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Sidley Austin has appointed David B Denechaud and Joe F.Flack III as partners in the firm’s private equity and energy practices, respectivley. Both will be based in Sidley’s Houston office.
Denechaud focuses his practice on private equity and energy (oil and gas) M&A transactions, while Flack has built his practice around oil and gas acquisition and disposition transactions.
Denechaud’s experience includes representing private equity clients, providing capital to the exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services and alternative energy sectors. He has broad transactional experience, including advising private and public companies on financial and strategic acquisitions and dispositions, and financings. In
5nine Software has secured a significant new round of financing led by Insight Venture Partners and the founders of Veeam Software.
Founded in 2009, 5nine Software now helps more than 25,000 satisfied organisations around the globe to reach the full potential of their virtual infrastructure. 5nine Software’s growth to date is rapid and this round of funding will be used to sustain this growth through adding key sales, marketing, and product development resources.
With this investment, Michael Triplett, Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners, and Ratmir Timashev, Founder and CEO of Veeam Software join 5nine Software’s Board of Directors.
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Hall Capital has created an investor relations office to provide a focal point of communications and services for investors in the firm’s various private equity, automotive, real est
By Adrian Jones (pictured) corporate partner, and Roger Clarke, banking and finance partner, at law firm Trowers & Hamlins – Distressed loan portfolios secured by property assets have proved an attractive investment class for private equity investors. In its June 2014 Financial Stability Report[1] the Bank of England noted that UK banks non-performing loans stood at around GBP165 billion in 2013. It is perhaps unlikely that the level of non-performing loans will decline significantly once interest rates start to rise and more bank borrowers fall into default and therefore the supply looks likely to continue for some time.
Why buy such assets?
Over a period of three years to March 2014, venture capital funds have produced average returns of 12.7%, on par with the “All Private Equity” benchmark over the same period, according to research by Preqin.
More capital was invested in companies by venture capital firms in Q2 2014 than in any other quarter, with USD23bn of funding across the quarter.
USD38bn has been raised by 220 venture capital funds reaching a final close in 2014 YTD (as at 14 October), already surpassing the USD31bn raised by 274 funds that closed in 2013.
More than half (56%) of venture
Kensington Capital Partners (Kensington) has launched the Kensington Venture Fund with an initial closing of investor commitments totalling CAD160 million.
This marks the next step in the Government of Canada's Venture Capital Action Plan (VCAP).
This new fund of funds will invest in promising VC funds and companies in the technology, cleantech, IT, telecommunications, and digital media sectors. The announcement will occur at the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) today in Toronto.
Following an exhaustive review process, Kensington was selected to managethis large scale fund of funds. Kensington was chosen because of its financial performance in venture capital, the strength of
Bain Capital is combining three of its fresh food portfolio businesses – M&J Seafood, Pauleys and Wild Harvest – to form a new company, Fresh Direct.
The new company will be jointly owned by Bain Capital & Nigel Harris. Current Fresh Direct owners, Nigel & Colin Harris will continue to take an active role in the future success of the New Company.
The new Company will create an "all-in-one" fresh food destination for chefs and caterers, for their produce, fish and seafood, meat and exclusive fine dining product requirements.
The New Company and management team will be led
Over the next three years, 77 per cent of pension funds expect their appetite for investment risk to increase to enable them to meet long-term liabilities and deliver optimal value for members.
That’s according to a new report from State Street, which also reveals that one in five (20 per cent) of the asset owners surveyed expect their risk appetite to increase significantly during this period.
As part of this shift, pension funds intend to increase their exposure to alternatives. Some 60 per cent intend to increase their exposure to private equity, with the corresponding figures for real
New research conducted by Intralinks Holdings conducted in association with the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) at Cass Business School, City University London, that identifies the relationships between M&A activity and shareholder value creation.
The study finds that companies significantly underperform the market during periods when they announce no M&A activity (whether acquisitions or divestments) and even more significantly underperform companies which are actively engaged in M&A. Contrary to most previous research studies, which have only focused on the impact of individual deals over shorter time periods, this study finds that companies outperform the market the more frequently they
Private equity investment firm CVC has strengthened its Nordic team with the appointment of Tomas Ekman as a Partner in the Stockholm office.
Most recently a Partner and Managing Director of 3i in the Nordic region, Ekman has over 20 years of experience of private equity and senior operational executive roles.
Ekman joins CVC at a time when the Nordic team has been active with a number of successful transactions, notably the recent investments in Paroc, Synsam and Ahsell as well as the IPO of Matas.
Søren Vestergaard-Poulsen, Managing Partner, CVC, says: "We are delighted to welcome Tomas
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