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CDC Group has appointed David Osborne as investment director.
Osborne joins CDC’s equity investments team, which provides capital directly to businesses across Africa and South Asia, focusing on sectors that have good potential for job creation.
Osborne has over 25 years of experience of private equity investing in both European and Asian markets.
Most recently, he was managing director of the investment firm CapAsia, which focuses on infrastructure investment in Central and South-East Asia. He led the firm’s Islamic Infrastructure Fund, making investments in the Islamic countries of emerging Asia including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of its first dedicated fund in Brazil, HL Brazil FIQFIP.
Closing on BRL150m, the fund represents a major milestone for both Hamilton Lane and Brazil, as it is the country's first fully-integrated private equity fund-of-funds including primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
The fund is comprised of a diverse group of Brazilian institutional investors, including pension funds, multi-family offices and financial institutions. At the time of closing, the fund had already committed nearly BRL55.8m through six deals, which are diversified across vintage year, strategy and maturity. The fund will target investment opportunities throughout Brazil
Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners have merged their portfolio companies CCBR-SYNARC and BioClinica.
The combination creates a global provider of specialty outsourced clinical services.
JLL Partners and Water Street invested in BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC in 2013 and reached an agreement earlier this year to combine the two companies.
The firms recruited Jeffrey McMullen, an executive with 40 years of experience in the drug development industry, to serve as chairman.
Together, BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC offer a suite of services that support the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with reducing the cost and time of global
Alceda Asset Management has been granted a licence to act as Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
The licence will enable Alceda to work with initiators of alternative investment funds (AIFs) covering both traditional open-end equity and bond funds as well as closed-end real asset funds.
AIFs, which market and distribute in Europe, will now have the option to outsource the AIFM responsibilities of their fund to Alceda.
Michael Sanders (pictured), managing director of Alceda Asset Management and chairman of the board of Alceda Fund Management, says: “This capability allows us
Houlihan Lokey, the international investment bank, has acquired ArchPoint Partners, an independent investment banking firm that provides M&A and private capital raising advisory services to clients in the technology sector.
The transaction, which closed on 7 March, enhances Houlihan Lokey’s global coverage and capabilities for clients across the technology sector.
Founded in 2009, ArchPoint focuses exclusively on the technology sector. The firm advises numerous companies on financings and business combinations with key sector private equity firms as well as large-cap infrastructure and application software vendors including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Google, Yahoo! and Symantec.
ArchPoint co-founders and managing directors
SEI has launched The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (AIC) III with an eye towards helping managers of private funds enter the retail space.
AIC III is the third series trust in the AIC platform that SEI first introduced over 20 years ago and was developed to provide managers with a turnkey solution for the operations of retail mutual funds.
This solution included an independent board of trustees, compliance programme, fund administration, accounting, investor servicing, and distribution services.
AIC III combines the size of SEI’s series trust platform and SEI’s background in alternative services with a new fund board experienced in the alternative investment market.
A fund managed by Blackstone on behalf of its private equity investors is to acquire a majority stake in Accuvant, a provider of information security solutions and services.
Accuvant management and existing shareholder Sverica International will invest alongside Blackstone in the transaction.
Blackstone’s investment will enable Accuvant to accelerate its pace of expansion and enable the management team to deploy additional capital and resources for a broader roll-out of its product- and service-based solution offerings.
This investment leverages Blackstone’s technology experience and capabilities, and also significantly broadens its presence in the information-security sector. The increased prevalence and complexity
Unigestion has developed a new framework within which to assess risk in private equity in a new piece of research undertaken in collaboration with EPFL.
The new approach differs from others in two major ways. First, it is based on actual cash flows of private equity funds, rather than their interim valuations that are more commonly used.
Second, it defines risk as the deviation of actual cash flows from expected cash flows by timing and amount. In other words, it quantifies the risk that a private equity fund will distribute less or later than expected to investors.
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SAP Ventures, the independent venture capital firm affiliated with SAP AG, has named Rami Branitzky as managing director to lead the global market development team.
With more than USD1.4bn under management, SAP Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive expansion-stage companies, as well as early-stage venture capital funds, across the information technology landscape.
Branitzky will oversee the firm's efforts to enable its direct and indirect portfolio companies to leverage the capabilities of one of the world's largest enterprise IT ecosystems through its limited partner, SAP AG.
With close to 20 years of experience, Branitzky is a veteran of building and
Adbrain has raised USD7.5m in a Series A funding round led by Octopus Investments, while existing investors Notion Capital also participated.
Adbrain will use the funding for its ongoing expansion into the US and Europe, and to step up the recruitment in its engineering, big data and artificial intelligence teams.
Following the beta launch of its platform in February 2014, Adbrain onboarded some of the world’s most high-profile agencies and trading desks: Annalect (part of Omnicom Media Group Europe), The Exchange Lab, M&C Saatchi Mobile, Fetch and Somo.
Adbrain’s vision is to empower global advertisers with technology that
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