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Omnes has been selected by MEDEF, France’s largest employer federation, as a partner for the MEDEF Accelerator of Investment (MAI) platform aimed at financing SMEs.
Omnes supports MEDEF’s initiative to make it easier for SMEs to access long-term financing and is joining the MEDEF Accelerator of Investment (MAI) platform. MAI was launched in October 2017 with the aim of helping SMEs to find finance tailored to their growth needs by linking them up to long-term investors (crowdfunding websites and private investment funds). Eighteen investment funds have already been indexed, mobilising more than EUR1 billion to help grow SMEs.
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Cairngorm Capital has promoted Alex Bayliss and John Naylor-Leyland to Managing Director. This is in recognition of their significant contributions to the growth and success that Cairngorm Capital has achieved since its formation in 2014. It also marks the expansion of Cairngorm Capital’s senior leadership team.
Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland were founding members of Cairngorm Capital’s investment team, joining Managing Partner, Andrew Steel, shortly after the successful close of Cairngorm Capital’s first fund in August 2015. Together they have been instrumental in defining and implementing the firm’s growth and buy and build investment strategies. They have led or overseen the majority
Hg has today made an investment in DADA, a provider of online hosting services to SMEs in Italy, the UK and other regions across Europe.
Founded in 1995, DADA is headquartered in Florence and has around 650,000 business and consumer customers across Europe. DADA’s digital services enable SMEs to administer their online presence: creating, managing and hosting domains and websites.
As well as operating in Italy under the Register.it brand, DADA also operates in the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands under the Namesco, Register365, Nominalia and Amen brands, respectively.
The process follows an initial investment
Sobera Capital has acquired a portfolio of 12 minority and majority equity holdings in private companies mainly in the life sciences sector from Innoveas International Ltd.
The assets, which include, among others, interests in Presidio Pharmaceuticals, EffRx Pharmaceuticals, MORE Medical Solutions, Axellis Ventures and MyoScience, are based mainly in Europe and the US. Sobera Capital was backed in this secondary direct transaction by several family offices and entrepreneurs.
Sobera Capital is a Berlin based independent secondary direct investor with a focus on growth and small-cap funds and assets in TIMES, healthcare and selected other industries.
Z Capital Group, an alternative asset manager focused on opportunistic, value-oriented private equity and credit funds, has announced a raft of promotions across the company’s Private Equity Investment and Operations teams.
Stephen Parsons, has been added to the Management Committee as an ad hoc member. Since joining Z Capital in 2016, Parsons has served as an Operating Partner, assisting in the management and oversight of portfolio company initiatives, including leading the development and implementation of human capital strategies across all portfolio companies.
Matthew Kane, has been promoted to Managing Director. Kane is responsible for advising on and executing value-oriented
Capitama, a new direct private investment platform for sophisticated and professional investors, is now up and running.
The platform has been designed to bring sophisticated and professional investors and deal sponsors together; enabling investors to find investment opportunities from experienced investment professionals and management teams according to their preferences and risk appetite. The platform also helps investment sponsors and management teams of high growth companies to source investors and co-investors in a more efficient way.
Capitama has different investment areas to meet a variety of different types a sophisticated investor may be interested in. This includes Early-Stage (post-revenue fast
EQT has held a first and final close of its eighth equity investment strategy fund, EQT VIII, at its hard cap of EUR 10.75 billion. The fund officially launched in September 2017.
Investor demand from both existing and new investors was strong with approximately 70 per cent of the commitments to EQT VIII made by investors in the predecessor Equity fund, EQT VII.
“The successful fundraising of EQT VIII confirms the support for EQT’s investment and ownership approach. We are extremely proud to have earned investors’ trust and are fully committed to using EQT’s experience to find solid businesses
One Equity Partners (OEP) portfolio company Simplura Health Group (Simplura), a provider of home care services for elderly and disabled populations, has completed the acquisition of SarahCare of Jenkintown, an independently owned home and community-based services and adult day care company.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Jenkintown, PA, SarahCare of Jenkintown provides companion services, nutrition and medication assistance, nursing, shopping, transportation, hospice, palliative care and other services. Founded in 2010, the Company also offers home health services including skilled nursing, speech therapy and social worker assistance. SarahCare of Jenkintown’s adult day center
Gen II Fund Services, a US-based independent private equity fund administrator, has reported an increase in assets under administration to in excess of USD175 billion.
Gen II has grown to service over 100 private fund sponsors, administering over 2,100 fund entities and reporting to over 9,000 investors for our clients.
“We have expanded our servicing capabilities beyond New York with additional client service teams in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA. Our singular focus on private equity fund administration, dedication to performance at the highest levels and our unmatched experience has proven to be a recipe that produces industry-best
Pantheon has appointed two senior professionals, Justin Mallis and Michael Hutten, as Principals in its Europe and the US teams.
Mallis joins as Global Head of Project Management in the Client Service team, based in London, where he will centralise and coordinate fundraising for Pantheon’s institutional strategies.
This is a new function, and it reflects the continued global expansion and growth of the business across investment strategies and clients.
“Justin brings valuable external experience from a similar role at a global placement agent, alongside deep experience from working at various US pension consultants, specialising in alternatives. Given this
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