Law firm and regulated sponsor Howard Kennedy has opened the 2015/16 VCT season advising Octopus Titan VCT on the launch of its GBP50m prospectus – the first VCT prospectus launched this tax year. Octopus Titan VCT is the largest Venture Capital Trust in the market, and was named ‘Best VCT’
Inflexion Private Equity has completed the IPO of On the Beach Group, the UK short-haul packaged beach holiday provider, generating a total realised and unrealised return of 3.6x with an IRR of 84 per cent, within just 23 months of ownership. The flotation of On the Beach has priced on
Africa private equity specialist Development Partners International (DPI) continues to grow, having moved to larger offices last December to accommodate the firm’s 24 staff after doubling in size in the past two years alone. The firm has also entered their heartland Africa, with an office opening in Lagos, Nigeria, last
European private equity firm Cinven is to sell UK life assurance consolidation business Guardian Financial Services to Admin Re, Swiss Re's unit active in the closed life book business, for a total consideration of GBP1.6 billion. Under Cinven's ownership, Guardian has become one of the most active life insurance consolidators
Middle market private equity firm Calera Capital has appointed Paul F Walsh (pictured) has joined the firm as a Senior Managing Director. For the past seven years, Walsh has acted as an Operating Partner for Calera Capital, serving in various operating and managerial roles for the firm’s portfolio companies.
Ogier has appointed Bryon Rees as a partner in its unds and corporate practice in Guernsey. Rees joined Ogier in 2005 and has a broad practice, although with a focus on investment fund, corporate, regulatory and finance related work. Rees is a Guernsey advocate, South African attorney and English
KKR is to back Roland Wessel, Colin Judd and Melvyn Horgan, founders and former management team of Star Energy, to launch Trans European Oil & Gas Limited. Trans European Oil & Gas intends to build a portfolio of conventional onshore oil and gas properties in proven hydrocarbon plays in Europe,
Private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners has appointed Donna O Smolens (pictured) as a Senior Advisor. Smolens will work with Insight to enhance the firm's investor relations function, bringing the perspective of a long-time limited partner in private equity funds. "We have known Donna for many years
Guernsey’s financial services regulator approved 18 new investment funds during the second quarter of 2015, resulting in a total of 112 additions for the year ending 30 June 2015. Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) also show that the net asset value of all funds under management and
Drawing on data compiled for the recently-released 2015 Preqin Alternative Assets Performance Monitor, Preqin has created league tables of hedge funds that have most consistently delivered strong, stable performance. The league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these funds, but rather to illustrate those that have performed
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