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The latest Private Equity Market Snapshot (PEMS) report from S&P Global Market Intelligence shows healthy capital inflow into the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, with total General Partners (GP) investments rising by 14 per cent to EUR21 billion from 1 January to 15 March, 2019.
This is a positive indication for the region when compared to EUR18.4 billion capital deployed, across different sectors, over the same period in 2018.
There was a robust appetite to invest not only in the wider EMEA region, but the UK in particular. Despite the current uncertainties around Brexit, UK targets have maintained
LDC, a UK-based, mid-market private equity investor, has added two senior hires to it’s team in Manchester.
The appointments of Dale Alderson and Aziz Ul-Haq as Directors creates a nine-strong team in Manchester and underpins firm’s pledge to invest GBP200 million in businesses across the North of the UK over the next 12 months.
Alderson joins the team as a Director and makes the move from LDC in Yorkshire, where he held the position of Investment Director. He has worked at LDC since 2012 and has played an integral role on a number of LDC’s most successful investment partnerships. This
HIG WhiteHorse, a credit affiliate of HIG Capital, a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with over EUR26 billion of equity capital under management, has provided a growth capital solution to Risparmio Casa, a leading Italian drugstore chain based in Pomezia, Italy.
Established over 30 years ago by the Battistelli family, the company has exhibited strong growth and industry-leading performance with 2018 revenues in excess of EUR350 million. Risparmio Casa operates over 100 locations with an average area of more than 2,500 sq m, resulting in a dominant presence in Northern and Central Italy and Sardinia. Its leadership
Willis Towers Watson has appointed a number of asset management experts in its FINEX Financial Institutions practice enhancing its offering to a core part of its client portfolio. The appointments are part of the company’s continued strategy to build the leading financial institutions business globally.
Henry Keville, among others, will provide bespoke management liability product solutions and programmes for the asset management sector as part of a strengthened team of specialists. Keville – who started his career at Marsh and was instrumental in establishing the asset management portfolios at both Howden and Lockton – has 20 years of experience serving the
SEEK Group is to invest GBP50 million to become a joint, 50 per cent owner of The Open University’s FutureLearn social learning platform, in a deal thought to be the largest ever private-sector EdTech investment in Europe.
The Open University launched FutureLearn, which is based in London, in December 2012 with a dozen UK university partners to test opportunities offered by digital learning and massive open online courses (known as MOOCs). Rapid growth means that FutureLearn now has over nine million learners.
The platform offers short online courses right through to postgraduate diplomas and certificates and fully online degrees,
ARQIS has advised the investors of the Cologne-based ice cream start-up NOMOO, a brand of NRDS, on its first financing round.
A group of three venture capital investors – Quest Solutions, Siltho Research, and AM1 Ventures – participated in the investment. Details of the financing round have not been disclosed.
NOMOO sells the first taste-intensive ice cream that is 100 per cent vegetable. After a 600 per cent growth of the brand in 2018, a further increase is planned for 2019. So far, the start-up has been strongly represented in NRW in particular. NRDS intends to use the fresh
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has strengthened its Private Equity Performance Improvement practice with the appointment of Tania Howarth as Managing Director.
Howarth’s arrival follows that of Jason Spencer who also joins the practice as a Managing Director, bringing two decades of significant M&A experience. The latest appointments are indicative of the success of the firm’s European Private Equity Practice, which has seen the team size nearly triple over the past three years.
Howarth has over 30 years’ experience leading business transformation programmes across the FMCG and technology sectors. She spent ten years at Nomad Foods
Luxcara, an asset manager in the renewable energy sector, has increased its Scandinavian portfolio with the acquisition of one of Europe’s largest single onshore wind projects with an expected total capacity of 750 MW.
The project is part of Markbygden 1101 in Northern Sweden, a cluster that was declared by the Swedish government as exceptional in scale.
Project Önusberget has been developed by Svevind. The German-Swedish company develops, sells and operates onshore wind power projects and will continue to support the realisation of the project until connection to the grid in 2021.
“We are thrilled to invest in one of
Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking in the UK (29 April 2019) has appointed Nick Armstrong as Head of its Subscription Finance business.
Armstrong will take up the role in late April and will be based in the Bank’s UK head office in London. He will be responsible for building a portfolio of private equity business, with the aim of developing long-term relationships with these customers. Nick’s appointment furthers Bank of Ireland’s strategy of building its Corporate Banking footprint in the UK by establishing niche, industry-focused teams.
Armstrong will lead a growing team of industry experts managing a portfolio of Non-Bank
Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion.
The round was co-led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures and includes JP Morgan – an existing investor and client.
Daily trading activity in the capital markets generates vast quantities of raw transaction and pricing data. Institutions are increasingly looking to extract the value from this, largely untapped, data asset. Annual spending on data analytics and market data has now grown to over USD30.5 billion a year. Being able to refine this raw data
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