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HIG Growth Partners, the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has recapitalised Centerfield Media Holdings in partnership with the Company’s co-founders Jason Cohen and Brett Cravatt.
Centerfield is a digital advertising technology company that is focused on real time biddable media enabling the targeting and acquisition of high performing, high life time value customers for its clients across numerous industries. The Company leverages a proprietary and purpose-built end-to-end technology platform to automatically optimise each part of the customer acquisition, education and conversion process. This platform technology empowers Centerfield to identify and acquire customers across a variety of digital
With some of the biggest names in private equity real estate raising ever larger funds, this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight looks at how emerging managers are faring in the fundraising market and how investor appetite for new firms is changing.
The fundraising environment for emerging managers* seems especially daunting in recent times amid intense competition for fundraising; managers lacking an established track record are finding it difficult to gain traction and secure institutional investor commitments. Larger, more experienced real estate firms, however, have been securing ever greater proportions of fundraising, but has this been at the expense of
Australian private equity and venture capital has continued to deliver strong returns, outperforming the S&P/ASX 300 Index by over 8 per cent in the June 2015 quarter and delivering a 23 per cent net return for the year to 30 June 2015.
That’s according to data released today by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) and Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index (the CA Australia Index) – which is the leading independent performance benchmark for the private equity and venture capital asset class – outperformed the listed markets through
The Leland Family of Funds, in conjunction with Thomson Reuters, has launched the Leland Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index Fund which, as its name suggests, tracks the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index.
Launched in October, 2012, the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index is an investable index that tracks the performance of individual US venture capital-backed private companies via liquid, publicly traded assets. It utilises economic factors and market indicators to calculate optimal asset weights across a number of sectors and modifies the portfolio over time to reflect changes in the US venture capital universe.
"Historically, sophisticated institutional investors have
Technology and Consulting firm Methys has appointed Jean Philippe Gireaud as Head of International Business Development, a move designed to support the firm’s strategy to increase its presence in Continental Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Based in Paris, Jean-Philippe will be responsible for developing new streams of business across all Methys products and services.
In his previous role, Jean Philippe Gireaud spent five years at eFront where he was Area Sales Manager in Europe and Africa. Prior to that he held various Senior Sales and Presales with GL Trade (acquired by Sungard in 2009). Jean-Philippe started his
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has completed fundraising for its fourth institutional buyout fund, reaching the cap of USD750 million and surpassing the USD550 million target.
Lovell Minnick Equity Partners IV received commitments from many limited partners who invested in previous funds sponsored by the firm, including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, RCP Advisors, Twin Bridge Capital Partners, and PPM America on behalf of certain clients. Lovell Minnick also attracted commitments from a number of new investors including MassPRIM and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The firm’s prior fund, Lovell Minnick Equity
CohnReznick Capital Markets Securities has added three new members to its renewable energy team.
Industry veteran, Nick Sangermano is Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Private Placements. Hw will lead CohnReznick Cap Markets’ efforts to further support its energy and other corporate clients’ needs for capital.
Sangermano brings more than 15 years of investment experience to the Firm, having led and structured numerous private equity and debt capital raises in the renewable energy industry. Most recently, he was a managing director at Ambata Securities where he advised clients on private capital raises, fundraising and transaction execution, with a
Middle market private equity firm Blackford Capital has appointed Jeffrey W Johnson as managing director.
Prior to joining Blackford, Johnson served as managing director for Gilbert Global Equity Partners, LP, a billion-dollar private equity fund that was launched by Soros Quantum Funds alumni. As a key founding member of Gilbert, Johnson was involved in all aspects of the firm's business and strategy and he originated, structured and closed several leveraged and growth-oriented platform investments up to $150 million that were focused on building shareholder value both financially and operationally. He represented the firm's interests as a board member and oversight
State Street Corporation’s GX Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, saw an overall return of 4.2 per cent in the second quarter of the year.
The index is based on directly sourced limited partnership data and represents more than USD2.2 trillion of private equity investments, with 2,492 unique private equity partnerships, as of 30 June, 2015.
“Throughout the last three years, from October 2012 to September 2015, we have witnessed significant amounts of capital distributions with the ratio of distributions to paid-in capital reaching an historical high of 1.78x,” says Will Kinlaw
Polaris Private Equity (Polaris) has sold its holding, equivalent to 75 per cent of all shares, in Skånska Byggvaror to Byggmax, for SEK741 million. In addition to the initial purchase price, an additional payment of SEK110 million may also be made depending on the financial performance for Skånska Byggvaror during 2016.
Skånska Byggvaror is an online based retailer of refined do-it-yourself (D-I-Y) products, with operations in Sweden and Norway. Over the past 12 months Skånska Byggvaror had net sales of SEK690 million, growing by approximately 20 per cent year-on-year, and EBITA of SEK47 million (excluding non- recurring items).
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