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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
Spartan Advisors, an independent placement agent and merchant bank specialised in raising capital for alternative fund managers, has appointed Dominic Wood as a Director in the firm’s London office.Wood, who started his new role on 1 December, will be responsible for managing Spartan’s limited partner relationships across Europe and the Middle East. He will report directly to Benjamin Clarke, Managing Partner, who founded the Company after previously leading sales for North America in the international fund distribution division at Citigroup.
“We have been very fortunate during such a challenging time to win some very large fundraising mandates from several
Private Client Resources (PCR) has finalised its acquisition of the European data aggregation firm Check6, headquartered in The Netherlands.Bob Miller, CEO of PCR, says: “We are very excited to partner with the Check6 team in expanding our European presence. They have done a great job connecting to the major European institutions and provide instant fulsome European data source coverage for the PCR network.”
The market for global investment data aggregation is growing. Wealth management firms around the world are working to implement digital technologies they hope will modernise their processes and enhance their clients’ experience. Critical to the success of these
Admincontrol and Dealsuite have entered into a global strategic partnership, combining Dealsuite’s leading M&A platform with Admincontrol’s world class virtual data room solution. Admincontrol, the Nordic market leading provider of Virtual Data Rooms and part of the Visma Group, opened their Dutch office in March 2020. Now the Norwegian company has entered a global strategic partnership with Dealsuite to further strengthen their presence in Europe.
Dealsuite is Europe’s leading M&A community for dealmakers: M&A advisors, PE firms and corporates. These M&A professionals use the powerful business tool Dealsuite.com to find new (proprietary) deal opportunities. Dealsuite specializes in the middle market
Investcorp is to sell Avira to NortonLifeLock, a specialist in consumer cyber safety, for approximately USD360 million. The transaction is expected to close in Q1 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.Avira is a Germany-headquartered, global cybersecurity software solutions firm serving the Consumer and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) end markets. Founded in 1986 by Tjark Auerbach, Avira provides customers with a comprehensive suite of software security solutions, including anti-malware, threat intelligence and IoT solutions to protect users’ online identity, finances, and private data.
Investcorp became Avira’s first institutional investor when it acquired the Company. and has collaborated
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