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Unhealthy relationships between multi-disciplinary corporate finance firms and the private equity community have been revealed by research undertaken by Bluebox Corporate Finance.
The survey shows 58 per cent of corporate lawyers believe UK entrepreneurs are not always treated fairly where their corporate finance adviser enjoys a previous relationship with the private equity sponsor in a transaction.
The study exposes conflicts of interest that exist between corporate finance advisers and certain private equity sponsors in the UK mid-market; an issue that is preventing UK entrepreneurs from getting fair, impartial advice.
95 per cent of lawyers surveyed agree it would be in
Vantage Specialty Chemicals Holdings (Vantage), am portfolio company of alternative investment firm HIG Capital (HIG), has acquired JEEN International Corporation and Botanicals Plus, Inc (collectively, JEEN).
JEEN is highly complementary to Vantage Personal Care’s existing comprehensive portfolio of naturally derived ingredients, including active ingredients, natural oils, and bio-based chassis ingredients.
JEEN is a provider of naturally derived specialty ingredients and blends for the personal care and cosmetics markets. JEEN’s portfolio includes a diverse range of specialised active ingredients, botanical extracts, and complexes serving functional applications for skin and hair care. JEEN is an innovative leader in rapid product development and
Seraphim Space (Manager), the manager of the Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc (LSE: SSIT), a listed Space Tech Fund, has appointed Development Partners International partner Sarah Shackleton, as the Company’s new Chief Operating Officer (COO).
The appointment is effective immediately.
Shackleton joins Seraphim Space as Chief Operating Officer following a long and distinguished career in the private equity and investment banking sector, working for almost 15 years as a partner of Development Partners International, one of the leading private equity firms investing in Africa and overseeing cUSD2.8 billion in AUM.
Her role included actively managing and administrating the funds which
When iConnections launched in 2020 with its Funds4Food campaign, it saw a need to bring the hedge and private equity industries together to help victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now the company is are pivoting its Funds4Kids cap intro event to the crisis in Ukraine as Funds4Ukraine.
For every completed meeting with an iConnections fund member, iConnections will donate USD100 to Concern Worldwide, a charity whose Emergency Fund is earmarked for emergencies, including the Ukraine Crisis.
Concern’s Emergency Response Team is currently assessing the humanitarian needs along the Ukraine borders with Poland. It plans to assess the situation along the
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Industrial team has advised the shareholders of Coryton Advanced Fuels Limited, a specialist in the market for sustainable fuels, on its sale to Lantmannen AB, a Swedish agricultural co-operative group.
Coryton is a provider of advanced, bespoke fuel solutions to an established customer base operating across a range of end-markets, including motorsport, light and heavy-duty vehicles, aviation and marine.
From its headquarters in Essex on the Thames estuary Coryton develops thousands of bespoke fuel blends each year, with global sales volumes exceeding 11 million litres in 2021. Coryton is an emerging leader in the fast-growing market for sustainable
Foresight Group (Foresight), an infrastructure and private equity investment manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), have invested in Zero Point Motion Limited (ZPM), an early-stage semi-conductor company which is developing a chip-scale inertial measurement unit (IMU) for ultra-precise motion-tracking and indoor navigation.
The Company was founded in 2020 by Dr Ying Lia Li (Lia), an award winning physicist (2021 Institute of Physics Clifford Paterson prize) who worked on photonic devices at BAE Systems and developed sensing technology during a decade-long academic career supported by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and The
Private equity set a remarkable new standard for itself in 2021, with buyout deal value reaching an all-time high of USD1.1 trillion, doubling 2020’s total of USD577 billion and shattering the previous record of USD804 billion set in 2006 during the exuberant run-up to the global financial crisis.
Barings has acted as sole lender of secured credit facilities in the merger of Westbridge Advisory (Westbridge) with Argentus (Argentus), a portfolio company of GENUI.
GENUI acquired a significant stake in Argentus in 2021, subsequently merging it with Westbridge in 2022, Argentus’ largest peer in Germany. The merger will create a leading Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) and operating efficiency advisor, serving the German and Pan-European real estate industry. The companies’ founders remain significant shareholders alongside GENUI.
Westbridge offers ESG consulting, operating cost optimisation, facility management consulting and real estate management services, with the aim of improving property efficiency in
Inflexion has led the buyout of Astrak Group, a European specialist distributor of parts for construction equipment, with the founding family continuing to be involved with the business.
The investment is being made from the Inflexion Buyout Fund VI, which recently closed at GBP2.5 billion.
Fife-based Astrak was founded in 2003 in Denmark and has grown to become a market leader in undercarriage and wear parts for construction equipment, employing over 100 people across its seven locations across Europe.
New research from Intertrust, a provide of administration services to clients in over 30 jurisdictions, reveals that the UK that is leading the way for gender diversity within private funds, with 44 per cent of UK CFOs describing gender diversity as crucial to investment opportunities, compared to 35 per cent in the US, 20 per cent in China and just 15 per cent amongst the rest of Western Europe.
Featured in Intertrust Group’s new report, The future private capital CFO: Unleashing potential in the ESG era, the research found that almost four in five (79 per cent) of private capital
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