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Lower middle-market private equity firm MPE Partners has closed its oversubscribed second fund, MPE Partners II, at the hard cap of USD250 million.
The firm launched fundraising in April 2016 and did not use a placement agent.
"More than 30 investors committed to Fund II, including global asset management firms, insurance companies, family offices, foundations, and high net worth individuals," says Joe Machado, partner at MPE.
MPE has invested in companies such as dlhBOWLES, a designer and manufacturer of engineered plastics and fluid flow solutions for the automotive, consumer, and industrial markets; Trachte, a manufacturer of pre-assembled control
Inflexion’s portfolio company Kynetec, a specialist in agricultural and animal health market research, has acquired the agriculture and animal health business of Ipsos North America.
Ipsos agriculture and animal health in North America comprises two locations: St. Louis in the US and Guelph in Canada.
The acquisition brings additional market research expertise to Kynetec’s team, adding 25 experienced professionals to its team of 250 market researchers.
By combining the staff and methodologies from Ipsos agriculture and animal health with Kynetec’s custom team, along with a considerable investment in innovation, Kynetec expects substantial strengthening of its North American business.
IMAX Corporation and IMAX China Holding have completed the first phase of a USD50 million virtual reality fund to help finance the creation of at least 25 interactive VR content experiences over the next three years.
IMAX and its partners, which include leaders from the media, entertainment and technology sectors, will use the funds to aid in the creation of higher-quality VR content that can be leveraged across the burgeoning VR industry.
The group will target premium, event-style productions with its Hollywood studio and filmmaker partners that complement IMAX's film slate, as well as gaming publishers and other content
Assetz Capital says investors have earned a total of GBP15 million in gross interest since the company launched in 2013.
Assetz Capital has been at the forefront of the P2P sector by providing British small and medium sized businesses with their funding requirements.
Individuals can invest in these businesses either through tailored investment accounts, or by manually choosing where their capital is invested.
To date almost GBP180 million has invested through the platform, typically earning investors gross rates of return between 3.75 per cent and 15 per cent per annum.
Each of the businesses receiving funds through
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.
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