Latest News
Alternative asset and corporate business services provider SANE, has appointed Catherine Law as Head of Business Development for the Asia Region. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Downing Ventures has appointed Warren Rogers as a Partner. Prior to joining Downing Ventures, Rogers was a Ventures Partner at Airbus, where he led investments in various sectors related to aerospace, defence, and space technology. Rogers brings much of this experience to the Downing Ventures team, with his new role focusing on early-stage deep tech companies in quantum, cyber, enterprise, and materials.
In addition to his experience working with entrepreneurs, Rogers has also been an entrepreneur himself, having founded and successfully exited trading tech business, RHI Group, and also founding DeepWell Ventures, an early stage deep technology investor based in Austin, Texas,
Andera Partners has completed the single closing of its ActoMezz IV sponsorless mezzanine fund, exceeding its initial hard cap of EUR500 million. This new fund, raised in record time despite the Covid-19 crisis, is the largest completed to date by Andera Partners and 60 per cent bigger than the previous ActoMezz vehicle, which also saw a single closing above its initial hard cap in July 2017, at EUR315 million.
Investors in ActoMezz III showed strong support for the team and its strategy through a re-up of more than 110 per cent. Ten or so new leading French and international institutional investors
Forge Global has expanded it’s presence on Hong Kong to provide regional professional investors with access to shares of high-growth private technology companies, a large market comprising more than 473 unicorns worldwide with a combined market value of USD1.4 trillion. The global expansion follows the company’s announcement that it signed an agreement to join forces with SharesPost – creating one of the largest global private securities marketplaces. The combined company under the Forge brand has recorded over $6 billion in global transaction volume.
“As the number of global unicorns continues to increase and as high-growth companies are staying private longer, the
Alternative Investment Fund Manager, Innvotec Limited (Innvotec), has launched a Female Ventures Fund (FVF) to invest exclusively in UK female founded or co-founded enterprises. Innvotec is also aiming to encourage more women to invest in start-ups and early stage businesses.
Less than 1 per cent of VC investment goes to all-female founded enterprises. The FVF aims to tackle this funding gap by focussing on carefully selected, early-stage businesses founded and co-founded by women. Innvotec will provide initial capital, followed by further financial and advisory support to further development after the early stages and beyond. It will focus on capital growth
A new Investcorp white paper outlines the key economic benefits and growth opportunities that could be brought about by a third wave of productivity improvements driven by digital automation.Digital Process Automation: Driver of future economic growth, the latest in Investcorp’s Insights series, explores the value creation opportunities that the growing digital automation industries present, looking to machine-learning, AI, data lakes and business applications. Digital automation addresses a critical need for most companies allowing them to increase output and optimise costs, leading to both new revenue opportunities and higher profitability. Although the sector has shown itself to be crucial to growth
Well-known Irish figures including former Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Guinness family head Lord Iveagh and U2 band members Adam Clayton and The Edge are among a wide-ranging line-up of advisors and investors in a new ‘Impact Ireland’ fund launched by Dublin-based venture private equity investor VentureWave Capital.
VentureWave this week confirmed the successful first close of its new fund, which aims to invest in and build global ‘technology for good’ companies from Ireland. The fund will take strategic stakes in up to 15 ‘high growth potential and scaling Irish companies’, with investments in each company of between EUR1 million and EUR25
SANNE, a provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed Catherine Law as Head of Business Development for the Asia Region. Based in SANNE’s Hong Kong office, Law will continue to drive SANNE’s alternatives and corporate offering, in addition to exploring new strategic business development opportunities across the Asia Region.
Law joins SANNE following an extensive and highly successful career in senior business development roles within the fund services industry, spanning more than 20 years. She joins SANNE from Apex where she held the position of Head of Sales managing their strategic growth and expansion across the alternative funds
bd-capital has appointed Bram Grimmelt as Partner and Head of its Benelux investment activities.Established in 2019 by Richard Baker, former FTSE CEO and Chairman, and Andy Dawson, former Advent International Investment Partner, bd-capital is an operationally led private equity firm investing in pan-European mid-market businesses where changing patterns of consumer behaviour and technology disruption are creating growth opportunities.
Prior to joining bd-capital, Grimmelt was Head of Advent International in the Benelux. During his 14 years at the firm he worked out of the Amsterdam, London and Luxembourg offices and was involved in seven investments, including Delft Instruments, Nucletron, Mediq,
Following the completion of a voluntary tender offer period, Valorous Asia Holdings, an entity owned by KKR investment funds, has accepted all of the 427,041,291 common shares of First Gen Corporation that were tendered by shareholders at the close of the tender offer, representing approximately 11.9 per cent of First Gen’s outstanding common shares.The Offeror intends to acquire all of these tendered common shares at a price of (USD0.45) per common share on 1 July, 2020, the cross date previously set out in the Offeror’s tender documents, representing a total investment value of (USD192.2 million).
First Gen is one of
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
