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Natixis Investment Managers’ affiliate Ostrum AM is expanding its business in the Asia-Pacific region by opening a subsidiary in Hong Kong to provide investors opportunities to diversify into real asset private debt.
This move forms part of Ostrum AM’s broader strategy to expand its global platform for this asset class, managed by Denis Prouteau, Real Asset Private Debt CIO.
This newly created subsidiary will provide investors with investment opportunities in the infrastructure real asset private debt space in Asia-Pacific, along with co-lending opportunities in partnership with Natixis’ Corporate & Investment Banking division.
Asia-Pacific has become the world’s largest
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested GBP6 million in BB7, a high-growth fire sector specialist, to create what it says is the leading UK fire and security consultancy through acquisition.
This begins with the acquisition of Manchester-based specialist fire consultancy Omega Fire, which will broaden BB7’s geographic reach and service offering to customers.
BB7 is a fire safety and security consultancy with eight offices nationwide and 60 expert advisors. Founded by renowned fire expert Ben Bradford in 2009, it offers three core services to clients: fire engineering, fire risk management and security
Audax Private Equity (Audax) has made an investment in Astute, a provider of AI-driven customer engagement, digital self-service, and first-party consumer data management software headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
Ray Carey, CEO of Astute, says: “We’re looking forward to partnering with Audax as we embark on an exciting new chapter of our story. Astute’s mission is to help our clients create amazing customer experiences that drive loyalty, revenue, and brand protection, and we’re excited about the resources and expertise Audax brings to support that mission.”
In the past year, Astute has received numerous industry awards for product innovation and expanded
Activa Capital has promoted David Quatrepoint and Frédéric Singer to the position of Investment Director, five years after they joined the French private equity firm.
The pair joined Activa Capital’s investment team in 2014, first as Associates (2014-2016) and then as Managers (2016-2019).
Quatrepoint and Singer have been involved in all the transactions of Activa Capital Fund III fund (Active Assurances, Alliance Etiquettes, Atlas for Men, Be Relax, Explore, HR Path, LOOK Cycle and Mecadaq Group), the 16 build-ups of the fund and the first exit (HR Path).
Prior to joining Activa Capital, Quatrepoint and Singer both worked
Dentons has bolstered its UK Asset Management team with the addition of partner and investment funds specialist, Ted Craig, to its London Corporate practice. Craig joins from MJ Hudson where he was a partner and head of private funds.
Craig acts for funds sponsors and investors, including both first-time and established managers, pension funds, secondary funds, funds of funds and investment consultants, and single and multi-family offices on matters relating to the establishment and operation of and investment into private investment funds across all asset classes. Craig also acts for buyers and sellers on direct and indirect secondary transactions and
Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty surrounding Brexit, Velocity Capital Advisors has closed its Velocity Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) Technology Fund 5 and Velocity Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) Technology Fund 4, having raised three times the investment secured in the previous funding round.
All funds in the portfolio have been deployed with 21 investments completed. Furthermore, investors benefited from 100 per cent tax carry back on their investments. These investors will also expect to receive their EIS 3 certificate by June 2019, therefore being able to claim their tax relief quickly.
Velocity has now opened the next series of
Behrman Capital (Behrman), a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has acquired Waterline Renewal Technologies (Waterline), a division of Triwater Holdings.
Members of Waterline’s senior management team invested in the transaction alongside Behrman. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Waterline is a leading provider of engineered products used in the trenchless rehabilitation of wastewater infrastructure for municipal, commercial, industrial, and residential applications. The Company’s patented line of products and technologies allows its customers to deliver long-lasting solutions that repair sewer systems and wastewater lines without the need for excavation or property
European intelligence platform Atheneum has raised EUR10 million in its latest funding round, on the back of 60 per cent year-on-year revenue growth in the UK.
Atheneum’s London office has seen incredible expansion since opening in 2014, now making up 41 per cent of the company’s global revenue. In an industry valued at over USD5 billion and a part of the global USD200 billion Information Services market, the UK is proving to be Atheneum’s most lucrative market.
The company’s agile approach to leveraging the insights of over 400,000 credible industry experts helps top renowned investment firms, leading global corporations
AfricInvest, a private equity firm in Africa with USD1.5 billion in assets under management, and Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital fund, created in affiliation with Cathay Capital Private Equity, have launched a pan-African venture fund, the Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund.
This partnership capitalises on the pan-African presence of AfricInvest teams (eight offices over the continent) and its in-depth knowledge of the entrepreneurial networks across Africa, as well as the experience and depth of Cathay Innovation’s global platform that connects the main technological ecosystems in Europe, China and the United States.
The new fund, with a projected size of
BlackFin, a pan-European private equity platform focusing on financial services, has promoted Sabine Mathis, Daniel Cohen-Sabban and Damien Lestang to equity partners of the firm.
Alongside BlackFin’s four founding partners they will spearhead the firm’s investment activities across Europe.
Mathis joined BlackFin in 2011 as CFO. She has since played a key role in the success of the funds through her transversal and operational role within BlackFin. Prior to joining BlackFin, Mathis spent three years at Natixis Private Equity International as CFO and 6 years at Ernst & Young / Arthur Andersen. Sabine graduated from HEC business school.
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