Law firm Howard Kennedy’s VCT team has advised on 27 offers in 2014/15 with a combined market value of GBP370m, which have so far raised GBP300m. Just 33 VCTs in total came to market in the 2014/15 tax year. Keith Lassman, Partner and Head of Capital Markets at Howard Kennedy,
Guernsey is at the forefront of standards on tax transparency and information exchange, according to Tony Mancini, Head of Tax at KPMG in Guernsey. Interviewed by Caroline Hyde on Bloomberg’s Countdown show, Mancini was questioned on how Guernsey was responding to calls for the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and
A total of 63 foreign investments made into Germany by buyout firms in 2014 surpassed the previous two years and is the third highest level recorded by MergerMarket. According to experts at the German M&A and Private Equity Forum in Düsseldorf, thanks to its stability in a volatile environment and
The European buy & build market saw increased activity in the second half of 2014 according to to Silverfleet Capital and mergermarket’s latest European Buy & Build Monitor. The Monitor tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies backed by private equity. A total of 169 add-ons were reported
Returns on US private equity and venture capital funds remained positive in the quarter ending 30 September, 2014, though both were down from their second-quarter results. Venture capital, benefitting from a healthy IPO market, outperformed private equity in the third quarter, while both outpaced key public market indices, according to
Acuity Trading, the UK news analytics company, has secured SEIS financing to accelerate the company’s growth in to the retail financial market and fund development of its sentiment-based products. The funding initiative, led by The Jenson Seed EIS Fund, will be also be used to expand its reach in key
A total of GBP5.2 billion worth of construction contracts for 1,095 renewable energy projects were awarded in 2014, which includes a record amount of solar power projects worth over GBP1.7 billion. That’s according to data from Barbour ABI, a sister company of Ecobuild and a chosen provider of construction data
“Global deal activity jumped 47% between 2013 and 2014, highlighted by large deals,” wrote John Primack in an article for Fortune.com. “Global merger and acquisition activity hit USD3.5 trillion in 2014, which is up 47% from the year before.” Primack noted that the data from Thomson Reuters “suggests that large
Strong performance in Jersey’s funds sector in 2014 has seen the value of fund assets administered in the jurisdiction increase by almost one fifth year-on-year to reach the highest level in seven years. The latest figures for Jersey’s finance industry, collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the
2014 was one of business angel syndicate Archangels’ most active years for investment in Scottish-based early stage and established technology and life sciences businesses and provided strong levels of returns for investors. Archangels arranged funding of GBP12.2m for 14 companies, comprising GBP7.5m of investment from Archangels’ investors, with a further
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