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No matter who you talk to, global private equity has enjoyed a period of enormous growth in the last few years and, in Luxembourg, this has proven to be a key factor as it has looked to drive interest, globally, in regulated private equity funds.
As the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) reported at the end of 2018, although the PE fund landscape is still dominated by funds of EUR100 million or less in AUM, the number of large PE funds (EUR500 million and above) has increased to represent over 4 per cent of the total, with the
As institutional investors have been increasing allocations to real assets, driven by the persistent low yield environment, the appeal of private equity (PE) has inevitably been on the rise. Luxembourg has become the European epi-centre of this burgeoning industry as its reputation for quality and service precedes it.
According to consultancy Deloitte’s estimates, PE assets under management in Luxembourg have increased by 20 per cent year-on-year, benefiting from the USD436 billion in funds raised globally in 2018.
“We have seen a fairly sustained interest in launching new funds in Luxembourg from managers based around the globe,” confirms Mark Shaw, Partner
Dentons has continued to strengthen its Corporate team in London with the hire of M&A and private equity specialist Paul Doris, who was most recently a partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London office.
Having previously worked in Madrid, Frankfurt and Paris, Doris specialises in advising international financial sponsors (including private equity firms, infrastructure investors and pension funds) on cross border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and disposals, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has led corporate transactions involving assets and operations in locations including Spain, Latin America, Africa and India.
David Collins, partner and
UK alternative investment manager Triple Point, has appointed financial services professional Jack Rose as Strategic Sales Director.
Rose brings a wealth of experience to Triple Point having spent the last seven years working at the financial product distribution company LGBR Capital where he was head of their Tax Efficient Investment Division, LightTower Partners, and as such was responsible for creating, organising and implementing the distribution strategy for the EIS, VCT and IHT products the firm represented. Prior to this he was a Sales and Marketing Executive at Matrix Group’s Asset Management Division.
In his new role at Triple Point
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6 (MEIF6), has acquired Farnborough Airport from a consortium of private investors.
Farnborough Airport is the only dedicated business aviation airport in the United Kingdom (UK”). The airport, which handles more than 30,000 air traffic movements each year, has facilities designed to maximise travel efficiency, reliability and customer experience for passengers travelling to London and the South East. Farnborough Airport was the world’s first dedicated business aviation airport to receive carbon neutral status from Airports Council International, and its facilities and services have seen it named Europe’s best Fixed-Based
Keensight Capital, a private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, has replaced CAPZA as the majority stakeholder of Geodesial, a developer and distributor of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) software for infrastructure.
With over 30 years of experience in the CAD / CAE business, Geodesial is specialised in the development and distribution of software solutions for infrastructure professionals.
Strong of approximately 80 employees and four offices in France, Hungary and Canada, the leading developer in France benefits from an overall market share of approximately 70 per cent. Since 2017 and the arrival of David Le
MJ Hudson, a London-headquartered asset management consultancy, has made three senior appointments.
Declan Canavan has been appointed Commercial Director and a Managing Director with responsibility for business development. Canavan joins from JP Morgan Asset Management where he was Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment strategies for the EMEA region. Canavan brings two decades of experience across a wide spectrum of alternative asset classes and investment disciplines.
Remarking on his appointment, Canavan says: “As sophisticated alternative investment platforms across private markets, real assets and hedge funds seek to grow their businesses, they are looking for partners with multi-disciplinary capability
Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is to serve as Administrative Agent on a senior secured credit facility to support the recapitalisation of New Era Technology (New Era), a global IT solutions provider, by Sentinel Capital Partners (Sentinel).
Varagon is a lender to middle-market companies and private equity firms. The company invest across the capital structure and delivers financing solutions for private equity partners.
Sentinel specialises in buying and building businesses in the lower mid-market in the US and Canada in partnership with management. Sentinel targets aerospace and defence, business services, consumer, distribution, food and restaurants, franchising, healthcare and industrial business. They
Creoptix AG, a Switzerland-based company focused on next-generation bioanalytical instruments, has raised CHF8 million in the first closing of a Series C financing round.
The round was led by Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank and joined by Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) as well as existing private investors. Robert Schier of Swisscanto Invest has joined the board of director. With this financing round, the company has raised more than CHF 15 million since 2013. The proceeds enable Creoptix to strengthen its commercial operations in Europe as well as in the US and to expand its market presence.
Creoptix developed and markets
A major global study has found ESG adoption is rapidly gaining traction among sovereign investors and Central Banks. The Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study, which surveyed 139 individual sovereign investors and Central Bank reserve managers, showed nearly two thirds (60 per cent) of sovereigns now incorporate a top-down ESG policy – up from 46 per cent in 2017.
ESG is also increasingly a preoccupation of Central Banks, with 20 per cent now incorporating a policy, up from 11 per cent in 2017.
While equities have been the initial starting point for ESG implementation, this year’s study found of
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