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Global private equity activity decreased by 1.8 per cent year-on-year to USD550.6 billion in transactions, according to Bloomberg’s final Q2 2019 league table reports, which represent market leaders across a broad range of deal types, including M&A, Equities, loans and bonds transactions over the last quarter.
However, the United States continued to be the most acquisitive country in H1 2019, accounting for 45.5 per cent of the global private equity volume. The acquisition of GLP Pte Ltd’s Urban infilllogistic assets by Blackstone Group for USD18.7 billion was the largest private equity deal in the region.
Private equity activity for EMEA-based targets meanwhile reached
By Elizabeth Pfeuti – As institutional investors, such as pension and sovereign wealth funds, build internal teams and grow increasingly sophisticated, they are wanting a more direct role in how their assets are allocated. Nowhere has this trend been more apparent than in the rise of co-investments with private equity partners.
In the last three months, major investors including some of the largest pension plans in the US have outlined their ambitions in this area.
Commenting on its newly inked partnership with GCM Grosvenor, chief investment officer of the USD31 billion South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission Geoffrey Berg said
Seventure Partners, provider of financing in life sciences and associated industries, has launched Sport & Performance Capital, a new fund dedicated to supporting innovation in the sport and wellness industries.
With a final target of EUR80 million, the venture fund will invest in startup companies and growing SMEs furthering physical activity to help promote health and physical fitness.
The Fund will help to provide a legacy from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which is supported by Groupe BPCE, Seventure Partners’ ultimate parent group. At first close, Caisse d’Epargne, also part of Groupe BPCE, is a cornerstone investor, alongside other French
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Apiary Capital on the merger of its portfolio company G3 Comms with Connect Managed Services, to create one of the UK’s largest customer experience and unified communications managed services providers, with annual revenues in excess of GBP55 million.
Headquartered in London, Connect Managed Services (Connect) is a leading customer experience, unified communications and digital transformation provider for global enterprises. The company partners with Genesys, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Avaya and Cisco to offer digital solutions, with clients including Johnson & Johnson, BP & Diageo. LDC backed a buyout of Connect in 2014 and
The Czech investment company Jet Investment has agreed to dispose of 100 per cent ownership in the company Benet Automotive to the Japan-based multinational company Teijin Limited, a specialist in the development, manufacturing and sales of technologically advanced materials and products.
The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
The sale marks a further successful divestment for the Jet 1 portfolio following last year’s sales of the companies Less & Timber and Kodarna Plus.
“The sale of Benet to a strategic partner brings a rather quick exit from our investment into the project within less than two years. While
Dott, the European micro-mobility company, has secured a EUR30 million Series A funding round co-led by existing investors the EQT Ventures fund (EQT Ventures) and Naspers, a global consumer internet group. Other investors include existing investors Axel Springer Digital Ventures, Felix Capital, FJ Labs, U-Start Club and angel investors.
Dott is currently operating in Brussels, Paris and Lyon, with a first pilot in Milan as well. The new round of investment confirms the strategy initiated by Dott’s French co-founders Maxim Romain and Henri Moissinac: along with a strong collaboration with municipalities and local mobility ecosystems, design vehicles specifically for sharing,
Kyash, creator of the Kyash wallet app and payment platform Kyash Direct, has raised JPY1.5 billion, or approximately USD14 million in Series B funding round led by Goodwater Capital, a global consumer technology firm whose principals’ previous investing experience includes Facebook, Twitter, Kakao, Spotify and Monzo, as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.
Additional investors include leading Tokyo-based firms and companies such as Toppan Printing Co, JAFCO Co, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited and SMBC Venture Capital Co. The round brings Kyash’s total funding to nearly USD26 million or JPY 2.8 billion.
Funding for Kyash comes as Japan attempts to move
Private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R has acquired a majority equity interest in IT solutions integrator Sirius Computer Solutions (Sirius) from Kelso & Company.
Since 1980, Sirius has grown to become one of the largest solutions integrators in the US, with approximately $3.5 billion in annual gross sales. Sirius provides world-class solutions from proven technologies to help clients transform their business by managing their operations, optimising their IT, and securing it all. As part of its ongoing growth initiative, Sirius has acquired seven companies since 2014, including: Avnet, Inc.’s digital solution services; Brightlight Consulting; Continuum Security Solutions;
RoundTable Healthcare Partners (RoundTable), an operating-oriented private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has closed its fifth equity fund at USD700 million in capital commitments.
RoundTable closed its first equity fund of USD400 million in March 2002, its second equity fund of USD500 million in March 2005, its third equity fund of USD600 million in July 2010, and its fourth equity fund of USD650 million (Fund IV) in August 2015.
RoundTable’s long-standing strategy has been to utilise the firm’s extensive healthcare operating and transaction expertise to improve the growth and profitability of its portfolio companies to enhance their
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Connect Managed Services (Connect) after securing a deal that merges the contact centre technology and services group with G3 Comms (G3).
The transaction creates one of the UK’s largest customer experience and unified communications specialists and a group with combined revenues in excess of GBP55million.
LDC first backed the multi-million-pound management buyout of Connect in 2014 (formerly Connect Communications) to accelerate its expansion at home and overseas through technology investment and acquisitions.
With LDC’s support, Connect has since made a series of acquisitions that have provided significant scale
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