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2017 proved to be hugely successful for global private equity and despite rising valuations and increased levels of competition, the general feeling among PE groups is upbeat for 2018, confident that they can still deploy capital with effect.
As Preqin outlined in its recently published 2018 Global Private Equity and Venture Capital report, the headline numbers for 2017 were impressive.
A total of USD453 billion in aggregate capital was raised by 921 PE funds. This took total AUM within private equity to USD2.83 trillion.
95 per cent of investors felt that their PE investments met or exceeded expectations. More than
eFront, a technology provider to alternative investment professionals, and PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, have formed a strategic partnership to integrate PitchBook data within the recently announced eFront Insight solution.
Leveraging PitchBook’s data feed solution, eFront clients can now flexibly access deep fund-level information, empowering Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) to gauge private market performance relative to peer groups for PE and VC strategies, while also allowing LPs to refine asset allocation strategies.
Additionally, eFront will also integrate performance measurement data and analysis from PitchBook Benchmarks into eFront Insight. Recently released,
IK Investment Partners (IK) has closed the IK Small Cap II Fund (IK Small Cap II) at its hard cap of EUR550 million. IK Small Cap II was substantially oversubscribed and allocated to existing IK platform investors.
The Fund is nearly double the size of IK’s maiden small cap fund, which closed at its hard cap of EUR 277 million in March 2016. IK Small Cap I Fund has invested in 12 companies of which three have been successfully realised to date.
IK Small Cap II will continue to target growing businesses in IK’s core markets within the Benelux,
InnovMetric Software, a provider of universal 3D metrology software solutions, has acquired Prefixa Vision Systems, its PolyWorks Master distributor in Mexico, following five years of successful cooperation.
“The growth of the automotive industry in Mexico has been so phenomenal in recent years that in our latest fiscal year Mexico became the 5th largest PolyWorks market in the world. InnovMetric is deeply committed to expanding its local technical expertise to assist its Mexican customers in their successful migration to the PolyWorks universal 3D metrology software platform,” says Marc Soucy, President of InnovMetric.
The acquisition allows InnovMetric to expand the capabilities of its
Invesco is expanding its Invesco Private Capital business with the appointment of Carl Stanton as a Managing Partner and Head of Private Equity.
In this newly created role, Stanton will broaden the scope of the firm’s existing private equity focus to include opportunistic buyouts and special situations. As part of the expansion the domestic activities of the firm’s WL Ross & Co unit have been rolled into Stanton’s group.
Stanton is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience leading private equity investments and managing private equity teams. Prior to joining Invesco Private Capital, he was a managing partner
Oakley Capital Private Equity II is to sell its 38.5 per cent stake in Parship Elite Group (PEG) and 9.9 per cent stake in Verivox to NuCom Group (NuCom), ProSiebenSat.1’s Commerce unit. The agreement is subject to approval by the responsible antitrust authorities.
The Company will realise estimated cash proceeds of approximately GBP51.1 million on completion of these transactions. The realisations would represent an increase of GBP10.6 million to the NAV range announced on 31 January 2018, lifting the NAV per share of GBP2.43 – GBP2.45 by 5 pence.
Following increased focus on the digital consumer sector, Oakley partnered
Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), Africa’s largest private alternative investment manager, has appointed Mr Zomunoda (Zom) Chizura as Head of the Impact Funds team.
The Impact Funds team manages funds targeted specifically for affordable housing, access to quality education and promoting SMME businesses.
Between the years 2014 to 2017, Zom was Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual West Africa based in Lagos, Nigeria from where he led the roll out of the Old Mutual brand and client solutions in the retail and corporate markets in Ghana and Nigeria. In this role, he was also central to the strengthening and
ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (OMPE), a business unit of Dallas-based ORIX USA, has appointed Zoltan Berty as a Managing Director.
Bringing over 25 years of transactional experience across multiple industries and diversified markets, Berty will be primarily responsible for business development and investment activities in the Western United States. Based in Newport Beach, California, his emphasis will be providing equity to independent sponsors on buyout transactions, while also working with funded equity sponsors, family offices, and directly with entrepreneurs and management teams.
Prior to joining ORIX USA, Berty served as Managing Director for Gladstone Capital Corporation, where he
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Creditcall, a portfolio company of FPE Capital and Bestport Ventures, on its sale to NMI, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and Great Hill Partners.
Creditcall is a recognised leader in the EMV payment terminal market and develops contact and contactless payment software for mobile, online and in-store payments services for a global customer base across industry sectors including parking, ticketing, transportation, vending, retail and hospitality. Creditcall is headquartered in Bristol, UK, with offices in New York, USA, and has operations in 37 countries and over 100 employees.
NMI is
OXIS Energy UK is to receive a GBP3.7 million investment from Brazilian private equity fund Aerotec, its first international deal.
The Aerotec Fund is centred on Aerospace and advanced manufacturing and is anchored by CODEMIG, the Economic Development Company in the state of Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil. CODEMIG is managed by Confrapar which is a pioneer in the Brazilian Venture Capital and private equity market.
The Aerotec investment paves the way for OXIS Energy to open a subsidiary in Brazil. The Brazilian team will be trained at OXIS Energy’s headquarters in Oxford in the UK, prior to creating
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