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Corporate advisor Ed Lukins has joined Orrick as a partner based in London. He joins from Cooley, where he helped found the London office.
Lukins focuses on the life sciences, tech and oil & gas and natural resource sectors, providing advice to public and pre-IPO private companies, private equity houses, entrepreneurs and banks in connection with domestic and cross-border capital markets and M&A transactions, strategic ventures and other corporate matters. He counsels companies and their advisors through all stages of the corporate life cycle, including financings, exits, public to privates and institutional buyouts.
His IPO practice has most recently
AppLearn, a specialist in Digital Adoption Solutions, has secured a significant investment led by California-based K1 Investment Management (K1), a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies.
K1’s investment provides AppLearn with significant experience and resources to rapidly expand its global presence and further develop its innovative product suite known as its ADOPT platform.
ADOPT is an AI-powered Digital Adoption Solution that helps world-leading organisations to optimise their investments in digital transformation. By assisting users with complex business processes, infrequently performed tasks and change management activities, the software enables companies to maximise return on their digital investment,
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firm focused on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in Israel-based Dooblo, a specialist in mobile survey software, data collection and analysis solutions.
Trail Mark Partners participated in the investment alongside Anacapa. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2001, Dooblo provides innovative mobile survey software for the market research industry. Dooblo’s flagship product, SurveyToGo, is designed to reduce the cost of traditional paper-based surveys while significantly improving quality of the collected data. SurveyToGo is utilised by market research firms in more than 100 countries
In this week’s newsletter, James Williams looks at the issue of transparency between private equity GPs and their LPs. And with the global economy slowing, it’s an issue that’s sure to become more pertinent as investors consider how they would manage liquidity in the portfolios in the event of a downturn. Could technology and improved analytical tools help managers meet the information expectations of investors?
In fundraising, we have news of a fourth credit fund from AnaCap which has closed at EUR1 billion, plus a fifth structured credit fund from PDM.
We also look at how Dutch private equity investor
A significant aspect of any private equity investment is trusting the manager to make the right decisions. It is, after all, why investors pay fees. But how far should that trust relationship be tested? And how much transparency should managers be expected to provide, in order to appease their investors?
This is a tricky question to answer but it is, perhaps, becoming more pertinent as investors look at the global economy slowing, and start to think about how they would manage liquidity in their private equity portfolios. If a recession were to hit tomorrow, how would they expect managers to
Clients of Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, have invested EUR5.2 million in the final close of a European Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) fund managed by Permira Debt Managers (PDM).
The Permira Sigma V Fund targets a high cash yield from a diversified portfolio of senior secured European corporate loans to large multinationals, which have an average enterprise value of at least EUR1 billion. The fund’s strategy targets mid-teen net returns and is expected to make regular distributions after the two year investment period. Connection Capital says that the potential to generate accelerated cash returns and to increase
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), a European dedicated financial services specialist investor, has held the final close of its fourth Credit Opportunities fund, raising a total of EUR1 billion.
AnaCap Credit Opportunities IV was oversubscribed following strong interest from both existing and new investors and is approximately 70 per cent larger than its predecessor. Combined with the firm’s Private Equity funds, AnaCap has now raised funds totalling over EUR5 billion, including credit funds totalling EUR2.6 billion since the Credit Opportunities strategy inception in 2009. This includes AnaCap Financial Europe (AFE), an investment vehicle established by AnaCap in 2017 with the issuance
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook), a global investment manager focused exclusively on lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure investment and operational asset management in the US, the UK and Australia, has made three new appointments to its Houston based investment team.
Hank Jones has been appointed to the role of Managing Director. Jones is an energy industry veteran with over 33 years of experience in building and managing wholesale energy trading, power marketing, asset optimisation and logistics businesses for public and private companies in both North America and Europe. He joins Quinbrook from Dynegy Inc, where he was Executive Vice President
Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics company, has close an USD8 million funding round, the second significant investment this year. The infusion of capital is led by Optum Ventures.
Kaia Health has developed a smartphone-based approach for managing a range of chronic conditions, with its leading product focused on musculoskeletal disorders (MSK) such as chronic back pain. The investment by Optum Ventures helps Kaia Health address the rising costs of treating MSK-related conditions, the difficulty patients have in accessing gold-standard treatment, and the need for innovative, scaleable and cost-effective technology solutions to confront this issue.
Kaia Health’s world-leading 2D motion
Colorcon has launched Colorcon Ventures to invest in promising companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
Colorcon’s business focus is on advanced coating systems, modified release technologies and functional excipients for use in pharmaceutical immediate and modified release dosage forms.
Colorcon Ventures is a USD50 million venture fund focused on startups that are strategically relevant to the core Colorcon business. The fund will target investments in transformational solutions across manufacturing, supply chain, and delivery of pharmaceutical products and services. The fund is not investing in companies developing active ingredients or molecules.
The fund will be stage-agnostic, with an emphasis on
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