Q&A with Franz Hoerhager, founder and head of Mezzanine Management, manager to the AMC funds which recently exited Zagreb-based contract research organisation Optimapharm.
While the US healthcare industry has historically been stable throughout economic cycles, it has a large consumer retail component to it, and “foot traffic” has been meaningfully reduced as a result of the coronavirus. As such, many sectors within healthcare have been materially impacted. The more discretionary the service, the
By Audrey Nangle, director of private equity & real assets at MUFG Investor Services – What happens when you take a part of the investment industry that was already changing and subject it to a profound shock? That’s the question that will challenge private markets for the foreseeable future. The
Amsterdam-based Committed Capital has raised EUR55 million in two months for its third investment vehicle from entrepreneurs, family offices and institutional investors, both in and beyond the Netherlands. The fund, which closed in January, was oversubscribed, while a large part of the subscriptions came from existing investors in the previous
By A Paris – Starting the year with record levels of cash, the private equity industry was, arguably, in a favourable position to weather the storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic which threw the world into chaos in March 2020. Due to its inherent long-term characteristics and patient capital, private equity
Asia Pacific’s private market attracted USD117 billion in net capital inflow in 2019, led predominantly by private equity where fund raising topped USD94 billion according to McKinsey’s Private Markets Review 2020. This represented a 25 per cent reduction year-on-year, led principally by closed ended real estate, which closed 2019 with
Metropolitan Partners Group Management, a direct-lending fund manager that provides senior-secured, short-term capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, completed the final closing of its sixth and largest direct lending fund, Metropolitan Partners Fund VI, in the first quarter of 2020, with total fund commitments of USD240 million. Fund
Verso Capital, a growth stage buyout investor with a special focus on carve-out situations, has launched a new EUR100 million sector agnostic fund. The first investors in Verso Fund III are KRR III, Tesi, pension funds Ilmarinen, Varma and Elo, as well as Nokia, Valeado AB and Etrisk Oy, with
Analysis into how Hg and Two Six Capital are applying data science to better understand and improve business revenue drivers…
Alternative investment manager Constitution Capital Partners, focused on North American private equity and private credit, has held a final close of Ironsides V at USD1 billion. The fundraise is CCP’s largest to date, exceeding its target of USD600 million, an increase from predecessor Ironsides IV, which closed at USD755 million
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