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NovaQuest Capital Management, a healthcare and life sciences focused private investment firm, has held the final close of NovaQuest Private Equity Fund I (Fund I) with USD275 million in total capital commitments.
Fund I will continue NovaQuest’s focus on investing in and building leading services and technologies in the healthcare and life sciences sector with a dedicated private equity platform.
Fund I was oversubscribed, hitting its hard cap of USD275 million through strong support from a global investor base including leading insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, fund of funds, family offices and high net worth individuals.
“We thank our
Aruwa Capital Management (Aruwa), a female founded and led private equity firm focussed on Nigeria and Ghana, has launched a USD20 million co-investment vehicle.
Aruwa‘s mission is to provide patient growth capital to established and rapidly growing companies in the small to lower middle market and it expects to execute four to five investments, averaging US USD1-5 million, over the next 24 months.
To date, capital has been raised from international and West African based family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The Vehicle is domiciled in Mauritius and management have committed capital demonstrating an alignment of interest with co-investors.
CFA UK’s Certificate in ESG Investing, the first qualification of its kind in the UK, will be available to investment professionals from December.
The Certificate has been introduced to meet the increased demand for ESG knowledge and skills in the investment sector and is already seeing high uptake.
In the UK, over 500 candidates are already signed up to complete the course; they will be able to take the exam from 2 December 2019.
The launch follows a pilot programme conducted in September 2019, which was designed to ensure that the training materials developed for the qualification were
Fintech company Capitolis has completed a USD40 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital and SVB Capital. Existing investors, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and S Capital also participated in the round, bringing the total capital raised to date to USD70 million.
The investment will support Capitolis’ next phase of rapid growth, including the expansion of its technology platform, functionality and product offering.
Capitolis has a vision of efficient and safe global markets, achieved by connecting participants through a technology platform to provide maximum capital efficiency and optimisation. By utilising proprietary technology, Capitolis has developed a platform through
European peer-to-peer lending marketplace TWINO Group has reached a funding milestone of EUR1 billion loans issued since its inception in 2009, with half of the loans issued in the past three years.
TWINO, which offers investors the chance to earn premium returns from unsecured consumer loans, now has almost 20,000 active investors from over 30 European countries. Twelve per cent of TWINO’s investments are UK-based, making its UK investor base the second largest only after Germany (33 per cent). UK investors have already earned more than EUR1 million in interest and earn on average a market-leading return of more than 10 per
Clocktower Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital investment arm of Clocktower Group, a client-focused alternative investment firm employing opportunistic strategies across public and private markets, has held the final close of the firm’s second financial services innovation fund, Clocktower Technologies II (CTV2).
Focused exclusively on investments in early stage fintech companies, the fund closed with approximately USD70 million in capital commitments. CTV2’s investors include chief investment officers at global hedge funds and institutional investors including a university endowment, a Canadian pension, a sovereign wealth fund, and an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Other strategic investors include a global bank, several
Baring Private Equity Asia’s affiliated private equity funds (BPEA) have agreed to acquire Lumenis, a leading provider of specialty energy-based medical devices across the fields of aesthetics, urology, ophthalmology, ENT and gynecology from XIO.
The transaction values Lumenis at an enterprise value of over USD1 billion.
Lumenis is a global leader in the field of minimally-invasive clinical solutions for the Aesthetic, Surgical, and Ophthalmology specialties. For over 50 years, Lumenis’ ground-breaking products have redefined medical treatments and have set numerous gold-standards. The company has a presence in over 100 countries and close to 1,500 employees worldwide. The Asia Pacific region
Global alternative asset management firm HIG Capital (HIG) has closed the HIG Middle Market LBO Fund III with aggregate capital commitments of USD3.1 billion, well exceeding its target.
The Fund will continue the strategy of HIG Middle Market’s two predecessor funds, by making private equity investments in middle market companies, primarily in North America.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, Founders and Co-CEOs of HIG, say: “We are pleased with the level of support received from our investors, reflecting the strong performance of the HIG Middle Market team and its differentiated investment approach.”
Rick Rosen, Head of HIG Middle Market, says:
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), an investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has acquired Accelya, a provider of financial, commercial and analytics solutions to the airline and travel industry.
Vista’s investment in Accelya is the first made by the firm’s permanent capital investment fund Vista Equity Partners Perennial (“Perennial”), which is focused on growing industry-leading vertical software companies through long-term investments in product expansion and feature enhancement.
Accelya has been at the forefront of travel and transport for more than 40 years and provides solutions spanning the airline lifecycle encompassing financial, commercial and cargo and logistics processes
The sale is limited to the SUMA Mobile business unit in Spain, excluding the operations of SUMA in other countries.
SUMA Móvil Spain began offering its services in 2012 as a mobile services platform on the MVNA technology of JSC Ingenium -a subsidiary of Grupo Ingenium-, using the radio network of Orange in Spain. Since then, it has deployed more than 30 mobile telephone brands, making it the number one platform in Spain and a benchmark in the virtual operators sector at an international level. In 2019, it incorporated to its commercial offer its new optical fibre service -FTTH- becoming
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