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Invest Europe’s 2015 European Private Equity Activity report finds that private equity investment into European companies increased by 14 per cent to EUR47.4 billion in 2015, along with high fundraising and exit activity.
The trade association’s report provides verified data gathered directly from more than 1,200 European private equity firms, covering 91 per cent of the EUR564 billion in capital under management in Europe.
Almost 5,000 companies across Europe benefited from private equity and venture capital investment last year. Of these, 86 per cent were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and nearly half of the total attracted private equity
iCapital Network, an online platform that provides high-net-worth investors and their advisors with streamlined access to a curated selection of private investments, has added three senior members to the firm’s distribution team.
Eileen Duff joins the firm as Head of Distribution from Credit Suisse, where she was Head of Alternative Investments, North America. Peter Montgomery, most recently with the Alternative Investments group at Credit Suisse, and Ryan Van Geons, most recently Vice President with Fidelity Investments, both join as senior members of the Distribution team.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Eileen, Peter and Ryan, each of whom brings a
Bijal N Vira has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a corporate finance partner, based in the firm's New York office. Vira joins from Winston & Strawn.
Vira's practice is focused on representing investors and committed funds in their equity investment and/or lending activities, and his experience is comprehensive and covers all major investment classes. He advises leveraged buyout (LBO) funds and family wealth offices in platform and add-on acquisitions, senior and subordinate financing, and the subsequent harvesting of such investments; private credit funds, business development companies and small business investment company funds in secured and unsecured debt and
E8 Storage, an early-stage enterprise storage company based in Israel, today announces a USD12 million Series B financing round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures.
The investment will help the company to launch its next-generation flash storage with a rack-scale architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud.
As new generations of high-performance enterprise applications come to market, businesses are trying to find ways to improve the performance and latency of their data centres. This has led to the introduction of NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), a new standard of flash storage which
The UK-based White Car, which is set to disrupt the self-drive car hire sector, will launch a new service in August 2016 allowing customers from around the world to hire a Tesla Model S 90D for a simple all-inclusive fee of GBP149 including VAT, via the White Car app.
The company, whose initial fleet will be based at Heathrow Airport, has launched a GBP250,000 fundraise on Crowdcube with a company valuation of GBP750,000 post funding.
White Car, which is already taking pre-bookings at www.whitecar.eu ahead of its launch in August, will redefine the often cumbersome and inefficient self-drive car
DiscountRamps.com, a n online retailer of hauling and transportation products and a Rotunda Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired Heavy Duty Ramps LLC, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of aluminium ramps.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Utilising its patented designs, Kewaskum, Wisconsin-based Heavy Duty Ramps creates and distributes ramps, loading systems and other products for use with trucks, trailers, airplanes and many other applications. Discount Ramps offers more than 11,000 products, primarily servicing the powersports, mobility, recreational, commercial, transportation, military and industrial markets.
Discount Ramps and Heavy Duty Ramps have had a longstanding strategic partnership,
Porky’s BBQ, a London-based BBQ restaurant chain with five sites across the capital, is seeking GBP650,000 in investment via Crowdcube for its next phase of growth. The campaign will last 30 days and launches on 18 May.
Porky’s BBQ is a family-run, Memphis-style restaurant with sites in Camden, Shoreditch, Bankside, Crouch End and a recently opened site in Chelsea. With around GBP100,000 turnover a week in London, the brand wishes to use this crowd sourced investment to open two more sites this year alone.
This will be the business’s first effort to gain outside investment after self-funding an impressive first
Lawson Products, a distributor of products and services to the MRO marketplace, has acquired FB Feeney Hardware in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The transaction closed on 9 May, 2016.
FB Feeney Hardware has been serving the industrial market in Toronto and the surrounding area since 1952 and is known as a fleet specialist. The company’s products and value proposition are similar to that of Lawson Products’ and include vendor managed inventory services. With this acquisition, Lawson Products is gaining three experienced sales representatives.
Tom Feeney, who has led the company for the last 38 years, has agreed to join Lawson Products.
Peer-to-peer alternative finance platform Assetz Capital has launched the 30-Day Access Account (30DAA), with Provision Fund, the fourth specialist investment account available to investors on the platform.
The new account follows on from the success of the Quick Access Account (QAA), launched in October, which to date has seen over GBP50 million flow through it, funding UK SMEs.
Whereas the QAA account has a current rate of 3.75 per cent gross per annum, the new 30DAA has a current rate of 4.25 per cent gross per annum whilst also benefiting from the added protection of a discretionary Provision Fund. The
A fund managed by private equity investment firm Cloud Equity Group has acquired CloudAccess.net, a cloud-based hosting and support platform for Joomla and WordPress based content managers with offices worldwide.
Kevin Wilson, Managing Partner at Cloud Equity Group, says: “CloudAccess.net has done a phenomenal job at executing within a niche segment of the internet hosting market by developing a proprietary Cloud Control Panel (CCP) specifically catering to Joomla and WordPress users. We believe that by combining our resources with CloudAccess.net’s expertise and IT infrastructure, the company will be well positioned for continued future growth.”
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