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Private Equity

New PE firm Crossplane Capital to invest control equity in industrial business services, niche manufacturing and value-added distribution companies

Crossplane Capital, a new Dallas-based private equity firm, is to target control investments in niche manufacturing, value-added distribution and industrial business services companies, with up to USD200 million of revenue. With eight decades of combined experience transforming industrial companies as senior executives, operational improvement consultants, strategy consultants, restructuring advisors and

IPEV Board publishes draft amendments to the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines

The International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines Board (IPEV Board) has published draft amendments to the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines for consultation.  The IPEV Valuation Guidelines are reviewed periodically by the IPEV Board to ensure they continue to promote best practice when valuing investments

UK sustainable private equity fund finds post Brexit opportunities

The Nobel Sustainability Growth Fund, which makes UK sustainable private equity investments to build technology, manufacturing, services and asset development and is managed by Jim Totty and Nick Curtis, is close to its first close. Launched in partnership with the Nobel Sustainability Trust ,which was founded by members of the

Private equity could boost African entrepreneurs

Private equity funds in Africa are increasingly investing in early-stage businesses in the search for earnings growth. This is partially driven by the rising trend in purchase prices of private companies in Africa as indicated by the latest Bright Africa 2018 report. Bright Africa is an ongoing research effort into

Alternative managers capitalising on new product development opportunities

The days of the generic offshore hedge fund feel like a distant memory. Regulation and other factors, both in the US and Europe, have led to a proliferation of new fund products to cater to the changing needs and desires of institutional investors. Recent regulations have encouraged alternative fund managers

ForeVest restructures central Europe fund

Private equity fund manager and central and eastern Europe specialist, ForeVest Capital Partners, has closed a general partner-led secondary transaction of a fund on which it advises, PineBridge New Europe Partners II, LP (NEP II).   In this transaction, a new investment fund, advised by ForeVest, has acquired portfolio companies from

Hemal Mehta, AtomInvest

AtomInvest aims to democratise investment in alternatives

The summer saw the launch of a new investment platform, AtomInvest, which is designed to democratise access to alternative investment funds across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. Founder and CEO of AtomInvest Hemal Mehta explains that he has a background in financial services and private equity and had

James Williams, Hedgeweek

An annual assessment of global PERE markets

If one looks at Private Equity & Real Estate (PERE) assets, they’ve been growing substantially over the past decade. Since December 2007, PERE assets have more than doubled from over EUR3 trillion to EUR6 trillion. In some respects, private equity has become a victim of its own success with approximately

Philipp Pieper, Swarm Fund

Swarm partners with MakerDAO and integrates Dai token

Blockchain for private equity firm Swarm has partnered with decentralised autonomous organisation MakerDAO to integrate the Dai token into the Swarm platform.   Swarm writes that this will give Swarm’s community of accredited investors a greater capability to lock in crypto prices, using the world’s first decentralised stablecoin on the

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