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The combined internal rate of return for UK private equity and venture capital was 15.7 per cent in 2013, according to a survey by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
By comparison, total pension fund assets produces 7.8 per cent in the same period while the FTSE All-Share index returned 8.8 per cent.
The survey, produced in association with PwC and Capital Dynamics, encompasses 515 UK-managed independent private equity and venture capital funds.
Venture capital recorded a one-year return of 22.9 per cent in 2013, with funds launched after 2002 generating a since inception IRR
First Data Holdings, the direct parent company of First Data Corporation, has secured commitments to purchase approximately USD3.5 billion of its common equity in a private placement.
The net proceeds from the private placement will be used to strengthen the company's balance sheet through repaying portions of its debt, allowing the company to focus additional capital on accelerating its transformation to a solutions and innovation company that helps First Data clients grow their businesses.
The USD3.5 billion includes USD1.5 billion from existing investors and USD2.0 billion from new investors, including a diverse group of pension funds, mutual funds, asset
Livingstone’s industrial sector team has advised the shareholders of St Neots Packaging, including investor Endless LLP, on the sale of the business to flexible and rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Coveris.
St Neots, which operates out of two facilities in Cambridgeshire, UK, is a design-led manufacturer of carton board packaging solutions for the food service and food retail markets.
The company also provides its customers with low-cost sourcing through its Hong Kong procurement operation and film-licensing-led children's meal and cinema snack boxes.
Under the leadership of executive chairman Andy Ducker, the business has seen strong and sustained growth in
Performance measurement firm Silent Edge has received a GBP2.2 million injection from investment firm Rockpool Investments.
The deal will bring Silent Edge's skills assessment software to a range of new industries, enabling businesses to join the current era of data-driven talent management.
Rockpool has provided GBP1.8 million equity in the form of EIS-qualifying shares together with a venture loan, and taken a significant minority ownership position in Silent Edge.
Silent Edge is Rockpool's seventh investment of 2014 and follows deals with Growth Power, Macro Assembly, Clarity Diamonds and Rockpool's third crematorium, South Leicester Memorial. So far this year Rockpool has invested a total of GBP24.2
ClearCare, a software platform for home care agencies, has secured a USD11 million investment led by venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP).
Cambia Health Solutions also participated in the round, and was joined by existing investors Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Harbor Pacific Capital, and City National Bank.
The investment will accelerate ClearCare's product development efforts.
"Home care is the lowest-cost institutional provider of care serving the highest-cost patient population. We believe that the home care industry has a tremendous role in solving the healthcare challenges of our time," says Geoff Nudd, CEO of ClearCare. "As the leading
Digital media business Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has reached a USD1.56 billion (GBP919 million) valuation as it priced its initial public offering ahead of admission to the London Stock Exchange on 23 June.
As an early investor in ZPG, Octopus has had a strong relationship with founders Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain having invested in their previous business LOVEFiLM.
Alex Macpherson, head of the ventures team at Octopus, says: “We’re really proud to have invested in Zoopla Property Group when the business was still very young and faced numerous challenges to succeed, at a time when the property market
IK Investment Partners’ IK 2007 Fund is to sell GHD GesundHeits to Nordic Capital Fund VIII.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
GHD, headquartered in Ahrensburg near Hamburg, is the market leader for homecare services in Germany, providing medical products and services to more than 140,000 patients.
Following IK’s acquisition of a majority stake in GHD in 2010, the company has continued to strengthen its position as an integrated provider of homecare services to patients with serious diseases. Under IK’s ownership GHD has almost doubled its sales from EUR284m in 2010
Legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised financial service private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners on its buyout of AssurOne Group, a French digital insurance broker.
Under the terms of the deal, funds advised by AnaCap and AssurOne’s management team have acquired 100 per cent of AssurOne Group from financial investors Seventure Partners and Bpifrance, who have supported the growth of the business since 2006 and 2008 respectively.
Norton Rose Fulbright advised AnaCap on the acquisition and equity arrangements and their team was led by corporate partners Richard Bull (London) and Bénédicte Denis (Paris), both of whom were supported
Private equity firm McCarthy Capital has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio company data collection.
McCarthy manages more than USD900 million of committed capital in a mix of growth equity investments, recapitalisations and management buyouts.
iLEVEL enables fund managers to automate performance reporting from portfolio companies and establish a single source of truth that can be used for portfolio reporting, valuation, regulatory reporting, fundraising and investor reporting.
“At McCarthy, we grow businesses in partnership with the management teams of a diverse set of portfolio companies,” says Teri Mercer, director of finance at McCarthy
Gustavo Eiben has joined independent investment firm The Rohatyn Group (TRG) as a managing director.
Based in the firm’s New York office, Eiben will be responsible for business development in the Americas, while bringing his marketing expertise to TRG’s private markets business, which includes private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure and green energy funds.
Nicolas Rohatyn, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of TRG, says: “We are very pleased to have someone of Gustavo’s caliber joining TRG. His track record of successful capital raising, strong network of relationships around the world, and extensive experience marketing private equity
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