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The AnaCap funds have received regulatory approval from the KNF for the acquisition of FM Bank PBP (FM Bank), a retail and SME bank in Poland.
Under the terms of the agreement, on completion AnaCap funds will acquire 100 per cent of FM Bank – which will become the 5th European bank in AnaCap’s portfolio – for an undisclosed sum. Completion is expected to occur in October.
The investment follows the successful listing earlier this year of Aldermore, the UK- based SME bank. Since its IPO, Aldermore shares have risen by more than 45 per cent, giving it a
UK mid-market private equity firm LDC has backed the management buyout of PEI Media Group Ltd (PEI), an alternative assets information groups.
Founded in 2001 following a buyout from Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, PEI has developed a portfolio of globally recognised publications, databases and branded events focused exclusively on alternative asset finance and investment. Its products and services sit at the heart of the fast-growing markets of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private debt.
The PEI publication portfolio includes Private Equity International, PERE, Infrastructure Investor, Real Estate Capital and pfm. PEI has also expanded into emerging alternative investment fields
Norse, a specialist in live attack intelligence, has closed its Series A1 round of funding led by a strategic investment from KPMG Capital, KPMG International’s global investment fund.
The investment will enable KPMG’s member firms to offer Norse threat intelligence products and services to clients through the KPMG network’s global cyber security practice. The remainder of the USD11.4 million total raised in this round was provided by a group of existing investors, and the funds will be used by Norse primarily to bolster the company’s product development efforts and accelerate the expansion of its global sales organisation to capitalise on
Using data from the recently released 2015 Preqin Alternative Assets Performance Monitor, Preqin has created league tables of alternative asset fund managers that have most consistently outperformed their peers. The league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these fund managers, but rather to illustrate those that have performed the most consistently in the past. Six primary strategies have been presented – buyout, venture capital, mezzanine, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources – with venture capital seeing the most fund managers achieve the highest possible score.
The league tables of consistent performers are compiled using only the funds
Using Preqin’s new fund size benchmarks on Hedge Fund Analyst, together with the results of our interviews with approximately 300 hedge fund managers, this extract from September’s Preqin Hedge Fund Spotlight newsletter analyses the effect that fund size has on the overall hedge fund industry by looking at performance, terms and conditions, and the fund sizes institutional investors are looking for.
In July, Preqin added a new series of benchmarks to our Hedge Fund Analyst online service. These benchmarks, which assess the performance of hedge funds based on the size of the fund, can be used in tandem with
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Zinc Ahead, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR and a provider of marketing compliance and approval software-as-a-service solutions to the life sciences industry, on its sale to Veeva Systems Inc.
Zinc Ahead provides marketing compliance and rich media management SaaS solutions for the life sciences industry. Over two million digital assets have been approved through the Zinc cloud, transforming the digital media development and compliance community in over 120 life sciences companies, including all of the top 20 and 40 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical companies, across 170 countries. More than 50,000
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has launched a mobile app for its proprietary alternative investment fund accounting and investor servicing technology called UMB Fund Services FastPro.
The app, which is live on Android and Apple iOS operating systems, allows clients to view historical data and reports, investor demographics and fund performance information at anytime, anywhere an internet connection is available. The FastPro platform had previously only been available via web browser.
“Technology is changing the way our clients operate, and in response, we’ve taken our award-winning reporting solution and given it mobile capabilities,” said Chad Allen, managing director of alternative investments
Exabeam, a specialist in user behaviour analytics (UBA) for security, has held the closing of a USD25 million financing round to further accelerate the company's rapid growth and continue updating its UBA solution in response to customer demand and industry trends.
Icon Ventures led the Series B investment round. Icon Ventures’ previous security investments include Palo Alto Networks and FireEye two of the most valuable security companies in the world. Exabeam’s previous investors – Aspect Ventures, Investor Shlomo Kramer and Norwest Venture Partners – also participated in the Series B funding, which follows a milestone year of growth for Exabeam
Law firm Bond Dickinson has advised longstanding client and specialist consumer investor Piper on its GBP6 million investment in Forthglade Foods Limited, the Devon-based pet food company.
Piper is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in consumer brands with strong growth potential in retail, leisure, consumer products and consumer services. Bond Dickinson has advised Piper on a wide range of investments including Weird Fish, Bottlegreen, Turtle Bay restaurants, Loungers, Orlebar Brown and Hickory's Smokehouse.
On this investment the Bond Dickinson corporate team, led by partner Simon Hewes (pictured) and solicitor Sammy Hill, worked closely with its regulatory
Private investment firm Enhanced Capital and FocusPoint Private Capital Group (FocusPoint), a FINRA member focused on private capital raising, have formed Enhanced FocusPoint (EFP), a partnership to source, seed and launch a series of private investment funds.
EFP will identify talented management teams with investment strategies suitable for institutional investors allocating capital to private funds. This partnership will expand the reach and capabilities of each firm, providing experienced limited partners with new investment strategies.
Four sectors of focus have been identified for the platform: Equity, Credit/Income-Generating, Real Assets, and Special Opportunities. Enhanced and FocusPoint have a long history of backing
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