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New State Capital Partners (New State) has closed its third institutional investment fund, New State Capital Partners Fund III with USD450 million in committed capital.
The Fund was over-subscribed and closed on schedule at its hard cap in about four months after the official launch.
Fund III’s investors are comprised of a diverse and global group of public and private pension funds, consultants, endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and family offices. New State completed the fundraise of its second institutional fund in March 2018 with USD255 million of capital commitments and currently has USD1.2 billion in assets under management.
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New Zealand based legal tech startup for in-house legal teams, LawVu, has raised USD1.8 million USD in venture funding co-led from Silicon Valley based, Shasta Ventures and AirTree Ventures in Australia.
The raise was also supported by New Zealand based NZ Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) and existing investors.
LawVu will use the investment to continue its growth into the US and Australian markets, a global industry worth USD500 billion USD, with the US market being USD160 billion USD alone. The complexity and volume of work in-house legal teams are doing is skyrocketing and LawVu is solving that problem by offering
EW Healthcare Partners (EW) has acquired a majority stake in Laboratoires Majorelle (Majorelle) from its Founders to support its growth and European expansion in line with the Founders’ strategy.
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has combined TradingScreen, a provider of trading execution and order management software, and Imagine Software, a real-time risk and compliance software platform.
The combined company, TS Imagine, will be a dynamic end-to-end trading and portfolio management software platform for connecting the investment management industry with a network of brokers, banks and exchanges.
Francisco Partners says the the combination creates one of the most robust SaaS cloud-based software platforms in capital markets and investment management, bringing integrated and complete front office solutions, complementary product capabilities, best-in-class
The value of UK buyout deals by high-net worth investors (HNWs) shot up by 626 per cent in 2020, rising from GBP132 million in 2019 to GBP958 million, says Boodle Hatfield, the leading private wealth law firm. The increasing number of buyout deals led or co-funded by HNWs goes against the overall decline in deal value across the wider private equity market over the same period.
Zonda has acquired BuzzBuzzHome, a Toronto-based online real estate listings portal serving the new residential construction market.
The acquisition of BuzzBuzzHome follows the recent acquisition of Vancouver-based Urban Analytics earlier this month, which expanded Zonda’s data capabilities into the urban and multi-family markets.
BuzzBuzzHome, founded in 2009, provides both supply-side and demand-side services in the real estate market for new home developments. On the supply side, BuzzBuzzHome serves as a data-driven marketing tool for developers, brokerages and marketing agencies across the US and Canada. For consumers in terms of demand, BuzzBuzzHome provides access to information regarding new developments, including
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised Baring Asset Management Limited, a global investment management firm, in connection with the senior financing supporting the acquisition of Trace One by Symphony Technology Group (STG) from private equity firm, Hg.
Headquartered in Paris, Trace One specialises in developing integrated software solutions for the creation and management of consumer-packaged-goods products.
A multi-disciplinary and cross-border Paul Hastings team was led by London based finance partner Richard Kitchen, together with finance partners Olivier Vermeulen and Tereza Courmont Vlkova assisting from Paris. Other members of the team included tax partner Allard de Waal (Paris) and senior finance
Leeds Equity Partners (Leeds Equity), a New York-based private equity firm, is investing in OptionMetrics, an options and futures database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide.
OptionMetrics represents the first investment platform for Leeds Equity Partners VII. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Leeds Equity actively partners with exceptional management teams to drive innovation and growth in leading companies across the Knowledge Industries, and its investment in OptionMetrics will enable the Company to expand its data and analytics solutions, build upon client services and delivery tools, and meet the emerging needs of its customer
McKay Brothers International (MBI), a specialist in lowest latency wireless telecommunications networks, is now offering private bandwidth between Aurora, Illinois and major exchanges in Asia.
Wherever possible, the company leverages its wireless expertise in combination with fibre for ultra-low latency circuits. McKay end points in Asia include major trading centres in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai.
Tad Beckelman, McKay’s Director of Asia, says: “McKay launched its first network in Asia in 2016, and we have consistently broadened our reach as client demand has grown. All clients can purchase McKay’s ultra low latency networks between the US and
ScaleUp Capital has made an investment in InStep, a Cheshire-based apprenticeship and commercial training provider, and imageHOLDERS, a Dorset-based custom kiosk designer and manufacturer.
Both companies are profitable with revenues in the range of GBP5-7 million, growing at 30-40 per cent per year and an enterprise value in the range of GBP7-10 million, but both fall into the funding gap for scale-ups in between venture capital and private equity.
ScaleUp Capital invests in digital B2B businesses of GBP1-10 million in revenues that have the potential to grow to GBP10-50 million in revenues but are typically underfunded because they are
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