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By Piers Alexander (pictured), Conyers, Dill & Peraman – There’s a reason that the Cayman Islands is one of the world’s biggest and most attractive hubs for offshore financial businesses. Not only does it provide a stable, tax-neutral platform but also offers a sound legislative and judicial system, confidentiality, a leading banking sector and legal and financial professional and support services.
M33 Growth, a venture and growth stage investment manager that partners with founders and CEOs and seeks to rapidly scale and build companies, held its first and final closing today for its debut fund, M33 Growth I with USD180 million in limited partner commitments.
The M33 Growth founders are excited to apply their experience and deep networks to fuel the sales and marketing engines of its portfolio companies, and will seek to drive acquisitions and build value through data assets to propel portfolio companies to success in their respective markets.
“M33 Growth was born out of the idea that
Redpoint Capital Group (Redpoint), an alternative investment company focused on providing financing across an array of asset-based strategies, has entered into two additional Credit Agreements with two separate wholly owned subsidiaries of Elevate Credit.
Rise Credit Service of Ohio entered into a Credit Services Agreement with Redpoint Asset Funding Ohio (Redpoint Ohio) whereby Rise Credit Service acts as a credit service organisation on behalf of consumers for certain loans originated, funded and collected by Redpoint Ohio.
Furthermore, Rise Credit Services of Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Credit Services Agreement with Redpoint Capital Asset
Avignon Capital, a boutique London-based European property investment firm and asset manager, has received a new mandate to invest in Australia, where it will focus on office real estate and hotels.
Having previously invested exclusively and successfully in Europe, Avignon Capital will target Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, where it is looking to expand its network.
Avignon Capital has enjoyed its most successful financial year to date, with 18 acquisitions and seven disposals across Europe totalling a record EUR565 million in deal volume.
Disposals have included a number of triple-digit returns, such as the sale of its Copenhagen retail portfolio, which
Granite Shore Power, a newly-formed joint venture between Atlas Holdings and Castleton Commodities International (CCI), has submitted the winning bid of USD175 million to acquire select generating assets of Eversource Energy.
These assets total 1,130MW of capacity and include the Newington, Merrimack, Schiller, Lost Nation and White Lake power generation facilities. PSNH is a public-investor owned utility. Its portfolio of generation assets is being divested pursuant to a process governed by a 2016 Order of the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission.
Atlas owns and operates co-generation units at several of our industrial operations as well as Greenidge Generation, a
International law firm Proskauer represented Acorn OakNorth Holdings Limited in its latest investment round in which it secured a GBP154 million investment from affiliates of The Clermont Group, Toscafund and Coltrane Asset Management.
Launched in September 2015, OakNorth is a UK bank providing fast, flexible and accessible debt finance (GBP500,000 to GBP20 million) to UK businesses, helping to create thousands of new jobs and homes in the country. In 25 months, it has grown its loan book to over GBP800 million with clients including LEON, Galliard Homes, Frogmore, Brasserie Blanc, Strawberry Star and The Collective. Its loans have directly helped
Dealmakers in the technology sector believe that the influx of capital from private equity has contributed to recent M&A activity, boosting volumes and valuations, according to a recent survey conducted by Merrill Corporation.
The survey was conducted as part of the company’s ongoing webinar series on M&A across various segments, and included industry experts plus over 650 dealmakers.
A strong majority of respondents (74 per cent) believe that private equity’s increased technology M&A presence has increased both deal volumes and valuations.
Nearly half of the survey respondents (45 per cent) indicated that excess liquidity in global markets will
InflaRx, a biopharmaceutical company developing new therapeutics in the terminal complement space, has closed a USD55 million Series D financing and investment round.
The round was co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences LP, Cormorant Asset Management LLC and RA Capital Management LLC, and complemented by certain investment funds managed by a leading US investment management firm. The transaction is comprised of a USD30 million capital increase and a USD25 million secondary share purchase. Proceeds from the capital increase will be used to advance clinical phase IIb development of InflaRx’s lead drug candidate IFX-1, a first-in-class anti-human complement factor C5a monoclonal
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has published a new edition of its flagship due diligence questionnaire (DDQ), 20 years after the first AIMA DDQ helped to standardise the due diligence process for alternative investment managers and investors.
The new AIMA Illustrative Questionnaire for the Due Diligence of Investment Managers will be used by investors assessing hedge fund, private credit and private equity managers. Completing the DDQ is generally regarded as one of the most significant steps that investment managers must complete before an investor decides whether to allocate to a fund.
The first AIMA DDQ, published in 1997,
The Hong Kong office of international law firm, Maples and Calder, continues to expand its service offering in Asia with the recent recruitment of six experienced individuals.
The recruitment of Everton Robertson, Stacey Yuan, David Wang, Jaron Jiao and Sarena Gong brings an unrivalled range of expertise and reinforces Maples and Calder’s position as a premier service provider in the region.
Everton, who returns to the firm’s Hong Kong office, is recognised by his peers and respected industry directories and journals. He has extensive experience and expertise in finance and private equity law, advising major Asian corporations, financial institutions
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