North west based multi-family investment office, Arete, has led a private investment into business solutions group, Leonard Curtis, in a deal which values the business at GBP40 million. The deal, which saw a GBP15 million investment into the professional services firm, was a venture led by Arete in partnership with
MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, originated USD6.4 billion in private placement debt and private structured credit for the first half of 2021 across 107 transactions. This included USD1.2 billion of investments originated on behalf of unaffiliated institutional clients. MIM’s total private placement debt and
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) portfolio company Enreach, a fast-growing provider of Unified Communications Solutions (UCaaS) active throughout Europe, has acquired Dutch cloud software provider and Microsoft partner DSD Europe and its sister company CloudLand (DSD), thereby continuing its long-term buy-&-build strategy. Through the partnership, Enreach acquires additional expertise and reach
Vision Ridge Partners, an alternative asset manager focused on sustainable real assets, and Havila Holding have completed the privatisation of Fjord1, the owner and operator of a fleet of Norwegian ferries utilising low or zero emission propulsion. Going forward, Fjord1 will be jointly owned by Vision Ridge Partners and Havila
Hg, leading global investor in software and services, is to acquire a majority interest in Riskalyze, a risk-centric wealth management platform serving financial advisers, enterprises, and asset managers. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Riskalyze’s industry-leading client and portfolio risk technology is rapidly emerging as an industry
Commonfund Capital has closed its third dedicated private equity co-investment fund, Commonfund Capital Co-investment Opportunities III, LP, at USD160 million, above its USD150 million target. The fund had strong participation from existing investors as well as a number of new institutional limited partners including foundations, endowments, family offices and
Recuro Health (Recuro), an integrated digital health solutions company, has raised USD15 million in a Series A financing round led by ARCH Venture Partners, with follow-on support from existing Seed Round-investors OLSF Ventures, Cortado Ventures, 1843 Capital and Sage Venture Partners.
Addleshaw Goddard has advised FTSE 250 client Sanne Group on its GBP1.5 billion recommended cash takeover offer by Apex Group. The AG team was led by Simon Wood and included corporate associates Jenny Crossan and Vinay Rawal, together with a wider team from the firm’s financial services, antitrust and regulatory
Abtrace, a healthtech start-up which uses machine learning to transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored and treated, has raised GBP2.1 million of seed funding in a round led by Faber and joined by Ganexa Capital.
Hedge funds and private equity are both improving their transparency over ESG. However, while on the private equity side, ESG is more seen as an investment opportunity, complexities remain on the hedge fund side around issues of reporting and shorting, according to Cambridge Associates. Trudi Boardman, Hedge Fund Specialist at
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