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Family office allocations to private equity are predicted to rise 73 per cent between 2017 to 2019, from USD51 million to USD88 million per family office, according to a a new report from Campden Wealth – ‘Private Equity Investing and Co-Investment Activity by Family Offices’.
The report, developed and published with support from the global investment firm KKR, provides a deep-dive analysis into why key trends within the private equity and co-investing arena have occurred. Over 75 family offices globally completed a survey on the topic. The report also features case-studies with senior family office executives who discuss their experiences
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has made two appointments to strengthen its global infrastructure effort.
Patrick Cunningham arrives at REPM with over 20 years of investment markets experience, the majority of which has been focussed on the infrastructure, energy and real asset sectors. He will report to Tom O’Shea and will be responsible for growing REPM’s client and product franchise and for ensuring its infrastructure investment capabilities, across both debt and equity strategies, are marketed across the Americas.
Cunningham was most recently a partner at McCarvill Capital Partners where he spent the past
Independent investment manager Albion Capital is intending to raise up to GBP36 million through a launch in early January 2019 of its top up offers for its six venture capital trusts (Albion VCTs).
The fundraising is expected to target GBP6 million for each of the six Albion VCTs: Albion Venture Capital Trust PLC, Albion Development VCT PLC, Albion Enterprise VCT PLC, Albion Technology & General VCT PLC, Crown Place VCT PLC and Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC.
The Albion VCTs’ combined portfolios have a value of approximately GBP400 million, diversified across approximately 60 businesses. The planned top up offers
OMERS Private Equity, the private equity arm of OMERS, is to to sell MatrixCare Holdings (MatrixCare) to ResMed Operations (ResMed) for USD750 million.
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, MatrixCare is an industry leading, SaaS-based, long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) technology provider used in more than 13,000 facility-based care settings and 2,500 home care, home health and hospice organisations.
“We first acquired MatrixCare as part of a larger acquisition in 2010. Since bringing John Damgaard in as CEO in 2012, OMERS has worked with John and the Company to enhance its ability to serve customers across the LTPAC continuum,” says Mark Van Wart, Managing
Noerr has advised the Danish parent cooperative of the Arla Foods Group, Arla Foods amba, on the cross-border merger of its German members MUH Arla eG and Hansa Arla Milch eG by the formation of a Danish European Cooperative Society (SCE), namely Arla Foods 2018 SCE.
Other participating cooperatives in the merger were the Group’s British member The UK Arla Farmers’ Cooperative Limited as well as its two Belgian members Büllinger–Sankt Vither Molkereigenossenschaft and EUREGIO Arla Genossenschaftsmolkerei. The merger was registered with the Danish Business Authority on 1 October 2018.
The merger of Arla Food’s central European and British local
Springrowth SGR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Muzinich & Co Ltd, has held the first close of the Diversified Enterprises Credit Fund (DECF), the first parallel lending vehicle to be launched in Italy.
The DECF, which is a closed-ended vehicle with an eight-year investment term, has received EUR210 million in commitments from a broad group of Italian and international institutional investors. The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) acted as anchor investors in this initiative to bring capital market funding to Italian SMEs in parallel with the banking sector.
Gianluca Oricchio, Springrowth CEO, says: “Through this strategy we will engage as a primary participant in middle-market bank loans, acting as a parallel lender alongside Italian banks, to enable the
InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund, today announces its investment in Arc, the company behind Vector – the world’s first fully-electric motorcycle with a Human Machine Interface (HMI).
The investment from InMotion Ventures, along with Mercia Fund Managers, the Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund which is part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and a number of industry specialist angels, will support Arc with its global ambition for Vector to be the cleanest, safest, and most fulfilling motorcycle on the road.
The brand new bike will be revealed today at the Milan Motorcycle. The Arc
Hyundai CRADLE, Hyundai Motor Company’s corporate venturing and open innovation business, has made a strategic investment in allegro.ai, a technology company specialising in deep learning (DL) – based computer vision.
Founded in 2016, allegro.ai offers the first end-to-end DL lifecycle management solution focused on deep learning as it applies to computer vision. The company’s platform simplifies the process of developing and managing deep learning-powered solutions – such as autonomous vehicles, drones, security, logistics and others.
“Deep learning computer vision is one of the core technologies that can be applied to autonomous driving to navigate roads and make quick decisions in real-time – and
Foresight Group (Foresight) has invested GBP2.5 million to support the growth of North Wales-based software provider Cimteq Limited.
This is the thirteenth investment by the GBP58 million Foresight Regional Investment Fund (FRIF), focussed on North Wales and the North West of England. Since December 2015 the Fund, backed by local institutional investors including the Clwyd Pension Fund, has supported the creation of 260 new jobs across the investment area. Cimteq marks the Fund’s first investment into the thriving North Wales SME community, supporting growth in the region.
Located in Wrexham, Cimteq specialises in the development, supply and support of
Cowen and Company and Intrepid Partners have formed a strategic alliance to jointly provide comprehensive capital markets advisory and execution services to oil and gas companies and investors in the United States of America and Canada.
The companies say the exclusive relationship creates a centre of excellence in energy capital markets, bringing together Cowen’s research, sales and trading, capital markets and advisory services with Intrepid’s strategic advisory capabilities and relationships in the North American energy sector.
“We’re very excited about the opportunity to join forces with Intrepid to meet the financing and capital market needs of Intrepid’s impressive network
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