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Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised longstanding client Piper, a specialist investor in fast-growing consumer brands, on its GBP5 million investment into Wild Nutrition, a natural health supplements brand.
Founded in 2013 by husband-and-wife team Henrietta and Charlie Norton, Wild Nutrition has disrupted the UK’s GBP20 billion health and wellness market. The brand offers supplements that are ethically and sustainably formulated by an in-house team who source the highest quality, fully traceable ingredients to provide solutions to common health needs – including pregnancy, fertility, immunity, energy, gut health, sleep, stress and anxiety and hormonal health.
Piper’s investment will
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has held the final close of the NB Private Equity Impact Fund with nearly USD280 million of commitments.
The successful fundraise demonstrates the growth of Neuberger Berman’s private equity impact investment strategy and the manager’s active role in the market. Neuberger Berman manages USD429 billion in AUM with over USD96 billion of committed capital to private markets.
The Impact Fund primarily invests in direct and fund investments that seek to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes that are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and that also meet NB Private Equity’s
Foresight Group, a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has made a GBP1.25 million growth capital investment under the Scottish Growth Scheme into FURTHER.SPACE Limited, a luxury glamping pod holiday company, providing outdoor premium short breaks in Scotland and Ireland.
The company is well placed to benefit from the growth in staycations with Covid-19 likely impacting international tourism for some time to come and more broadly to serve a growing segment of consumers concerned about the carbon footprint of air travel.
FURTHER.SPACE was founded in 2019 and operates luxury pod accommodation across Scotland and Ireland. It manufactures high-quality, design-led
Performance Designed Products, LLC (PDP), a developer of video game accessories and peripherals, has been acquired by Diversis Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled organizations.
Founded in 1990, PDP designs, engineers, and markets a full suite of video game accessories including headsets, controllers, chargers, and protective cases for Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation. PDP sells hardware and software products under their own brands – PDP Gaming, Afterglow, Rock Candy and Victrix – which are sold worldwide, including at Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy. PDP is headquartered in San Diego.
With a variety
Around USD900 million was invested in the urban air mobility market in the first six months of 2020, but new research with senior private equity and venture capital professionals reveals 59 per cent expect over USD2 billion will be invested in the sector this year.
Some 41 per cent predict the figure will be over USD3 billion, and 16 per cent think it will be more than USD4 billion.
The research was commissioned by Horizon Aircraft, the advanced aerospace engineering company that has developed the Cavorite X5, the world’s first eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) that can fly
Growth capital investor, BGF has announced a successful exit from Nottingham-based life sciences incubation business, BioCity.
BGF backed BioCity in January 2019 with funding facilitating BioCity’s investment into a number of seed-stage life sciences businesses. BGF has also invested alongside BioCity in deals such as its investment into North West-headquartered proteomic-data science and diagnostics company, Kinomica, in November last year.
BioCity Group has been acquired by Trinity Investment Management (Trinity IM) and Harrison Street (Harrison Street Real Estate Capital) as part of a pre-existing joint venture. The deal will see the merger of BioCity Group with Trinity IM’s
Greenbriar Equity Group, LP (Greenbriar) has acquired PCX Aerosystems (PCX) concurrently with the completion of the previously announced acquisition by PCX of Senior Aerospace Connecticut (SAC).
PCX, together with SAC, is a specialist supplier of highly engineered, precision, flight critical assemblies for rotorcraft and fixed wing aerospace platforms. Founded in 1900, the company serves industry leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers including Boeing, Bell, General Electric and Sikorsky. PCX focuses on producing complex parts and large assemblies for flight critical applications where tight tolerances and quality are imperative.
Noah Blitzer, Director at Greenbriar, says: “PCX has a long and successful
Given its inherently analytical nature, private equity is well placed to include environment, social and governance (ESG) factors in its investment process. The challenge lies in making sure the data being collected is relevant and material. This hurdle needs to be conquered as investors are starting to pass over managers who are not taking this matter seriously.
“It would be amazing if there were clear-cut answers to what needs to be collected and measured, but the truth is it’s usually context specific,” highlights Kylie Ford, principal consultant – ESG at Goby. “As a result, many PE managers get stuck not
As the ultimate black swan event hit the world in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic, private equity managers came to understand the necessity of including scenario analysis in their investment process.
The past year has taught the world to expect the unexpected. Private equity managers have learnt to be adaptable and nimble in the face of challenging circumstances. However, although no one can predict the future, data analytics and tools are evolving to help managers map potential future risks and outcomes. New functionality is also being considered in view of the growing appetite for private credit investments.
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