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State Street is to work with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) to distribute its GX Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, to nearly 300 global asset management clients, including private equity managers, investors and third-party administrators.
The PEI will be integrated into FIS’s Data Exchange portal (DX), a platform for sharing documents and data via advanced data visualisations, analytics and dynamic and interactive reporting.
“State Street’s GX Private Equity Index is a high-quality, industry-recognised source of private equity data,” says Sami Juma, chief operating officer, private equity business for Fidelity National. “We
LongueVue Capital (LVC), a New Orleans-based private equity firm, has held the final closing of LongueVue Capital Partners III (LVC III).
Building on LVC's predecessor funds, LVC III will focus on private equity investments in lower middle market companies across a variety of industries.
LongueVue Capital welcomed new institutional investors into the partnership, including The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO).
In addition to the final closing, LVC received a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) licensure of LVC III. The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap of USD252 million, including SBIC leverage.
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The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has made an investment in InfoWatch group, a Russian specialist in corporate information security.
InfoWatch focuses on identifying internal threats and protecting information, as well as identifying and preventing targeted external attacks.
RDIF will hold a minority equity stake in the Russian assets of InfoWatch group, which comprises such brands as InfoWatch, Cezurity, Taiga and Attack Killer.
RDIF funds will be used to increase the company’s export potential and localize products and solutions that ensure information security for companies in the foreign markets. The investments will also be employed to open the
Fifteen months after the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) published the first private equity industry standard template for reporting fees, expenses and carried interest to limited partners, the organisation has launched the second phase of the initiative which will focus on supporting global implementation.
This phase will leverage existing LP and GP experience with the ILPA Reporting Template to bolster efforts of those implementing the standard in the coming year.
“Following a successful year of Template adoption by the global private equity community, the time is right to expand beyond the impressive base of users and support those
Orca, an independent data, research and analysis provider on the UK peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market, has launched a platform aimed at helping financial advisers and sophisticated investors visualise and take advantage of opportunities within the P2P market.
The platform, offering standardised metrics to compare P2P investments, will allow users to perform in-depth due diligence on P2P investments, benchmark them in a way they would traditional asset classes, and hence make risk-adjusted, informed investment decisions or recommendations.
The P2P market has seen tremendous growth in the past two years, increasing by 40 per cent in 2016. It is estimated that
Panasonic Corporation is to establish a new company, Panasonic Ventures, in April 2017, which will be based in California and invest in start-up companies mainly in the US, with initial investments of around USD100 million.
Panasonic has invested in Silicon Valley start-ups with cutting-edge technologies for nearly 20 years since 1998.
As a member of the venture community, the company has been helping these firms grow by providing a wide array of in-house technologies and human resources.
Going forward, Panasonic Ventures, with new external venture capitalists, will spearhead Panasonic's investments in start-ups that have unique business models or
Omnes Capital, with the support of co-investors Capital Transmission (Banque Cantonale de Genève) and Bpifrance, has acquired a stake in Groupe RGF alongside buyer Pascal Daviet as part of a management buy-in (MBI).
Joël Béraldin, director and 100 per cent shareholder in the company, has sold all of his shares and has acquired minority stakes in the new transaction.
Based in Pratz, the group specialises in the design and production of plastic and/or metal technical small parts in niche markets. Groupe RGF covers the entire production chain, including design, creation of moulds, injection, undercutting, overmoulding and automated assembly. The
O’Melveny has represented Berkeley Research Group, a global strategic advisory and consulting firm, in connection with its USD62.5 million investment from affiliates of Endeavour Capital.
Proceeds from the investment will be used to provide additional working capital to support BRG’s continued expansion across its core service lines.
The O’Melveny team was led by partners Sean Monroe and Chuck Baker, along with associates Alexandra Piarino and Evie Whiting. Partner Robert Blashek provided tax guidance.
CVC Capital Partners Fund VI has completed the acquisition of Corialis (Core Innovative Aluminium Integrated Solutions), a European manufacturer of aluminium profiles and systems, supplying door, window and conservatory manufacturers in both the new construction and refurbishment markets, from Advent International.
The transaction values Corialis at an enterprise value of approximately EUR1 billion.
Steven Buyse, partner at CVC Capital Partners, says: “We are delighted to partner with Johan and his talented leadership team to further build out this highly successful business. Consistently delivering high-quality aluminium profile systems with industry-leading lead times and service levels has led to a fantastic
While the current M&A environment is still trending to be more favourable to sellers as has been the case over the past two years, there are indications to suggest that certain terms are slightly less seller favourable than in 2015.
This is according to law firm Seyfarth Shaw’s fourth edition of its Middle-Market M&A SurveyBook of Key M&A Deal Terms, which analyses over 150 middle-market (<USD1 billion) publicly available private target acquisition agreements signed in 2016.
The Survey focuses on the key deal terms comprising the “indemnity package” often included in private target acquisition agreements to address the issue
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