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Mailcloud has successfully completed a seed funding round led by enture capital investors Octopus Investments, with Bessemer Venture partners, that takes total funding to USD2.8m.
The round also includes Xavier Niel’s Kima Ventures, an early backer of Square, Nest and other high profile startups. Seedcamp London have also invested from their new USD50m growth fund. The company has attracted a number of high profile angel backers including Barry Smith, co-Founder of Skyscanner, Irish tech entrepreneur Ray Nolan, Frederic Court, Partner at Advent Ventures and Daniel Malhery founder of Deezer.
Founded in November 2013, Mailcloud is a unique service where
FlashFunders has launched a no-fee, online equity funding platform aimed at helping start-ups raise capital efficiently, while also opening up access to start-up investing for accredited investors.
Founded by Europlay Capital Advisors, law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, and co-founders Vincent Bradley and Brian Park, FlashFunders' platform helps entrepreneurs navigate complex SEC regulations and offsets costly legal fees, while giving accredited investors unprecedented access to start-up investment opportunities.
FlashFunders provides a turnkey solution for raising capital and a marketplace where entrepreneurs can connect directly with accredited investors across the globe.
FlashFunders ensures all investors are accredited and that
Confluence is collaborating with Fundsquare to provide secure delivery of AIFMD Transparency Reporting to all National Competent Authorities (NCAs) across Europe.
The Confluence SaaS-based technology-enabled Unity NXT AIFMD Transparency Reporting aims to ensure completeness, accuracy and control over the entire AIFMD reporting process — from the collection of data, the calculation of answers, the approval of the report form contents, to the transmission of the filing. By incorporating Fundsquare into the solution, asset managers need only upload files once for them to be disseminated to multiple NCAs in the format required by each to ensure accuracy and timeliness of filings
CTPartners Executive Search has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Austrian-based Neumann, a leading executive search and leadership consulting firm.
The transaction includes offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as across Eastern Europe.
Neumann focuses on several key industries that complement CTPartners’ targeted practice areas including: Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences, Technology, Professional Services and Financial Services. Neumann’s consultants will increase CTPartners’ presence in key German-speaking markets, including Europe’s largest and fastest growing economy, Germany.
“This transaction is consistent with our growth strategy to expand the CTP global footprint. Acquiring one of Europe’s leading executive
Hong Kong-based international investment company Cardell Limited has appointed David Ballard as Managing Director of Private Equity. He will be based in Hong Kong and report to David Cardell, CEO of Cardell Limited.
Ballard, aged 38, joins Cardell Limited from Morgan Stanley Private Equity, where he was a member of the investment committee who led portfolio investments and helped to build a 35-person team located in New York and London.
Ballard has a 14-year track record in investment banking and private equity, of which 11 years were spent with Morgan Stanley. Before co founding the Private Equity Group he was
Ogier recently advised English entrepreneur and businessman Richard Caring on his GBP135m sale of the world famous Wentworth Club to China-based Reignwood Group.
Wentworth Club provides the headquarters for golf's PGA European Tour and hosts the annual BMW PGA Championship, making it one of the most desirable golfing locations in the world. It also played host to the 1953 Ryder Cup and, until 2007, the annual HSBC World Match Play Championship.
Caring, the owner of a range of prestigious clubs and restaurants across London which includes The Ivy, Scott's and Annabel's, purchased the celebrated venue in 2004 prior to
Private equity from Corsair Capital has appointed Edward "Ned" J Kelly III, former Chairman of the Institutional Clients Group at Citigroup, and Ranji H Nagaswami, a former Chief Investment Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg's administration for the City of New York, as Senior Advisors.
In becoming associated with Corsair Capital, Kelly and Nagaswami add to the competitive strengths of Corsair's platform, particularly with respect to its access to operating and regulatory expertise as well as its access to the spectrum of opportunities in the financial services sector.
Kelly and Nagaswami will support the firm in its identification and evaluation of new
Solar power specialist SunEdison has signed a joint venture agreement with JIC Capital to finance, develop, construct and own up to 1 GW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in China over the next three years.
The joint venture will focus on facilitating and structuring non-recourse financing for solar PV plants in one of the world's largest and most attractive solar markets. SunEdison, directly or through an affiliate, including a yieldco, may purchase the projects developed by the joint venture at fair market value.
"This historic joint venture is a great step forward for SunEdison," says Ahmad Chatila, president
Despite infrastructure fundraising showing signs of growth, achieving a successful fundraise is more difficult than ever in such a competitive market. Preqin examines which funds are more likely to achieve their target size and the key factors for fundraising success.
As Q3 2014 draws to a close, the unlisted infrastructure market appears to show slight signs of improvement, with the USD25bn raised by 26 funds reaching a final close this year so far exceeding the capital raised from Q1 to Q3 2013, when USD23bn was raised by 41 funds closing. Additionally, unlisted infrastructure funds are increasingly exceeding their target sizes,
AnaCap Financial Partners has completed the acquisition of EUR1.9 billion non-performing loans (NPLs) from Italian lender UniCredit Group.
Under the terms of the agreement, funds advised by AnaCap will acquire the portfolio.
The portfolio primarily consists of secured and unsecured bankruptcy and other enforcement claims. A significant portion of the portfolio will continue to be serviced by UniCredit Credit Management Bank, with the management of a portion of claims migrated to third parties. Investments completed with UniCredit in 2013 also paved the way for this transaction, establishing a strong partnership between the seller and incumbent servicing partner.
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