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The offshore region recorded more M&A transactions in the first half of 2019 than in the same time period over any of the past five years, according to a report released by offshore law firm Appleby.
The latest edition of Offshore-i, an Appleby report that provides data and insight on merger and acquisition activity in the major offshore financial centres, focuses on transactions announced over the first six months of 2019. While the total number of deals was above the same period in the previous year, total deal value was down on previous comparable periods.
“The offshore region recorded more
Standish Management, a provider of fund administration services to private equity, venture capital, and real estate managers, is to acquire Halsey Group, a Luxembourg-based fund and corporate services provider dedicated to international private equity and real estate investment firms.
Terms of the deal have not been announced.
The acquisition extends Standish’s service offering and brings together Halsey’s long-tenured team and large client base across the US and UK, with Standish’s reputation and expertise across PE, VC, and Real Estate funds. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and upon closing Halsey Group will change its name to Standish Management Luxembourg.
Origis Energy has sold a 41MW ground-mounted solar PV portfolio to ForVEI II, a joint venture (JV) between VEI Green and Foresight Group (Foresight).
The 41MW portfolio comprises 34 ground-mounted solar PV projects located in Italy totalling c.37MW and one ground-mounted solar plant of 4MW in Slovakia. The solar plants have been fully operational since 2010-2011 and are remunerated under a long-term Feed in Tariff (FiT) scheme awarded by the GSE.
Financial details relating to the transaction have not been disclosed.
“We are excited to have found a long-term partner for our European assets,” says Guy Vanderhaegen, CEO & President of
Funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) are to cquire Cynosure, a specialist in medical aesthetics systems and technologies, from Hologic.
Cynosure develops, manufactures, and markets medical aesthetic treatment systems for dermatologists, plastic surgeons, medical spas, and other healthcare practitioners.The company’s broad portfolio of products spans several major categories, including skin revitalisation, body contouring, hair removal, and women’s health. Cynosure sells its products through a combination of direct sales and distributors in over 130 countries and supports its provider partners with a range of technical, clinical, and support services.
Medical aesthetics is a large market expected to experience continued
NovaQuest Capital Management, a healthcare and life sciences focused private investment firm, has held the final close of NovaQuest Private Equity Fund I (Fund I) with USD275 million in total capital commitments.
Fund I will continue NovaQuest’s focus on investing in and building leading services and technologies in the healthcare and life sciences sector with a dedicated private equity platform.
Fund I was oversubscribed, hitting its hard cap of USD275 million through strong support from a global investor base including leading insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, fund of funds, family offices and high net worth individuals.
“We thank our
Aruwa Capital Management (Aruwa), a female founded and led private equity firm focussed on Nigeria and Ghana, has launched a USD20 million co-investment vehicle.
Aruwa‘s mission is to provide patient growth capital to established and rapidly growing companies in the small to lower middle market and it expects to execute four to five investments, averaging US USD1-5 million, over the next 24 months.
To date, capital has been raised from international and West African based family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The Vehicle is domiciled in Mauritius and management have committed capital demonstrating an alignment of interest with co-investors.
CFA UK’s Certificate in ESG Investing, the first qualification of its kind in the UK, will be available to investment professionals from December.
The Certificate has been introduced to meet the increased demand for ESG knowledge and skills in the investment sector and is already seeing high uptake.
In the UK, over 500 candidates are already signed up to complete the course; they will be able to take the exam from 2 December 2019.
The launch follows a pilot programme conducted in September 2019, which was designed to ensure that the training materials developed for the qualification were
Fintech company Capitolis has completed a USD40 million Series B funding round led by Spark Capital and SVB Capital. Existing investors, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and S Capital also participated in the round, bringing the total capital raised to date to USD70 million.
The investment will support Capitolis’ next phase of rapid growth, including the expansion of its technology platform, functionality and product offering.
Capitolis has a vision of efficient and safe global markets, achieved by connecting participants through a technology platform to provide maximum capital efficiency and optimisation. By utilising proprietary technology, Capitolis has developed a platform through
European peer-to-peer lending marketplace TWINO Group has reached a funding milestone of EUR1 billion loans issued since its inception in 2009, with half of the loans issued in the past three years.
TWINO, which offers investors the chance to earn premium returns from unsecured consumer loans, now has almost 20,000 active investors from over 30 European countries. Twelve per cent of TWINO’s investments are UK-based, making its UK investor base the second largest only after Germany (33 per cent). UK investors have already earned more than EUR1 million in interest and earn on average a market-leading return of more than 10 per
Clocktower Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital investment arm of Clocktower Group, a client-focused alternative investment firm employing opportunistic strategies across public and private markets, has held the final close of the firm’s second financial services innovation fund, Clocktower Technologies II (CTV2).
Focused exclusively on investments in early stage fintech companies, the fund closed with approximately USD70 million in capital commitments. CTV2’s investors include chief investment officers at global hedge funds and institutional investors including a university endowment, a Canadian pension, a sovereign wealth fund, and an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Other strategic investors include a global bank, several
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