Managers
BlackFin Capital Partners is launching a new venture fund, focusing on FinTech opportunities across Europe.
After successfully launching 2 generations of growth-equity financial services funds (Fund I: EUR220 million raised in 2011/Fund II: EUR400 million raised in 2016), BlackFin Capital Partners is leveraging its unique expertise in the venture capital segment.
The fund will partner with entrepreneurs at all investment stages, from seed to late-stage rounds. As a sector specialist firm, BlackFin and its team will provide these entrepreneurs with unique support regarding their strategy and growth, commercial access and credibility, but also regulatory guidance to establish best-of-breed companies. The
Invest Europe has appointed Dr Gerry Murphy, Senior Managing Director and Chairman of Blackstone Europe, as Chair of the Association. He succeeds Max Römer, Founding Partner of Quadriga Capital.
Murphy has been a senior figure in Blackstone’s team in London since joining the US alternative investments manager in 2008. His primary focus is on supporting the firm’s activities across Europe and Asia. He serves as a director of German clothing group Jack Wolfskin, Dutch administrative services firm Intertrust and British television and internet retailer Ideal Shopping Direct. He is also a non-executive director of British American Tobacco.
Murphy says:
Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings Fund (BSCH), a vehicle managed by Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), has acquired a passive, minority interest in Marathon Asset Management.
Based in New York, Marathon is an opportunistic global credit event-driven manager with approximately USD12.75 billion in assets under management. The firm pursues credit through a broad spectrum of investments in global corporate credit, distressed and special situational credit, structured credit, emerging markets and leveraged loans.
“Rich has been a great Partner for many years and we wish him success in his future endeavours. Vijay and I have worked together for nine years and I
PwC's new Global 100 Software Leaders ranking illustrates a rapidly shifting landscape and reveals three key trends among companies that are taking advantage of both evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the software industry.
Within this shifting environment, the interwoven trends of digital innovation, Industry 4.0 and convergence are driving opportunities to create smarter, leaner and better software. As these trends fuel the industry, we're seeing an increasing number of startups coming to the forefront, adding to the challenges facing legacy software vendors and their customers.
The three key themes weigh heavily on PwC's overarching research findings:
• The software industry
Livingstone’s Business Services and Debt Advisory teams have advised The Gap Partnership Group (TGP) on securing a one-stop funding solution from Pricoa Capital Group.
Founded in 1997, TGP is recognised internationally as the leading provider of negotiation behavioural change development programmes and client-specific negotiation consulting services. TGP has a global presence served by four regional hubs in the UK, USA, Germany and Hong Kong, working with over 500 of the world's largest blue-chip corporations.
The funding package from Pricoa has provided shareholder liquidity, whilst also enabling an ownership transition, putting greater ownership in the hands of the extended leadership
IFM Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of small molecules targeting the innate immune system, has closed a USD27 million Series A financing led by Atlas Venture and Abingworth, with participation from Novartis.
In conjunction with the funding Jean-François Formela and Vincent Miles, Partners at Atlas and Abingworth respectively, have joined IFM’s CEO, Gary D Glick, on the board of directors, with Dr Formela serving as chair of the board.
IFM Therapeutics, incubated as a part of the Atlas Venture seed program, is developing modulators of novel targets that either enhance innate immune responses for treating cancer, or dampen
TH Data Capital formally has launched an alternative to the traditional financial research model, using big data expertise and a deep understanding of financial markets to provide advanced predictions of business performance in China.
TH Data Capital is the first, and only, company that offers big data analytics expertise coupled with an analyst-driven approach. This differs significantly from IT driven research firms that look at reams of data, but lack the skills to interpret it correctly to make it actionable.
Reliable business intelligence on China is hard to find, but it has become tremendously significant to any consumer-oriented company
KPMG has helped investor groups, IIGCC and PRI, prepare Guide on Climate Change for Private Equity Investors. Research carried out for the guide found that pension funds are actively asking their fund managers to demonstrate how climate related risks and opportunities are addressed in the investment process.
As a result of this demand and increasing climate regulation, climate change is a mainstream discussion point for the private equity industry, where climate change is seen as a genuine material investment risk. It is no longer enough to have a climate change policy, fund managers need to be able to demonstrate action to implement
The DoubleLine Infrastructure Income Fund as opened to investors through the open-end mutual fund's I shares (BILDX) and N shares (BILTX). DoubleLine launched the fund with internal capital earlier this year.
DoubleLine Capital (DoubleLine) is Adviser to the Fund. Andrew Hsu and Damien Contes are portfolio managers of the Fund.
The Fund's investment objective is to seek long-term total return while striving to generate current income. Under normal circumstances, DoubleLine Capital intends to invest at least 80 per cent of the Fund's assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in infrastructure investments. Investments may be in or outside the United States,
Avignon Capital, the European property investment specialist, has completed the acquisition of the Old School House building in Shoreditch, East London, for GBP5.1 million.
The Grade II* Listed Victorian property, built in 1865 and formerly used as a Church school house, measures 4,588 sq ft and contains three floors of office space. Upon acquisition, the Old School House had a 2.53 per cent net initial yield (NIY) and a passing rent of GBP29.81 per sq ft.
Shoreditch is currently a hub of rapid development and the historic Old School House stands in the midst of this; situated at 66 Leonard
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