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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
Paladone, a designer and supplier of gifting products, has secured a GBP13 million minority investment from mid-market private equity investor LDC, to accelerate its international growth.
Headquartered in Brighton, Paladone specialises in the design, development and wholesale supply of licensed and own brand gifting products. Paladone has established strategic license partnerships with leading global brands including Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Star Wars and Nintendo. Its own-label brands such as Purple Donkey and Scott & Lawson currently account for 30 per cent of revenue.
With a catalogue of more than 800 products, and offices in Los Angeles and Hong Kong,
Noerr has advised Mutares AG as Corporate Counsel with regard to the stock exchange and capital markets law on the planned IPO of its subsidiary STS Group AG and is also supporting the preparatory corporate actions at the level of STS Group AG.
Mutares was advised by a team led by partners Ralph Schilha and Julian Schulze De la Cruz.
The shares of STS Group AG are to be quoted on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company is a leading global system supplier to the car industry of soft and hard trim components for commercial
Guernsey is set to launch what it says will be the world’s first regulated green investment fund product following the publication of a set of draft rules by the island’s financial services regulator, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.
Fund managers will be able to apply for a green label for their funds if they can demonstrate compliance with defined green rules. The system will be open to all types of new and existing funds, authorised, registered, Guernsey Private Investment Funds, open-ended and closed-ended, with different levels of certification available.
“This move is part of our strategy to be the
The Clearway Group, a vacant property services business, has secured a GBP23 million funding package from BGF and Santander to support its organic and acquisitive growth strategy.
The funding is initially being used to make two acquisitions – Cerberus Security and Monitoring Services Limited (Cerberus), a Leeds-based security and monitoring business, and Protim SAS, a Paris based void property services company.
Clearway provides technology-led solutions including alarms and CCTV to monitor; and steel window and doors to secure vacant properties.
The Group Board, led by Chairman Stephen Walls, CEO Ian Quinlan, CFO David Gratton and co-founder and non-executive
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