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Thoma Bravo, a software-focused private equity investment firm, has acquired majority ownership in IDS, a provider of asset finance software solutions, from its current owner, SV Investment Partners.
Nicholas E Somers, Chairman of SV Investment Partners, says: “Having partnered with IDS since 2003 we are immensely proud of its achievements under our ownership and of the benefits enjoyed today by customers of the market-leading IDS solutions. We are delighted that IDS can now look forward to partnering with Thoma Bravo in the next stage of its development. With its exceptional enterprise software expertise, experience and resources, Thoma Bravo could not
Sverica Capital Management (Sverica), a growth-oriented lower middle market private equity firm, has held the first and final close of its fifth private equity fund, Sverica Capital Partners V (Fund V).
After three months in the market, Fund V exceeded its target, was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap of USD450 million of total limited partner commitments. Sverica will use Fund V to continue its strategy of investing in companies that are, or have the potential to be, category leaders within their respective industries. Sverica will also remain focused on businesses within the technology, business services, healthcare and high-value
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed partner Paul F Kruger as global chair of the firm’s Structured Finance group in the firm’s Corporate department in New York.
Kruger joins from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he was a partner in its Structured Finance and Securitisation group in New York.
For more than 25 years, Kruger’s structured finance practice has focused on representing financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private equity investors, funds and corporations in a wide variety of financing transactions across the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Among many other transactions, Kruger has experience guiding private equity clients
The latest CEPRES Private Equity Buyout analysis shows the IRR spread between top performing funds and the market median has significantly increased since the GFC.
The analysis, based on primary sourced cash flow data from over 7,000 funds on the CEPRES platform, shows that between Vintage Year 2009 and 2018, median net IRR for buyout funds hover around 15 per cent with a range of 12.9 per cent to 16.4 per cent, whereas top performers based on the upper quartile are at 22 per cent, with the spread widening in most years since the GFC.
Overall median Net IRRs returns show a
Natixis and EDHECinfra have launched a new three-year research chair, directed by the same team that created an unlisted infrastructure indexing platform, to create useable, comparable documented measures of the impact and risk profile of social and environmental factors on infrastructure investments.
ESG refers to the central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. Despite its relevance to today’s financial world, few holistic and systematic measures exist to help investors to track ESG outcomes and related risks.
The first aim of the Research Chair will be to produce a comprehensive
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has sold global business-to-business events specialist FC Business Intelligence (FCBI) to Thomson Reuters. The value of the transaction is undisclosed.
FCBI delivers high-end conferences and exhibitions globally to a diverse range of sectors including energy, insurance, pharmaceuticals, transportation, travel, strategy and technology. It helps senior business professionals stay at the forefront of change in their industry through insight sharing and networking with peers.
LDC partnered with FCBI in 2018 to support the management team’s plan to drive organic growth and expand into new markets. Since then the business has focused on improving its customer
Investment manager Downing has exited a series of hydroelectricity investments based in Scotland and managed by Gilkes Energy Limited.
Downing’s Energy and Infrastructure Investment team has worked closely with Gilkes Energy, a specialist hydroelectricity developer, since September 2013, to invest in a series of seven projects. The investment funded the development, construction and operation of the projects which total 8MWp of renewable energy generation in Scotland.
Downing has undertaken a successful programme of disposals to return capital to Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investors in the projects, of which this divestment forms part. All six investments have been acquired by
UK financial services broker The Fiducia Group has launched Fiducia Corporate Finance which the company says will provide a bespoke corporate service for debt and equity fund raising for entrepreneurs and companies.
It will offer advice, specialising in: equity capital raising, debt capital raising, disposals, acquisitions, refinancing, restructuring and general corporate strategic advice.
Fiducia Corporate Finance will operate in the UK, and across European and global markets both for introductions and placements.
Fiducia Corporate Finance will be headed up by Laurence Goodman who has ambitious plans to develop and grow this sector for the group. Laurence is a
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets (AXA IM – Real Assets) has completed the acquisition, as part of a core strategy on behalf of a client, of the entire issued share capital of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp ), a NYSE listed real estate investment trust.
The acquisition was approved at a special meeting of NRE stockholders held on 25 September, 2019 and NRE will be delisted from the NYSE.
Further to AXA IM – Real Assets’ announcement of 4 July 2019, the final consideration for the Acquisition after the settlement of the previously disclosed forward exchange contracts to hedge
Managed services, hybrid cloud and data centre solutions provider, LIMA Networks and Data Centre UK have secured a GBP12 million investment from private equity house, Maven Capital Partners (Maven).
The transaction includes an equity raise from Maven Investor Partners, a syndicate of institutional, family office and high net worth investors, alongside debt funding provided by CYBG.
LIMA Group is a technology services and infrastructure solutions provider specialising in designing and implementing intelligent IT infrastructure solutions across a rang of sectors and industries, including SMEs to enterprise level and public sector organisations.
Maven’s investment in LIMA Group will allow
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