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A recent report produced by BNY Mellon in collaboration with Preqin shines a light on how much demand there is among institutional investors for private equity and real estate funds. The report found that 44 per cent of real estate managers and 39 per cent of private equity managers expect their assets under management to grow by at least 50 per cent in the next five years.
Family offices (26 per cent) and public pension funds (25 per cent) are expected to be the main drivers of inflows, as they look to build long-term allocations and reduce their weighting on
Teal Natural Resources, a newly formed oil and natural gas exploration company, has secued a commitment of USD125 million from private investment firms Pearl Energy Investments through Pearl Energy Investments, and Natural Gas Partners through NGP Natural Resources XI.
Each firm made an initial commitment of USD62.5 million. Launched in March 2016 and headquartered in Dallas, Teal will use the capital to pursue and develop primarily unconventional resource play opportunities in Texas, initially focusing on the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.
Teal is led by three founding partners who boast a unique range of skills and expertise. In addition
UK equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has been named as Britain’s most active investor in private companies.
A new report, The Deal Q1 2016, by independent research firm Beauhurst, shows that equity crowdfunding continues to dominate private investment, with Seedrs continuing to lead the market in the space as the most active investor in the UK.
Seedrs is ranked number one in a number of categories of investment, including most active investor and top tech and top business and professional services investor in the UK. It was in the total number of deals funded during Q1 of this year that Seedrs
The investment community voted to remain in the EU last night (Monday 16 May) following a passionate discussion at the ‘Brexit: Pursued by a Bear’ debate chaired and sponsored by law firm Howard Kennedy.
In a close and surprising vote, 56 per cent of attending delegates, drawn from the London investment community, voted to remain with 44 per cent wishing to leave.
The debate at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in the heart of the City of London, chaired by Howard Kennedy partner Mark Stephens, was co-sponsored by Peterhouse Corporate Finance and accountants Welbeck Associates.
For the first time the question
Synlab Bondco, a subsidiary of Cinven portfolio company Synlab Limited, has successfully priced a private placement offering of EUR190 million in principal amount of additional senior secured floating rate notes due 2022 at a price of 99.5 per cent.
Synlab is the leading pan-European clinical laboratories business operating across 35 countries with combined revenues of approximately EUR1.5 billion. Each year, Synlab undertakes more than 400 million diagnostic tests for close to 50 million patients.
As Synlab had updated its bondholders during the FY15 Results call, the integration and the organisational changes made within the combined Synlab business are now largely
WI Harper Group, a leading early stage venture capital firm, has closed WIH Fund VIII at USS175 million. WI Harper's most recent fund includes support from many leading international institutional investors.
With WI Harper Group's family of funds, total assets under management are now close to USD1 billion.
WI Harper Group's Founder and Chairman, Peter Liu, says: "We are extremely pleased to announce the successful closing of Fund VIII which now brings our total AUM to USD1 billion. This is a significant milestone in our firm's long and successful history. WI Harper was founded 25 years ago based on a
WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology, with a particular focus on data and finance, has invested in True Anthem, a leader in viral content tracking and social influence.
Through its investment, WorldQuant Ventures will further enable True Anthem to expand and strengthen the Company's innovative and data-driven platform that helps publishers identify and amplify their earned media.
"We were immediately attracted to True Anthem's data-driven and analytical approach to transforming the digital publishing landscape," says Steven Lau, Managing Director at WorldQuant Ventures. "True Anthem is at an important and exciting time in its
Commercial cleaning and outsourced facility maintenance company, Capital Contractors, has closed on a USD5 million financing facility from its current majority owner, an affiliate of Palladium Equity Partners, LLC.
Founded in 1932, Capital Contractors will use the proceeds from the financing to continue to expand its sales, operations and customer service resources in its leading territories along the entire US eastern seaboard and midwest, as well as across all of Canada.
Capital Contractors also continues to invest in the latest cleaning technologies such as UVC disinfection equipment for its leading germ-eradicating sanitizing cleaning programs for schools, healthcare facilities, restaurants and
Private equity firm BV Investment Partners (BV) and TriCore Solutions, a portfolio company of BV Fund VIII, are making a joint investment in REAN Cloud, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner.
The existing owners of REAN will maintain a majority ownership interest in partnership with BV and TriCore.
Founded in 2013 and based in Herndon, VA, REAN Cloud helps customers architect, build, migrate, and manage their IT workloads and applications on AWS. REAN is led by AWS and industry veterans with deep cloud services expertise supporting customers in predominantly highly regulated end markets, including Life Sciences, Higher Education,
Hall-Capital Partners has acquired Phoenix, Arizona-based 4Knines, the manufacturer of a full line of fabric-based protective liners and seat covers for autos, trucks and other motor vehicles.
Although the company is relatively new, it has established itself as a leader at the premium end of this popular and growing segment of the auto accessories market. As the name suggests, 4Knines products are especially appealing to pet owners who love their cars/trucks but want to safely and comfortable include their pets in their motoring routines.
The line is expansive enough to fit just about every automobile and truck brand in
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