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Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies, announces that
Tadataka Yamada has re-joined Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies. He will serve as a Venture Partner on the Life Sciences team, focusing on creating companies as well as providing strategic guidance to existing portfolio companies.
He will also serve as a Senior Advisor to the Growth Buyout team, where he will provide advice on opportunities in pharmaceutical services and spin-outs from large healthcare companies, and sit on boards of portfolio companies such as PCI, a large pharmaceutical services company in the Frazier
Private equity firm Tailwind Capital has held the final closing of Tailwind Capital Partners II in excess of its USD750 million target, raising a total of USD1.05 billion of committed capital.
Fund II will pursue the same investment strategy Tailwind has employed since its inception – partnering with leading entrepreneurs and management teams in North America to transform businesses through organic growth initiatives, acquisitions, and operational and strategic improvements. Tailwind’s team of 27 investment professionals and senior operating executives works collaboratively with portfolio company management to build sustainable growth businesses.
Fund II received commitments from existing and new investors, including
Middle market private equity firm Quad-C Management has sold Dental Care Alliance (DCA), one of the largest multi-branded, dental-practice management companies in the United States, to New York-based private equity firm Harvest Partners.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
DCA, founded in 1991 and based in Sarasota, Florida, operates across eight states and serves more than 150 affiliated dental offices. The company provides back-office support to affiliated practices, ranging from human resources and marketing to purchasing, accounting and insurance management, as well as other services.
Quad-C originally acquired DCA in May of 2012, backing the existing
The lack of hedge funds’ excess returns since the financial crisis put the industry under rising pressure. In this 12th edition of the White Paper, we review the causes and identify the key hedge fund performance drivers. We put to test these drivers under three long-term macro-economic scenarios. It is reasonable, in our view, to expect hedge funds to deliver an annual excess returns in the 5-6 per cent range above the Libor 3M, with low volatility.
Criticism against the lack of hedge funds outperformance climaxed in 2014. Hedge funds have underperformed traditional asset classes since the financial crisis. Despite
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Blackstone has named Liping Zhang as a Senior Managing Director and its Chairman for Greater China.
Based in Hong Kong, Zhang (pictured) will advise and provide guidance to firm management and its regional business units as the firm continues to expand its presence in the region.
Zhang has more than 30 years of financial industry, corporate management and government sector experience. He joins from Credit Suisse where he most recently served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Greater China and Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking.
“Liping Zhang is one of the preeminent figures in finance in China, and his
Private equity house Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP4.3 million investment in Cursor Controls Limited, a specialist in the design and manufacture of trackball pointing solutions for industrial applications.
Cursor, which has a history spanning numerous decades, offers the most comprehensive range of trackballs internationally and is the only independent company focusing solely on trackballs. With over 1,200 trackball variants in its product portfolio, and over 90% of sales going for export, Cursor provides trackballs for a wide range of applications including use within the medical, marine, military and media sectors.
The funding provided by Maven clients, in addition
IQcard, a financial services company specialising in prepaid cards and the monetisation of loyalty programs for retail chains, has raised a new investment round from venture fund Finteca Holdings.
Finteca Holdings creates, acquires and develops leading financial technology companies in Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe. The transaction closed on 17 June 2015. Aspring Capital, a leading Russian independent investment bank, acted as a sole financial adviser to IQcard shareholders.
IQcard was founded in March 2012 by Fastlane Ventures and Direct Group and its partners, who have over 20 years successful experience of Internet retail and financial services in Russia. In
Jungle Ventures has appointed Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Indian Conglomerate, Tata Sons, as a Special Advisor.
Founded by Anurag Srivastava and Amit Anand, Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping build innovative technology led companies out of the Asia-Pacific. Jungle has already made investments in 30 leading Asian startups, including the likes of Zipdial (recently acquired by Twitter), LiveSpace, Tradegecko, CrayonData, Fastacash and travelmob (acquired by Nasdaq listed HomeAway). In his role as Special Advisor, Tata has formally committed to spend time with Jungle’s portfolio of companies to help them
Euronext posted its strongest six-month trading volume performance since the end of 2011 in the first six months of 2015, supported by favourable economic conditions.
The June 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR9,202 million (+54 per cent compared with June 2014). Activity on ETFs remained particularly dynamic last month with an average daily transaction value at EUR587 million, up 106 per cent compared to June 2014.
Cash markets saw a material increase in trading activity across the first half of 2015, with an average daily transaction value for the period up
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