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Private equity firm The Riverside Company has partnered with ACTINEO, a German InsurTech firm which specialises in bodily injury claims, providing tech-enabled and data-driven services to the insurance industry.
Based in Cologne, Germany, ACTINEO is the leading provider of digitalization, invoice checking and predictive analysis services for bodily injury claims to insurance providers in Germany. Currently, the company processes and digitalises more than 120,000 bodily injury claims per year and develops prediction models for a customer base of more than 50 insurers. Customers benefit from increased transparency, control and better risk management. ACTINEO’s compelling results are proven in its remarkably
The rising trend of private capital investment is being well serviced in Guernsey due to the island’s flexibility to meet investors’ sophisticated requirements, sector experts agreed at the 2019 Guernsey Funds Forum.
In the decade following the global financial crisis, private wealth has doubled in nominal terms, and private capital has become a significant source of investment for fund managers, particularly in Guernsey’s specialist sector of private equity funds.
Research carried out by Guernsey Finance has shown that its importance is growing rapidly, particularly for smaller managers.
Panellists at a private capital session at the milestone 10th Funds
DataArt has raised equity funding from the German development finance institution DEG. DEG has co-invested alongside DFI-backed Da Vinci Capital, a CIS-focused private equity fund manager with a strong track record in the IT industry.
DEG is part of KfW, the German state-owned promotional bank. With a presence of around 80 representative offices worldwide, KfW promotes sustainable finance both in its domestic market in Germany and in international markets, including developing and emerging markets.
With 22 locations globally, DataArt employs over 2,800 professionals with the majority located in Eastern Europe. The company is known for its state-of-the-art recruiting system and
US buyout deal pricing is on the rise with EBITDA multiples increasing and indicating a frothy deal investment environment that could potentially lead to downside risk in a market downturn scenario. Please click here to download and read CEPRES’ Q1 Market Report…
Roger.ai, an accounting automation tool that can cut time businesses spend on day-to-day financial processes by as much as 80 per cent, has raised a USD7.35 million in a Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from 9Yards Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Financial Venture Studio, BootstrapLabs, and Dan Wernikoff, former GM of QuickBooks and TurboTax, along with other angel investors.
Originally built in Denmark with Danish founders, Roger works on top of existing accounting software to automate financial processes like bill pay, approvals, receipt scanning, compliance and bookkeeping with simple workflows anyone can set up and manage.
Investment bank Piper Jaffray Companies has sold Advisory Research through two separate transactions which will result in the firm exiting its traditional asset management business.
The midstream energy business of Advisory Research, is being sold to Tortoise Capital Advisors, while the remaining Advisory Research business is being acquired by a partner group led by Matthew Swaim, managing director and executive committee chairman at Advisory Research.
Piper Jaffray expects to generate net cash proceeds from these two transactions of approximately USD60-70 million, exclusive of potential earn-out proceeds.
“Tortoise has built an excellent investment management platform focused on essential assets,” says Deb
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised European private equity firm Astorg and the other selling shareholders of M7 Group, in connection with the sale of 100 per cent of their shares and voting rights in M7 Group to Groupe CANAL+, a subsidiary of the Vivendi group.
Based in Luxembourg and Amsterdam, M7 Group is one the major independent Pay-TV operators in Europe, with more than three million subscribers in Europe. M7 Group’ portfolio includes the following brands: CanalDigitaal and Online.nl in the Netherlands, Skylink in the Czech and Slovak Republics, TV Vlaanderen and TéléSAT in Belgium, AustriaSat and HD Austria in
Schroders has hired Peter Arnold, a senior private assets distribution head to drive the firm’s sales effort in this key asset class and better meet the specialist needs of investors globally.
Arnold will lead Schroders’ Alternative Sales Unit, which was established last year and focuses on the distribution of Schroders’ Private Assets investment offering.
He will report into John Troiano, Schroders’ Global Head of Distribution, and Georg Wunderlin, Schroders new Global Head of Private Assets, who joined the firm earlier this month.
Arnold was most recently the Global Head of International Fund Distribution at Citi, specialising in private debt, real
Dunedin has promoted three members of its investment team – Andrew Davidson to Investment Director, and Jessica Hardy and Katie Chung to Assistant Director.
Davidson, Hardy and Chung have been instrumental in driving transactions for Dunedin and creating value across its portfolio. They have each made notable contributions to Dunedin’s investments in paytech pioneer, Global Processing Services (GPS); digital technology specialist, Incremental; and forensic consultancy, Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA); as well as to its exit from Alpha Financial Markets, which successfully floated on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in October 2017. Andrew Davidson joined Dunedin in 2013, while
Apposite Capital, a healthcare-focused, private equity investor, has appointed James Harper as Finance Manager and promoted Alex Cunynghame to Investment Manager.
Harper joined Apposite Capital from the Coller Capital finance team, where he was responsible for fund accounting, investment monitoring, treasury management and foreign exchange risk management. Prior to that, he worked for the public sector audit team at KPMG. James has a masters degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University as well as being ACA qualified.
Alex Cunynghame joined the firm in 2017 from Deloitte Healthcare and Life Sciences Corporate Finance Advisory team. He is involved in all
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