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Private equity investing has always been rooted in forging trusted relationships between managers and investors. Relationship building has been central to its success, but the impact of Covid-19 and the move to remote working has arguably put a strain on the GP/LP dynamic this year.
As such, maintaining strong ties has become more important than ever; not only to find value in financial terms, but also in terms of communication, transparency, and a willingness among GPs to evolve with the times, in respect to fee structuring.
Over the past couple of years, the pendulum has swung between an LP-favourable and
RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) is to sell N3 to Accenture. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, N3 is a tech-enabled sales and demand generation firm with specialised talent across areas such as cloud, software and 5G ecosystems. The company utilises its artificial intelligence-powered platform to generate efficient sales conversion and high-value revenue solutions for its clients.
With over 2,200 employees and locations across five continents, the Company leverages its global reach as a key partner to leading technology firms, including Microsoft, Cisco, and SAP.
“N3 has experienced tremendous growth during its partnership
Point Predictive Inc, a San Diego-based company that provides machine learning solutions to the lending industry, has completed a Series B growth financing led by Napier Park Financial Partners with participation from the company’s existing investor, Mosaik Partners.
The company has also hired Michael Housman as its new Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer to facilitate the rapid growth Point Predictive is experiencing.
Point Predictive has gained wide adoption of its Ai+Ni scoring solutions across the automotive and fintech markets over the last 18 months. The company’s Auto Fraud Manager, IncomePASS™, and Synthetic ID
Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has appointed longtime Managing Director Paul Yett to the role of Director of ESG & Sustainability.
Hamilton Lane has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to ESG, sustainability and responsible investing, and Yett will focus on expanding and formally spearheading the firm’s ESG integration strategy going forward.
His responsibilities will include managing ESG integration throughout the investment processes across the Fund, Direct Investment, Secondary, Real Asset and Direct Credit teams; driving ESG policy development and advising deal teams during due diligence; supporting clients, government entities and other stakeholders in regards to ESG and sustainability
BMS Group, an independent specialist (re)insurance broker, has appointed Jason Stone as Managing Director, BMS Canada Private Equity, M&A division, effective immediately.
Stone will report to Brian Gomes, President & CEO of BMS Canada, and will be based in Toronto.
Stone will lead the Canadian Private Equity and M&A team and focus on expanding BMS’s global private equity and M&A platform and will sit on the BMS Global PEMAT Executive Committee.
Stone joins BMS from Aon, where he most recently served as senior vice president at the M&A and Transaction Solutions team, specialising in placements of transaction liability
Alantra has expanded its Investment Banking team with the addition of César Ciriza as Managing Partner and will head of its infrastructure and energy activity.
Ciriza is a renowned banker specialising in infrastructure and energy transactions and brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to the role. Before launching his own investment boutique in 2019, Ciriza founded and led Evercore’s Iberian operations for seven years as Managing Director. He has successfully advised on transactions worth over EUR150 billion including M&A, sales, acquisitions, restructurings, IPOs, debt issuances and debt and equity advisory.
Alantra has advised on infrastructure and energy transactions
On Thursday 5 and 12 November, 2020, Playfair Capital and 70 of the UKs’ leading venture capital funds, including Seedcamp, Balderton, Notion and Passion Capital, will be holding a remote office hours event, giving female founders, from anywhere in the UK, the opportunity to meet four investors during the course of one hour to discuss their tech business idea, ask for advice, pitch for investment and find a mentor.
The event is being held jointly by Playfair Capital and Tech Nation as part of an ongoing commitment to hold three events a year specifically for female founders. The previous three
Finance Durham Fund, which was established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has invested GBP250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage.
The investment through Finance Durham, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), will support construction of a solar film pilot plant in County Durham, further improve the efficiency of Power Roll’s solar film technology and help commercialise its capacitor technology with its joint venture partner.
Headquartered in Sunderland, Power Roll has developed a unique, flexible, lightweight solar film capable of producing ultra-low-cost green electricity
Fircroft Group, a technical recruitment business backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has integrated with NES Global Talent (NES) to create a combined global human capital solutions organisation.
NES is a specialist in workforce solutions, providing staffing across the oil and gas, power, renewables, chemicals, life sciences and mining sectors worldwide. The firm has grown significantly in the last five years, both organically and through seven strategic acquisitions. It currently has over 66 offices in 33 countries, with more than 1,000 employees.
Warrington-based Fircroft was founded in 1970 to service oil and gas companies in the North Sea and
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on European dealmaking activity. However, opportunities remain for those willing to take risks, according to the eighth edition of the European M&A Outlook, published by CMS in association with Mergermarket.
The report is a comprehensive assessment of dealmaking sentiment in the European M&A market. It canvasses the opinions of 230 senior Europe-based executives, from corporate and private equity firms, about their expectations for M&A in the year ahead.
According to Mergermarket data, in H1 2020, European deal volume fell 31 per cent to 2,800 transactions and aggregate value dropped by 29 per
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