Carrick Capital Partners has closed its second growth equity fund, Carrick Capital Partners II at USD275 million. Carrick's first fund closed two years ago with USD180 million, and the closing of Fund II brings the growth equity firm's total capital raised to nearly half-a-billion dollars. Carrick takes an operational approach
Maples Fund Services has completed Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reports for December 2014 for seven EU jurisdictions, utilising its regulatory reporting platform. AIFMD requires European and certain non-European alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) as well as non-EU alternative investment funds ("AIFs") marketing through national private placement
QIC’s Global Infrastructure Fund (the fund) has secured initial capital commitments totalling USD528 million from four institutional investors. CEO Damien Frawley, says: “We’re pleased that major institutional investors, including an Asian sovereign wealth fund and a major Australian pension scheme, have committed to our new global infrastructure fund. This is
Joe Bedford (pictured), corporate partner at law firm Stevens & Bolton who advised the management team of TGI UK on its recent acquisition by Electra Partners, looks at how the casual dining sector is attracting interest from private equity investors… Looking at trends over recent months and years, together with
Zetta Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on the high-growth analytics market, has closed its first fund at USD60 million. Mark Gorenberg, a 25-year veteran venture capitalist, and Ash Fontana, who formerly launched online fundraising at AngelList, are Zetta’s managing directors. Debuting with a portfolio of eight investments, Zetta
Force Over Mass Capital has launched a Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) – Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund which will invest in fast growth technology companies. The fund will provide high net-worth investors with the opportunity to invest in technology, through a risk-mitigated portfolio of early stage technology companies
Beringea, manager of the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts, has sold the VCTs’ stakes in Speed Trap Holdings (STH), a digital data analytics company, to IS Solutions plc. STH is the parent company of Celebrus Technologies – the developer of software that allows organisations to understand their customers’ interactions with their
Vector Capital (Vector) is to acquire Saba, a specialist in cloud-based intelligent management solutions, for USD9.00 per share in an all cash offer. "Over the course of Saba's comprehensive review, the Board of Directors and our advisors evaluated a wide range of strategic alternatives, and engaged with a number of
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ BioDiscovery 3 portfolio company, GlycoVaxyn has been acquired by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in an all-cash transaction valuing the company at approximately USD212 million. GlycoVaxyn, founded in 2004, is a spin out of the Swiss Polytechnic Institute of Zürich. It has developed a biological conjugation platform which
The number of European private equity backed deals rose by 10% in Q4 2014, from the 334 transactions seen in the previous three months to 366 transactions, according to SL Capital Partners. The firm’s Private Equity Barometer for 2014 reveals that combined deal value also staged a recovery, rising by
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