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By Elizabeth Pfeuti – As institutional investors, such as pension and sovereign wealth funds, build internal teams and grow increasingly sophisticated, they are wanting a more direct role in how their assets are allocated. Nowhere has this trend been more apparent than in the rise of co-investments with private equity partners.
In the last three months, major investors including some of the largest pension plans in the US have outlined their ambitions in this area.
Commenting on its newly inked partnership with GCM Grosvenor, chief investment officer of the USD31 billion South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission Geoffrey Berg said
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has appointed Catriona Buckley as Institutional Business Development Director, effective 1 July 2019.
Buckley has over 15 years’ experience building relationships and developing new business opportunities with global institutional investors.
She joins Gresham House from Fidelity International, where she was responsible for manager research and field consultant engagement with global and domestic investment consultants in the UK, and for direct client relationships in Ireland. More latterly, Buckley held the position of Investment Director in the Fixed Income team at Fidelity working with global distribution channels to define and execute commercial strategy.
Before joining
Seventure Partners, provider of financing in life sciences and associated industries, has launched Sport & Performance Capital, a new fund dedicated to supporting innovation in the sport and wellness industries.
With a final target of EUR80 million, the venture fund will invest in startup companies and growing SMEs furthering physical activity to help promote health and physical fitness.
The Fund will help to provide a legacy from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which is supported by Groupe BPCE, Seventure Partners’ ultimate parent group. At first close, Caisse d’Epargne, also part of Groupe BPCE, is a cornerstone investor, alongside other French
Global investment bank GCA Altium has advised Apiary Capital on the merger of its portfolio company G3 Comms with Connect Managed Services, to create one of the UK’s largest customer experience and unified communications managed services providers, with annual revenues in excess of GBP55 million.
Headquartered in London, Connect Managed Services (Connect) is a leading customer experience, unified communications and digital transformation provider for global enterprises. The company partners with Genesys, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Avaya and Cisco to offer digital solutions, with clients including Johnson & Johnson, BP & Diageo. LDC backed a buyout of Connect in 2014 and
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has advised Falko Regional Aircraft Limited (Falko), an aircraft operating leasing and asset management company, on the launch and final closing of Falko Regional Aircraft Opportunities Fund II at USD650 million.
The fund, which has been established as a Jersey Expert Fund, surpassed its original fundraising target of USD600 million and will make equity investments in new and used regional aircraft leased globally. It received commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies, wealth managers, endowments, family offices, a fund of funds and a sovereign wealth fund
The Czech investment company Jet Investment has agreed to dispose of 100 per cent ownership in the company Benet Automotive to the Japan-based multinational company Teijin Limited, a specialist in the development, manufacturing and sales of technologically advanced materials and products.
The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
The sale marks a further successful divestment for the Jet 1 portfolio following last year’s sales of the companies Less & Timber and Kodarna Plus.
“The sale of Benet to a strategic partner brings a rather quick exit from our investment into the project within less than two years. While
Dott, the European micro-mobility company, has secured a EUR30 million Series A funding round co-led by existing investors the EQT Ventures fund (EQT Ventures) and Naspers, a global consumer internet group. Other investors include existing investors Axel Springer Digital Ventures, Felix Capital, FJ Labs, U-Start Club and angel investors.
Dott is currently operating in Brussels, Paris and Lyon, with a first pilot in Milan as well. The new round of investment confirms the strategy initiated by Dott’s French co-founders Maxim Romain and Henri Moissinac: along with a strong collaboration with municipalities and local mobility ecosystems, design vehicles specifically for sharing,
Target Partners has appointed Wolfram Drescher as Venture Partner. The successful founder and CEO has over 20 years of experience in establishing and managing deep-tech companies in Silicon Saxony.
“Since my very first start-up experience, I’ve enjoyed partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are willing to disrupt industries with radically new technologies that impact our daily lives. I’m excited about the prospect of supporting and enabling founders to realise their visions,” says Drescher.
Drescher co-founded and led Dresden-based Airrays and previously co-founded Systemonic which was acquired by Philips, as well as Blue Wonder Communications which was acquired by Infineon and later
Kyash, creator of the Kyash wallet app and payment platform Kyash Direct, has raised JPY1.5 billion, or approximately USD14 million in Series B funding round led by Goodwater Capital, a global consumer technology firm whose principals’ previous investing experience includes Facebook, Twitter, Kakao, Spotify and Monzo, as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.
Additional investors include leading Tokyo-based firms and companies such as Toppan Printing Co, JAFCO Co, Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited and SMBC Venture Capital Co. The round brings Kyash’s total funding to nearly USD26 million or JPY 2.8 billion.
Funding for Kyash comes as Japan attempts to move
Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investment firm that develops, finances, and manages a diversified portfolio of projects that generate federal and state tax credits, has promoted Ian Chomat to Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Chomat moves into the role after serving as the Controller.
“One of Monarch’s key attributes is our talent. Ian’s arrival was part of a concerted effort to bring in top talent with experience to grow and expand our position in the industry,” says MPC Co-CEO and Managing Director of Tax Credit Investments George Strobel. “The structure and discipline that Ian has brought to MPC’s financing and accounting
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