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The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has published an online Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Roadmap for the global private equity (PE) industry. The Roadmap is comprised of best practices that both general and limited partners can adopt to advance D&I at their own organisations and throughout the PE ecosystem. Each best practice is accompanied by a list of resources that supports the practice’s implementation. As the Roadmap is intended to be an ongoing source of up-to-date, actionable information, outside submissions of additional best practices and resources are encouraged.
“Over the last several years, we have seen many organisations take substantive steps to improve
O’Melveny advised venture capital firm Autotech Ventures as it led the latest round of financing for Digital Motors, an automotive retail and financial technology company.In this round, Digital Motors raised an undisclosed amount of funding from multiple investors including Autotech Ventures as well as Jaguar, Land Rover’s London-based InMotion Ventures, OpenRoad Auto Group, Maryann Keller, and Ryan Kerrigan, Managing Director of Kerrigan Advisors investors. The funds will be used to finance Digital Motors growth strategy.
Autotech Ventures manages over USD200 million focused on the $3 trillion ground transportation sector. It provides startups with capital, ground transportation market intelligence, and access
Dow Schofield Watts is to launch a new debt advisory arm DSW Debt Advisory led by Phil Tarimo, which is aimed at medium-sized companies seeking debt funding of GBP20 million or above. It will initially operate from the firm’s Northern offices but the aim is to roll it out nationally.Tarimo, who was the North of England Regional Managing Director for Corporate & Structured Finance at Royal Bank of Scotland, also helped to found Deloitte’s debt advisory business in 2005 which was the first of its type outside London. He went on to Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank where he became UK
Dunedin, a UK mid-market private equity house, has expanded its team by hiring Claire Blackhall and James Morrison into its dedicated Research and Direct Origination Team. This new team provides the wider investment team with pre-qualified target companies to approach, as well as the co-ordination of valuable sector and corporate knowledge.
Blackhall, who joined in September 2019 as Associate, was previously a Manager in the KPMG Private Equity Group in London, working on a variety of M&A transactions. James Morrison, Junior Analyst, joined in November from business change consultancy Voyager Solutions where he was involved in data analysis.
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techspert.io, an AI-driven technology for mapping the world’s expertise and connecting businesses directly to the source of technical and market insights, has raised GBP3.76 million in Series A funding.
BGF has successfully exited its investment in fast-growth web hosting company, Miss Group, as financial backing has been secured from private equity investor Perwyn.Miss Group, which offers services including web hosting, domain registration and VPS to SMEs, received an initial GBP6.4 million from BGF in August 2018. This was followed by a further GBP13 million investment to accelerate its international expansion strategy in 2019.
Led by CEO Mattias Kaneteg, Miss Group has completed seven acquisitions across Scandinavia, Spain and the US since BGF invested as a minority equity partner. The business has also posted strong organic growth, outpacing competitors across
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP) has appointed Jonathan “Jon“ Kelly, formerly Managing Partner and Head of Europe for Brookfield Infrastructure, as a Senior Managing Director and Head of European Infrastructure. In this role, Kelly will be responsible for the build-out of a dedicated European infrastructure team and the sourcing of investment opportunities across the region.
“We are excited to welcome Jon to our senior leadership team,” says Sean Klimczak, Global Head of Infrastructure at Blackstone. “Jon’s exceptional investment track record across a wide range of sectors and his experience leading teams in the region make him the ideal choice as we seek
Private equity investors completed 807 deals in Q4 2019, slightly down on the previous quarter, but still the second highest in the last decade, according to the Q4 2019 Unquote Private Equity Barometer, produced in association with Aberdeen Standard Investments.A substantial amount of capital was deployed in the last three months of the year, with quarterly deal value posting its third highest figure of the last decade at EUR67.6 billion.
On the back of three exceptionally strong quarters in succession, private equity activity in 2019 broke new ground, with total deal volume and value reaching all-time annual records.
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McKinsey & Company today published its Global Private Markets Review 2020, a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and performance of the private investing industry.Entitled A new decade for private markets, the report, which explores private equity, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, and private debt, finds
Private investment markets completed a decade of growth with another strong year in 2019, raising USD919 billion, close to 2018’s record levels. In the past ten years fundraising totalled more than double the amount raised in the previous decade.
That’s according to McKinsey & Company’s Global Private Markets Review 2020, which provides a comprehensive analysis
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has appointed a new Board which brings together leaders from across Africa with diverse expertise to lead the institution.The incoming AECF Board members include:
Hixonia Nyasulu – One of the influential businesswomen on the African continent, Nyasulu joins as the new AECF Board Chair and brings global experience across multiple business sectors and serving on several Boards, including AngloAmerican, Sasol, and Unilever PLC. She is the Founder and current Executive Chairman of Ayavuna Women’s Investments (Pty) Ltd, a women-controlled investment vehicle focused on promoting the economic empowerment of women.
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