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PGGM Private Real Estate, an investment division of the second largest Dutch pension fund service provider, has established a joint venture with Redevco, one of Europe’s leading retail real estate investment managers.
The EUR550 million Urban Retail Ventures will invest in the most desirable and favourable shopping and leisure complexes in Europe, using a research-driven methodology to select those cities that are thriving as quality retail locations.
“Our PGGM private real estate fund investment strategy has EUR11.5 billion in AUM, which we invest globally and we continue to expand that portfolio,” says Mathieu Elshout, Senior Director Private Real Estate, PGGM.
Geospatial Insight, a specialist in visual intelligence derived from geospatial big-data, has secured a GBP3.5 million growth equity investment from Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and VenturesOne Investments.
The financing will be used to expand Geospatial Insight’s machine learning capabilities as well as fast-tracking additional product streams and visual intelligence customer solutions.
The capital injection follows a Series A investment by VenturesOne, growth equity investors, completed in July 2017 and seed funding by Midven, the Birmingham based venture capital company, through the Exceed Partnership Fund in December 2014.
Using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics and
New research from CEPRES shows how first-time private equity funds (ie first generation funds aka “Emerging Managers”) outperform later generation funds on a risk adjusted basis. By comparing the returns and loss rates of buyout deals invested by different generations of funds, CEPRES was able to see clear patterns of behavior linked to the maturity of the Manager.
The research was conducted on CEPRES’ award winning PE.Analyzer4.0 platform encompassing detailed performance of USD17.5 trillion of PE-backed companies across 4,888 private capital funds. The analysis shows whilst second generation funds deliver the strongest gross IRR returns in their deals, it is at
UK bookseller Waterstones has been acquired by funds managed by activist hedge fund manager Paul Singer’s (pictured), Elliott Advisors.
Waterstones operates a chain of 283 bookshops located across the UK and Ireland, and in The Netherlands and Belgium, and had sales of over GBP400 in the year to end April 2017.
Lynwood Investments, controlling shareholder of Waterstones since 2011, will retain a minority stake.
Founded in 1977, Elliott is one of the oldest and largest private investment organisations globally, with funds under management of approximately USD35 billion. The Elliott funds’ investors include pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments,
Lendity AG, a provider of investment solutions for alternative lending and private debt, has launched a diversified bond to invest in loans from small and medium-sized enterprises as well as consumer loans originated through Swiss marketplace and peer-to-peer lenders.
Bank Julius Baer (VTX: BAER), a Swiss publicly listed bank with CHF388.4 billion of assets under management, subscribed the whole issuance.
Lendity monitors the platforms’ underwriting criteria to ensure loan quality and to proactively adjust the portfolio. “Managing risk is essential when investing in private debt. We focus on managing credit, platform, servicing, and legal risk,” says Rafael Karamanian, partner
Tikehau Capital, an alternative asset management and investment group, is in exclusive negotiations, to acquire a minority stake in Nexteam Group, a supplier in the machining of complex parts and hard metals for the aerospace industry.
The acquisition of this minority stake alongside the management team aims at supporting the future development of Nexteam Group.
Nexteam Group, which has operations in France, Poland, and Romania, is a French company specialising in precision engineering and the machining of hard metals for the aviation, aerospace, and defence sectors. Nexteam Group employs over 850 people, and generates annual revenues of circa EUR150
Vistra, a provider of international incorporations, trust, fiduciary, private office and fund administration services, is to acquire Radius, a specialist US-based provider of international expansion services, from private equity firm Hg.
The transaction doubles Vistra’s International Expansion Services (IES) business, making it a market leader in IES services, including the number one market position in the USA. Vistra’s IES business helps clients navigate expansion into new markets, including establishing offices, obtaining the necessary licensing to operate in foreign markets and ongoing services, such as compliance and payroll.
Radius, headquartered in Boston with offices across the United States and in
BakerHostetler has appointed Christopher Carolan as a partner to the firm’s debt finance, private equity and venture capital practices. Carolan, based in New York, comes to the firm from Seyfarth Shaw.
An experienced practitioner who was previously an assistant general counsel at BNP Paribas in New York, Carolan regularly works with clients on a wide variety of financing transactions. On the lending side, he represents financial institutions, funds and alternative lenders as arrangers, agents and lenders. He also represents borrowers, including publicly traded companies, REITs, private companies and portfolio companies of sponsors.
Carolan’s deals have spanned a variety of
Valuations of portfolio companies are a top concern among 60 per cent of private equity investors and their consultants this year. Dry powder was the No 2 top concern, with 40 per cent of this group citing it as among their top concerns for the industry this year.
Both results are up substantially from 2017, when 48 per cent of investors and consultants cited valuations and 26 per cent cited dry powder as their top concerns.
These and other important findings on private markets trends are uncovered in the 2018 eVestment Private Markets Due Diligence Survey. For the report,
ClauseMatch, a RegTech startup that aims to automate the entire regulatory lifecycle to help companies ensure compliance, has announced a Series A investment of USD5 million led by Index Ventures joined by Talis Capital and with participation from previous investors, including SpeedInvest.
The round also involves investment from high-profile angels Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters, and Cristobal Conde, former CEO of Sungard. The funding will be used to continue to rapidly scale-up and accelerate development of the product.
Compliance, legal, finance, operations and risk departments use ClauseMatch to help automate impact assessments, streamline the implementation of regulatory change and to
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