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Law firm White & Case has advised private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe on the EUR820 million sale of Dutch-based full service payment service provider GlobalCollect to Ingenico.
GlobalCollect employs around 500 people and helps clients accept payments from more than 170 countries in more than 150 currencies, using in excess of 150 local payment methods including all major credit cards, debit cards and alternative payment methods.
London-based White & Case partner Ross Allardice, who led the team which advised GlobalCollect, says: “We were very pleased to advise and support GlobalCollect and its shareholders on this important
Three Hills Capital Partners, the new private equity investment platform launched in November 2013, has held the final close of its first fund at the hard cap of EUR100 million (USD127 million).
Three Hills Capital Partners was founded by Mauro Moretti, a former partner at Hutton Collins, the firm he joined in 2008 from BC Partners.
The team includes Leks de Boer, a former member of the investment team of Hutton Collins, and Michele Prencipe, who also worked at Hutton Collins as well as Clessidra.
The new fund, based on its capability to provide subordinated private debt and
In Q3 2014, 185 private equity funds held a final close and secured an aggregate USD73bn, a figure which is expected to increase by 10 to 20 per cent as more information becomes available.
This is the lowest quarterly amount of capital raised in three years, when USD66bn was secured by funds closed in Q3 2011, according to Preqin.
Despite this, fundraising for the whole of 2014 is still likely to be strong following USD111bn raised by funds closed in Q1 and USD143bn in Q2.
Buyout fundraising was down in Q3 2014; 37 buyout funds closed during the
Perella Weinberg Partners has held the final closing of its USD600 million PWP Growth Equity fund.
The fund exceeded the original USD400 million target and met the revised cap of USD600 million.
PWP Growth Equity is a private equity investment strategy focused on primarily US-based growth-oriented companies in the lower middle market, spanning the consumer, services and industrial sectors. The fund was co-founded by partners David Ferguson and Chip Baird, who joined the firm in 2012. Ferguson and Baird have worked together for over a decade and have more than 40 years of combined experience in private equity investing.
Octopus Investments is expanding its healthcare business through the acquisition of MedicX Holdings Ltd, a UK healthcare real estate investment manager.
The acquisition has been completed via Octopus’ parent company, Octopus Capital Ltd.
Octopus Capital Ltd and the MedicX management team, led by Mike Adams, have agreed to acquire MedicX from funds advised by Cabot Square Capital.
The acquisition takes Octopus’ funds under management to over GBP4.7 billion with MedicX managing GBP0.9 billion of funds across the LSE listed MedicX Fund (MXF) and two private closed-ended funds.
Octopus has been an active investor in the healthcare sector
Max Nardulli has joined Dexion Capital, the alternatives investment bank, as head of international sales.
He will be responsible for Dexion Capital’s growing distribution strategy and investor network across a number of different regions globally.
Nardulli was previously head of international sales and distribution at Cheyne Capital where he was in charge for business development globally ex-UK. Prior to this, he was managing director, head of alternative capital markets at Goldman Sachs International, for EMEA and Asia ex-Japan. Before that, he had a number of roles within GSAM business development team focusing on Southern Europe and Latin America.
iCapital Network has launched an online marketplace connecting qualified investors with private equity fund managers.
iCapital Network has created a platform that enables qualified investors and their advisors to see over 2,000 private equity funds that are currently raising capital.
Users can search and analyse funds as well as gain access to a subset of funds at low investment minimums through iCapital Private Access Funds.
iCapital’s password-protected, secure platform will be provided free of charge to thousands of qualified investors and advisors, including independent RIA firms, family offices and institutional investors.
iCapital Network provides high net worth
Europe-targeted M&A through to the end of the third quarter has already surpassed 2013 values by 11.4 per cent, with deals totalling USD714.7 billion, according to Mergermarket.
A rise in valuable European targets coming to market so far this year has been one driver for corporates seeking assets – over 200 more targets were purchased compared to Q1-Q3 2013 (854 exits), resulting in 1,055 deals launching 39 per cent higher than 2013’s total value at USD281.3 billion.
The growing presence of US companies increased total deal value and also boosted inbound M&A to an all time high. The value
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has appointed Charlie Geffen and Mark Sperotto as partners in the firm’s London office.
Geffen, who served as Ashurst’s senior partner and, prior to that, head of its private equity practice, will join Gibson Dunn as chair of the London corporate practice. He will focus on global corporate and sponsor relationships, including mergers and acquisitions of all forms and private equity transactions.
Sperotto is a corporate finance and private equity partner at Ashurst. He will continue to focus on cross-border M&A, private equity and equity capital markets transactions.
“We are thrilled to welcome Charlie
Albion Ventures has raised over GBP21m across its six venture capital trusts through its offers for subscription in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 tax years.
The offers closed at midday on 30 September 2014.
Due to the high levels of investor demand that followed the launch of its top-up offers in November 2013, Albion decided to extend the opportunity to invest in the six VCTs it manages through a prospectus offers in March 2014.
The offers provide investors with immediate exposure to six mature Albion VCTs, comprising a GBP250 million diversified portfolio of 80 businesses. These range from asset-backed
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