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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
General Catalyst Partners (GC) has launched the GC Stripe Platform Fund, a programme in which GC plans to invest USD10 million in venture capital for businesses and applications built on the Stripe Connect platform.
Stripe Connect enables businesses to connect their Stripe account (and their Stripe data) with other services: with a single click, a company can start selling on Twitter, integrate with their web analytics, or access their Stripe data on a mobile device.
“We have watched this ecosystem develop with great interest,” says Hemant Taneja, managing partner at General Catalyst. “It’s not often that we see the
Galena Asset Management has held the final close of its first Private Equity Resources Fund with USD400 million of total committed and invested assets.
The fund invests in both the equity and debt of small-to medium-sized metals and mining companies, particularly those that are in a development or expansion phase.
The fund will benefit from the trading and technical expertise of parent company Trafigura.
The investment team joined Galena in 2012 with a successful track record of investing in the mining resources space exclusively for Trafigura since 2005.
Duncan Letchford, Galena’s chief executive, says: “Another positive step
Venture capital (VC) firms are seeing three times more investment opportunities than private equity (PE) firms, but despite this PE firms are twice as likely to invest as VCs, according to research by qodeo.
Early stage VCs see, on average, 900 business plans per year, and deal flow is at an historic high, given the weight of capital raised since 2012.
However, ‘Time to Exit’ has extended and the UK is more risk averse than the US, at early stage investment. Less than 10 per cent of UK VC & PE firms hold pre-revenue companies in their portfolios compared
Private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners has completed the sale of portfolio company Sequoia Golf Holdings to ClubCorp for approximately USD265 million.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Sequoia owns or operates 50 private clubs, semi-private and resort golf facilities located across the US.
Its portfolio includes the world-class 63-hole Woodlands Country Club located in the master-planned community of The Woodlands, Texas, a collection of four Atlanta-based premium high-end Sequoia clubs, 25 private Canongate clubs and a select group of golf properties managed for institutional owners, corporations, private investors and equity memberships.
The company began operations in 2003 with the
EFG Hermes’ private equity arm has signed a USD208 million transaction to acquire a 49 per cent equity shareholding and outstanding shareholders loans in EDPR France.
EDPR France has a portfolio of 33 operational wind farms with a combined gross capacity of 334 MW. The company is a subsidiary of EDP Renewables (EDPR), one of the top four global renewable energy companies that develops, constructs and operates renewable energy assets with over 8.6 GW of installed capacity across three continents.
“Our first investment beyond the borders of the Middle East and Africa is a natural outgrowth of our emphasis
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