Managers
NovaQuest Private Equity has rebranded as QHP Capital in a move designed to more closely identify with its management company. QHP partners with tech-enabled life sciences and pharmaceutical services companies that help to reduce total cost of care, fulfil unmet medical needs, diminish unnecessary procedures, improve efficiency, and/or elevate patient quality of life.
QHP stands for Q Healthcare Partners – the “Q” serving as a connection to the Firm’s heritage within Quintiles (now IQVIA) and also with NovaQuest. QHP will continue to serve as the investment manager for the NovaQuest Private Equity family of funds. Partners in QHP include Jeff
HS Group, one of the largest providers of long term capital to alternative asset management firms, has formed a strategic partnership with sustainability focused asset manager, Mercator Partners.
Carlyle Group’s credit arm has invested a combined $1.5 billion in the debt of two of the highest profile deals of the year so far, the buyout of Citrix Systems Inc and Nielsen Holdings Plc, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that Carlyle has invested around $750 million in the Citrix buyout, with roughly half of that amount being on the secured debt portion that banks syndicated at steep losses last month, and the other 50% or so on a preferred equity piece that was arranged at the start of the year.
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Herakles Investment Partners, a US-based private equity investor, focused on investing in attractive upper mid-market sub-Saharan African companies both private and public, has appointed Apex Group to provide find administration services.
Fund administration is at the core of Apex Group’s single-source solution, which encompasses a wide range of services under one roof, this will enable Herakles to create efficiencies, reduce costs and improve controls by outsourcing the back-, middle- and front-office operational framework.
This announcement follows the recent expansion of Apex Group’s pioneering ESG Ratings & Advisory Services with the launch of a new diversity, equity, equality and inclusion
Moonfare, a digital global private equity investment platform, has become the latest fund provider to support the Greater Share education model.
Greater Share is an innovative UK-based initiative that aims to combine philanthropy with private equity to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in long-term grants for education charities around the world.
Advent International, Hg Capital, Lexington Partners and Permira are among those already partnering with the enterprise. Now, Moonfare, which is opening private equity markets up to a wider range of investors, is partnering with the Greater Share Education Fund.
The fund is designed to improve the lives of
Alternative investments firms saw a significant increase in interest in 2022, according to Peregrine Communications’ second annual Alts 50 report assessing the integrated marketing communications (IMC) performance of the alternative investment management industry.
The report found that nearly three-in-four (74%) firms saw increasing brand awareness over time. This is in stark contrast to the prevailing trend among long-only asset managers, where brand awareness has been in decline since 2018, according to Peregrine’s annual Global 100 study of the largest asset managers in the world.
When looking at how well firms marketed themselves as a whole, Blackstone maintained top spot overall
TPG Pace Beneficial Finance Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by private equity investor TPG, is shutting down operations having failed to find a suitable merger targets according to a report by Reuters.
Playfair Capital and Global Ventures have launched ‘Female Founder Office Hours’ across MENA – with 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including: Atomico, Balderton, Creandum, EQT Ventures, Firstminute, Localglobe, Northzone, Notion and Seedcamp – hosting virtual mentoring sessions for over 400 women founders from across MENA, the UK and Europe on 10 November 2022.
Launched in London in 2019, Female Founder Office Hours aims to break down barriers to investment for female entrepreneurs, notoriously underserved by the global investment community. Each founder meets four investors virtually for one hour to discuss their technology and business model, ask for
Mega-buyout deals are becoming increasing difficult to execute due to problems in “getting the equity”, according to Orlando Bravo, the billionaire co-founder of software and tech-focused private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo.
A report by BNN Bloomberg cites an interview with Bravo on the sidelines of this week’s IPEM private capital conference on Cannes, France, during which he highlighted the issues including monetary tightening on the part of the US Federal Reserve and other central banks leading to increased borrowing costs, and falling equity values making it more difficult for buyers and sellers to agree on deal prices.
According to
ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has had a strong 12 months, completing 10 exits and generating an average gross return of 4.2x over the last year.
Together, these exits delivered £1.3 billion of proceeds, and include the recent sale of MiQ, one of the largest global programmatic media partners, for a 6.1x return following a five-year partnership that saw MiQ execute an ambitious North American expansion strategy.
Other recent exits include Bionic, the marketplace for SME services, for a 4.8x return, with Bionic successfully making six acquisitions during ECI’s investment, and Content+Cloud, leading technology services business,
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