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Central Europe’s private equity markets are feeling the impact of Covid-19 – but there is more optimism than during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, suggesting the experience the region’s deal-doers have accumulated may buoy investments and create a basis for new deals, according to the latest Deloitte Central Europe Private Equity Confidence Survey.
JP Morgan Asset Management and Hazeltree, a provider of cloud-based treasury solutions for investment managers, have partnered to deliver a unique and integrated cash and liquidity management platform to private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure funds. JP Morgan Asset Management clients are now able to access Hazeltree’s technology to effortlessly manage multi-bank relationships across their entire fund structures and seamlessly access JP Morgan’s liquidity products. This enables private fund managers to quickly onboard their complex legal entities onto JP Morgan’s liquidity platform and operationally facilitates the increased transactions workload across various counterparties in an efficient and highly controlled manner.
TORA, the provider of a front-to-back cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has released its new FX auto-hedging function for equity pairs trading.The new solution sits within TORA’s market-leading equity pairs trading algo suite and delivers advanced operational trading efficiencies. The FX function offers automatic hedging for clients’ cross currency equity pairs and equity derivatives trading. This development will be welcomed by many risk arb desks where managing FX exposure is essential to performance.
Traditionally, risk arb traders have managed multi-currency spread orders using specialised algos in one system, and another separate system to manage their corresponding FX
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has led an investment through its managed VCTs, alongside the Scottish Investment Bank, in Quorum Cyber Security Limited (Quorum), a cyber security firm, providing professional and managed security services to companies across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. The funding will be used to further scale the business, investing in sales and marketing resource, as well as product innovation, to ensure Quorum’s clients can confidently operate within an increasingly hostile cybersecurity environment.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, Quorum provides Professional and Managed Security Services including a fully managed detect and response capability via
Strategic Partners, Blackstone’s secondary and fund solutions business, has held the final close on USD3.75 billion for Strategic Partners Infrastructure III and its related committed program vehicles (SP Infrastructure III). Blackstone says SP Infrastructure III is the world’s largest pool of capital dedicated to infrastructure secondaries.
Verdun Perry, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Strategic Partners, says: “We are deeply thankful for our investors’ continued support as they entrust us to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns for the millions of beneficiaries they represent. Over the past twenty years we have built one of the world’s largest private market secondary platforms, which
Techmer PM, a designer and producer of engineered compounds and colour and additive concentrates for the plastics and fibre industries, has formed a strategic partnership with an affiliate of New York-based private investment firm SK Capital Partners.SK Capital, which manages a growing portfolio of companies focused on the specialty materials, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals sectors, is acquiring a majority interest in the firm and will recapitalise Techmer in partnership with its chairman and CEO, John Manuck, who will continue to retain a significant ownership stake in the company. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Privately held since being founded by
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has appointed Dara Owoyemi as Interim CEO, following the departure of Michelle Kathryn Essomé last month.Owoyemi previously served as Board Member and Chief Operating Officer of AVCA, from 2011 to 2017. She was instrumental in re-building and re-vitalising the Association to deliver on its mandate – to create an enabling environment for private sector investment in Africa. During her previous tenure with the Association, AVCA grew to become a champion and effective change agent for the African private equity and venture capital industry, supporting over 130 members managing cUSD500 billion in
NEM Ventures, the venture capital and investment arm of the NEM blockchain ecosystem, has made a strategic investment in SharpShark, a blockchain-powered time-stamping solution that protects creators’ copyrights, while enabling the transfer and tokenisation of intellectual property, and the auto monitoring of violations.Kailin O’Donnell, Co-Founder and General Partner at NEM Ventures, says: “Existing timestamping solutions have fallen short and copyright deposits are extremely costly. SharpShark’s digital time-stamping service records artwork, aiming to protect creators’ moral rights to their work by detecting plagiarism and copyright infringement. We believe that all makers should have full control over their creations, and are aligned
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, has purchased the rights to a portfolio of 5.9 MW to-be-constructed solar projects, developed by Ameresco, Inc. The portfolio consists of sites in Massachusetts and New Jersey. In Natick, MA, 0.6 MW is contracted to the off-taker, Natick Public Schools. In Princeton, NJ, 5.2 MW is contracted to the off-taker, Boston Properties Limited Partnership. Both are expected to reach COD in Q3 2020.
“We see this as the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership with Ameresco,” says Charles Wheeler, CEO of Greenbacker. “Their goal of increasing market share for renewable energy
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has completed the acquisition of Spartronics from Sparton Corporation (Sparton). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
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