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Solidifi, a provider of residential real estate appraisals, has acquired Southwest Financial Services, a national, independent provider of outsourced services to home equity lenders.
The acquisition extends and strengthens Solidifi's solutions for the home equity market.
“The combination of Solidifi's strength in purchase and refinance appraisals provided by our network of more than 25,000 appraisers and Southwest Financial Services innovative home equity product offerings creates a robust experience for lenders, who have access to a more complete suite of solutions,” says Solidifi's CEO, Jason Smith. “It’s a win-win. And it's happening at the right time, as consumer confidence returns and
Lawson Conner, a provider of investment management and compliance solutions to the alternative investment fund industry, has launched ‘Discovery’, an AIFM integrated offshore Investment Management Platform.
‘Discovery' will be structured as a Cayman Islands Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC), offering both EU and non-EU domiciled investment managers the opportunity to utilise a prompt and cost-effective 'plug-and-play' solution for multiple jurisdictions, while still offering fund managers the safety they would expect from operating their own dedicated fund structure. Funds can be launched within four-weeks under Cayman Islands law and in line with AIFMD regulations. Each ‘Discovery’ sub-fund has segregated liability and is therefore
European private equity firm Idinvest Partners has held the final closing of its Idinvest Digital Fund II at EUR140 million.
The fund is entirely dedicated to financing the growth of developing businesses in the digital and new technology segments (web-based, media, mobile, e-commerce services and software) in France and across Europe.
The fund has invested in 10 companies so far, including Sigfox, Synthesio and Twenga ; 30% of the capital has been called in and the fund is already delivering positive returns.
The fund has successfully gathered prominent investors, such as Bpifrance and Idinvest’s historical partner, Allianz France, who are
Elian Fund Services (Guernsey) has supported iCON Infrastructure Partners on the first and final close of its third fund, iCON Infrastructure III, a Guernsey registered closed-ended investment scheme with approximately EUR800m in commitments.
This follows the strong investment performance of iCON's first fund and the successful investment of their second fund.
Consistent with the strategy employed for iCON I and iCON II, the new fund has been established to focus on mid-sized, core infrastructure investment opportunities, located predominantly in Europe with a secondary focus on North America.
Elian Fund Services (Guernsey) Limited has a long-standing relationship with iCON
Private debt fundraising and funds currently in market are examined in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Debt, Q1 2015.
Fundraising in Q1 2015
Q1 2015 saw 19 private debt funds reach a final close, securing an aggregate USD16 billion in commitments. This is a drop on the USD22 billion raised in Q4 2014 by 28 funds, but an increase on the amount of capital raised in the first quarter of 2014, when USD12 billion was accumulated (Fig 1).
Mezzanine fundraising accounted for the vast majority (70%) of capital raised in Q1 2015, with the bulk of
Sun European Partners has made two senior hires in Europe.
Andreas Bösenberg has joined as Managing Director of the Frankfurt office and Michael Palm as Managing Director of Sun’s new Swedish office in Stockholm, supporting the firm’s continued expansion in the region.
Bösenberg joins from VTB Capital where he spent nearly five years as Deputy Head of Private Equity and Special Situations. Prior to this, he was Co-founder and Managing Director of Brockhaus Private Equity in Frankfurt. At Sun, Bösenberg will be overseeing Sun’s German operations and working with the team on the existing portfolio and upcoming pipeline of
Mercia Fund Management (MFM) has appointed Dr Nicola Broughton (pictured), a Leeds-based consultant specialising in the commercialisation of Intellectual Property, as an Investment Director and Head of Technology Transfer.
Broughton will be growing a team to help support Mercia’s university partners in their areas of geographical focus – the Midlands, North and Scotland.
Broughton has already worked closely with several MFM investee companies within the Life Sciences sector, As well as Mercia’s university partners in the Midlands. She will be liaising with university technology spin-outs and University Technology Transfer Offices to offer them support and advice on developing their work
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a private equity firm specialising in Analytical Tools and Related Services, has held the final close of SFW Capital Partners Fund II with total commitments of over USD345 million
The fund closed at its hard cap.
SFW focuses on making strategic investments in mid-size Analytical Tools and Related Services companies, including providers of instrumentation, information and software, and related business services, a sector that the SFW team has invested in for over 20 years. Analytical Tools and Related Services businesses provide information, data, and analytics that support research, product development, process control, quality assurance, compliance, diagnostics,
Nexxus Capita, through Nexxus VI Trust and Nexxus Capital Private Equity VI, has agreed to acquire, subject to certain closing conditions, a combined stake of 28.61 per cent in AGS NASOFT, a multiregional IT services company.
NASOFT has more than 1,500 employees and operates in eight countries, mainly Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, maintaining long term relationships with well positioned clients in the financial services sector and in the industrial and commercial sectors, as well as with government institutions. NASOFT has a proven operating model which is executed by a management team that has over 20 years of experience in the
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited (GIC) has adopted Omgeo ALERT, a web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs).
The firm adopted the solution to deliver further improvements in post-trade operational efficiency.
GIC wanted to enhance its enterprise trade lifecycle platform as part of a two-stage process. Phase one involved the importing of SSIs into ALERT, with a focus on fixed income instructions, in the third quarter of 2014. GIC is now embarking on the second phase of that project: loading SSIs for equity trades into ALERT. This is scheduled
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