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Burford Capital made USD1.3 billion in new investment commitments in 2017, more than triple its 2016 level.
The new commitments reflect a number of dynamics in Burford’s business: continued growth in demand for capital in its core litigation finance business; access to capital through direct balance sheet investing and its new investment management business; and continued expansion of Burford’s product offerings and investment strategies.
Christopher Bogart, Burford’s Chief Executive Officer, says: “We are delighted with the growth of the business in 2017. The new commitments made during the year have the potential to generate significant future income in the
Spencer Technologies, a specialist in managed retail technology projects and deployments, has finalised the acquisition of Certified Retail Solutions, a service integrator of end-to-end IT life cycle solutions for the retail and hospitality industries.
The acquisition is one element of Spencer’s aggressive strategy to broaden its capabilities and provide an integrated set of services to an expanded customer base.
With the acquisition, Spencer will integrate Certified Retail Solutions’ capabilities with its existing offerings to strengthen the company retail technology, full life cycle services of staging, configuring, deploying and on-site repair services. The company now offers an expanded range of client specific
Redgate Investments has made a substantial investment in Croatia-based monitoring and administration software company, SysKit.
Redgate Investments, a sister company to Redgate Software, the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, was created to make sizeable minority investments in founder-led businesses, without the onerous terms and conditions often required by private equity and venture capitalists.
Looking beyond the typical software investment locations like Silicon Valley in the US or Cambridge in the UK, it has chosen to invest in SysKit, which was founded in Zagreb just eight years ago. SysKit creates solutions for the SharePoint, Office 365 and Citrix environments
Britbots, an organisation dedicated to promoting UK-based robotics companies, and Sapphire Capital Partners, have launched the second British Robotics Seed Fund.
The new fund follows the success of the first fund, which has now been fully invested, leading the seed rounds of six high-potential robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) related ventures.
The new fund will be predominantly focused on SEIS-qualifying investment opportunities thereby delivering the most significant tax benefits to investors, nonetheless there will be scope for the fund to make a number of investments under the EIS scheme when there are scale-up opportunities for existing portfolio companies. Further
Bpifrance, China Development Bank (CDB) and Cathay Capital are to launch the Sino French Midcap Fund II, which has a fundraising target of EUR1.2 billion and is the successor to the first Sino French Midcap Fund which was Iaunched in 2014.
The fund should complete its first closing and first investments before June 2018.
Following the previous EUR500m investment vehicle, the Sino French Midcap Fund II will focus mainly on lower to upper mid-cap companies having their principal place of business or activities in France and/or China, with a high potential for growth and value creation as well as
Genstar Capital portfolio company Apex Group (Apex) has acquired M M Warburg & Co’s Asset Management and Servicing business in Luxembourg (Warburg). Upon completion of the transaction, Apex, a Genstar portfolio company, will have nearly USD350 billion of AuA.
The transaction is the third for Apex in the space of six months following the acquisition of both Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services and Deutsche Bank’s Alternative Fund Services business in 2017. This latest move reaffirms Apex’s position as the fastest growing fund administrator in the world and brings it closer to achieving its goal of becoming one of the top five
Waterland Private Equity has added the coeo Inkasso Group to its portfolio. The service provider for receivables management with annual sales of around EUR50 million is active in telecommunications, e-commerce and retail, among other industries.
Dr Tom Haverkamp, the owner to date, will remain part of the company as co-owner and managing director, and he will also continue to be actively involved in shaping the company in the future.
coeo Inkasso, based in Dormagen, collects receivables from consumers and companies as a specialised service provider, thereby securing the liquidity of its customers. The range of services comprises fiduciary collection,
Talis Capital has co-led an additional funding round along with Credo Ventures into leading price management, optimisation and CPQ SaaS provider, Price f(x).
Price f(x) has now raised a total of USD8.3 million on the back of its most successful year, having doubled the number of customers it serves. Price f(x) has also successfully established a market presence in the US and Asia Pacific with new offices in Chicago, IL and Brisbane, Australia.
Managing Partner of Ventures at Talis Capital, Matus Maar, says “Price f(x) has been a stand-out performer in Talis’ portfolio and we think there is a huge
Gemini experienced record-breaking growth in 2017, with an 80 per cent increase in the number of registered fund launches executed during the year.
When surveyed, clients cited the key drivers in selecting Gemini for their new funds, including:
• Gemini’s turnkey solutions, which help them scale their operations and focus on their strategy
• the firm’s established risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance processes
• its agility in handling complex/evolving investment strategies
• a joint-venture approach to client relationship management offering a true business partner
• the firm’s extensive network of other service provider relationships (eg, legal, auditing, etc)
“New markets,
Corsair Capital, a private equity firm focused on the financial services industry, has acquired RGI, a provider of core software solutions to the insurance market.
This investment underscores Corsair Capital’s commitment to the attractive and growing insurance technology industry. RGI provides insurers with a comprehensive and modular offering which addresses core insurance processes including policy administration, claims, analytics, market management, reporting and sales and distribution. Serving Property & Casualty and Life insurance clients, PASS_Insurance, RGI’s flagship software suite, is a one-stop solution for insurance providers.
RGI has an international customer portfolio comprising more than 200 installations across more than
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