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BGF has invested GBP4 million in fast-growing UK homecare business CSN Care Group (CSN) to support the company with its longer-term growth plans.
CSN is a leading social care provider which operates a national network of owned and franchised branches across the UK with headquarters in Edinburgh and Milton Keynes. Its care brands include Carewatch, MyLife and New Directions.
The business was founded by Executive Chairman, Scott Christie, and Managing Director, Craig Hendry, in January 2019 as a result of a management buyout of part of the Carewatch Group. Since the MBO the Group has grown significantly to deliver more
Neuberger Berman has launched the NB Crossroads Private Markets Access Fund, a registered, continually offered closed-end fund that ‘further democratises the firm’s private equity offerings and increases access to these important portfolio solutions for individual investors’.
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Jersey Finance, in conjunction with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, is formally launching a new initiative today, aimed at protecting wildlife and ‘re-wilding’ ecosystems around the world.
The ‘Jersey Fund for a Wilder World’ is being officially launched at Jersey Finance’s Annual Review today, with the objective of effecting positive change on the restoration of global ecosystems, and is designed to give financial services firms in Jersey the opportunity to contribute a portion of their fees earned from sustainable finance workflows to a pooled central pot.
Contributing to the fund is voluntary, and is initially open to fund service providers, including
Singapore-based Tower Capital Asia has held a first closing of its Southeast Asia-focused private equity fund, Tower Capital PE Fund , at approximately USD250 million.
The fund’s first-closing investors include a pre-eminent international institutional investor and highly respected single family offices from the Southeast Asian region.
Danny Koh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, says: “We are very grateful to our investors for their support, which remained unwavering through an unusually difficult fundraising year for general partners globally. The closing of the Fund marks many firsts for us, but our earliest days as a modest team spun out from a
Quaero Capital completed fundraising for Quaero European Infrastructure Fund II (QEIF II) at its EUR600 million hard cap, exceeding the initial target of EUR500 million set at its launch in July 2019.
The management company is also expecting additional investment capacity given the strong interest from investors for co-investment opportunities.
As a reminder, the fundraising for its previous EUR275 million investment vehicle (QEIF) ended in April 2017 and the fund has since been fully invested.
QEIF II’s strategy is to finance equity in both greenfield and brownfield infrastructure projects in Europe. The fund targets project finance assets and notably assets
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group and one of the largest and most active VCs in Europe, has appointed Emma Davies as Co-CEO.
Davies has more than 20 years’ experience as an investor and portfolio manager and will work alongside the current CEO, Alliott Cole, as Octopus Ventures expands its platform for the next stage of growth.
Davies will focus on product, operations and corporate development within the team, allowing Alliott to focus on managing the investment strategy and the growing portfolio. Davies joins from Marlylebone Partners, where she was Partner, prior to which she held a number of
NovaQuest Private Equity (NovaQuest) has acquired CoreRx, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO).
Based in Clearwater, Florida, CoreRx provides clinical and commercial CDMO services to a wide range of small to mid-sized pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Founded in 2006, the Company offers pre-formulation, formulation, analytical and stability, clinical manufacturing, commercial manufacturing, and packaging services. The Company’s deep development expertise allows it to solve complex formulation challenges. Its small-batch manufacturing capabilities, coupled with a responsive customer mindset, allow CoreRx to be a nimble, hands-on partner for its valued customers.
“This transaction is an endorsement of CoreRx’s success to date
Private placement specialist Monument Group has appointed Hiroshi Nishimuro as Japan Representative in the firm’s Tokyo office, effective 12 January, 2021.
Nishimuro will lead the firm’s fundraising efforts and general partner relationships in Japan.
“It is a pleasure to welcome Hiroshi to Monument Group’s Tokyo office and to our unified global team,” says Niklas Amundsson, Partner and Head of Asia Pacific at Monument Group. “With Hiroshi’s experience across a broad range of alternative investments, we are confident he will prove to be a valuable contributor furthering the meaningful relationships Monument Group has cultivated with investors and general partners in Japan over
Significantly expanding the firm’s M&A and private equity and leveraged finance capabilities, Milbank LLP has added market-leading attorneys Andrew Whan, Neeraj Budhwani, Davide Mencacci and John Bona to the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Whan, who will be joining the firm, and Budhwani advise an array of leading private equity funds on domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts, management buyouts and buy-ins, venture capital and public M&A transactions. They regularly act for some of the largest private equity funds in the world, including Affinity, Carlyle, CVC, MBK Partners, Partners Group and Permira.
Mencacci and Bona focus on leveraged finance transactions, structured
Tel Aviv-based global fund manager Liquidity Capital and Dubai-based Vault Investments are to form a joint USD100 million Venture Debt Investment fund based in Dubai.
The new fund will deploy debt financing funding aimed at fuelling technology financing in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and will leverage technology already in use by Liquidity in that company’s Asia-Pacific and US investments. As part of the partnership, Liquidity Capital and Vault investment will open offices in Dubai, to more effectively locate potential investments in the region.
The joint venture marks a pivotal step forward in the rapidly solidifying relationships that
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