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Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”), a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has supported the MBO of Signature Private Finance Holdings Limited (Signature), from private equity firm, Cabot Square Capital, with an investment of GBP16.8 million to secure a majority stake in the Company. Foresight will also provide an initial GBP5 million revolving credit facility for the specialist property lender. Signature is also pleased to announce an updated brand, Signature Property Finance, to better reflect its market offering.
Signature’s experienced management team is led by co-founder and CEO, Tony Gilbertson, who has 30 years’ experience in banking and property development alongside Finance
Since the launch of Edmond De Rothschild’s Bridge IV in April 2018, which comprises a combination of subfunds, the Bridge platform has raised EUR1.25 billion, well above its initial EUR750 million target. This latest fund raising brings total Bridge platform assets raised since its initial launch in August 2014 to EUR2.6 billion. Considering new Bridge assets rely mainly on third party fund raising by Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management’s in-house sales teams, this is a notable accomplishment for ad independent family-owned firm.
Bridge is one of Edmond de Rothschild’s core long term strategies and part of the firm’s commitment to Infrastructure,
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has seen a 19 per cent increase in its total investments in 2019, compared to 2018 levels. The record figure saw GBP12.5 million being invested, up from GBP10.5 million in 2018, with new syndicate members joining from Europe and the Far East.
In the last quarter of 2019 alone, GBP2.75 million was invested in Scottish based businesses including GBP1m into hydrogen technology company Logan Energy. In the first quarter of 2020, GBP3.3 million of new investment has already been committed to portfolio companies.
Other significant investments made throughout 2019 include Biotangents, ProFactor Pharma, Novosound
CEPRES has appointed Lauren Iaslovits, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of SunGard Investran, a shareholder in CEPRES since the Fall of 2019, has a Special Advisor to the CEPRES’ Board.
Iaslovits is a serial entrepreneur and well-known personality in Private Capital Markets technology. Together with her father, Jose Sinai, she founded two well-known and transformative technology companies: Sinper corporation, developer of the first OLAP engine, TM1, which through a series of acquisitions now powers IBM’s planning and analytics and data mining suite and then Financial Technologies Inc, where she created Investran, the first accounting and administration system for Private
With the UK on the brink of finally exiting the EU at the end of this week, only a third of financial professionals view the city as the world’s number one financial hub.
According to the latest Global Regulatory Outlook (GRO) report released by Duff & Phelps which surveyed senior financial sector professionals from around the world, only 33 per cent currently see London as the world’s foremost financial hub, down 20 per cent over the last two years.
New York, which also topped last year’s standings, picked up momentum this year on the other hand, with more than half
The percentage of female partners at private equity firms has been measured at 14 per cent for the third year running by employment and partnership law specialists Fox & Partners, with the PE sector lagging the broader financial industry.
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Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Dawn Turner as a member of the firm’s Community Housing Advisory Committee. Turner is the sixth member of the Advisory Committee, which was formed in early 2019 to provide advisory support to Man GPM’s Community Housing investment team.
Turner has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and expertise advising local governments, pension funds and impact fund managers on responsible investing. She is the former Chief Executive of the £30 billion investment management company Brunel Pension Partnership[1], a Local Government Pensions Scheme (LGPS)
SANNE has appointed San-Marie Greeff as Head of Sanne Group (Luxembourg) . and Christian Hertz as Head of LIS – a SANNE company. The appointments follow consistent growth as interest has continued to increase around the attractiveness of doing business in Luxembourg.
Effective 1 January 2020, San-Marie and Christian will be responsible for the strategic direction, management and delivery of the SANNE and LIS-AIFM Luxembourg business with specific focus on the on-going development of SANNE’s offering to ensure that clients receive superior service excellence and technical expertise.
San-Marie and Christian will lead the operations in the Luxembourg business which
Paris-based private equity investor Omnes has acquired a minority shareholding interest in Danish solar PV provider Better Energy for EUR30 million. This deal marks the first investment of Omnes’s fourth-generation fund dedicated to renewable energy, Capenergie 4, currently being raised. Omnes has announced on this occasion the first closing of Capenergie 4 at EUR380 million (EUR500 million in target size).
Omnes received strong support from its existing investor base as well as from new French and international institutional investors. The European Investment Bank is supporting Capenergie 4 as a cornerstone investor with a EUR75 million commitment, up from EUR45 million
TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired the Automated System Management (ASM) product platform and related products (Industrial Defender) from Capgemini America, Inc. Industrial Defender provides cybersecurity and compliance software solutions for critical infrastructure providers globally. The software offers a management platform purpose-built to address the overlapping requirements of cybersecurity, compliance and change management for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Industrial Defender serves Fortune 500 clients across the utility, oil & gas and chemical processing verticals. TELEO’s investment will support continued product innovation and expansion of global brand awareness.
“The market for operational technology cybersecurity is rapidly expanding and Industrial Defender, with
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