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The Irish Funds Industry Association has welcomed the announcement by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) on the finalisation of the framework for Ireland’s loan origination fund structure.
This will be the first dedicated regulatory regime in the EU for loan funds and will operate under the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Managers who are authorised AIFMs and that meet the additional conditions under the Central Bank’s AIF Rulebook will be able to avail of the new structure in order to market loan origination funds within the EU under the AIFMD passport.
The funds will be
Private equity real estate fund Rockpoint Group has closed on USD950 million of equity commitments for Core Plus Fund I, its first lower-risk, lower-return core plus investment vehicle.
Rockpoint has historically sponsored opportunistic funds, having raised over USD8 billion of equity capital for these funds since 2003, including its most recent opportunistic fund, Rockpoint Real Estate Fund IV, which closed in March 2013 and aggregated USD2.33 billion in investor commitments.
Core Plus Fund I was not formally marketed and was raised from a small group of primarily existing investors. No brokerage commissions or placement fees were paid in connection
UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital has strengthened its investment team with three new appointments.
Humphrey Baker has joined as an investment director from Lyceum Capital Partners, where he was involved in deal origination, appraisal and execution, as well as portfolio company management. Before that, he worked in financial services at Ernst & Young. Baker brings to Graphite particular experience of the IT services and software sectors.
Liam McGivern and Alex Mills have joined as investment managers. McGivern was previously with Pricoa Capital Group, where he worked on European mezzanine investments, and before that he was part of
Carey Olsen has advised private equity firm Blue Water Energy on its joint venture with Blackstone to invest USD500 million in Siccar Point Energy, a new North Sea focused oil company.
Blue Water Energy, a London-based investment firm that specialises in oil and gas private equity, and private equity group Blackstone led the investment which will be used by Siccar Point Energy for exploration, development and production with a strong focus on the North Sea.
Carey Olsen corporate partner Andrew Boyce and senior associate Ruth Abernethy acted in relation to the joint venture structure alongside leading onshore firm Pinsent
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Dutch venture capitalist Aglaia has launched the Aglaia Oncology Fund II, backed by high-net-worth families.
Investors will contribute a total of USD65 million to the fund, which has a final target of USD80 to USD100 million.
The group of investors has been expanded to include several institutional investors, including the European Investment Fund (EIF), which has made a substantial commitment. Aglaia is also one of the funds selected under the Dutch Venture Initiative, an investment fund recently launched by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Through the new fund, Aglaia will be investing in an estimated 10 to
RCS Capital Corporation has made a significant investment in Docupace Technologies, a provider of electronic processing technology for financial institutions and the wealth management industry.
Following the transaction, RCAP will be a majority shareholder in Docupace.
Michael Pinsker will remain president and chief executive of Docupace and he and the Docupace management team will continue to lead the day-to-day operations of the business.
RCAP’s investment comes on the heels of Docupace’s recent executive management team expansion, reaching an industry milestone of servicing more than 500 financial industry clients and successfully implementing Straight-Through-Processing (STP) with several leading financial institutions.
Unigestion has launched a tool which provides a framework for allocating between private assets on a systematic and quantifiable basis.
As the allocation of institutional investors to private assets increases, more and more of them are diversifying their portfolios to include not only private equity but, for example, infrastructure, private debt, natural resources, timber, agriculture and other “real assets”.
However, for many it remains a challenge to determine the contribution of these asset classes to risk, return, correlation and other characteristics of their portfolios.
Based on academic research, Unigestion’s Private Asset Allocator enables institutional investors to determine their
Praesidian Capital Europe and Connection Capital have invested GBP15 million in debt and equity in Redeem Holdings, a UK-based mobile and electronics recommerce specialist.
Praesidian Capital Europe, which provides senior and subordinated debt and growth capital predominantly to UK companies, has invested GBP7 million in debt capital and GBP1 million in equity. An additional GBP2 million will be available as an acquisition line of financing.
Connection Capital, a private client investment business, has made a GBP5m equity investment in Redeem.
Funds will be applied to support Redeem’s international organic growth and potential acquisitions.
Redeem specialises in ecommerce
Evercore has appointed Denis A Bovin as a senior advisor with a focus on the global technology and aerospace/defence industry sectors.
During his career, Bovin has advised numerous prominent management teams, boards of directors and senior leaders in the US Government on some of the most significant financial and strategic transactions in the government and commercial technology sectors.
Roger Altman, Evercore’s executive chairman, says: “Denis Bovin is one of the most highly regarded senior bankers in the global technology and aerospace defence sectors. His professionalism, knowledge and experience, coupled with his personal character and integrity have proven invaluable to
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