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Omnes Capital has invested EUR1.7 million in Nanomakers, becoming the largest shareholder in the French start-up producer of nanopowders. The deal aims to increase the company’s production capacity, continue its R&D efforts and strengthen the recruitment of key positions.
Founded in 2010 and based in Rambouillet, the French start-up Nanomakers has been designing and producing since 2012 patented silicon-based nanopowders which transform the mechanical, chemical or thermal properties of materials. Its disruptive technology has made it possible to triple the energy density of Li-ion batteries anodes, or to lighten and reinforce the mechanical properties of certain materials (metal alloys, elastomers)
GCA Altium has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Livingstone Holdings Limited, a provider of software asset management services, on its sale to The Carlyle Group.
Founded in 2010, Livingstone offers a full range of services covering all major enterprise software vendors. The company works with clients to collect and analyse information in order to establish their effective licence positions, determine if software usage is higher or lower than legally contracted, address any related issues, and create a framework to optimise their software deployment over time.
Livingstone has delivered strong revenue and EBITDA growth over the past few years and now provides software
Index provider MSCI is adding more than 200 domestic Chinese equities to two of its benchmark indexes, in the first of two phases. Sukumar Rajah, senior managing director, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, breaks down the implications for investors and says the decision represents broad support of the government’s positive policy changes…
Effective June 2018, index provider MSCI is including 233 Chinese large-capitalization (large-cap) A shares in its Emerging Markets Index and All Country World Index (ACWI), as well as its China Index.
An initial 5 per cent inclusion will be implemented in two phases, 2.5 per cent effective 1
White Star Capital, a global venture capital fund with offices in London, New York, Montreal and now Paris and Tokyo, has closed its second institutional fund at USD180 million.
The fund, which was oversubscribed and had an initial target of USD140m target, will back around 20 new companies with an initial investment of USD1 million to USD6 million. The fund will continue to focus on companies that use data as a competitive advantage and where the fund’s operational experience and physical presence can help companies scale internationally.
White Star Capital has already begun investing from its second fund and
Law firm Stroock has represented Atlas Merchant Capital as co-lead investor in the acquisition of Talcott Resolution, the run-off life insurance and annuity division of The Hartford.
The total consideration to The Hartford of USD2.05 billion was comprised of cash, a pre-closing dividend, transferred debt and a 9.7 per cent ownership interest in the acquiring company; the transaction generated total value to The Hartford’s shareholders of approximately USD3 billion. The deal closed on 31 May 2018. Stroock’s deal team was led by insurance M&A partner Bernhardt Nadell and private equity partner Bradley Kulman.
Other Stroock attorneys who assisted on
Sarah Zeng has joined Orrick’s M&A and private equity practice, resident in Beijing. Zeng has over 25 years of corporate law experience serving Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and US multinational companies, and most recently served as Managing Partner of Denton’s Beijing office.
Prior to that, Zeng was General Counsel of Hong Kong-listed Weichai Power, China’s largest engine manufacturer, and Vice President and Country Manager (China) for El Paso Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company, where she chaired the boards of four major power plants owned by the company in China.
Zeng is the 18th partner to join Orrick’s Global
Mekong Capital’s Mekong Enterprise Fund III (MEF III) has completed an investment in mattress and bedding solution provider Vua Nem Joint Stock Company.
Hoang Tuan Anh, Founder and CEO of Vua Nem, says: “We are excited about this partnership with Mekong Capital. They are the leading private equity firm in Vietnam who has a strong track record of investing in top retailing companies such as MobileWorld and Phu Nhuan Jewelry. Our vision is to become the biggest retailer for mattress and bedding products in the country. Thanks to the partnership with Mekong Capital, we have had access to the value
Knight Corporate Finance, a specialist TMT corporate finance boutique, has advised the shareholders of Frontier Voice and Data on its sale to technology solutions provider, Chess ICT.
Frontier was owned and operated by industry veterans Peter Southgate and Sean Linehan who have built a number of successful businesses in the comms sector. Knight CF has a long standing relationship with Peter and Sean having also advised them on the sale of Cable Telecommunications and Pink Telecom also to Chess in 2012.
Southgate says: “After a career in comms spanning four decades, we appointed Knight with a view to realising
Bilateral deals sharply increased in 2017-18 according to data from Investec, as private equity firms increasingly seek out direct sales in an effort to deploy dry powder without the competition of an auction process.
An analysis of 587 deals from 2016-17 and 2017-18 shows that the number of bilateral deals increased by 71 per cent last year relative to the previous year. The value of these deals increased from GBP1.06bn in 2016-17 to GBP7.98bn in 2017-18, with bilateral deals accounting for 19 per cent of all deals by value in the last financial year.
Christian Hess, Head of Financial
Driven by the increased momentum in responsible investing, private capital firms are seeing rising investor demand for integrating ESG considerations into the investment process.
However, with a myriad of factors to consider, it is challenging to collect and monitor ESG and impact information across all stages of the private equity life cycle. With these issues in mind, Preqin Solutions has launched an ESG & Impact module.
The ESG & Impact module enables private capital firms to define and automate a structured responsible investment program. With it, general partners (GPs) can clearly outline their goals and choose KPIs by either
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