Luxembourg's funds industry is marching ahead as Europe's leading funds domicile if figures released by the Association of the Luxembourg Funds Industry (ALFI) are anything to go by. According to ALFI, March saw the Grand Duchy enjoy record net sales and a growth of AUM. Total assets now total EUR3.53
Eze Software Group is to acquire TKS Solutions, a specialty software provider of shareholder and partnership accounting tools. The value of the deal, which is expected to close next month, has not been disclosed. TKS Solutions’ core product, known as Penny It Works, will add partnership and shareholder reporting capabilities
Worthy, the online marketplace for pre-owned luxury goods, has raised USD8 million in a Series B funding round led by Carmel Ventures (Carmel Ventures), a member of the Viola Group. As part of the investment, Carmel's co-founder, Shlomo Dovrat, joined Worthy's board of directors. Other investors in the current round
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed itsacquisition of DigiCert, a global SSL Certification Authority (CA) and the leading provider of trusted certificate management solutions. Prior investor TA Associates and DigiCert management and employees will remain significant shareholders in the business. DigiCert provides digital certificates to over 115,000 customers in
Scepter Partners is proposing to to acquire 100 per cent of Santos Limited, an independent oil and gas company in Australia, at AUD6.88 (USD4.97) per share in cash. If implemented, the offer, which values Santos at AUD7.1 billion (USD5.1bn), would provide shareholders with a 26 per cent premium over the
The Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), an indicator of future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements, forecasts modest growth for the volume of global M&A deals announced through the first quarter of 2016. M&A volumes are predicted to increase by about seven per cent through the first quarter of 2016 compared
The last quarter’s private equity fundraising is analysed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q3 2015. With the third quarter of the year typically slow for fundraising, it is surprising to see Q3 2015 as the best quarter in 2015 so far in terms of aggregate
Global early-stage mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in Q3 2015 increased by just 5.6 per cent compared with the same period last year, the slowest rate of growth for almost three years. That’s according to the latest Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP) report which forecasts the volume of future M&A
Rheonix, one of the largest holdings in venture capital firm Rand Capital Corporation, has completed a USD28.6 million Series B equity raise. Rand co-led the offering with Cayuga Venture Fund, which is based in Ithaca, New York. Cayuga Venture Fund focuses its investments in start-up technology companies, many with a connection
Funds affiliated with US private equity firm Hellman & Friedman have completed the acquisition of Bain Capital’s interest in Securitas Direct Verisure Group making H&F the majority shareholder in the business. 
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