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Goldman Sachs has led a USD8 million Series A investment round in Immersive Labs’ cyber security skills platform. The funding, made alongside smaller private investors, will grow an offering which arms enterprise IT and cyber security teams with the latest skills by combining threat data with gamified learning.
The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly build cyber wargames for IT and security teams to learn from. The platform can up-skill people within hours of a threat emerging and can also be used to identify and fix less immediate weaknesses in the talent pool.
Venture capital funds globally currently offer a highly attractive risk-return profile, with Western European funds significantly outperforming the historical average, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.
The report shows that while global venture capital performance has fallen off over the past three quarters, for investors, the current risk-return profile of active VC funds is highly attractive.
Venture capital performance, as measured by multiples on invested capital (TVPI) of active funds, has retreated modestly from its record high of 1.49x in Q4 2017, to 1.42x at Q3 2018. At the same time, risk – measured by the
Artemis Capital Partners (Artemis), an industrial technology-focussed private equity firm, has held the final close of its second fund, Artemis Capital Partners II after hitting the fund’s hard cap in September 2018 in an oversubscribed fundraise.
“We are humbled by the support we received from our existing base of Limited Partners and are delighted to welcome several new top-tier institutional partners,” says Peter A Hunter, Founder and Managing Partner of Artemis. “With capital from our new fund and that of our co-investors, we will continue our focus on acquiring and growing profitable industrial technology companies in close partnership with
Mark Knight has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the firm’s London office. He will be a member of Sidley’s global Restructuring practice. Knight is experienced in leading complex, precedent- setting multi-jurisdictional restructurings on both the creditor and debtor sides.
Before joining Sidley, Knight served as a partner and general counsel of an investment platform that services non-performing loans in some of Europe’s most challenging restructuring jurisdictions, including Greece and Italy. Prior to this, Knight was a partner in the restructuring group of an international law firm where he advised clients on the acquisition, disposal and reorganisation of distressed
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has held the final close of its second European infrastructure debt fund, Archmore Infrastructure Debt Platform II (IDP II), which has raised a total of EUR1 billion within nine months of its launch, substantially exceeding its original EUR700 million target following oversubscribed investor interest.
The capital has been raised from 48 limited partners, comprising a mix of pension funds and insurance companies from 10 different countries across Europe and Asia. The fund-raising benefitted from over 70 per cent re-up rate from investors in IDP II’s predecessor, Archmore Infrastructure Debt
Muzinich & Co has held the final close of the Muzinich Pan-European Private Debt Fund (the Fund), at EUR706.5 million.
The fund focuses on providing financing solutions for lower mid-market companies to fund growth, acquisitions, expansions and transitions.
“While we had an initial fund size target estimate of EUR500 million, we have seen strong demand from investors who are looking for attractive yields,” says Kirsten Bode, Co-Head of Private Debt, Pan-Europe. “We believe our offering – as one of the very few Pan-European private lenders in the lower mid-market – gives us an advantage in accessing a broad range
Hogan Lovells has appointed John Duke as Office Managing Partner for the firm’s Philadelphia office, effective 1 January.
Duke is a Corporate Transactional partner whose diverse corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, public equity offerings, joint ventures, corporate governance and public company compliance matters. He has advised on dozens of public offerings, including initial public offerings and other capital markets transactions, and has represented public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisition and carve-out transactions.
In his new role, Duke succeeds Ginny Gibson, a former federal prosecutor and the first Assistant US Attorney and Civil Chief in two
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate team in Guernsey have advised RBS International on a multi-million pound loan facility with Aurigny which enables the airline to purchase three new aircraft.
The loan from RBS International provides the States of Guernsey owned airline with the necessary capital required to purchase three ATR72-600s from Avions de Transport Regional GIE. The new aircraft incorporate ClearVision technology designed to reduce the disruption caused by fog.
Partner Andrew Boyce led the Carey Olsen team advising RBS International and was assisted by senior associate Vaishali Gupta and associate Rachel de la Haye. The firm acted as
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed George Szemere as its new Head of Alternative Sales, EMEA.
Based in London, Szemere joins Franklin Templeton with immediate effect from Columbia Threadneedle, where he was most recently Head of Liquid Alternatives and Global Strategic Relations EMEA Distribution.
Reporting to Vivek Kudva, Managing Director for EMEA and India, Szemere will be responsible for growing Franklin Templeton’s alternative business in the EMEA region. He will also partner closely with the various alternative investment groups, product and distribution teams to generate new product ideas and solutions to meet the needs of the firm’s institutional and retail clients
Foresight Group (Foresight) has secured a GBP1.5 million investment from the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund (into Open Bionics Limited).
The investment has been made alongside an identical commitment from Downing LLP and Ananda Impact Ventures of GBP1.5 million each and Rathbone Nominees to complete the GBP4.66 million round.
Open Bionic, which was advised on the investment by TLT, is is an award-winning designer, manufacturer and supplier of bionic limbs with ambitions to become a market leader in a range of bespoke prostheses and assistive technologies and a global supplier of prosthetic and orthotic products and services. Based in
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