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OFF3R, the marketplace for alternative investments, has launched an independent index outlining month-on-month performances of equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms over the last year.
OFF3R analysed major equity crowdfunding platforms including Seedrs, Crowdcube, Syndicate Room, Angels Den, Envestors and The House Crowd. The P2P lending platforms examined were Zopa, Landbay, RateSetter, ArchOver, Marketinvoice, Lending Works, Funding Circle and Thin Cats.
The index shows that equity crowdfunding raised a combined total of GBP216.25 million and P2P facilitated a combined lending of GBP2.6 billion.
Lex Deak, CEO and co-founder at OFF3R, says: “Our index is part of our mission
Barings has acted as mandated lead arranger of a senior secured credit facility to support Battery Ventures' acquisition of Michell Instruments Group.
UK-based Michell Instruments Group is a leader in high-precision sensing instrumentation market with over 40 years' experience in the field, specialising in measurement of dew point and relative humidity, as well as oxygen analysis. The company serves a diverse range of industries including compressed air equipment, natural gas transmission, power generation, pharmaceuticals and food processing.
"Battery Ventures is pleased to partner with Barings' European private finance group on our investment in Michell Instruments Group," says Jesse Feldman,
The Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES) franchise has held the final closing of ERES III at its hard cap of EUR300 million.
This is the highest amount ever raised by the ERES franchise.
Its 2011 vintage, ERES II, raised EUR217 million.
Limited partners include high net worth individuals as well as financial institutions both in France and internationally, especially Asia.
ERES will continue its strategy of investing as a minority shareholder in support of majority partners in private mid-cap companies, with an enterprise value between EUR100 million and EUR2 billion.
The fund can be invested
Nordic Capital Fund VIII-owned Lindorff and Intrum Justitia are to combine to create a leading provider of credit management services (CMS).
The combination is expected to provide material benefits for all stakeholders and create significant shareholder value through annual cost synergies estimated at SEK0.8 billion (EUR80 million) and significant further revenue synergies.
Based on Intrum Justitia’s closing share price at Nasdaq Stockholm as of 11 November 2016, the transaction values Lindorff at an enterprise value of SEK40.5 billion (EUR 4.1 billion).
Nordic Capital Fund VIII will become the largest indirect shareholder controlling approximately 45.5 per cent of the
MJ Hudson has expanded it's alternative investments offering with the acquisition of investment advisory firm Allenbridge and outsourced fund management provider Tower Gate Capital.
Established as an alternative investments law firm in 2010, MJ Hudson has grown rapidly and expanded its service offering within alternatives. Including the new acquisitions, MJ Hudson now provides advice and a fully integrated operating infrastructure to more than 300 asset managers, managing in excess of GBP200 billion. It also supports the activities of more than 100 institutional investors, together investing in excess of GBP500 billion.
Chief executive Matthew Hudson (pictured), says: “Our goal is
LeapFrog Investments, a private equity investor in emerging markets, has made a partial exit from IFMR Capital, a provider of capital market access to financial institutions that serve low-income consumers.
The exit is part of a wider deal in which Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International, will be investing up to USD25 million in the company.
LeapFrog will continue as the largest independent shareholder, actively adding value to IFMR Capital’s business. LeapFrog’s profit-with-purpose partnership with IFMR Capital so far has seen the business increase its reach across India to over 29 million underserved people, a
Corporate debt specialist Muzinich is launching two funds to be managed by the loans team who recently joined from ECM Asset Management (ECM), a Wells Fargo Asset Management company.
Muzinich announced in the summer that it had hired Torben Ronberg, Stuart Fuller, Sam McGairl and Alex Woolrich, who managed the sub-investment-grade business at ECM.
Ronberg and his team, who took up their posts this week, will now prioritise the launch of a new European senior secured loans vehicle, the Muzinich European Loans Fund.
They are also putting the foundations in place for the launch of a multi-asset vehicle,
Private equity fund manager YFM Equity Partners, alongside private co-investors, has backed the management buyout (MBO) of Ferrabyrne.
YFM's funding includes the second investment from its new YFMEP 2016 Fund, which held a first close in June.
Ferrabyrne designs, develops, manufactures and services systems and components, including rubber and metal for global customers in the rail, commercial vehicle and energy generation industries. Its key products include suspension components for passenger and freight rail vehicles and heavy-duty trucks, as well as components for wind turbines.
Ferrabyrne has 73 employees working at its headquarters in Littlehampton and across the globe.
Lower middle-market private equity firm MPE Partners has closed its oversubscribed second fund, MPE Partners II, at the hard cap of USD250 million.
The firm launched fundraising in April 2016 and did not use a placement agent.
"More than 30 investors committed to Fund II, including global asset management firms, insurance companies, family offices, foundations, and high net worth individuals," says Joe Machado, partner at MPE.
MPE has invested in companies such as dlhBOWLES, a designer and manufacturer of engineered plastics and fluid flow solutions for the automotive, consumer, and industrial markets; Trachte, a manufacturer of pre-assembled control
Inflexion’s portfolio company Kynetec, a specialist in agricultural and animal health market research, has acquired the agriculture and animal health business of Ipsos North America.
Ipsos agriculture and animal health in North America comprises two locations: St. Louis in the US and Guelph in Canada.
The acquisition brings additional market research expertise to Kynetec’s team, adding 25 experienced professionals to its team of 250 market researchers.
By combining the staff and methodologies from Ipsos agriculture and animal health with Kynetec’s custom team, along with a considerable investment in innovation, Kynetec expects substantial strengthening of its North American business.
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