Law firm Eversheds has advised mid-market private equity firm CBPE Capital on the sale of IDIS Group Holdings to Clinigen Group for an Enterprise Value of GBP225m. The transaction represents a money multiple of 22x CBPE’s GBP9.4m investment in IDIS. IDIS is the global leader in providing regulatory and ethically
Livingstone’s Industrial sector team has advised Smiths Group, a global leader in applied advanced technologies, on the disposal of Specac Limited, a scientific instrumentation accessories business. Members of the Specac executive team have partnered with Foresight Group to acquire the company. Specac, based in Orpington, Kent, is a leading manufacturer
In the Bain & Co Global Healthcare Private Equity Report 2015, the prominence of early stage investments in the healthcare sector is a recurring theme, detailing how larger funds are continuing the trend of investing down market. Preqin’s Funds in Market online service tracks 99 early stage venture capital vehicles
Following on from last week’s article, which identified groups that found success through the first three months of 2015, this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Hedge Funds, Q1 2015 looks at which funds and strategies struggled to perform in Q1. Discretionary CTAs CTAs experienced a revival in the latter
Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, is to acquire HealthcareSource, a provider of talent management solutions for healthcare. The transaction is expected to close within approximately 30 days, following satisfaction of customary conditions. President and CEO Peter Segall will continue to lead HealthcareSource following the transaction. “HealthcareSource has established
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Amit Kataria as of counsel in the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group in its Hong Kong office. Representing corporations, financial sponsors, and portfolio companies, Kataria brings a wealth of experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, and on a broad range of transactional and advisory
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Metrologic Group on its sale to French private equity fund Astorg Partners. Metrologic, a Carlyle Group portfolio company founded in 1980 and headquartered near Grenoble in France, develops state-of-the-art 3D measurement software solutions for high precision testing by leading players in
Echo an up-and-coming technology company focused on improving the accessibility and usability of day-to-day products has launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdCube. Echo’s Connect charge-key recently achieved substantial success on Indiegogo, raising over USD56,000 in pre-sales doubling its USD10,000 target in the first 72 hours, and attracting over 30 potential
Silicon Valley-based medtech company Scanadu has received USD35 million in Series B funding round led by Fosun International and Tencent Holdings Limited, with participation from China Broadband Capital and Iglobe Partners of Singapore. A-round investors Relay Ventures, Redmile Group, Ame Cloud Ventures and Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of The
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services for alternative investment funds and multinational corporations, has been authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) to act as a depositary. Alter Domus has been issued with a Category 4b Investment Services Licence to act as a custodian in relation
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