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DLA Piper has launched a global, dedicated end-to-end Investment Management and Funds practice offering to support to the entire investment management and investment funds value chain.
Co-led by International partners, Catherine Pogorzelski and James O’Donnell and US partners, Jesse Criz and David Parrish, the global dedicated practice builds upon the firm’s already well-established investment fund and investment management capabilities in the US, Europe and Asia by offering a global “one-stop shop” to serve the legal needs of asset managers, investment fund sponsors and investors across all industry sectors, geographies, asset classes and investment strategies covering:
• The full investment fund
When venture capital investor Kate Bingham was appointed to lead the UK’s coronavirus vaccine procurement effort in May 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tasked her with delivering “speed, not perfection”.
By December that year, the UK had approved its first Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.
Since then, 80 per cent of the UK population over the age of 12 have received at least one vaccine, and the jabs are working “much better than anyone expected”.
“To get any vaccine from identification of pathogen through to a vaccine, the quickest historically has been five years, but that was 50 years ago,” says
By Andrew Millar (pictured), Corporate Partner, Shoosmiths – Private equity interest in the UK’s property sector continues to see exponential growth. McCarthy & Stone, St Modwen Properties and Sigma Capita were just a few of the UK companies acquired by private equity investors in 2021. This pool of capital continues to flood the nation’s housebuilding sector and some of the biggest players in it.
With reports indicating that Bridgepoint is putting Miller Homes up for sale for over GBP1 billion, compared to the GBP650 million it paid in 2017, it is perhaps unsurprising that private equity is increasingly recognising that UK
Pollen Street Capital has agreed a sale of Aryza Holdings Limited (Aryza) to Atlas Bidco 1 Limited – a company owned by Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, Pollen Street, and Aryza senior management.
Aryza is a global provider of case management and process automation software solutions for regulated industries serving the insolvency, credit, and debt recovery sectors.
Pollen Street first invested in Aryza (originally known as Vision Blue) in 2017. Since then, Aryza has grown rapidly in size, breadth of offering and geographical footprint, now operating from six countries across three continents. More recently, Aryza has developed a platform for M&A
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Healthcare team has advised Veramed, a specialist biostatistics and programming Contract Research Organisation (CRO) serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients across the UK, Europe and US on its partnership with Livingbridge.
Founded in 2012 by Matthew and Emma Jones and headquartered in London, Veramed provides statistical consulting, programming and study reporting, and market launch and commercialisation services to clients globally. The business has since scaled both nationally and internationally through establishing offices in multiple locations across the UK and international offices in mainland Europe, the Ukraine and the US. Alongside this, investments in new services and continuing to build
Schroders Capital is strengthening its real estate investment capabilities by acquiring Cairn Real Estate, a real estate fund and asset management business based in the Netherlands with EUR1.3 billion of assets under management.
The acquisition will expand Schroders Capital’s client offering in a key European growth market, enhancing our access to Dutch real estate expertise with on-the-ground investment talent to meet the growing investment demand from our institutional investors.
Cairn, which is being sold by MPC Capital, a German investment management group focused on renewables, specialises in a range of sectors including logistics, offices and healthcare and is well respected
CI Financial Corp (CI) has made a strategic investment in GLAS Funds (GLASfunds), a turnkey alternative investment platform and alternative asset management firm based in Cleveland.
Founded in 2009, GLASfunds is a tech-enabled platform providing investors with secure and streamlined digital access to institutional-quality alternative investment opportunities and asset management oversight. It has approximately USD1.1 billion in combined assets under management and assets under contract.
CI’s investment will strengthen GLASfunds’ offering to the broader market, while providing CI Private Wealth clients with enhanced access to alternative asset classes through a best-in-class platform.
“Alternative assets are an increasingly important part of
According to a new research paper, Financing the Economy, published by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) in partnership with Allen & Overy, private credit managers are accelerating the integration of ESG into their investment strategies and engagement with businesses on sustainability.
The ACC surveyed 57 private credit managers and investors based across the US, Europe and Asia Pacific that collectively manage more than USD600 billion. The research found that 74 per cent already integrate ESG into their investment strategies and consider it to be a core part of their approach to due diligence, borrower engagement and investor reporting.
Beyond investing,
Euronext has congratulated SPEAR Investments I (SPEAR), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has listed on Euronext Amsterdam, becoming the SPAC-listing on Euronext markets in 2021.
SPEAR has a multi-disciplinary team, combining equity capital markets professionals, M&A professionals, investment professionals, C-suite and senior leaders, operators and technology experts and founders. SPEAR expects to focus on targets with strong business fundamentals, and technology, innovation and/or changing business model-led growth.
The admission and issue price of the units offered by the company was EUR10 per unit. The SPAC-listing raised EUR175 million altogether. SPEAR is sponsored by STJ Advisors and AZ Capital. STJ
Honeycomb Network, an Imperial College London spinout developing smart charging and storage infrastructure for e-scooters and e-bikes to accelerate micromobility adoption in the UK, has secured GBP127,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed stage investor.
The funding will support the development of prototypes of the company’s storage and charging pods and rollout of a pilot scheme.
Despite more than 65 per cent of trips made in London being shorter than one mile, and despite car driver and passenger trips having reduced by 33 per cent and 44 per cent respectively, users of e-scooters and
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