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Exiger, a regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has acquired The Poseidon Group, a Hong Kong and Singapore-based due diligence and business intelligence firm.
With the addition of Poseidon into its growing portfolio of specialised due diligence and business intelligence solutions for global and regional banks, private equity groups, hedge funds, multinational corporations, foundations, and endowments, Exiger gains significant expertise and manpower in Hong Kong and Singapore, bolstering the firm's ability to service the needs of clients operating in the Asia Pacific region.
"Over the past 10 years, Velisarios Kattoulas and his team at Poseidon have developed
Hermed Capital Healthcare Fund, a fund partnership between Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group and SK Group, has made a strategic investment in DiaMedica.
The investment agreement will see Hermed Capital invest USD4.0 million for a total of 20 million common shares of the company at USD0.20 (approx. CND0.26) per common share in two tranches.
The 10 day volume-weight average price was CND0.26 on 13 July 2016. The first tranche will be USD1.0 million, while the second tranche of USD3.0 million is anticipated to close in August 2016.
The closing of each tranche is subject to customary closing conditions contained
Japan’s SoftBank Group has reached agreement with UK-based ARM Holdings on the terms of a recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of the Cambridge-based microchip designer.
ARM products are used in most smartphones, including those from industry giants Apple and Samsung.
Under the terms of the acquisition, each ARM shareholder will be entitled to receive for each ARM share 1,700 pence in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 43.0 per cent to the closing price of 1,189 pence per ARM share, and approximately 42.9 per cent to the closing price
Noerr has advised the Danish private equity investment company Axcel on several pan-European acquisitions of high tech suppliers to the meat-processing industry and the formation of a global industry market leader.
Axcel is investing in the companies SFK LEBLANC, Attec, ITEC and Carometec via the Axcel IV fund.
The companies acquired were bought from various seller groups in Germany and Denmark. They operate across Europe and are owner-managed, except for SKF LEBLANC. SKF LEBLANC has been owned to date by the investment companies Maj Invest and Nimbus.
Total turnover at all four companies is around EUR150 million.
Blue Sky Venture Capital has participated in a USD10 million financing round in aCommerce, an e-commerce provider that helps global brands such as L’Oréal, Adidas and Nestlé set up an online retail presence in Southeast Asia.
MDI Ventures, an Indonesian venture capital fund by Telkom, and DKSH, a Switzerland-based company providing market expansion services for brands, were also part of the raise.
aCommerce provides end-to-end services for e-commerce clients, which include brands and retailers, looking to grow their online presence in Southeast Asia. The business provides services along the entire e-commerce journey, including marketing, customer service, channel management, warehousing,
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas has supported the management buyout of Exemplar Healthcare, a UK provider of residential nursing care for adults with acute physical and mental disabilities (PMD) and learning disabilities (LD).
Consideration on the transaction is not being disclosed.
The group, which is based in Rotherham, operates 25 high quality, purpose-built specialist nursing homes, providing more than 700 beds across Yorkshire, Humberside, the Midlands and the North West. It employs approximatly 2,100 staff and generated revenues of GBP55 million in the year ended 31 March 2016.
Exemplar has an experienced management team, which is led
Kavitha Ramachandran (pictured), Senior Manager, Business Development and Client Management at Maitland, comments on the adoption the RAIF law in Luxembourg…
The launch of the RAIF is a very welcome development for the alternatives industry, and represents an important milestone in terms of the ‘bedding in’ of the new AIFMD regime. The switch from product to manager-focused regulation is one of the central planks of the AIFMD, so it makes no sense for the old now-redundant layer of product-focused regulation to remain in place – it amounts to regulating the same thing twice over. It doesn’t make investors any safer,
John Haynes (pictured), Head of Research at Investec Wealth & Investment, comments on Softbank’s proposed acquisition of ARM…
The announcement of an agreed bid for ARM Holdings by Softbank of Japan is the clearest illustration possible of the consequences of the current global currency volatility. Assuming the bid price, Softbank is paying over 25 per cent less in yen terms compared to over a year ago to acquire this crown jewel of UK, and indeed global, intellectual property. The devaluation of sterling will continue to provide interesting investment opportunities for overseas investors to buy UK assets, including central London property,
The French private equity and venture capital association AFIC has welcomed the decision by the French financial markets authority AMF to introduce the concept of “premarketing” and adapt its definition of what constitutes an act of marketing.
AFIC, which as part of the framework of the working group FROG (French [Routes & Opportunities] Garden) had defended the importance of recognising the premarketing concept in French law, considers that this change in AMF doctrine will facilitate the launch of new funds in France and improve the distribution of French funds abroad.
Already accepted in other European financial markets, premarketing sends a strong
Campbell Lutyens has appointed Sir Peter Westmacott – former British Ambassador to Washington – to the firm’s advisory board.
The advisory board, which was established at the formation of Campbell Lutyens 28 years ago, comprises a small number of distinguished thinkers who provide perspective and support to the executive team, which comprises over 90 full-time members operating from offices in London, New York and Hong Kong.
Westmacott says: "I have known John Campbell for well over 20 years and have followed with interest over that time the growth of Campbell Lutyens and the fields of private equity, debt and
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