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Ashurst has advised Inflexion Private Equity on the simultaneous first and final closings of two new private equity funds.
Inflexion Buyout Fund IV and Inflexion Partnership Capital Fund I were raised in a parallel process over just five months, securing commitments of GBP650m and GBP400m respectively.
Both funds were over-subscribed and closed at their hard caps after receiving strong support from existing investors as well as attracting new investors from the US, Asia and Middle East.
Over 35 blue chip investors have committed to the two funds, including state and corporate pension plans, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.
Nomura has made two new hires into its prime finance business, which encompasses equity financing, prime services and Delta 1.
Massimo Labella has joined as head of directional Delta One sales. He previously spent 12 years at JP Morgan, focusing on flow equity derivatives and Delta 1 products.
Babita Ittoo has joined as a vice president, and will focus on client origination in EMEA. She previously spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs, focusing on the prime brokerage hedge fund client base.
Both will be based in London, and will report to Phil Morgan, head of prime finance sales,
Montagu Private Equity is to sell its entire holding in Euromedic International to Waypoint.
Waypoint is already the majority investor in Euromedic through Ares Life Sciences and will now assume full ownership.
Headquartered in Budapest, Euromedic is a provider of Advanced Diagnostics Imaging (ADI) and cancer care (CC) services in Europe. It owns and operates 144 centres across 14 countries. Euromedic’s ADI business mainly comprises magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) whilst also including other modalities such as ultrasound and mammography. The CC business comprises radiotherapy including linear accelerators, Gamma Knife and Brachytherapy and diagnosis via Positron
Abacus Group has launched the Abacus Client Portal to give its hedge fund and private equity fund clients greater control and transparency into AbacusFLEX services.
The new service allows clients to quickly access informative data for resources being used for each subscribed service, customise monitoring and alerts, and easily communicate with Abacus Group.
Developed based on customer feedback, the Abacus Client Portal is specifically designed to help investment firms gain full visibility into Abacus private cloud environments. The authorised users from each client can drill down into multiple aspects of their Abacus private cloud to view individual user accounts,
Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk Robotics has completed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq.
The company issued 3,450,000 million shares and expects to receive total estimated net proceeds from this offering of approximately USD36.3 million after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.
OurCrowd members had previously invested USD3.3 million in ReWalk in two separate funding rounds over the past year. OurCrowd had invested alongside leading VCs, such as Pontifax, Israel Health Care Ventures, SCP Vitalife and the Japanese Robotics giant YASKAWA.
OurCrowd's chief executive Jon Medved says: "OurCrowd is proud of
Europe’s executives are more bullish about the European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) outlook than they were a year ago, according to research by law firm CMS and Mergermarket.
Two thirds of respondents expect M&A activity will increase, with 11 per cent anticipating a significant increase.
This compares with 47 per cent of 2013 interviewees expecting deal-making to increase, and just one per cent expecting M&A to increase greatly. Attitudes about Europe’s economic recovery have improved significantly and the majority believe that the worst is behind us.
Thomas Meyding, head of CMS corporate group, says: “Our report echoes the
Dunedin, the UK mid-market private equity house, has appointed Lorna Eltringham as investor relations manager and Jessica Hardy as an analyst.
At the same time, Dunedin’s David Williams joins Ross Marshall as a senior partner of the firm.
Eltringham joins from Coller Capital where she worked with the fundraising team to raise its sixth global secondaries fund with capital commitments of USD5.5 billion. She previously spent ten years with Credit Suisse, most recently as a vice president in their private equity fund placements team. She will support partner Mark Ligertwood in managing relationships with new and existing investors following
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A survey published by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, entitled From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two, found that the US alternative mutual fund industry has experienced 38 per cent annualized growth since 2008. The survey predicts that it has the potential to become 6 per cent of the USD15tn US mutual fund industry by 2019; total assets exceeded USD300bn in May 2014.
There are many factors driving convergence between traditional and alternative fund managers; key among them is investor demand for regulated, transparent
Some 80 per cent of SMEs believe that the government’s new Small Business bill will provide them with greater access to funding, according to research from private equity firm Key Capital Partners.
The latest ‘Growth Panel’ report, which surveys 100 UK SMEs, revealed that 95 per cent of small businesses emphatically back the proposals, which provide new hopes for funding growth.
The companies surveyed were also in favour of a number of specific measures in the bill, including plans to provide more direct interaction with the government and preventative measures on ‘pre-pack’ deals.
The Small Business bill was
ACG Capital has added three investment professionals to its fund of funds team.
With commitments of EUR1.8 billion, the team invests globally across all sub-sectors of private equity.
Gilles Michat leads the primary and secondary fund of funds’ team, which is now comprised of eight professionals.
Jérôme Marie joined ACG Capital as principal in May 2014. He began his career in 2004 as an analyst at Arcis Group in France. Two years later, he joined the London office as an associate and became vice president in 2009.
François Bouillon joined ACG Capital as vice president in August
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