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Vivo Capital, a global healthcare investment firm, has closed a new healthcare venture capital focused fund, the Vivo PANDA Fund, at over USD100 million.
Vivo plans to invest the capital primarily in innovative early-stage healthcare companies across the industry spectrum, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics. The addition of Vivo PANDA will enable the firm to invest in all stages in the life science industry's development cycles. Vivo PANDA will complement and build synergies with Vivo Capital Fund VIII, which invests primarily in later development stage and growth stage healthcare companies.
Vivo also intends to continue its strategy of
NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC) has held the first close of NextPower II, a private equity fund focused on acquiring operating solar power projects in Italy.
NextPower II has secured an initial commitment of EUR150 million, and will begin deploying capital imminently.
NextPower II’s strategy is to consolidate the large but highly fragmented Italian solar market. Italy has the second largest installed base of operating solar plants in the EU, and is the fifth-largest market globally, but is fragmented with the top 10 players accounting for only 7 per cent of the market. The majority of Italy’s solar assets were constructed
Private equity firm Harvest Partners has appointed Michael JP Klein as an Advisor. Klein will support the firm in identifying and evaluating investment opportunities in the automotive aftermarket parts, distribution, services, and retail sectors.
Klein has more than 35 years of experience in the automotive aftermarket, including CEO roles with Armored Auto Group, IDQ Holdings (a manufacturer of automotive A/C products), and Murray’s Discount Auto Stores. He has a history of driving businesses and shareholder value creation through organic growth initiatives and acquisitions. Mr. Klein currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association and is slated to
Specialist finance and advisory firm TCA Fund Management Group Corp is planning to launch a small-cap private equity fund to invest in under-served growth stage companies, primarily in the US and UK.
TCA Opportunities Fund I, LP, registered with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission will seek just to target 15 to 20 companies, using a US Dollar based vehicle as well as having a US based feeder.
According to the US census, there are more than 28 million small businesses with revenues between USD25-USD150 million who fall short of capital requirements from banks, peer to-peer lending, traditional private equity and
Private equity firm Inflexion’s portfolio company Succession has secured an investment package of over GBP25 million from HSBC and its existing shareholders, to continue its growth strategy through the acquisition of the best 50 firms from its affiliated membership by the end of 2017.
In the last three years Succession has acquired 25 firms to create a highly profitable, organically growing, national advisory business of scale.
Group Chief Executive of Succession, Simon Chamberlain, says: “We are at the half way point in our plan to create the UK’s largest independent wealth management business, with strong funds under management, and
Investec Specialist Bank continues to expand its Growth & Acquisition Finance team with the appointment of Nicole de Silva and Prasan Desai to the London office.
In their respective roles, Nicole and Prasan will report to James Stirling and focus on providing senior debt, mezzanine finance and minority equity across the entire capital structure.
Nicole joins from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) where she was Director of Corporate Transactions. During her time at RBS Nicole managed healthcare and commercial real estate portfolios, most recently focusing on structuring and executing leveraged transactions across the mid-market to support buy-outs, acquisitions, shareholder
Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, has sold Ennis-Flint – a specialist in pavement markings and traffic safety solutions – to an affiliate of Olympus Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Thomasville, North Carolina, Ennis-Flint serves more than 4,000 government and private sector customers in more than 60 countries through 20 manufacturing facilities and sales offices located across five continents.
During its time as an investor in the Company, Brazos has substantially grown and enhanced Ennis-Flint’s capabilities and performance, more than tripling corporate earnings during that period through acquisitions and organic
Two thirds of Limited Partners (LPs) believe that the rapid growth of private equity ‘shadow capital’ – direct investments, co-investments and separate accounts – will reduce the returns of commingled private equity funds, according to Coller Capital.
The firm’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer explains the popularity of co-investments, a form of shadow capital embraced by around half of private equity investors: almost two thirds of LPs report that their co-investments have generated higher returns than their overall private equity portfolios in recent years.
Investors believe the investment environment is becoming more difficult to navigate – almost 70 per
Devarshi Saksena (pictured) of Simmons & Simmons considers the pros and cons of new onshore European hedge fund vehicles recently developed in Ireland, Malta and Luxembourg and whether or not they represent a real challenge to the traditional Cayman model…
Times are changing for onshore European hedge funds. The structures that were traditionally trumpeted as being rivals to offshore funds – namely the Luxembourg specialised investment fund (SIF), Malta’s professional investor fund (PIF) and Ireland’s PLC/unit trust qualifying investor alternative investment fund (QIAIF) – but which had regulator-driven and, at times, frustrating fund authorisation processes are slowly giving way to easier
Global Fund Media – the digital publishing group whose flagship title is Hedgeweek – hosted a successful one-day event at the Reform Club in London on 9 June entitled “Setting up an Alternative Investment Fund in Europe”.
The event, sponsored by Simmons & Simmons, Dillon Eustace, Circle Partners and Linear Investments, was attended by 100 fund managers and was 2.5 times oversubscribed.
Throughout the day, a series of panel discussions provided expert insights into the challenges and the sheer breadth of decisions that one needs to consider before bringing an onshore AIF to market.
After an opening address provided by
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