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Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed the sale of its stake in the UK’s leading average speed enforcement business Vysionics, in a multi-million pound deal with JENOPTIK AG.
Headquartered in Frimley in Surrey, Vysionics provides automatic number plate recognition (“ANPR”) traffic enforcement, access management and information systems to a wide range of private and public sector organisations both here in the UK and overseas.
The business’ diverse customer base comprises strategic highway authorities, construction contractors, local authorities, parking contractors, rail authority and police forces, and its market-leading products and services include temporary and permanent average speed systems for road
Corporate finance house Convex Capital structured and led the multi million pound sale of the UK’s largest independent brands in sports nutrition, PhD Nutrition, to UK based B&B Investment Partners (B&B).
Neil Worsley, Andrew Clarke and Gareth Lewis who structured the deal that valued the business at 10x EBITDA and delivered 83% of the consideration on completion led the transaction; Senior VP, James Edge, and Managing Partner, Neil Worsley originated it.
The transaction underlines Convex Capital’s excellence in advising sports nutrition brands and further emphasises the team’s ability to find great partners for their clients. It continues Convex’s unprecedented run
The majority of Asian retail investors are self-directed, or do-it-yourself (DIY) investors, not relying on financial advisors to make their investment decisions.
One in three respondents to Cerulli Associates' proprietary survey of 4,000 retail investors across wealth tiers in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore indicated that they do not have a financial advisor, with nearly 40% of mass retail investors indicating they have no access to financial advice.
This is one of the key findings of Cerulli's inaugural report on Asian retail investors titled Asian Investor Segmentation: Unlocking Retail Investors' Secrets.
While there is limited access to financial advice
Ariadne Capital has completed a GBP3.5 million funding round for Made Television, which holds the most City TV licences in the UK. The company has licences for Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Middlesbrough and Tyne & Wear.
Led by City TV pioneer Jamie Conway, and chaired by former BSkyB executive and Top Up TV co-founder Ian West, Made Television has found a solution to the challenge facing most City TV broadcasters. By having broader reach and shared fixed costs, Made Television allows for a fundamentally profitable business model even with a niche audience while delivering high-quality content and ultimately providing the leading platform for
HFFT Alternative Limited has been granted an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) licence from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission to provide full AIFM services to both EU and non-EU funds.
A plethora of enhanced compliance requirements including the regulatory demands under the AIFMD have strained the resources of and forced small and mid-sized firms to actively consider outsourced solutions.
AIFMD came into force on 22 July 2013 and regulates EU and non-EU fund managers that market alternative investment funds to investors domiciled, or with registered offices, in the EU.
As a confirmed AIFM license holder HFFT Alternative will be able
Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, has made an investment for a majority of the equity in reinsurance intermediary.
Since its founding in 1988, Beach has built a reputation as an innovative organisation with differentiated technical capabilities and understanding of complex risks. Beach has a high-quality actuarial team and is recognised for its success in working with clients to understand their risk tolerance and identify advantageous reinsurance alternatives.
“The Aquiline team shares our vision for the Company and we look forward to leveraging their insurance expertise and capital investment to strengthen our
Flowserve is to acquire TBG’s portfolio company SIHI Group BV for a consideration of approximately EUR298 million. Baird served as the exclusive financial advisor to TBG on the transaction, the firm’s 11th transatlantic deal in 2014.
Itzehoe (Germany) based SIHI is a leading provider of vacuum and fluid pumps and related engineered solutions serving the chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage and other process manufacturing industries. Flowserve is a leading manufacturer and supplier of pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and other industries.
The Baird deal team was led by senior investment bankers Nick
Private equity investor Auda International has appointed Eunseok So as a Senior Vice President, based in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
“We are delighted to have Eunseok join our team in Asia,” says Jacob Chiu, Auda MD and head of Asian investments. “I have worked with Eunseok in the past and he brings excellent skills and experience that will complement our existing practice.”
So says: “It is great to be joining Auda at this time. I am very impressed by Auda’s commitment to Asian private market investments and excited to join the firm’s growing team in the region.”
Companies that listed on AIM have over the first nine months of 2014 outperformed the FTSE AIM All Share Index by a considerable margin, according to research by Cavendish Asset Management.
Peter Renton an Equity Analyst at Cavendish says: “Analysis by Cavendish reveals that, so far this year, AIM IPO prices rose by an average of 12% on their first day of trading, and had retained that 12% gain 30 days after listing.
The recent dip in the market has inevitably led to these companies giving up some of their initial gains, but on average they remain up 5%
Direct lending funds have continued to gain traction in the private debt marketplace, and are the prevailing strategy for private debt fund managers established since 2008, according to Preqin.
Almost three-quarters of institutional investors active in the private debt space plan to allocate fresh capital in the coming year to direct lending funds, which are often considered a better fit for more conservative investors in the private debt market, given their similar structure to fixed income investments compared to more private equity-style methods such as mezzanine and distressed debt funds.
Fundraising in the private debt space reached a peak in
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