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Markit has launched Markit WSO Credit Manager, a credit and portfolio analysis application for investment professionals focused on bank loans. Credit Manager was designed in partnership with CVC Credit Partners and other industry experts.
The application helps portfolio managers and credit analysts make investment decisions by centralising the data they need to select investments, monitor credit performance and identify risk.
Credit Manager streamlines credit selection with screening functions that filter investment opportunities based on technical and fundamental criteria. The system alerts users about changes to portfolio holdings and provides collaboration tools to help investment teams coordinate their response if action
Quercus Assets Selection, which specialises in infrastructure investments with a focus on renewable energy, is to launch two new renewable energy infrastructure funds, bringing the total number of funds in its portfolio to five.
The launch of the two new funds will complement the recently launched Quercus European Renewables fund to maximise the portfolio’s risk/return profile through a meticulous strategy of diversification.
Quercus is looking to raise a minimum combined target of EUR500 million across the three funds, which is to be invested in connected wind and solar plants in Italy, as well as in other renewable technologies throughout Europe.
Private equity firm Mid Europa Partners has successfully completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Centrul Medical Unirea SRL (Regina Maria).
With approximately 300,000 corporate subscribers, the Regina Maria is a premium integrated private healthcare services operator in Romania with a national presence of 24 polyclinics, four hospitals, 13 labs and six imaging facilities.
Mid Europa, which focuses on buyouts in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey, plans to pursue a growth strategy for Regina Maria, both organically and through acquisitions.
Hausfeld is to expand its operations in Europe with the opening of a German office in Berlin after agreeing a EUR30 million deal with Burford Capital to finance competition claims and complex commercial litigation.
Hausfeld Rechtsanwälte LLP will formally open in Berlin by 1 January, 2016 and will be staffed by German partners and other lawyers with significant experience and reputations in the competition area in Germany. Specific personnel announcements will be made in the coming weeks. The offices will be located at Kurfürstendamm 218, Berlin.
There is significant and growing client demand for litigation funding in German –
Jay Fishman has resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of alternative asset manager Carlyle Group Management, effective 27 October, 2015.
Fishman had served as a board member since Carlyle’s initial public offering in May 2012. His resignation is due to previously announced health issues.
The Carlyle Group has named Anthony Welters, Executive Chairman of the Black Ivy Group, and Senior Adviser to the Office of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, as an independent director.
“Jay played an invaluable role on our Board of Directors over the last several years,” says Daniel A. D’Aniello, Chairman of The
A new private equity firm, created through a management buyout from Barclays, is looking to open up new growth investment opportunities in natural resources.
Following the deal, Barclays Natural Resource Investments (BNRI) is now Global Natural Resource Investments (GNRI) an independent, private equity firm, which will build on the existing management team’s strong expertise and proven track record in successfully managing natural resource investment opportunities globally over the last nine years.
Barclays will not be selling any of its existing investments as part of the acquisition. An investment advisory mandate between GNRI and Barclays has been agreed under which
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) sixth annual survey of venture capital trust (VCT) investment reveals that a total of 13,508 new jobs have been created at the SMEs surveyed since the beginning of the VCT investment scheme.
According to the survey – ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth: VCT investment 1995-2015’ – on average 51 jobs have been created per investee company since VCT investment. At the companies that received funding in 2013, on average 15 new jobs have been created per investee company.
Ian Sayers, Chief Executive of the AIC, says: “VCTs address market failures which prevent smaller UK
Paul Latham (pictured), Managing Director of Octopus, comments on the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) sixth annual Venture Capital Trust (VCT) investment survey…
This year’s AIC ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth’ survey demonstrates how vital a source of funding VCT investments are for many UK smaller companies.
The findings tally with our recent ‘Octopus High Growth Small Business Report 2015’, which shows the tremendous contribution these companies are making to our economy generating thousands of jobs and driving growth across the country. VCTs are a critical source of funding for UK smaller companies in every region of the country and we
Start-ups in ASEAN are drawing increasing attention from venture capital firms and several countries have put in place measures to encourage such activities. The appetite for venture capital investments has seen a growth in both the number of deals and aggregate value transacted between 2014 and 2015 YTD. On the other hand, buyout activity has yet to match the peak seen in 2014.
In 2014-2015 YTD, there were 401 venture capital deals completed in ASEAN, totalling USD2.2 billion in aggregate value. When looking at buyout activities in the same timeframe, a total of 81 private equity-backed buyout deals were transacted
Seyfarth Shaw has added partner Eric Simonson to the firm’s Corporate department in New York.
Simonson joins Seyfarth from Blank Rome where he was a corporate partner in the firm’s New York office. While there, he was a member of the mergers and acquisitions, securities, and Asia practice services as well as the emerging companies, private equity and venture capital industries, among others.
For more than 25 years, Simonson’s practice has focused on a broad range of corporate services including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, corporate finance, securities matters, technology transactions, and capital raising activities. He has advised clients in
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