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The recovery rate for private equity transactions – the proportion of capital recovered in any deal where some loss has occurred – continues to maintain record levels of around 80 per cent, according to figures released by CEPRES.
The results come from the new Loss & Recovery Benchmarking in PE.Analyzer, the first platform to benchmark private equity deals, portfolio companies and funds. The analysis is based on investments in 34,743 portfolio companies across 2,235 private equity funds and USD1.5 trillion of capital. The new Loss & Recovery Benchmarking is now available with PE.Analyzer together with performance benchmarking.
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An investment subsidiary of Investindustrial is to acquire Valtur Group from its current owners, Sofia which belongs to the Ljuljdjuraj family, who used to control the Valtur Group and will retain a minority shareholding.
The acquisition of Valtur represents the first step of a global project aimed at creating a leading Mediterranean resort operator with Italian roots. The strategy is to consolidate Valtur’s leadership position through the strengthening of its brand presence in the Mediterranean, and by promoting the Italian resort style internationally to increasing numbers of in-bound tourists.
Today Investindustrial has signed two other agreements: with Prelios SGR SpA
Infosys, a specialist in consulting, technology and next-generation services, has partnered with Trifacta to provide a data wrangling solution for the Infosys Information Platform (IIP) and Infosys’ other platforms and offerings.
Infosys clients can now leverage Trifacta’s intuitive self-service solution for exploring and transforming data—a critical step in any analytics process. Business analysts and data scientists can integrate large, complex data sets, transform and filter the results and share valuable insights, all from data stored and processed within the IIP platform.
“Trifacta’s market-leading technology will enable Infosys clients to bring together diverse and disparate data into a more digestible
BlueVine, a leading online provider of everyday financing to small businesses, has secured a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. Financial terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
Citi Ventures' investment will support BlueVine’s growth as it continues to scale its cloud-based working capital financing platform for small businesses and expand into new market segments. Citi Ventures makes strategic investments in dynamic startups and partners with its portfolio companies and Citi's global businesses to accelerate their growth and ability to scale. This represents a follow-on investment to BlueVine’s USD40 million Series C financing in January 2016.
“With a portfolio that
PRA Group, a specialist in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, has completed its public tender offer to purchase shares of Warsaw-based DTP SA (DTP) on 26 April, 2016.
Some 99.73 per cent of the shares in DTP have been tendered at PLN 4.90 per share (approximately USD1.26 per share), for an aggregate purchase price of PLN 174.5 million (approximately USD45.0 million). PRA has received all approvals and has filed all notices required for the completion of the tender.
“The DTP acquisition further strengthens PRA Group’s position within the competitive marketplace and provides a fully integrated platform for continued growth in
Merz Pharma has made a strategic venture investment in Cytrellis Biosystems, a US based company developing a new class of non-surgical products to combat sagging skin associated with ageing.
Merz has joined a growing set of industry investors to back Boston-based Cytrellis Biosystems. The investment emphasizes Merz’ strategy to allocate venture investment focused on the areas of anti-ageing, skin rejuvenation and body shaping. And it’s the latest example of Cytrellis’ strategy to selectively attract investors who bring specific aesthetic industry expertise.
“As a young and innovative company with an experienced team, Cytrellis has the potential for a successful market launch
Venture capital firm Menlo Ventures has held the closing of the USD250 million Menlo Opportunity Fund, which will invest in early growth companies, typically Series B and C rounds, when the companies are at their initial inflection point.
This is the first time Menlo Ventures has created a fund solely targeting these types of investments.
The fund, which was raised in six weeks and oversubscribed by existing limited partners, was formed to take advantage of early growth stage opportunities at a time when funding in this stage is declining. Menlo Ventures intends to help fill the "Venture Valley" by focusing
European Buy & Build activity in 2015 reached its highest level since the first half of 2011, according to Silverfleet Capital’s annual European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 404 add-ons in 2015 compared to 393 in 20141.
In Q3 2015 there were 125 add-ons reported, the highest total recorded in a single quarter since Q2 2008 with 143 transactions. The average disclosed value of add-ons in 2015 was GBP40.5 million. The largest add-on by a considerable
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has invested over GBP8 million in the management buyout of Vital Ingredient, a leading healthy food-to-go retailer, to support the roll-out of the group both within London and throughout the UK.
Santander will provide a further GBP4 million of funding to support the expansion.
Founder, Alex Heynes, opened its first store in London’s West End 15 years ago, and the business now operates 17 stores in the capital which offer a range of fresh, healthy, natural and responsibly-sourced ingredients for consumers to create their own food-to-go meals. Its offer includes salads that are tossed to
AnaCap Financial Partners, the specialist European financial services private equity firm, is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Barclays plc’s French retail banking and wealth businesses.
Barclays will continue to operate its corporate and investment banking operations in France.
Barclays’ French retail banking and wealth business operations are focused on the affluent segment, offering banking services such as current accounts, deposits and mortgages, as well as a variety of products including life insurance and wealth management. The business has a network of 74 branches across France.
AnaCap’s banking investments comprise Aldermore in the UK, which is now publicly listed
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