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This recent factsheet from Preqin takes a detailed look at the hedge fund industry in Boston, including the strategy and structure preferences of investors, the number of hedge fund launches each year, fund terms and conditions, the largest hedge fund managers and performance.
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This recent factsheet from Preqin takes a detailed look at the hedge fund industry in Hong Kong, including the strategy and structure preferences of investors, the number of hedge fund launches each year, fund terms and conditions, the largest hedge fund managers and performance.
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Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Viewfinity on its sale to CyberArk.
Based in Massachusetts with R&D operations in Israel, Viewfinity provides privilege management and application control software. Through automated, policy-based monitoring, elevation, threat detection, and incident remediation, Viewfinity aims to eliminate the bottlenecks of operating without administrative rights, while bringing end-point level visibility and actionable data to security.
Headquartered in Petach Tikvah, Israel, CyberArk offers a solution that proactively protects privileged accounts, monitors privileged activities, and detects malicious privileged behaviour. A vital security partner to 1,900 global businesses, including 40 per cent of Fortune 100
The UK is at the centre of European M&A in 2015, with deal values already exceeding FY 2014 according to MergerMarket’s Q1-3 trend report. The first six month’s of the year have also seen the highest H1 deal value on record.
Turmoil in the Greek economy and the weakened euro have increased investor confidence in UK transactions, according to Mergermarket, with inbound deals worth a record GBP138.6 billion, up 233.5 per cent on Q1-3 2014. The UK contributed 38.7 per cent to total European deal value, with energy, mining and utilities dominating at GBP23.2 billion of deals. Outbound deals remained
Niche London has advised Ipes (UK) Ltd on its expansion-led UK office headquarters relocation from Victoria to the City.
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to the European Private Equity market, has moved from its offices in London’s Victoria, to new premises in the City of London.
McCalmont-Woods Ipes advised Ipes on the move to 8,100 sq ft of accommodation on the 9th floor of 1 Minster Court, EC3. A new 10-year lease has been agreed on the newly refurbished landmark building with the landlord, Prudential Assurance, advised by CBRE and Spring4.
Ipes currently provides administration and depository
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has launched the Global LEI Index, which provides information, updated daily, on the nearly 400,000 LEIs issued to date.
Any interested party can easily access and search the complete LEI data pool free of charge using the web-based LEI search tool developed by GLEIF.
The Global LEI Index consists of a golden copy of all past and current LEI records including related reference data in one repository. The reference data provides the information on a legal entity identifiable with an LEI. Accessing the data online for searching, comparing and downloading supports a
Exponent Private Equity and Electra Partners are to acquire Photobox Group, the personalised products and gifts company behind brands such as Moonpig, PaperShaker, Sticky9, Hofmann, Posterjack and posterXXL.
Under the terms of the acquisition offer, Exponent and Electra Private Equity would be the principal shareholders, with Photobox Group management team reinvesting part of their proceeds.
The current Photobox Group executive management team, led by Stan Laurent, would continue in their roles. The offer is subject to certain conditions including consultation with employee representatives and anti-trust clearance.
This proposed transaction would provide Photobox Group with a new simplified and
Prices for corporate acquisitions have risen sharply in the German M&A market in recent months, with some sectors moving beyond reach of potential buyers. Corporate M&A experts currently see few attractive takeover targets, while consulting firms report full order books.
Those are the key findings of the latest survey of the M&A panel polled three times a year by commercial law firm CMS Germany and FINANCE magazine. The heads of the M&A departments at German companies plus leading investment bankers and M&A consultants provide anonymous assessments of the market for the survey.
M&A experts from companies and investment banks
Arthouse a suppliers of wallcoverings and home decoration products to the likes of B&Q, Wilkinsons, Homebase, The Range and B&M, has completed a second management buyout with the backing of NorthEdge Capital.
The Rossendale headquartered company took itself independent in 2007, securing backing from the team at Total Capital Partners, an independent firm that specialises in providing combined equity and debt funding for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. Moving forward, the management team will be backed by NorthEdge, which has acquired a majority stake in the business.
This marks the fourth and final exit for Total Capital’s first fund,
With investments on a healthy upward trend, returns and money multiples growing, innovation hubs emerging, and serial entrepreneurs flourishing the European venture capital VC market may seem to be in rude health.
But according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and IESE Business School, European fund-raising has steadily slowed, while US investment in European ventures is on a sharp upward trend.
The report challenges the conventional wisdom about the European VC scene, which holds that:
the top VC performers' returns can't compete with those in other asset classes; the investor mix is skewed far too
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