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Some 75 per cent of investors plan to increase their allocation to real assets in the next five years, according to a poll of attendees at the 2016 Global Real Assets Conference in New York.
The annual forum, now in its 16th year, brought together CIOs, heads of real assets, heads of real estate, heads of infrastructure, other investment professionals from leading defined benefit and defined contribution plans, insurance providers, endowments and foundations, and consultants to discuss trends and strategies in real estate, infrastructure and maritime investing around the globe.
Current industry sentiments were captured through a series of polling
Private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired New World Trading Company (NWTC), a pub and restaurant business headquartered in Knutsford, Cheshire, from private equity firm LDC in a GBP50 million transaction.
LDC originally invested GBP2.7m for a minority stake in NWTC in 2013 through the Hill Capital Food & Beverage Fund, which was set up to back early stage food and drink concepts. The sale has generated a 6.1x money multiple and IRR of 80 per cent for LDC.
NWTC opened its first pub in 2011 and now operates 14 pubs/restaurants nationally under five sub brands: The Botanist, The Oast
Centerview Capital Technology Management has appointed Dr Buno Pati as a Partner adding to the founding partnership of Ned Hooper, former Chief Strategy Officer of Cisco Systems, David Dorman, former Chairman and CEO of AT&T and Sandhya Venkatachalam former VP Advertising and Monetization and Head of Corporate Development of Skype.
Dr Pati is an entrepreneur and company builder who brings more than 20 years of experience growing, leading and investing in technology companies and has served as an Advisor to the firm since 2014.
Pati founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Numerical Technologies, a company that redefined how
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed an investment in Conservice, a provider of utility management software and billing solutions to property owners and managers.
TA Associates purchased shares from Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based alternative asset manager, which will remain an investor in Conservice. No new shares were issued and no other owners or management sold shares in conjunction with this transaction. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2000, Conservice serves the single-unit and multi-unit markets, including apartment communities, student housing, military housing, government-subsidised housing, commercial buildings, homeowner associations and real estate-owned (REO)
blow ltd, a London-based beauty services on demand provider, has secured a GBP500,000 investment from Unilever Ventures alongside an angel and Crowdfunding campaign on the Seedrs platform. The total investment into blow LTD now exceeds the GBP1 million mark.
Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever, which invests in young, promising companies in the personal care and digital sectors. It looks to invest in outstanding management teams and innovative business models that have the potential to reshape the industry it operates in. The GBP500K investment in Blow Ltd marks their eighth investment from their third
Ardian portfolio company Italmatch Chemicals, a global specialty chemicals group, has acquired 100 per cent from US private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners.
The acquisition sees Italmatch Group consolidate its presence in the American market, with an important manufacturing site which will continue to produce Compass’ Mayoquest brand of products. It will also be expanding its water treatment product range, thus strengthening the leading global role of the DequestR brand in a highly strategic business segment.
This is the third acquisition in the water treatment industry by Italmatch since Ardian became the major shareholder in June 2014, and falls
Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) – along with existing investors and company management – has made a USD65 million strategic investment in SaaS property management platform Buildum.
SEP Managing Directors, Jason Babcoke and John Brennan, will join Buildium’s board of directors.
“Buildium has successfully made the transition from start up to established market leader, and its large and rapidly growing base of happy customers is a testament to the company’s customer-first philosophy,” says Jason Babcoke, managing director at SEP. “Founder-led teams with strong product backgrounds are attractive investments for us – especially since Buildium was founded in the practice
Wasserstein Partners has acquired Northstar Travel Group, a provider of business-to-business information, content, events, data, research, custom content and software dedicated to the global travel and meeting industries, from the Wicks Group of Companies.
Investing alongside Wasserstein Partners IV were its co-investors, Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board, John Hancock, and Storebrand Insurance.
Northstar is the owner of well-known brands including Travel Weekly, TravelAge West, Business Travel News, Successful Meetings, Meetings & Conventions, Travel Weekly China, Incentive, M&C China and Web in Travel. The company produces more than 50 face-to-face events in thirteen countries in retail travel, corporate travel, travel technology
Tikehau IM and Ares announced have arranged a major unitranche financing to support Apax Partners in the acquisition of Marlink, Airbus Group’s Commercial Satellite Communication business.
Marlink's maritime and land commercial satcom business is present in 14 countries across Europe, Asia, Middle-East and Americas, and has a distribution network of approximately 400 re-sellers worldwide. The company serves all maritime sectors globally and thousands of users operating in challenging environments in the mining, energy and humanitarian sectors that need highly reliable satcom mobile and fixed connectivity services.
The government satcom business is not part of this transaction and remains part of
Total worldwide entertainment and media revenues will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4 per cent in nominal terms over the coming five years, from USD1.72 trillion in 2015 to USD2.14 trillion in 2020, according to PwC's Global entertainment and media outlook 2016-2020.
This growth rate represents a slowdown from last year's 5.5 per cent growth in industry revenues, and will lag behind overall global economic growth during the five years. But a closer examination brings a different picture into focus. Entertainment and media is a dynamic, diverse industry with steady and sustainable growth. And while its
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