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Macfarlanes has advised London-headquartered secondaries specialist Headway Capital Partners on the raising of its fourth secondaries fund, HIP IV, which has closed after hitting its hard cap of EUR372 million, exceeding its target of EUR300 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of EUR300m through strong support from a diverse mix of institutional investors globally including pension funds, asset managers, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and endowments. Seeking to invest globally, HIP IV will focus on western Europe and North America, with a maximum investment size of EUR50 million.
The Macfarlanes team was led by investment management partner Alex
King & Spalding has appointed Lawrence Yanowitch, Thomas Knox, Charles Katz, and Jeremy Schropp as partners in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group.
The team focuses on mergers & acquisitions, emerging companies and venture capital and technology and outsourcing transactions, for a wide range of technology and aerospace, defence government services (ADG) companies and investors. The new team will continue to be based in Northern Virginia and will work closely with colleagues in the Washington DC metro area, New York, California and Atlanta.
“Larry, Tom, Charlie and Jeremy have one of the leading technology and ADG corporate
Private equity fund Trilantic Capital Partners IV Europe (Trilantic Europe), via its subsidiary TCP Lux Eurinvest (Eurinvest) is to sell 8.6 million shares (equal to 28.67 per cent of the share capital) of Gamenet Group, a operator in the Italian sports betting and gaming sector, to a company formed on behalf of funds managed by Apollo Management IX (Apollo).
The agreed price is equal to EUR12.5 per share. Completion is subject to, inter alia, Antitrust and Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli clearances and is expected to occur by year end 2019. Upon completion, the buyer will be required to
Investec Investment Banking & Securities (Investec) has made two new hires in its Industrials equity research team, following the appointment of Ben Bourne in September 2018.
Scott Cagehin has joined from HSBC and will cover UK Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He previously covered the sector at Numis, having begun his career at Merrill Lynch in 2000.
Rory Smith joins from RBC’s Pan-European Industrials research team to cover UK Aerospace & Defence and Industrials. Previously, he followed the sector at Liberum.
Ben Bourne, who leads the team, says: “The Investec Industrials team is thriving. Scott and Rory will provide
Foresight Group LLP (Foresight) has made its thirteenth investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund into Sheffield-based, Additive Manufacturing Technologies Limited (AMT), a developer of industrial additive manufacturing (3D printing).
The investment is part of a GBP4.2 million round led by DSM Venturing.
AMT was founded in 2017 by Joseph Crabtree, who serves as CEO of the company. It was set up with the aim of developing industrial technologies to enable the deployment of 3D printing for mass production and address the shortcomings of existing post-process technologies. AMT’s first product, PostPro£D, is based on the boundary layer automated
TMF Group has chosen to use FIS’ Private Equity Solution, an asset management system to serve its extended base of business clients, following the recent acquisition of a fund servicing organisation.
Headquartered in Amsterdam, TMF Group provides a broad range of business services including fund administration, human resources, accounting, tax support and payroll for international business expansion.
Melanie Peploe, COO, Fund Services at TMF Group, says: “As we looked for a technology partner to support our growth strategy, we wanted to work with a technology innovator that had a successful track record in our market. “FIS with its Investran
Private markets are on the rise among wealth managers, according to a new report from private investment infrastructure service Delio.
The report reveals that wealth managers are increasingly looking to establish or grow private market propositions with nine out of ten of those surveyed already offering private market propositions or planning to launch one. Direct investments and impact investments are also emerging more prominently in the market.
A key driver for this change in attitude is client demand, as a third of private clients’ wealth is now allocated to private assets. Structural changes within the industry, such as increased
Spanish private capital trade body ASCRI has published findings by the European platform, EDC, estimating that the volume of investment in Spain during the first nine months of 2019 reached a record level EUR5.890 million in 549 investments.
During this period, 16 megadeals (transaction of more than EUR100 million of equity) were closed, accounting for 70 per cent of total investment volume. Venture capital investments amounts to EUR543.8 million, representing a 42 per cent increase with respect to the same period of last year.
By type of investor, international funds continue to show interest in Spain as they are
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firms focused on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in I4PRO Informática LTDA (I4PRO). The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2005, I4PRO is an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the insurance market in Brazil. It provides a suite of products designed for insurance workflow processes, including selling, underwriting and administering policies, collecting premiums and processing claims. I4PRO provides customised implementation of these products and facilities ongoing updates for maintenance and regulatory compliance. The company also offers modules for specialty business lines, such
By Paul Bryant – “We had a hunch that small and mid-cap managers had more ‘juice to squeeze’ from their deals and deliver higher returns than large-cap managers. But we didn’t have hard evidence to back that view up,” says Dr Andrea Carnelli Dompé, vice president at Pantheon, an investor with USD46 billion of assets under management in private equity, infrastructure and real assets.
“As we already had an extensive database of deal data, it just made sense to review that critically, and test to see if our hunch was right.”
Pantheon analysed 2,237 buyout deals from around the world,
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