LeapFrog Investments has acquired a majority stake in UT Life Insurance Company (UT Life), one of the key players in the life insurance sector in Ghana. This is LeapFrog’s third direct investment in Ghana, and second in the life insurance sector. UT Life is a rapidly growing life insurer, with
Corstone has held the closing of the Corstone Growth Strategy M&A Private Equity Fund, a KRW150 billion (USD124.5 million) fund managed primarily by Corstone Asia’s investment team located in Seoul, Korea. The Fund’s mandate is to target M&A and growth equity investments in small to mid-sized companies domiciled in South
PE.Analyzer, a new FinTech platform from CEPRES, now calculates the beta risk of private equity markets for the first time. By measuring individual beta of Private Equity investments to public markets, the platform calculates risk-adjusted alpha for specific strategies and sectors – something never before available for Private Equity investors
Sonovate, a UK-based Fintech recruitment contract finance provider, has raised GBP5 million in a Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital and supported by DN Capital, with a further GBP15 million in debt funding provided by Shawbrook Business Credit. Richard Prime and Damon Chapple, former directors of a FTSE
HighQ, a specialist in software-as-a-service collaboration and content management solutions, has completed of a USD50 million growth equity investment from One Peak Partners, Morgan Stanley Merchant Banking and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. The investment will help HighQ expand its international footprint and support its product development initiatives, enabling it to
Belcan, a supplier of engineering consultancy services and technical staffing solutions, is to acquire European-based East Kilbride Engineering Services (EKES), an engineering consultancy across a variety of disciplines and sectors. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016, have not been disclosed. EKES,
Rainer Traugott is to join Latham & Watkins as a partner in the Corporate Department of the firm’s Munich office. Traugott’s practice focuses on the representation of large German corporates and private equity firms on M&A transactions and a broad range of corporate law matters. Traugott will bring more
Senior executives at financial services firms are concerned that regulation in the sector is not promoting stability, according to the 2016 Global Regulatory Outlook published by Duff & Phelps. A majority of 193 C-Suite and senior level staff polled by the firm believe that regulation is having little or no
Blackstone has appointed Peter Grauer to the firm’s board of directors. Grauer has been the Chairman of Bloomberg, the global business and financial information company, since March 2001 and joined Bloomberg full time as President and Chief Executive Officer in March of 2002. Commenting on the appointment, Stephen A Schwarzman,
Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services investing, today announced that Investment funds affiliated with private equity firm Lightyear Capital and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), are to acquire AIG Advisor Group, a subsidiary of American International Group (AIG). Terms
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