A dearth of debt to support transactions hit the values being paid for private equity deals hard in the first three months of 2013, according to BDO’s latest Private Company Price Index/Private Equity Price Index (PCPI/PEPI). The index, which compares the EV/EBITDA ratios being paid on the sale of
GraphLab has closed a USD6.75m series A funding round led by Madrona Venture Group and NEA. GraphLab is innovating on the popular open source distributed graph computation framework (graphlab.org) that is used millions of times per day to deliver recommendations through popular consumer services. Founded by data scientist
Carey Olsen has provided Channel Islands-specific corporate and regulatory advice to Silverfleet Capital in its GBP50m buyout of fund administration and private equity specialist Ipes, from RJD Partners. The firm drew on its group expertise for the buyout field in a pan-Channel Islands legal team led by partners Tom
Armstrong Asset Management has received the fourth commitment of a USD20m investment for its Armstrong South East Asia Clean Energy Fund from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, to add to its first close of USD65m. The fund, a newly established,
Polaris Private Equity, a Danish/Swedish mid-market private equity investor, has acquired HTC Sweden, a developer and manufacturer of professional floor grinding systems and floor solutions. Polaris has acquired the company from Håkan and Gunn Thysell, who founded HTC in 1987 and have remained majority owners with a 60 per cent
Fund administration company Apex Fund Services has appointed David Brown as the new managing director of the firm’s Bermuda office. Brown has worked in the fund administration industry in Bermuda for the last 10 years. The recent change in government together with the launch of Apex’s Emerging Manager
The number and size of US sponsor-backed going private transactions were each lower in 2012 than in 2011 and 2010, according to a report by law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. However, when excluding the soft first quarter of 2012, deal activity was on par with such earlier years.
Oak Hill Capital Management has promoted Tyler J Wolfram from partner to managing partner of the firm, effective immediately. Since joining Oak Hill Capital in 2001, Wolfram has led the investment activities in the firm’s consumer, retail and distribution vertical, and he has been an active member of the
Guernsey has signed a Double Taxation Arrangement (DTA) with Luxembourg. Guernsey has now signed full DTAs with eight jurisdictions. In addition to this DTA with Luxembourg, Guernsey has had a DTA with the UK for many years and has signed DTAs with Malta, in 2012, and earlier this year
Bay City Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage to growth equity investments in the life sciences, has appointed David Beier, JD as managing director. Beier (pictured) served as a senior officer for nearly a decade in each of the two largest biotechnology firms, Genentech and Amgen. Most
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