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Macfarlanes has advised long-standing client Alcentra on the successful fundraising of its second European strategic credit fund which has closed at EUR557 millio.This capital will be used to continue Alcentra’s strategic credit strategy investing in stressed and distressed debt opportunities, with assets under management for its European strategic credit platform rising to over EUR1.5 billion.
The Macfarlanes advisory team was led by investment management partner Sam Brooks with assistance from senior solicitor Henry Stewart-Brown and solicitor Miriam Cable. Tax advice was provided by tax and reward partner Damien Crossley with assistance from senior solicitor Shaul Steinberg and fund finance
Fintech company Outfund has closed a GBP37million late seed round of capital, including debt and equity. The funding round was led by Fuel Ventures and sees TMT Investments and Force Over Mass also invest in Outfund as it provides a faster, fairer and more affordable way for SMEs to raise growth capital. The pandemic is driving more people to shop online with an expected 19% increase in e-commerce sales and with the “golden retail quarter” upon us, many businesses will need to grow and sell more on the web in order to grow revenues and profitability. This means investing more capital
Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has celebrated the three-year anniversary of its FP Foresight UK Infrastructure Income Fund (FIIF).Total return on the three years to 4 December 2020 was 28.14 per cent, outperforming the FTSE All Share by 26.51 per cent (1.63 per cent return from FTSE All Share over same period), during one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods of recent market history. During 2020, the fund has outperformed the FTSE All Share by 7.45 per cent with lower drawdown and volatility, as well as low equity correlation. In each of the
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Exclaimer, a portfolio company of Livingbridge, on its sale of a majority stake to Insight Partners with participation from Farview Equity Partners. Livingbridge will reinvest alongside Insight Partners and Farview Equity Partners as a minority shareholder to retain equity exposure to the growth of the company under its new ownership structure.
Founded in 2001, Exclaimer offers centralised email signature management software to more than 40,000 customers. These solutions enable companies of all sizes to manage their employees’ signatures efficiently and deliver consistent branding, promotions, disclaimers and compliance statements, while substantially saving time,
Global investment firm The Carlyle Group is to acquire a majority stake in iC Consult Group, a leading specialised provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the DACH region. Further details of the transaction, which is is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q1 2021, have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Munich, iC Consult was co-founded in 1997 by Jürgen Biermann who remains CEO of the business. Following today’s announcement, Biermann and the company’s management team remain significant shareholders in the business.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions are used by IT departments to
Gaia Capital Partners has masde its first investment in the UK in a USD40 million growth round for gohenry alongside US funds Edison Partners, Citi Ventures and Muse Capital. This is its fourth investment in one year after Welcome to the Jungle in late 2019, Aircall last spring and Yubo in November 2020. For all of these growth rounds, Gaia Capital Partners has co-invested alongside leading international investors.
Launched in the UK in 2012 on a mission to innovate both financial education and digital banking, gohenry is a financial education app and prepaid debit card, in partnership with Visa in the
By Kinson Lo, founder, Dot Investing – As we creep towards the end of a year that has already felt longer than 12 months for most, a notable shift in the mindset of investors could be one positive change to remember 2020 for. Awareness of climate change, and environmental activism, have been gathering momentum across wider society for a number of years.
While David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg have rightly been lauded for their efforts to support the cause, it may be a shift in where HNWs and professional investors invest their money that has a bigger future impact.
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Several factors are fuelling increasing integration of sustainable investment practices among Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs). Growing knowledge, enhanced reporting requirements and improved understanding of the connection between environment, social and governance (ESG) factors and returns are all driving a sharper need for investment which is more socially conscious.
Finland-based startup Rundit, a platform for portfolio management and monitoring, has raised EUR1 million in seed funding to further its mission of making investor reporting easy and transparent so that VCs and LPs can make better data-driven decisions.The round was led by two new angel investors, including Pierre Weimerskirch, board member of several PE and VC funds and the LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity Association. The capital will be used for scaling across Europe and the US, while improving Rundit’s product offering for GPs.
“We are excited to have the backing of our strategic angel investors who can help us accelerate
Allen & Overy has appointed Nick Marchica as a partner in the firm’s US Private Equity (PE) group based in New York. Marchica’s deep experience advising PE and corporate clients on M&A transactions will complement Allen & Overy’s established practice advising leading PE funds and multinational corporations on US and cross-border transactions.
“Allen & Overy has been expanding its US PE practice since 2017, and the addition of Nick to our talented team augments our offerings across the full spectrum of strategic M&A,” says Tim house, US Senior Partner at A&O. “One of our key strategic priorities is to expand significantly
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