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Royal HaskoningDHV has acquired Ambiental, a UK-based leading provider of actionable intelligence from data to protect people, property and capital from flooding and climate change.
The acquisition, which strengthens its position in the (re)insurance market, supports Royal HaskoningDHV’s strategy to provide clients with software and services in which its extensive engineering and consultancy knowledge is combined with data-driven and technology-based solutions.
The infrastructure, industrial and insurance sectors are continuously looking for better insights to predict flood risk and prevent damage or economic losses to people and assets caused by flooding. In 2018 alone, natural disaster events across the world
SBI Islamic Fund II (Brunei) Limited (SBIF II) and COPE Private Equity (COPE) have jointly announced separate investments amounting up to USD14.25 million in MDT Innovations.
The new capital injection will fuel and strengthen MDT Innovations’ research and development (R&D), enhance its product quality, expand its business scale, and maintain its competitive edge in order to become a market leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry and raise its profile as an internationally established player.
MDT Innovations focuses on IoT value chains ranging from intelligent wireless communications, IoT as a service, to neural network solutions, the company offers
Private equity funds globally have continued their strong showing of recent years, with performance stabilising at levels close to the record set in 2017, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.
According to the report, overall returns (TVPI) settled at 1.46x in the final quarter of 2018, showing a net excess performance of 0.037x when compared to the five-year average of 1.417x and 0.13x when compared to the ten-year average of 1.325x.
Investment risk, measured as the dispersion of performance between the top 5 per cent and the bottom 5 per cent, also saw a stabilisation, at
An affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG) has made a strategic investment in Medusind Solutions, a provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions including practice management, eligibility, coding, claims processing and value-added analytics.
The Company’s medical expertise and technology solutions optimise the healthcare revenue cycle process, create operating efficiencies and ensure adherence to regulatory compliance requirements.
Medusind leverages a robust technology suite including its cloud-based MedClarity® practice management platform, PracticeGenie EHR® and internally developed workflow management tools to offer tailored solutions supporting the needs of physicians, dental providers, hospitals, health plans, GPOs, third-party plan administrators and
Bregal Partners has closed its second fund, Bregal Partners II, with USD650 million of capital commitments sourced from its current limited partners.
The USD650 million brings Bregal Partners to a total of USD1.25 billion in committed capital under management.
“Our team is proud and appreciative of the support we’ve received from our limited partners,” says Scott Perekslis, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bregal Partners. “We sincerely value these relationships and the confidence our investors have shown in our team and investment strategy.”
Charles Yoon, Managing Partner at Bregal Partners, adds: “We are long-term partners to entrepreneurs, founders, and
HQ Equita has successfully concluded fundraising for its fifth fund, HQ Equita V with capital commitments totalling EUR308 million.
With the Fund now closed, at a level comparable to its main predecessor fund, HQ Equita remains true to its strategic investment focus.
Fund V will focus on investments in SMEs in German-speaking Europe. The fund’s limited partners include entrepreneurial families, foundations, and select institutional investors, consistent with HQ Equita’s historical investor base comprised of entrepreneurial capital. With investors from both European and non-European countries committing to the Fund, HQ Equita continues to expand its international network.
“Our strategy
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has released guidance regarding the practice of general partner (GP)-led secondary fund restructurings. The guidance was issued in response to the increasing prevalence of such transactions and the bespoke nature of each situation.
The intent of the guidance is to offer specific parameters that allow for an efficient and transparent process, encourage productive dialogue among stakeholders and foster better decision making by limited partners.
“The GP-led secondary process can offer significant benefits to both general and limited partners in terms of portfolio management, liquidity, and value creation towards the end of the life
Mayfair-based alternative finance house IW Capital has today announced an investment in PlayMoreGolf, a flexible golf membership linking individual golf clubs across the United Kingdom under one membership.
PlayMoreGolf provides an alternative to golfers who desire more choice, more value, more flexibility and more convenience whilst enjoying the benefits of golf club membership. The EIS qualifying investment of GBP1 million will be used to accelerate growth through the recruitment of additional staff, focused on sales and marketing.
The golfing sector has seen a decline in the number of full-time golf club members for a number of years. Being a
Meridia Private Equity has invested a minority holding in Kipenzi, an integrated pet care specialist in Spain and Portugal with a growing network of over 125 specialised pet stores, 75 veterinary clinics and eight veterinary hospitals, and revenues in excess of EUR140 million.
Alongside Javier Osa and Álvaro Gutiérrez, Co-Founders of Kipenzi, and the company’s current majority owner, TA Associates, Meridia Private Equity aims to continue accelerating Kipenzi’s growth via a capital injection in order to finance expansion levers across all business lines.
Osa and Gutiérrez say: “We are delighted to welcome Meridia Private Equity into Kipenzi’s shareholding alongside
BGF-backed Woodall Nicholson Group, a manufacturer of specialist vehicles for the funeral, public transport and emergency services markets, has acquired the intellectual property, trademarks and strategic assets of the former Binz & Co, KG and BINZ Holding.
The business is headquartered in Westhoughton, Bolton UK. The deal will add capability to Woodall Nicholson’s existing business, Coleman Milne, which is a market leader within the same sector for UK and Ireland.
The transaction cements the growth of the Woodall Nicholson funeral car business, with the expansion of its ceremonial vehicles business across Europe and the Middle East, offering the complete
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