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Intralinks DealNexus, an online deal sourcing and marketing platforms for M&A professionals, has expanded its mobile application to include full access to and interaction with its exclusive, global community of approximately 10,000 dealmakers.
Additionally, Intralinks DealNexus has introduced a tablet version of the app for the iPad.
The new app takes the process of securely and discretely marketing and sourcing deals mobile, from start to finish.
“Intralinks DealNexus already enables Pitcher Partners to market deals to a global universe of potential buyers often giving the first connection between a broader range of global buyers and sellers,” says Nathan
One in five (21 per cent) small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) cite cash flow as a major challenge to growth, according to a new study by venture capital investor Albion Ventures.
Albion’s research shows that cash flow concerns are far higher among firms that are increasingly confident about the future and have attempted to raise finance for growth, suggesting that it is a problem of success rather than failure.
Underlining SME’s growth ambitions, a third (33 per cent) of businesses plan to raise finance in the next 12 months. Of these 27 per cent are targeting capital for
The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has appointed Richard Young to the new position of director, BVCA Manchester.
Young is a private equity and venture capital veteran of almost 30 years. Previously with 3i and then founder of The Manchester Technology Fund, Young joins from venture capital house Enterprise Ventures where he has been fund manager for the North West Fund for Venture Capital since 2010.
Young will begin the role from 1 November and operate from Manchester to promote the role of private equity and venture capital in the North of the UK, and enhance
Mid-market advisory firm Clearwater International completed 13 deals in two months over the summer, worth a combined value of GBP410m.
Five of the transactions have been led out of the UK.
The deals include advising on the sale of Burnt Tree, one of the UK's largest providers of commercial vehicle rental, to Enterprise Rent-A-Car; and the sale of out-of-home digital advertising firm Signature Outdoor to LDC-backed Ocean Outdoor.
The UK arm has also advised gym chain Gymbox on its GBP10m investment from Business Growth Fund.
The Danish part of Clearwater International has also enjoyed a busy period
Fuchs & Associés Group has been granted authorisation by the CSSF for Fuchs Asset Management SA, its Luxembourg-based super management company (Super ManCo).
Fuchs Asset Management SA, which was created on 10 June 2014, operates in accordance with Luxembourg’s laws on undertakings for collective investment schemes (UCITS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Fuchs Asset Management offers a wide range of services for investment funds within structures governed by the UCITS and AIFMD directives, including private equity and real estate funds, as well as structuring solutions, risk management and compliance and the relocation of funds. Fuchs Asset
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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