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Gioconda, the Italian subsidiary of LBO France, has taken a stake, alongside the current management team, in Bluclad, an Italian specialist in developing chemical solutions for the galvanisation of metal used in the luxury goods sector, mainly for clothing, footwear and luggage.
Founded in 2008 and based in Prato near Florence, Bluclad has created a unique service for the luxury goods sector in the development of galvanic processes for all metal accessories. The company, the leader on the Italian market, works closely with both Italian and foreign luxury companies to create tailor-made solutions, which it then markets to the galvanisers.
Amundi has held the successful closing of its third and largest ever senior debt fund, with EUR880 million raised twelve months after launch.
This strategy, dedicated to the financing of European mid-cap companies, attracted capital from around twenty institutional investors. Half of the funds initially raised have already been invested in fifteen transactions.
Like its predecessors, this Senior debt strategy has the French Fonds de Prêt à l’Economie (FPE) label, which allows insurance companies easier access to the asset class under Solvency II. It supports European mid-sized businesses with at least EUR50 million turnover for the financing of their
Following massive deployment of private capital and recent volatile markets, CEPRES reports up to an 80 per cent increase in risk and fundamental analysis on its Investment Decision Platform – PE.Analyzer.
CEPRES has seen a huge 60 per cent growth in investment transactions during 2018 to USD23 trillion of assets across 63,973 private market deals from 6,032 Funds. With now the largest-ever transactional data on private markets, CEPRES clients can measure and stress test their investments versus macro-economic conditions to ensure they can protect against volatile market conditions.
There has been a strong recovery in private markets following the Global
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Gareth Price as an investment director with responsibility for sourcing VCT opportunities, investments for Maven’s MBO fund, and its private equity co-investor partner network in the South West, as well as managing portfolio investments in the region.
Price brings close to 30 years’ investment and corporate finance experience to Maven, having spent his career advising both privately-owned SMEs and companies listed on AIM and the London Stock Exchange Main Market across a range of transactions including acquisitions and disposals, IPOs and debt and equity fundraisings. Gareth is a qualified chartered
Natixis Investment Managers has launched Flexstone Partners, a global private equity manager that brings together three of Natixis Investment Managers’ existing private equity affiliates: Euro-PE, Caspian Private Equity and Eagle Asia.
Eric Deram, previously Founder and Managing Partner of Euro-PE, has been appointed as the CEO of Flexstone Partners.
The announcement follows other recent expansions into alternatives and real assets by Natixis Investment Managers, including the acquisition earlier this year of UK-based private debt specialist, MV Credit, and the launch of a co-investment offering on real asset private debt – in real estate, infrastructure and aviation – by its
The vast majority of private equity investors (83 per cent) feel that compliance management is one of the most important operational factors when evaluating private equity funds, according to a new survey by Corgentum Consulting, a provider of operational due diligence reviews and background investigations.
Similarly, 79 per cent of respondents feel that a weak compliance framework would negatively influence their private equity investment decision. However, only 14 per cent of investors feel private equity managers place more emphasis on regulatory audit preparedness as compared to hedge funds.
Some 86 per cent of those surveyed also believe that continued regulatory
Investors plan to stay the course with private equity, despite expectations for flat or negative returns from public equity in the US.
That’s according to a new Endowments and Foundations Survey from NEPC, looking at how endowments and foundations view private equity relative to other asset classes, the strength of the US economy, the domestic equity market, and the biggest threats to their portfolio over the next 12 months.
More than half of the survey respondents (51 per cent) expect private equity to outperform other asset classes over the next 12-24 months. Forty-five per cent believe private equity returns will be
Juniper Square, a technology provider for real estate investments, has secured USD25 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, a financial technology VC firm.
Ribbit joins Felicis Ventures, Zigg Capital, and other strategic investors from the real estate industry, who also participated in the round. This latest investment brings total funding to date to USD33M. The company will use the funds to further accelerate the rapid adoption of its market-leading software solution.
Founded in 2014, Juniper Square is transforming the multi-trillion dollar real estate investment industry with modern, easy-to-use software that automates one of the most critical business
Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, has appointed Tim Healy as a Managing Director, effective immediately. Healy will focus on originations along with developing and building client relationships.
“Tim’s background with middle-market leveraged transactions, and more recently as a partner at a private equity firm, brings a truly distinctive set of experience that we will look to leverage as we continue our strong growth,” says Trevor Clark, Managing Partner of Twin Brook. “We have known Tim personally and professionally for nearly two decades and welcome him to the Twin Brook team.”
Healy says: “Since its
Private equity firm MidOcean Partners has acquired and merged HW Holdco (Hanley Wood), a B2B media and information services company serving the US residential construction industry, and Meyers Research, a provider of real-time market data and advisory services to the homebuilding industry, which was previously a subsidiary of global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson.
Through Metrostudy and Zonda – the respective data products of Hanley Wood and Meyers Research – the combined company will offer data spanning the full homebuilding lifecycle, from land acquisition and property development and build, to new home sales and marketing. In addition to having
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