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Huw Beverley-Smith, a Partner in the Technology Transactions Group at the London office of Faegre Baker Daniels, examines the impact of GDPR on private equity firms…
The European Union’s new data protection regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. The GDPR strengthens the protection of personal data by imposing more rigorous operational requirements on organisations that collect, process, store and share personal data.
The GDPR also gives individuals new and enhanced rights over their personal data such as the right of access, right to be forgotten, and right to data portability. As has
Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services (Gen II) has appointed Edward Poletti as a Senior Advisor.
Before joining Gen II, Ed spent twenty four years at Credit Suisse building and managing one of the world’s largest global alternative fund operations businesses.
In his role Ed will work closely with the Managing Principals, Norman Leben and Steven Millner advising on a wide range of operational and industry issues. “We are elated to add Ed to our team,” says Leben. “He is an expert in private equity fund accounting and operations, his depth of knowledge about the outsourcing model
Brightstar Capital Partners (Brightstar), a private investment firm that partners with closely-held, family-owned middle market companies, has completed the previously announced acquisition of QualTek USA, in partnership with QualTek senior management.
Following its transaction with Brightstar, QualTek completed the acquisitions of two additional businesses: NX Canada, a leading wireline installation and engineering services company in Canada, and Premier CC Inc., a full-service cable and network installation company with operations across the United States.
The add-on acquisitions will complement and strengthen QualTek’s range of solutions for the North American telecommunications sector, which include engineering, installation, fulfilment and program management. QualTek
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has agreed to sell the KidsFoundation Group (KidsFoundation), a Dutch specialist in childcare services, to Onex Corporation (Onex).
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Almere, the Netherlands, KidsFoundation provides childcare to nearly 30,000 children between the ages of six weeks and 12 years. HIG created KidsFoundation in 2014 through the acquisition of assets from the estate of Estro Group. During its ownership, HIG has worked with KidsFoundation management to optimise the footprint of the company by exiting loss-making locations, introduce new IT systems to drive operational
A fast-growing South Wales fintech company has closed a GBP1.25million funding round backed by Mercia Fund Managers, Development Bank of Wales and TTI Angels.
W2 Global Data, which is based in Newport and has doubled in size since the beginning of the year, is now planning to recruit a further 20 staff. The latest funding round follows an initial investment by Mercia and the development bank in 2017 and brings the total amount raised by the company to over GBP3.0million.
W2 provides identity verification services to help prevent fraud and money laundering. With access to thousands of government and
SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement has held the first closing of its fifth fund with capital commitments of over EUR90 million.
The Tuebingen-based medical technology investor has now reached almost two thirds of the fund’s EUR150 million target.
The fifth generation of SHS funds will focus on the life sciences and medical technology sector with investments in 12-15 companies planned.
Around half of the investors in SHS V are already invested in the company’s previous funds.
“We would like to thank the investors for their trust in us,” says Hubertus Leonhardt, SHS partner and Managing Director responsible for
Giant Oak, a specialist in applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics for the security needs of government and industry, has secured a USD10 million investment from growth equity investor Edison Partners.
Proceeds will be used to fuel Giant Oak’s continued growth through expanding sales and marketing, software engineering, and behavioural science-based analytics for its proprietary search platform, Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST).
GOST was initially developed to screen the open, deep and dark web, and other data to help national security and law enforcement officials identify human trafficking, terrorist activities, and other security threats. GOST’s capabilities have
SANNE in Singapore has been appointed as Fund Administrator and Transaction Administrator for a new retail private equity bond issued by Astrea IV.
The successful launch of Astrea IV marked the first time that a bond backed by cash flows from a diversified portfolio of quality private equity fund investments was made available to retail investors. This deal will see SANNE working closely with the arranger of the deal, Azalea Asset Management Pte Ltd.
SANNE’s Chief Commercial Officer, Martin Schnaier, says: ‘This is a landmark achievement for SANNE and our Singapore business and we are delighted to be supporting
Weinberg Capital Partners (WCP) has held the final close of its WCP#3 buyout fund on 295 million euros only 10 months after going to market with an initial target of EUR250 million.
WCP#3 has received the support of its existing investors and new investors to almost double the size of the previous WCP#2 vintage.
In line with previous funds, WCP#3 aims to finance the growth of successful French SMEs, taking majority stakes, alongside management in LBO transactions on companies valued between EUR50 million and EUR200 million.
The fund focuses primarily on B2B and B2C distribution, business and health
UCL Technology Fund’s first investment to IPO has seen MeiraGTx Holdings, a clinical stage gene therapy company, raise USD75 million of gross proceeds from a public offering on 12 June.
MeiraGTx sold 5,000,000 shares at USD15.00 per share. The shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
The UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF) is managed by Albion Capital in collaboration with UCL Business (UCLB), UCL’s commercialisation company, and is dedicated to bringing UCL’s research in life and physical sciences to commercial reality. MeiraGTx is its first investment to IPO. MeiraGTx’s rare eye diseases business was borne out of the laboratories
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