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Law firm Noerr has advised the Swiss Evatec AG on the purchase of the Advanced Technologies Segment of the Oerlikon Group regarding the German aspects of the transaction.
Evatec AG’s activities include the production of plants for the manufacture of LEDs, lasers, power chips and high-performance optical, optoelectronic and semiconductor components as well as the worldwide distribution of these. In its Advanced Technologies Segment, the Oerlikon Group has developed also thin film production procedures for semiconductors and nanotechnology.
By purchasing the Advanced Technologies Segment from Oerlikon, Evatec AG intends to further expand its semiconductor and nanotechnology business segment. This acquisition
AXA has launched AXA Strategic Ventures, a EUR200 million venture capital fund dedicated to emerging strategic innovations in insurance, asset management, financial technology and healthcare services.
AXA Strategic Ventures will have on-the-ground coverage of investment opportunities worldwide. In the US, AXA Strategic Ventures will have offices in San Francisco and New York.
“AXA will share its global reach and expertise to serve as an accelerator for start-up companies that bring new, customer-focused ideas to insurance and financial services,” says Anders Malmstrom, chief financial officer of AXA US and a member of the Strategy Committee of AXA Strategic Ventures. “We will
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD27 million senior credit facility to provide growth capital to The Sandbox Group (Sandbox).
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, The Sandbox Group, has embarked upon building an international agency group to meet an identified gap in its industry. Sandbox is an integrated marketing communications agency specialising in the healthcare, agriculture, and financial services industries.
At the end of 2014, Preqin conducted surveys with hedge fund managers, investors and alternatives investment consultants around the world to ascertain their views on the hedge fund industry over the past year and their outlook for the year ahead. Selina Sy looks at the upcoming trends and developments these industry professionals have identified for hedge funds in 2015.
Institutional investor capital will continue to flow into the hedge fund industry in 2015
Hedge fund managers forecast that industry assets under management (AUM) are set to increase this year, and surpass the figure of $3.02tn reported in December 2014. Indeed,
Shark Punch has finalised a USD1.2 million seed funding round led by Supercell investor London Venture Partners (LVP) and DN Capital.
In addition, the company is launching its new game discovery platform: Playfield.io.
Playfield is a social discovery and community platform for games. Playfield helps players find games they care about, and allows developers to connect directly with their gamer communities.
”We started the company initially to develop a new game called The Masterplan, but after many discussions with other game developers, we realized that discovery is a massive problem for both developers and players. The question is rarely
Pereg Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that operates in the United States and Israel, has completed initial fund raising for Pereg Ventures Fund I.
The firm primarily provides Series A and B financing to ventures delivering innovative market intelligence and analytics solutions for consumer-driven corporations.
"We are delighted to officially launch our initial investment fund," says Itzhak Fisher, Chairman and General Partner for Pereg Ventures. Although Pereg Ventures is a fully independent venture capital firm, Nielsen is providing a significant strategic investment in support of the fund's launch. This is part of a broader portfolio of innovation initiatives including
Eccrine Systems has raised USD1.5 million in seed funding. Investors include CincyTech Fund III, management, and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor co millionunity.
Formed in late 2013, the advanced sweat sensor company is developing disposable electronic patch systems based on innovative research and intellectual property that originated from the University of Cincinnati and Air Force Research Labs at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
“The implications for real-time trending and interpretation of sweat biomarkers, derived from very tiny amounts of sweat captured under a small electronic patch, are profound”
According to Dr Jason Heikenfeld, lead UC
“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 deals in 2014 – 95 valued at USD5 billion or more – were a key driver, given that the overall number of global M&A transactions only climbed by 6%.” Of the 15 largest acquisitions, 10 were from companies based in the United States, “where volume climbed by 51.4% to USD1.53
Cordiant, a leading emerging market private debt fund manager, has raised USD350 million at the final close of its latest debt fund, the Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund IV (CELF IV).
The fund’s primary focus will be on senior, secured loans issued to emerging market private sector borrowers, with an emphasis on diversification across countries and sectors.
Investors in the fund include insurance companies, pension funds and other provident funds.
CELF IV will allow institutional investors to take advantage of the growing imbalance in the emerging markets between the escalating demand for bank style funding and the shrinking balance
BIL Manage Invest (BMI) has selected Linedata Front Office Platform to manage the firm’s complete front-to-back asset management workflow across their full suite of investment funds.
With an increased emphasis on risk management in the industry, AIFM Directive and UCITS regulation continue to impose controls and transparency with the end goal of protecting the financial world against systemic risk. While many management companies seek comprehensive risk management around all aspects of their front-to-back activities, they also look to increase efficiencies, and provide added-value to their clients while keeping costs at an acceptable level. This is particularly true with funds under
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