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Technology, media and communications investment bank Drake Star Partners has launched private equity co-investments which are made with its own capital in partnership with like-minded co-investors.
They consist of partnerships on behalf of some of the world's largest multi-billion-dollar single family offices.
It comes just over a month after Redwood Capital and LD&A Jupiter announced their merger to form Drake Star Partners.
Drake Star Partners seeks to invest between USD15 million to USD100 million of capital per transaction in middle market private equity technology, media and communications investment opportunities, including buyouts, build-ups, acquisitions, growth equity and recapitalisations worldwide.
ShoreVest Capital Partners, an institutional private investment firm specialising in Chinese distressed debt and structured credit, is bidding on its first non-performing loan (NPL) deals, just a few months after its launch.
ShoreVest’s core team members have a 12-year track record and a combined 100+ years of experience in Chinese distressed debt and structured credit.
Much of this experience came from the many years they worked together as the majority of the senior team at their prior firm, Shoreline Capital.
Eight out of the 12 senior investment, legal, and compliance members from Shoreline Capital’s prior funds are
The Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN), a networking organisation for senior women in private equity with chapters in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, has expanded to Nigeria.
It follows the formal launch of PEWIN Africa earlier in the year in South Africa.
The invitation-only members organisation, which was founded in 2007 in the US, has been expanding internationally, opening London and Hong Kong chapters in 2015 in its first international expansion move. Future expansion on the continent will include Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya.
On 10 November 2016, PEWIN hosted an Africa Institutional Investor Roundtable in Lagos,
CEPRES has launched PE.Analyzer3, a fundamental benchmarking platform for private capital markets.
With PE.Analyzer3 investors (LPs) and fund managers (GPs) exchange investment data in a secure environment.
Using technical and fundamental analysis, they benchmark funds, deals and operating companies for three-dimensional investment decisions.
PE.Analyzer3 launches together with benchmark data on 2,614 funds, 35,962 deals and USD2.9 trillion worth of PE-backed companies.
Taking input from leading LPs, PE.Analyzer3 introduces expert investment screening sheets. Fund and deal performance, PMEs (Public Market Equivalents), loss and recovery rates, return distributions, j-curve analysis and value creation are all calculated live for funds,
Signs including a new unregulated fund product, reform of company law and the moves of eight Chinese banks to Luxembourg suggest a bright future for Luxembourg, says Ogier practice partner Francois Pfister.
The Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF) model, which cuts duplication of compliance obligations by targeting regulation at managers and not underlying funds, has seen significant interest, and has been followed by other jurisdictions.
At the same time, Brexit and company law reform are also attracting interest to the EU state, and within the last month, an eighth Chinese bank has signalled its plans to move to
REG Power Management has signed an asset management contract with BlackRock for the recently constructed 18MW Batsworthy Cross Wind Farm in Devon, England.
Batsworthy Cross joins the 26MW Glens of Foudland wind farm acquired by BlackRock from Centrica earlier this year.
Last month BlackRock also appointed REG as the asset manager for four solar projects totalling circa 63MWp, adding to five existing ground-mounted solar PV assets under management by REG for BlackRock funds.
REG Asset Management now has around 20 wind and 14 solar projects under management across the UK, taking the total managed capacity to nearly 260MW.
Sat here writing this article in one of London’s many coffee shops there are at least half a dozen others tapping away on their MacBooks. By 2020, it is estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of the global workforce will work for themselves, in a freelance or independent consultant capacity, collaborating with people on platforms to deliver a particular service or solution.
Welcome to the gig economy, or sharing economy, that has seemingly been defined overnight by the incredible success of Airbnb and Uber, the e-hailing company.
These two companies, in particular, have completely changed the natural order of
Aurelius Equity Opportunities has reported a 63 per cent increase in consolidated revenues to EUR1,926.9 million in the first nine months of 2016.
Consolidated revenues increased by 51 per cent year on year to EUR2,749.3 million, with growth significantly boosted by company acquisitions during the past 12 months.
Aurelius Equity Opportunities generated EBITDA of EUR122.0 million for the combined group in the first nine months of 2016 (Q1-Q3 2015: EUR165.6 million).
Operating EBITDA amounted to EUR83.8 million despite the sale of several profitable group subsidiaries, reflecting the solid operating performance of most group portfolio companies, notably SECOP, Studienkreis,
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala) and other investment funds have confirmed plans for their interest in two potential investments in the Russian agricultural and food production sectors.
The consortium has agreed to deal terms for an investment in AFG National, Russia’s leading vertically integrated producer and distributor of rice. The company is also developing capacity within the fruit and vegetables growing sector.
Upon close, the investment will be up to RUB9 billion, with funds used by AFG National to increase the volume of agricultural production, expand the land bank, construct agricultural infrastructure and to
SC Distributors (SCD), a wholesale distributor of alternative investment offerings, has appointed PJ McDaniel as eastern divisional sales manager.
In this role, McDaniel (pictured) will manage SCD’s sales and marketing initiatives in the Eastern US, including the oversight of the external wholesaling team.
McDaniel returns to SCD after having initially joined the company immediately after its inception, where he was both a wholesaler and sales manager.
Most recently, McDaniel served as managing director and national sales manager at Highland Capital Management where he was responsible for sales, as well as securing new selling agreements, within the independent broker/dealer
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