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Foresight Group’s Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has surpassed its target performance of UK CPI +3 per cent over 12 months, with a total return 18.51 per cent.
The Fund has provided a yield of 4.12 per cent over 12 months exhibiting significantly lower volatility levels than higher risk asset classes such as high-yield debt.
The Fund has consistently outperformed the Global Equities and Infrastructure indices as well as other Global Listed Infrastructure Funds, with the FTSE All World Index returning 7.13 per cent over the same period, whilst Year to Date, in the most challenging of market
UK-based private equity manager Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested an undisclosed amount in Zing Dev Limited (Zing), a technology services business.Zing is a specialist implementation partner for Twilio, a market-leading cloud communication platform. As one of a small number of accredited implementation partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Zing offers consultancy and managed services for Twilio’s fully programmable cloud-based contact centre software.
Zing builds and implements contact centre solutions, helping clients to improve customer communication and engagement, but also to enable more flexible working and increased efficiency. It is on a mission to put contact centres at
Northstar Capital (Northstar), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, has made an investment in PKWARE, a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP).Founded in 1986, PKWARE (www.pkware.com) created the .ZIP file format and provides leading compression, encryption, and data security platform solutions to highly regulated enterprises. The Company’s flagship data security platform, Smartcrypt, enables companies to protect sensitive data, meet compliance and regulatory requirements and manage risk.
PKWARE marks Northstar’s fourth investment out of NMP VII. Northstar provided a flexible capital structure as the sole lender to help TSCP finance the deal. The Northstar
BNP Paribas Capital Partners (BNPP CP), BNP Paribas Asset Management’s specialist in external alternative manager selection, has held the final close of its European Special Opportunities Debt Fund (ESO).
The ESO investment programme was launched in 2018 to provide institutional investors with exposure to the discounted private debt market in Europe.
ESO is structured as a closed-ended fund of debt funds, with a lifespan of seven years and an average duration of about two and a half years. It aims to offer investors an internal rate of return (‘IRR’) of about 9 per cent to 12 per cent.
Capital is
Rimon Law has appointed Debbie Klis as Partner in its Corporate and Financial Services teams based out of the firm’s Washington, DC Office.
Klis joins Rimon from Polsinelli in Washington, DC where she was shareholder.
Klis brings extensive experience to Rimon in forming and advising private equity firms, investment funds and other financial sector participants in a wide range of capital markets and securities law matters. She counsels venture capital funds, creates complex domestic and international joint ventures, domestic and offshore funds, Opportunity Zone Funds, real estate investment funds and trusts, EB-5 funds, and large master-feeder structures.
At Rimon, Klis will join a deep and talented Financial Services group with significant experience in a
Private equity firm Sverica Capital Management(Sverica) and Salesforce Ventures have made a strategic investment in Coastal Cloud an independent Salesforce consulting partners in the United States.
Based in Palm Coast, Florida, Coastal Cloud was started in 2012 by Co-Founders and Managing Partners Sara and Tim Hale with the goal of creating a modern consulting firm focused on client outcomes and led by expert, onshore consultants who enjoy the flexibility of the company’s “live at the beach, work in the cloud” business model. Coastal Cloud is focused on diversity as one of the largest woman-owned Salesforce consulting partners, with women making
Triple Point has launched an initiative to help new start-ups, in recognition of the role innovation and technology will play in the UK’s economic recovery.
Triple Point’s investment initiative, called Kick Start, is designed to target the very early stage businesses that have yet to raise funding. It will be led by the firm’s VC funds team and invest ticket sizes of between GBP100-GBP150,000 in companies with pre-money valuations of between GBP1 million-GBP1.5 million, usually as the first external money into the startup.
The money is meant to be allocated to the UK’s most innovative start-ups. “High growth companies will
BNP Paribas, China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Eurazeo have held a first close of their France-China Cooperation Fund on EUR400 million.
The fund, which will be managed by Eurazeo, manifests plans set out last year, including a letter of intent signed in the presence of China’s and France’s presidents Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron. It will be seeking investment opportunities alongside Eurazeo’s middle market buyout strategies; Eurazeo Capital and Eurazeo PME.
The fund, which is underwritten entirely by the BNP Paribas Group, CIC and Eurazeo, will invest in French and continental European companies that are aiming to grow in China.
By Michael Halford & Brian O’Neill, Goodwin – Until recently, an investor in a private equity fund could expect an investment to be tied up for at least 10 years. Historically and currently, private equity funds have a 10-year life with the option for the general partner (usually with some form of investor or advisory board consent) to extend the fund by two or three additional one-year periods. In practice however, private equity funds have lasted longer than this with a typical fund potentially lasting for 15 years or more before final wind up and liquidation.
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