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Gilde Healthcare and the other shareholders are selling their entire stake in Definiens AG to MedImmune/AstraZeneca.
Gilde Healthcare is a growth capital firm specialised in the healthcare sector. MedImmune is the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca. The sale marks Gilde’s eighth exit in the past year. An initial consideration of USD 150 million will be paid for all the shares in Definiens, followed by additional predetermined milestone payments.
A team led by lead partner Stefan-Ulrich Müller advised Gilde Healthcare on all aspects of the transaction. Gilde Healthcare was also advised by CMS Hasche Sigle at the time
Alternative Asset Managers continue to operate with elevated levels of uncalled investment capital, or dry powder, at a time when credit markets are frothy and valuations are high, according to Fitch Ratings.
With more capital chasing fewer deals, significant fund underperformance is possible if competition bids prices up further, according to a special report on the alternative asset management industry published today by Fitch. Outsized vintage concentrations and a lack of distressed investing opportunities, a traditional area of investment competency for alternative asset managers, could potentially exacerbate this issue.
Despite these challenges, Fitch's rating outlooks for all seven rated alternative
Phoenix Product Development, which trades as Propelair, has completed a GBP2.6 million fundraising round led by the CF Woodford Equity Income Fund.
The money raised from the Woodford Fund and existing shareholders will be used to support Propelair’s continued growth through expansion of both its sales and marketing and installation teams. The investment also provides working capital for Propelair to widen its customer base and build stock and supply capability in advance of a projected significant growth in sales.
Propelair has developed a new type of water-saving toilet system that uses an innovative air-based operating principle and only 1.5 litres
Africa has the opportunity to quadruple living standards by 2040, but to do so it will need to find USD11.4 trillion in extra investment over that period. That’s according to a Capital Economics report commissioned by Jersey Finance.
While Africa has fifteen per cent of the world’s population, it generates just four per cent of global output. But the Capital Economics report argues that Africa is on the verge of a demographic dividend. While other continents face ageing populations, Africa’s working age population is expected to double to 1.2 billion over the next 30 years.
To support this and
Berlin-based trecker.com has secured EUR2.1 million in a Series A financing round led by venture capital firm Target Partners.
trecker.com provides farmers and agricultural contractors with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for handling all business processes. Today, more than 50 agricultural firms use the platform and associated mobile app to plan, record, monitor and invoice the deployment of machinery and manpower. The processed data can then be used to fulfil documentation requirements, assess performance and optimise operations.
"For years, the agricultural industry has been undergoing a technological revolution. State-of-the-art industrial agricultural engineering has already led to leaps in productivity. Now it’s
An increasing proportion of investors in hedge funds are based in the Asia-Pacific region. Who are these investors and which strategies are they targeting? Preqin examines the hedge fund investor landscape within this dynamic region.
Asia-Pacific is home to just under two-thirds of the world’s population and is a burgeoning region encompassing emerging, developing and advanced economies. Rapid growth has led to immense wealth generation that has contributed to a surplus of savings from countries in the region. Given this backdrop, institutional investors based in the region have been growing in prominence over recent years. Entrusted with vast amounts of
The director general of the Institute of Directors (IoD) has called for investments in venture capital trusts to be given tax breaks to push funding towards British businesses.
In a speech to shareholders of Albion Ventures, Simon Walker urged the government to extend to venture capital trusts the exemption from inheritance tax that investments in Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) schemes currently enjoy.
Walker argued that venture capital supported the “vibrant small-scale enterprises on which our economic future depends”. He said investors were “relatively ordinary people” thinking about their future and “providing investments that
International investment bank Altium has advised Castik Capital on its recommended cash offer for the entire share capital of Waterlogic, a global distributor of drinking water purification and dispensing systems.
The cash offer has been made through Poseidon Bidco Ltd, a newly formed entity incorporated by Castik-managed EPIC Funds.
Waterlogic is listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and has 780,000 point-of-use water systems installed across 50 countries including Australia, the US, Norway, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Founded in 1992, the company typically supplies its products to commercial customers for use in offices, factories, hospitals, hotels, schools and
Patron Capital is selling a minority stake of up to 23 per cent of its portfolio company Generator to Invesco Ltd in exchange for up to EUR60m of growth capital.
Invesco’s stake in Generator is the inaugural investment by Invesco’s second opportunistic strategy, focussed on real-estate-related investments in both the US and Europe and co-managed by Invesco Real Estate, WL Ross & Co, and Invesco Fixed Income.
The capital will be used to increase the number of Generator properties across the globe. The chain currently has 5,200 beds in eight properties across Europe, a number that will near 7,000
HealthEdge Investment Fund II has completed its investment in Data Dimensions, a healthcare related business process outsourcing and automation services provider, which becomes the fund’s fourth portfolio company.
Data Dimensions provides a complete range of outsourcing and professional services, including mailroom management and converting paper forms (i.e. insurance claims, medical claims, dental claims, loan applications, HR forms, and surveys) and unstructured hardcopy documents (i.e. drawings, diagrams, and X-rays) into electronic documents through various forms of document capture services, digital voice recording services, physical records storage, and electronic retrieval services through a state-of-the-art Tier III data centre.
Data Dimensions was
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