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North west based multi-family investment office, Arete, has led a private investment into business solutions group, Leonard Curtis, in a deal which values the business at GBP40 million.
The deal, which saw a GBP15 million investment into the professional services firm, was a venture led by Arete in partnership with Svella.
Arete and Svella will utilise their combined resource and expertise, working alongside the Leonard Curtis management team to enable the LC Group to enter its next phase of growth.
With 239 employees working across its 18 offices in the UK and the Channel Islands, the Leonard Curtis Business
MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, originated USD6.4 billion in private placement debt and private structured credit for the first half of 2021 across 107 transactions.
This included USD1.2 billion of investments originated on behalf of unaffiliated institutional clients. MIM’s total private placement debt and private structured credit assets under management stood at USD102.0 billion as of 30 June, 2021.
Nancy Mueller Handal, head of Private Fixed Income & Alternatives at MetLife Investment Management, says: “Market activity through the first half of the year was strong as issuers bolstered their financial position and institutional investors
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) portfolio company Enreach, a fast-growing provider of Unified Communications Solutions (UCaaS) active throughout Europe, has acquired Dutch cloud software provider and Microsoft partner DSD Europe and its sister company CloudLand (DSD), thereby continuing its long-term buy-&-build strategy.
Through the partnership, Enreach acquires additional expertise and reach for equipping digital workplaces with Microsoft software solutions.
DSD, founded in 2009, is a fast-growing provider of IT, security and other cloud products and services. Through its market-leading cloud marketplace, DSD’s services enable more than 5,000 active re-sellers in Europe to easily and quickly acquire, activate and manage various cloud
Vision Ridge Partners, an alternative asset manager focused on sustainable real assets, and Havila Holding have completed the privatisation of Fjord1, the owner and operator of a fleet of Norwegian ferries utilising low or zero emission propulsion.
Going forward, Fjord1 will be jointly owned by Vision Ridge Partners and Havila Holding, an investment company owned by the Sævik family in Norway, with each party holding 50 per cent ownership stakes.
Allianz Global Investors partially financed the acquisition and refinancing of the existing debt by providing approximately NOK 3 billion financing at the holding company level. This bespoke financing platform resulted
Hg, leading global investor in software and services, is to acquire a majority interest in Riskalyze, a risk-centric wealth management platform serving financial advisers, enterprises, and asset managers.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Riskalyze’s industry-leading client and portfolio risk technology is rapidly emerging as an industry standard for adviser, client and portfolio risk analytics across the US wealth management ecosystem. Today, Riskalyze’s platform supports tens of thousands of financial advisors who use it to manage millions of client accounts with over $400 billion in assets.
The transaction marks a major inflection point for the fast-growing
Commonfund Capital has closed its third dedicated private equity co-investment fund, Commonfund Capital Co-investment Opportunities III, LP, at USD160 million, above its USD150 million target.
The fund had strong participation from existing investors as well as a number of new institutional limited partners including foundations, endowments, family offices and sophisticated clients of registered investment advisors and consultants.
Commonfund Capital has invested in select co-investments alongside high conviction managers and sponsors since 1997 with aggregate committed capital of over USD1 billion. It has invested through both its commingled portfolios as well as through its dedicated co-investment partnerships.
“The
Recuro Health (Recuro), an integrated digital health solutions company, has raised USD15 million in a Series A financing round led by ARCH Venture Partners, with follow-on support from existing Seed Round-investors OLSF Ventures, Cortado Ventures, 1843 Capital and Sage Venture Partners.
Addleshaw Goddard has advised FTSE 250 client Sanne Group on its GBP1.5 billion recommended cash takeover offer by Apex Group.
The AG team was led by Simon Wood and included corporate associates Jenny Crossan and Vinay Rawal, together with a wider team from the firm’s financial services, antitrust and regulatory teams.
Sanne Group is a leading global provider of outsourced alternative asset and corporate business services. The acquisition by private-equity backed Apex Group would create one of the largest global financial services providers in the alternative assets space.
Wood says: “Private equity interest in UK PLC is a notable feature
Abtrace, a healthtech start-up which uses machine learning to transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored and treated, has raised GBP2.1 million of seed funding in a round led by Faber and joined by Ganexa Capital.
Hedge funds and private equity are both improving their transparency over ESG. However, while on the private equity side, ESG is more seen as an investment opportunity, complexities remain on the hedge fund side around issues of reporting and shorting, according to Cambridge Associates.
Trudi Boardman, Hedge Fund Specialist at Cambridge Associate said that many hedge funds are still in the earlier stages of introducing ESG policies and processes, and that “there’s still a long way to go.”
She commented: “The ESG area is still very much a work in progress on the hedge fund side. There are challenges in
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