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Last week was the biggest week for VCT fundraising this tax year with investors pouring GBP44.6m into VCTs. Over half of that (GBP24.5 million) was channeled into Octopus Titan, analysis from Wealth Club reveals.
The total for the tax year is now GBP527 million, just 9 per cent behind the GBP577 million raised in the same period in 2017/18.
Alex Davies, CEO and founder of Wealth Club, says: “Despite all the political uncertainty it’s looks like this is going to be another stellar year for VCTs, with investment so far just shy of the amount raised at the same point
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Andrew Stewart as Executive Director of Private Equity and Real Asset Sales in EMEA.
Stewart’s appointment is effective as of 4 March 2019 and he will report to Oliver Scully, Head of EMEA Sales.
Stewart will be responsible for driving the sales and growth of MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions to investors and managers across the private equity and real asset sectors in EMEA. He will also be responsible for promoting the uptake and usage of MUFG Investor Services’ suite of products including
Investment funds managed by TDR Capital, a UK based private equity investor, are to acquire 100 percent of NKD Group. TDR Capital and NKD’s current shareholder, OpCapita, have signed a sale & transfer agreement to that effect. The transaction is subject to the customary antitrust approval.
Established in 1962, NKD Group is among the leading ‘value retailers’ and local suppliers to the textiles retail trade in Central Europe. Textile discounter NKD offers a wide range of seasonal fashions, home textiles, and home accessories in its almost 1,800 stores. NKD employs some 8,000 people (6,350 of them in Germany) and generated
Standard Industrial Manufacturing Partners (Standard) has merged with DH Pump and Supply (DH Pump). A private equity fund managed by Hicks Equity Partners (HEP), the Dallas-based private equity arm of the Thomas O Hicks family office, initially invested in Standard alongside its former CEO, Jack Sitton, in July 2016.
Financial terms of this latest transaction have not ben disclosed.
Headquartered in Odessa, Texas with additional manufacturing in Granbury, Texas, Standard manufactures and distributes replacement parts for a wide range of pumps used in production and completion applications within the oil and gas industry. When a pump fails, Standard has
Belfast-based health tech company, Neurovalens, has secured one of the largest ever Series A investments generated by a Northern Irish technology company.
The company specialises in using neuroscience to solve everyday health issues.
The GBP4.6 million raise was led by London-based Wharton Asset Management along with Cambridge based IQ Capital. The round was also supported by Techstart Ventures, through its Invest NI-backed fund, The UU Fund, Co-Fund NI managed by Clarendon Fund Management, Beltrae Partners and the Angel CoFund.
Led by Dr Jason McKeown, Neurovalens is renowned for the development of Modius, an innovative headset which non-invasively stimulates the area
Hampleton Partners, an international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised 2getthere Holding, a manufacturer of driverless electric shuttles, on its majority acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen.
This is the second autonomous vehicle technology transaction closed by Hampleton within the space of nine months.
“Hampleton led a great process from start to finish, introducing us to an outstanding partner in ZF that will unlock the next dynamic growth phase of our company. Hampleton’s level of experience and, above all, profound understanding of the automotive market, led us to the best possible transaction,” says Carel van
Framework, a specialist global solutions vendor for private equity (PE) and real estate (RE) investments, has made a senior hire to its leadership team.
J-P Durandeau has been appointed as Head of Product to focus on product development and delivering the best service to Framework’s clients. J-P is the latest of several key senior hires in recent months, underscoring Framework’s ongoing commitment to meet the demand for improved investment data and service management in the PERE sector.
J-P brings 20+ years’ experience in implementing and developing sophisticated financial software services working within leading financial institutions. J-P has previously held senior
Themis, an Africa-focussed power company backed by Denham Capital, is partnering with Kingline Development Nigeria Limited (Kingline) to develop a 550MW natural gas-fired power plant in Ondo State, Nigeria.
The Kingline Power Project is currently in its development stage with a target to proceed to financial close by Q2 2020, becoming fully operational in 2022. It will be located on 111 hectares of land in the Ondo State Industrial Park, adjacent to the existing Omotosho Power Plant.
At a Project cost of approximately USD600 million, the Project will be one of the lowest cost gas-to-power facilities in the international
OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, is joining other health care systems and strategic investors from within the healthcare industry as a limited partner in Boston-based LRVHealth.
As part of LRVHealth’s collaborative innovation platform, which represents a network that delivers care to 50 million Americans across 25 states, OSF will help identify, create and invest in early-stage companies spanning healthcare IT, tech-enabled health services, medical devices, and diagnostics.
As a strategic investor in LRVHealth’s fourth fund, OSF HealthCare will benefit from access to early-stage companies that have been identified and vetted through a vast network that reaches
Omnes has announced a 15 per cent investor net IRR on its EUR134 million Capenergie 2 fund, which is focused on renewable energy and launched in 2010.
The value-add infrastructure fund ranks among the top performers in the sector in Europe; generating an investor net multiple of 2x.
Omnes is a pioneer in the energy transition sector, with the launch of its first fund in 2006 and EUR1.3 billion in assets under management in this field.
The purpose of the Capenergie funds is to invest in independent power producers across Europe, providing them with private equity growth capital.
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