capabilities to better meet clients’ evolving investment objectives.Kidd, who has over 25 years of investment banking and asset management experience, will assume the newly-created role on 1 September and

Venture capital

Venture capital saw record year in 2019, says eFront

Venture capital funds delivered exceptional performance in 2019 globally, which continued in Q1 2020 unscarred by the unfolding Covid-19 crisis, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.

Advent International completes tender offer for shares of Forescout Technologies

Global private equity investors Advent International (Advent) has completed its offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Forescout Technologies’ common stock for USD29.00 per share, without interest and subject to any applicable withholding taxes, net to the seller in cash. Advent intends to complete the acquisition of Forescout imminently

Generational Equity advises SHIPS-a-Lot on acquisition by private investor

Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions adviser for privately held businesses, has advised Mach 7.4 Inc (dba SHIPS-a-Lot) on an investment by a private investor.Details of the acquisition, which closed on 5 August, 2020, have not been  disclosed. SHIPS-a-Lot, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a third-party logistics company that does

Keeper Security closes USD60m in growth funding

Keeper Security, the provider of a cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats, has closed a USD60 million minority investment by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This is Keeper Security’s first equity raise since its inception. The synergy of the Keeper Security-Insight partnership will further

Biomass generator

Nova Pangaea Technologies attracts funding in run-up to Series A round

Nova Pangaea Technologies, which has invented a way to use non-food biomass to make biofuels and other chemicals, has raised another GBP900,000 in the run-up to a planned Series A investment later this year. The funding comes from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part

Diversity

City firms agree to tackle black underrepresentation

A list of 80 City investment management firms have agreed to back an initiative to increase black representation within key functions in portfolio management and finance. The new initiative, called #100blackinterns, aims to bring together long only and hedge funds, private equity, credit and real estate managers, together with consultants

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