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DWF, a global legal business, has advised Waterland Private Equity on the investment in imc group, the UK-headquartered global healthcare communications company.The investment will see Waterland Private Equity become a significant majority stakeholder in imc (integrated medhealth communication group) with ambition to create a leading independent services provider in the global pharmaceutical communications and consulting outsourced services market.
Waterland will support imc to pursue an ambitious buy-and-build strategy with significant follow-on funding available to acquire high-quality pharmaceutical communications, digital and consulting agencies across the UK, North America and EMEA.
The investment will also be used to execute a series of
Private equity firm Pelican Capital has backed the management buy-out of the the Financial & Regulatory Reporting and Tax divisions of ACA Compliance Group, with the business now operating as Wheelhouse Advisors.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Global cybersecurity and advanced technologies investor, Paladin Capital Group, has expanded its European operations with two strategic appointments, Pratima Aiyagari, Director, and Conor O’Sullivan, Vice President, who will focus on European investment opportunities for Paladin’s Cyber Funds.Aiyagari and O’Sullivan will work alongside team lead, Ken Pentimonti, Principal, who has been developing Paladin’s presence in Europe since 2015, and Francois Ruether, Associate, who joined earlier this year.
A software developer by background, Aiyagari joins Paladin from Cisco’s corporate development group in Europe where she led investments and acquisitions with a focus on artificial intelligence/machine learning and enterprise collaboration. Previously, Aiyagari spent
Red Door Capital Partners, an independent private equity firm founded in 2019 with the mission to allow real, break-through access for independent investors to the lucrative private equity market, is to begin rolling out investment opportunities to a vast network of individual accredited investors.Red Door secures partnerships with company founders seeking to build collaborative relationships, deploy strategic oversight, and implement investing governance for private funding projects. In many instances, Red Door will pre-position funds to monitor operations prior to its permanent financing, which helps to reduce investor risk and shorten exit horizons. Red Door is often able to invest side-by-side
Q&A with Franz Hoerhager, founder and head of Mezzanine Management, manager to the AMC funds which recently exited Zagreb-based contract research organisation Optimapharm.
Nordic Capital has agreed to acquire Max Matthiessen, a financial advisor focused on pensions, insurance and investment in the Nordics, from Willis Towers Watson.
Founded in 1889, Max Matthiessen has been active in the insurance sector for more than 130 years. Nordic Capital aims to develop the company’s customer offering and its next phase of growth and innovation.
“The company fits perfectly within Nordic Capital’s sector focus and strategy for financial services,” said Christian Frick, partner and head of financial services, Nordic Capital Advisors.
“Going forward, the joint focus will be on scaling Max Matthiessen’s operations and investing in organic
Morgan Lewis has added a four-lawyer team resident in London with wide-ranging private investment funds experience. The team, which arrives from another global law firm, includes partners Oliver Rochman and Rob Mailer and two associates.
“The arrival of Oliver, Rob, and their team further enhances our robust global investment management team with more than 150 lawyers around the world,” says firm chair Jami McKeon. “Their comprehensive experience and skills will be of great value to our investment fund and institutional investor clients as they navigate through this period of uncertainty and look ahead to future opportunities.”
Rochman advises both
UK asset managers have placed alternatives, multi-asset, and ESG fund launches at the top of the list for 2020, with demand outside the traditional asset classes driven by market volatility, says a new report by wealth manager Alpha FMC.
Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Aquilino Peña, founding parner of Kibo Ventures, has been appointed as president of the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI) for the 2020-2022 period. Aquilino will replace Miguel Zurita, Managing Partner & Co-CIO at Altamar Capital.
Kibo Ventures is a venture capital firm with EUR115 million in AUM and which has invested in more than 50 high-growth companies such as Flywire, Carto, Job&Talent, Devo, Defined Crowd or Paack, among others. Kibo Ventures is a firm with an international profile, with portfolio companies based in Spain, USA, UK, Canada, Portugal and Germany, and which has co-invested together with more than
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) has invested in integrated medhealth communication group (IMC) through a primary investment that will support ambitious plans to create a leading independent provider of global healthcare communications and consulting to the pharmaceutical industry.IMC Group is independently owned and has been committed to healthcare communications since 2006. IMC has offices in London, Cambridge (UK), Toronto, Boston and Cairo and a highly qualified employee base of 100 people. IMC provides healthcare communication and medical affairs support to over 50 pharmaceutical, biotech, vaccine, device and diagnostic companies globally, including eight of the 20 largest drug companies in the world such as AstraZeneca and Takeda. Five
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