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BlackRock Real Assets’ BlackRock Infrastructure Solutions (BIS), the firm’s dedicated infrastructure multi-manager investment team, has successfully achieved a EUR1.4 billion final close for its latest private infrastructure equity fund, Global Infrastructure Solutions 4 (GIS 4), exceeding its initial target.
A new initiative from IQ-EQ will support women to launch and grow their first funds.
IQ-EQ Launchpad aims to expand inclusivity for the wider asset management industry and foster a self-sustaining network of women in senior leadership roles.
Funds with over 50 per cent women ownership or a woman founder will be eligible to receive preferential service terms, tailored fund administration solutions, capacity building and access to a global network.
The Launchpad suite of services is designed to help women overcome the specific challenges they face launching their first funds, and was prompted by a recognition of the limited opportunities
DOMOS FS has added Hugues Chabanis – Vice President of Innovation at SimCorp – to its Board of Directors.
Chabanis is an expert in the Alternatives investment space, with two decades spent designing, building, selling, and implementing alternatives solutions across the globe.
Over the past seven years, he has led a tailored team that has built up the alternative investment capabilities of SimCorp’s Dimension platform. This culminated in the creation of the first true integrated IBOR and ABOR across Public and Private Markets. Under his supervision, SimCorp Dimension onboarded innovative and disruptive technology, partners and workflows allowing SimCorp Limited Partners Clients
Co-living company DoveVivo ha secured a strategic investment of EUR50 million from controlled affiliates of Starwood Capital Group, a global private investment firm focused on real estate and energy investments.
Bonaccord Capital Partners (Bonaccord), a private equity platform dedicated to acquiring non-control equity interests in leading mid-sized private market sponsors, has acquired a passive minority equity interest in Trivest Partners (Trivest), a private equity firm focused exclusively on founder and family-owned businesses.
Bonaccord, a subsidiary of P10, Inc.
The transaction will provide capital to allow Trivest to continue to invest in its employees and growth initiatives while having no impact on the day-to-day management of the firm. As the equity interest is non-voting, the firm’s investment and decision-making processes will remain unchanged. Additional terms of the investment have not been
2021 was a bumper year for UK Tech M&A according to tech-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance.
Unprecedented deal activity shows a record 1,070 deals announced, generating a 44 per cent increase in deals over 2020.
In its UK Technology M&A Snapshot report, ICON reveals that year-on-year growth was 44 per cent, over a COVID impacted 2020, an increase of 20 per cent on 2019, which was itself a record year.
Q1 2021 was the best quarter ever, with 291 deals, while valuations continued to soar with some disruptive SaaS software companies achieving over 10-times revenue and overall valuations of
Softline is to acquire a majority stake in SoftClub (SCGroup Investments Limited), a fintech developer of integrated solutions for banks, e-commerce, and stock exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe.
The company – considered by industry experts to be amongst the top-100 software firms in the world – has one of the most qualified software engineering teams in Eastern Europe with over 20 years of industry experience and with more than 950 staff, a tenured management team and deep knowledge of the sector.
SoftClub’s suite of products cover 85 per cent of the modern bank application landscape.
Nexeon Limited (Nexeon) – a specialist in the supply of advanced silicon anode materials for next generation lithium-ion batteries – has secured a USD80 million investment from a consortium including SKC Co Ltd (SKC), SJL Partners LLC (SJL), BNW Investment Co Ltd, (BNW) and Kiwoom Private Equity Inc Ltd (Kiwoom).
The deal sees Nixon partner with SKC, a major global battery and semiconductor materials company, for volume manufacturing of its silicon anode materials.
The fundraising and formation of a manufacturing partnership are part of Nexeon’s manufacturing strategy to accelerate the supply of its groundbreaking silicon anode materials at volume
MFM Holding Ltd (Moneyfarm), a digital wealth manager, has raised GBP44.1 million in a funding round led by M&G plc (M&G) and included Poste Italiane SpA (Poste), who has been a minority shareholder in the business since 2019.
Moneyfarm has now raised GBP139 million since launching in 2021.
The new funding round will be used in three key areas, to support future development, expanding its product proposition and building out its new B2B2C proposition through strategic partnerships.
The private placement will be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approvals and will see
Liquid Stock, a partner for private company shareholders seeking liquidity, has expanded its team with the hiring of Annie Woodworth, Vice President of Legal, and Khatija Teekay, Investment Associate.
Woodworth joins Liquid Stock from 500 Startups, a global venture capital firm where she served as Counsel and was primarily focused on deal execution.
Teekay joins Liquid Stock from Deloitte, where she specialised in large-scale lending technology transformations as part of the firm’s Digital Banking practice.
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