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Funds managed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed to sell a majority stake in Karl Eugen Fischer, a manufacturer of cord-cutting machines for the tyre industry.
Equistone acquired Karl Eugen Fischer in August 2013 and is now selling its stake to DBAG Fund VII, managed by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG. Management will retain a shareholding in the company. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Founded in 1940 in Burgkunstadt, Germany, Karl Eugen Fischer began developing cutting and pressing machines in 1949 and has produced cord-cutting machines for the tyre industry since the mid-1970s, laying the foundation for
Eight Advisory, a financial and operational consultancy firm specialising in transactions, restructuring and transformation, has hired former EY senior partner, Steve Taylor to expand its valuation practice in the UK.
Taylor joins with more than 25 years’ experience in valuations, advising governments, private equity firms, lawyers and corporates. He brings extensive knowledge in the industrial products, consumer products and financial services and is particularly well known for taking expert roles on fairness opinions and in commercial litigation.
Taylor joins a well-established European valuation team of 30 full time specialists at Eight Advisory to expand the UK and to provide
Cappitech, a provider of automated regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, has secured USD4 million in series A financing.
The financing round was led by 83North with participation from Rony Grushka and Kevin Gould, co-founders of Markit, one of the world’s most highly respected financial information companies with a market cap of USD20 billion. As part of the agreement, Rony Grushka, renowned for his expertise in accelerating global business growth, joins the Cappitech board.
Cappitech, a RegTech100 company which has been self-funded to date, plans to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand regulatory reach and
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in My Media Group, an independent French media buying agency.
Since it was founded in 2005, My Media has developed specific know-how in optimising TV-to-Web media campaigns (ie, the impact of offline communication, mainly television, on online traffic) and search engine optimisation (SEO) through Search Foresight, which is the leader in SEO consultancy in France.
My Media Group currently has more than 500 clients, for whom it manages each year more than EUR1 billion gross media space. As a leader in developing media strategies directly targeting customer acquisition, the company is particularly well
Eventador.io, a fully-managed Stream-Processing-as-a-Service provider has closed a USD3.8 million seed round (including conversion of USD1.3 m angel round) led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation by Deep Space Ventures, RSH Ventures, Capital Factory and joined by existing investor, Keshif Ventures.
Venu Shamapant, Partner at LiveOak will join the board of directors.
Since launching in late 2016, Eventador has become the leading fully-managed streaming data solution built on Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Customers can easily build, deploy, and manage modern streaming data applications, including a market-leading bring-your-own-cloud deployment model, without having to worry about the complex underlying infrastructure.
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has successfully raised GBP144.5 million of capital for Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles.
Apposite received strong support from existing investors and a well-diversified group of new investors comprising fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices, endowments, foundations and corporates from Europe, Asia and the US.
Apposite Capital is dedicated solely to healthcare investment and operates at the small end of the private equity market. It has been successful in building market leaders since 2006 providing both capital and expertise to healthcare businesses in the UK
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired three associates to join its business development team – Michelle Benner, Ana Burke and Jose Rincon who all join as vice presidents, business development.
The trio will focus on new business development for UMBFS’ array of services for the asset management industry which include fund accounting, administration, tax, investor services, transfer agency, custody and distribution.
In addition, UMBFS has promoted Chanté Schultz to assistant vice president, business development. In her role, she will support the new business development efforts of the national sales team.
“We are committed to expanding our registered fund and alternative investment
Emerging market private equity funds offer institutional investors diversification, differentiated return drivers and an exposure to sector and geographical areas not accessible through stock exchanges. However, their performance is still unclear.
Data from eFront, the world’s leading alternative investment management software and solutions provider, shows that the pooled average performance of emerging market funds is lower than in developed markets, with returns of 1.46x and 1.55x respectively.
However, as a result of emerging markets being heavily focused on venture and growth capital investments, which have a longer time to liquidity and report the value of their portfolio as the
Lawyers from Carey Olsen in Guernsey and Jersey have advised Silverfleet Capital on the sale of Ipes, a leading provider of fund administration and other outsourced services in the private equity sector, to Apex Group.
Silverfleet Capital, a pan-European private equity firm, has owned Ipes since acquiring it from RJD Partners in 2013. Since then, Ipes has achieved strong organic growth and has strengthened its pan-European footprint by more than doubling both number of clients and staff. Headquartered in Guernsey, Ipes now has 265 staff across five European offices. It works with 195 clients and provides administration and depositary oversight
Global fintech firm InvestCloud Inc has announced the acquisition of London-based rplan Limited for USD20 million.
rplan is a provider of client engagement technology in the UK to support bespoke investment propositions for web and mobile. Its client base includes some of the largest institutional asset managers in the world, including four of the top eight in the UK.
The firm writes that rplan has had significant success enabling asset managers to digitize their existing retail clients and catapult the development of their digital strategy to support multi-channel distribution.
The acquisition will see rplan’s capabilities made available to
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