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Piper, a specialist investor in consumer brands, has enhanced its consumer offering with the appointments of Saskia Roberts and Flora McAlpine.
Roberts has spent nearly 20 years working for customer and retail consultancies on strategy, customer proposition, marketing and brand experience. She most recently led customer communication channels at O&CC Ltd (owner of high-street brands Cotswold Outdoor, Snow+Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need) and has previously worked on customer strategies for companies such as SABMiller, Heal’s and Argos.
Roberts joins Piper as Associate Partner and will focus on customer insight and brand strategies across Piper’s existing portfolio, as well
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has sold BeneSys, a provider of third-party administration (TPA) services for employee healthcare and pension benefit programs for Taft-Hartley multi-employer plans.
The Troy, Michigan-based company services more than 180 clients across the country.
Riverside invested in the platform in 2014 and saw strong potential in the company’s deep operational knowledge of multi-employer funds, and it offered a proprietary, scalable software platform to deliver mission-critical services for its customers.
“It was a pleasure working with such a strong management team, and we very much benefitted from the company’s leadership position in its industry,”
Sky and Edge Investments have both made a further investment in TRX, a B2B online licensing platform for TV rights.
The investment round of GBP2.9 million (which was also supported by other existing private investors) brings the total funds raised by TRX to GBP14 million. TRX will use this latest investment to develop further its proprietary technology and to continue its worldwide rollout. The platform is now used by 110 TV rights distributors (including BBC Studios, Sky Vision and Lionsgate) and more than 1,000 buyers.
TRX has grown rapidly in 2018, more than doubling both the hours listed on
TECHNEDs Investment has signed an investment deal with Poole-based unified communications provider Crystal Clear Telecom, aimed at building Crystal Clear Telecom into Dorset’s leading UC provider through organic growth and base acquisitions.
Crystal Clear Telecom will benefit from TECHNEDs’ experience in building technology businesses. The plan is to provide more Dorset businesses with unified communications services and managed IT services.
New products and services are expected to launch in the first half of next year.
Simon Mewett, Managing Partner, at TECHNEDs, says: “Crystal Clear Telecom has very ambitious plans to become the UC partner of choice for business
Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Jersey has advised private equity firm Epiris on the launch and final closing of its UK-focussed buyout fund, Epiris Fund II, at GBP821 million.
The fund, which has already made four acquisitions, has secured commitments from some of the world’s leading private equity investors, including public and private pension funds (34 per cent), endowments and foundations (30 per cent), asset managers (22 per cent) and private investors (14 per cent).
The fund’s strategy will be focussed on targeting UK-headquartered business with an enterprise value of between GBP75 and GBP500 million, investing between GBP40
Halcyon Capital Management (Halcyon) has sold minority stakes to TPG Sixth Street Partners (TSSP), the global credit and credit-related investment platform, and to Dyal Capital Partners (Dyal), a division of Neuberger Berman Group.
TSSP has made a new minority investment in the firm, while Dyal has invested additional capital to increase its existing minority investment, resulting in its ownership stake approaching its initial 2012 investment.
As part of the transaction, certain managing principals of the firm, their family members, and the philanthropic foundation started by the firm’s founder Alan Slifka have purchased significant equity in the firm. Terms of
Accordion, a private equity-focussed financial consulting and technology firm, has received a significant minority investment from FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies.
The investment will be used to expand Accordion’s service offerings for private equity-backed CFOs and their finance teams, attract and acquire additional talent, spur continued geographic expansion, and support the ongoing development of Accordion’s portfolio operations SaaS platform.
Since its founding in 2009, Accordion has become the go-to consulting and technology partner for value creation in the private equity community. Accordion is the only firm focused exclusively within the
Virtual reality provider ARena Space has attracted investments of USD7.7 million from the processing company Rucard. The deal was structured by a venture fund IP Fund.
Financing will be directed primarily to the development of the company in the international market. In particular, ARena Space will open its branch in Amsterdam.
The money also will be spent on the development of VR and AR products for the mass market, the creation of a fund for developers of virtual and augmented reality content and a network of new-generation VR parks in Europe and the USA. The company is already in
HSBC Global Private Banking, Americas is partnering with financial technology firm iCapital Network (iCapital) to expand and streamline client access to alternative investments.
The partnership is part of Global Private Banking’s initiative to enhance investment management capabilities and expand its product offering for high-net-worth clients.
“Clients looking to diversify their portfolios are increasingly interested in alternative investments,” says Russell Schofield-Bezer, Chief Investment Officer, HSBC Global Private Banking, Americas. “Our partnership with iCapital provides our clients with the platform and technology to access a broader product suite and seamlessly integrate alternatives into their investment allocations.”
iCapital will allow HSBC’s
There will be new issuance of GBP11.3 billion in listed investment companies over the next three years with two thirds of this new issuance to occur in alternative investments, according to Joachim Klement (pictured), Head of Investment Research at Fidante Partners.
Klement says: “The number of alternative investment companies launched in the last five and ten years was more than twice as high as that of equity investment companies. So, while the performance of equities has been strong, the market has clearly been calling out for alternative investments. Alternative investment companies have been the major driver of new issuance in
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