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Inflexion has agreed to make a minority investment in Phenna Group (Phenna), a business focused on the testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) sector.
Foreside has bolstered its customised, tech-enabled governance, risk management, and compliance offering, for hedge fund, private equity, and other emerging alternative investments managers with the acquisition of Integrated Compliance Solutions Group (ICSGroup).ICSGroup is a regulatory compliance services firm serving the asset management industry in the US and Africa, with an emphasis on private funds and emerging managers.
Founded in 2008 and based in Hartford, Connecticut, ICSGroup has helped its clients adhere to regulatory requirements and industry standards by developing and managing robust compliance programs, effectively managing regulatory issues, and providing operational due diligence to instill confidence in their investors and
Pemberton, a European private credit asset manager, backed by UK insurer Legal & General Group, has appointed Scott Hamilton, to the newly created role of Managing Director for North American Business Development. Hamilton will lead institutional client coverage and consultant relations for Pemberton’s European private debt strategies in the US and Canada.
Hamilton brings 19 years of experience of client coverage and structuring solutions across a range of alternative credit opportunities, most recently as Managing Director, Institutional Distribution, at Alcentra. He previously held senior roles at Bank of New York Mellon and Thomas Weisel Asset Management and earned a BA
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (Stonepeak), a private equity firm specialising in infrastructure investing, is to acquire Astound Broadband (Astound), the sixth largest US cable operator in the United States that operates leading regional providers RCN, Grande, Wave and enTouch.
AI-focused VC-firm Air Street Capital has closed a USD17 million fund, targeting early-stage founders in Europe and the US who combine AI expertise with sector-specific knowledge in the enterprise, consumer and life sciences sectors.
Founded by general partner Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital aims to partner up with professionals in the AI community in order to apply technical expertise to spot new talent and “cut through the hype” to source AI applications, according to the newly founded firm.
Benaich’s prior seed and early-stage investments include Mapillary -which was later acquired by Facebook- Tractable, LabGenius, Thought Machine, Starship, Ravelin, PolyAI, Jukedeck,
In this article, Tim Cook, manager of corporate trust national sales at UMB Bank, takes a brief look at three scenarios that show why escrow arrangements are best practice and three potential pain points to avoid.
The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF) has co-led a GBP1.75 million funding round for Newcastle-based Hive HR Ltd (Hive), an employee engagement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. The Fund, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), has invested GBP500,000, alongside GBP1 million of funding from Maven’s VCTs and GBP250,000 from existing shareholders.
Since the NEDCF’s original investment in Hive HR in April 2019 the business has enjoyed strong growth, doubling revenue in the past 12 months, and has continued to add to its impressive client base, which includes River Island, Hermes, Travelodge, Tarmac, and Northumbria Police. Today’s funding will assist
Despite the global pandemic, private equity backed businesses completed a substantial number of add-ons in H1 2020, according to Silverfleet Capital’s European Buy & Build Monitor, highlighting the resilience of buy & build as a value creation strategy.The European Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European-headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total1 of 253 add-ons in the first half of 2020, with the first quarter seeing 156 reported add-ons, and the second quarter seeing 81.
Unsurprisingly, in light of the current climate, this represents a decline from the 387 in H1 2019
A new report from Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, has revealed a resilient private equity investment and fundraising environment, as investors and fund managers continue to actively invest in European businesses despite the disruption caused by Covid-19.According to ‘Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity H1 2020’, a comprehensive report on private equity activity in Europe during the first half of the year, private equity funds raised EUR49 billion in the first half of 2020, in line with last year’s first half figure, putting the industry on track to raise a full-year total
Chartered accountants, haysmacintyre, has promoted Jon Dawson to Partner in the firm’s Creative, Media and Technology (CMT) team.Dawson trained and qualified at haysmacintyre, before specialising in the CMT sector, and has extensive experience working with entrepreneurial, scale-up businesses as well as listed groups. He has widespread experience working closely with clients as they go through a period of change, whether that be rapid growth, fundraising or an exit event. As well as acting as the Partner on audit engagements, Jon also manages a number of transactions for his clients within the CMT sector, including IPOs, acquisition due diligence, MBOs and
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