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LLR Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm, has held the final closing of LLR Equity Partners VI (LLR 6) at USD1.8 billion, inclusive of the General Partner’s commitment.“LLR appreciates the support from our legacy investors and the opportunity to build long-lasting relationships with several new domestic and international investors,” says partner Mitchell Hollin.
LLR 6 continues the firm’s 21-year history of investing in and partnering with lower middle market growth companies. Similar to its predecessor, LLR 6 will focus on the technology and healthcare sectors, typically investing between USD25 million and USD100 million in companies. With more
Tikehau Capital, an alternative asset management and investment group, has appointed Carmen Alonso as Head of the United Kingdom and Peter Cirenza is promoted to Chairman of the United Kingdom as well as Chairman of Tactical Strategies.In addition to her responsibilities in the Iberian market, Carmen Alonso will now oversee all investment strategies and capital raising for Tikehau Capital in the UK, which includes private credit, real assets and private equity. She will be running the UK office alongside Peter Cirenza who has been promoted to UK Chairman and Chairman of Tactical Strategies, in addition to his current position of
Topas Therapeutics (Topas), a Hamburg, Germany-based private platform company leveraging the natural immune tolerance induction capabilities of the liver, has closed a EUR22 million (~USD26 million) Series B financing round. New investors Vesalius BioCapital III and BioMedPartners co-led this transaction, which included participation from all of Topas’ existing investors. The funding will be used to advance the Company’s proprietary pipeline based on the Topas Particle Conjugates technology platform. This includes progressing lead program TPM203, currently in clinical development for the treatment of pemphigus vulgaris, and bringing TPM501, Topas’ candidate for the treatment of celiac disease, into the clinic.
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A surge in deal activity over the next few months is being predicted by private equity house WestBridge, as business owners seek to realise and de-risk their assets ahead of widely anticipated changes to the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) regime in the next budget.There is speculation that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will hike CGT. This, combined with the April 2020 changes to Entrepreneur’s Relief (now Business Asset Disposal Relief), will have a significant impact on business owners looking to sell.
James MacLeay, investment manager at WestBridge, says: “History has shown that impending changes in tax legislation can create surges in deal
EQT has appointed Marc Brown, former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Development, as Partner and Head of its new EQT Growth strategy.Having overseen Microsoft’s M&A and strategic investment activities, Brown has led more than 185 acquisitions (including LinkedIn, GitHub and Minecraft) and 80 strategic equity investments (including Flipkart, Databricks and Graphcore).
Earlier this year, Carolina Brochado joined EQT as Partner in London and will join the Growth team. Formerly a partner at both Softbank and Atomico, Carolina has experience across several investment disciplines, including private equity, venture capital and growth. In addition to Carolina Brochado and Marc Brown, the
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Ahmad Atwan as a Managing Director in its infrastructure team. Atwan will be responsible for all aspects of the investment process including origination, transaction structuring, financing and execution of post-closing strategies.
Atwan has over 20 years of experience as a private equity investor, operating executive, and entrepreneur. Before joining HIG, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, where he led a number of successful transactions and served as a Board Director of multiple portfolio companies. Prior to that, Ahmad was a Managing Director at BlackRock’s Global Private Equity Group, where he served as
MJ Hudson has advised Isomer Capital, a UK based venture capital firm, with the launch of its second Luxembourg based VC fund of funds: Isomer Capital II SCSp, as well as the formation of a new flexible single-LP fund. Isomer is seeking to raise EUR250 million for its latest flagship fund focusing on investments in early-stage high performing venture capital managers across the UK and Europe, co-investments and secondary purchases into early-stage tech companies. Investors in the fund include British Business Investments, which announced its anchor commitment of up to €75 million from its Managed Funds Programme as well as corporate,
Tully Rinckey has Malachy Kearney as a Partner and head of its Investment Funds department in the firm’s Dublin office.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Duff & Phelps, a provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, has launched a new Equity Match service, which matches the equity funding requirements of UK based SMEs with specialist equity investors from a select network.Equity Match provides SMEs with access to difficult-to-find equity investors who are willing to inject smaller sums not usually associated with the appetite of the mainstream private equity market.
Paul Reeves, Managing Director, Restructuring Advisory, Duff & Phelps, says: “This new offering is about matching the requirements of an enterprise with potential investors who we feel most closely align in terms of cultural fit. We
Almost two thirds (63 per cent) of UK private equity firms now take into account Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles in their investments but some firms risk falling behind as ESG rises up investors’ agendas, shows research by accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO LLP.BDO says the majority of private equity firms are now making solid progress in making their portfolio of investments more responsible from an ESG perspective with 57 per cent of PE firms clearly setting out the changes they have implemented to make their investments more ESG-focused, and 49 per cent having become signatories of the
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