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Ipreo Holdings is to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division.
The sponsors are acquiring the business from affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), who will retain a minority ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ipreo is a provider of new issuance software solutions across the equity, fixed income, municipal, and syndicated loan markets, including bookbuilding systems, roadshow and conference management platforms, and electronic document delivery.
Ipreo's suite of investor relations services provides corporate clients with cross-asset class surveillance, shareholder analysis, investor
Augentius Singapore has been appointed to administer the L Capital Asia Fund 2, which has commitments of USD1bn.
L Capital Asia Fund 2 is the latest private equity fund sponsored by the LVMH Group / Groupe Arnault and YTL.
L Capital Asia is characterised by the multidisciplinary nature of its investments and its multinational team of professionals, who have over 183 years of cumulative experience in Asia.
Headquartered in Singapore, L Capital Asia focuses on investments in the emerging/fast growing markets of Asia.
L Capital Asia primarily focuses on the following key elements:
Developing attractive and
High Street Capital has sold its investment in BeneSys, a benefits payments processing services company, to The Riverside Company, a private equity firm.
BeneSys provides third party administration and related outsourced software services for Taft-Hartley union trust funds.
The company was advised by KPMG Corporate Finance in connection with the transaction.
"Originally, I structured my relationship to High Street Capital so I could walk away after three years,” says BeneSys CEO George Buhalis. “But, we were together nine years. Why? Because they brought BeneSys multiple resources to not only identify the 'light on the opposite shore' that we needed to head
HarbourVest Partners has held the final close of HarbourVest Partners 2013 Direct Fund LP, a global direct co-investment fund, at USD1.0bn, above its USD750m target.
HarbourVest’s prior co-investment fund, 2007 Direct, a USD734m fund, is fully invested with accelerating distributions.
The 2007 Direct portfolio includes buyout and growth equity investments across the US, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
Similar to the 2007 Direct Fund, which invested more than 64 per cent in companies with enterprise values below USD1.5bn, the 2013 Direct Fund intends to have a majority of its portfolio focused on small and mid-market companies.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a significant investment to support the GBP30m acquisition of Prism UK Medical Limited form Toronto-based TSX Venture Exchange-listed Prism Medical Ltd.
Prism is a provider of safe patient handling solutions that enable the mobility disadvantaged to live at home in a safe and dignified manner, improving their quality of life. In addition to homecare, Prism also has significant business in the long term care and acute care areas.
Prism manufactures and supplies products under a number of market leading brands in addition to offering a range of complementary services including assessment, installation,
A more expansive Significant Investor visa programme would help innovative Australian businesses benefit from venture capital funding to fuel future economic growth.
That’s according to a submission recently lodged by the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL).
“The Significant Investor visa programme has proven itself to be an important part of Australia’s strategy to compete for global capital from offshore investors,” says AVCAL’s chief executive, Yasser El-Ansary. “But the programme should be expanded in order to allow offshore investors to allocate capital to other asset classes that are critical to supporting the growth of Australia’s future,
Women’s health diagnostic company Concepta has completed a GBP2.3m round of equity financing managed by Diagnostic Capital.
The company was founded off the back of the technology and expertise of former senior Unipath scientists, who were responsible for creating leading brands of digital fertility tests, pregnancy tests and other women’s health diagnostics in the market today, including the Clearblue pregnancy tests.
Concepta will now develop and market a novel diagnostic device for the simple and accurate testing of fertility, pregnancy and early stage healthy pregnancy monitoring.
In addition, appointments to the board and management team have also been
Mobeus Investments has partially realised its investment in VSI Limited by selling one of the firm’s two operating businesses, MachineWorks Software, to Westec Holding Company.
The value of the deal has not been disclosed.
Mobeus backed the management buyout of VSI back in 2006.
Based in Sheffield, MachineWorks is a developer of simulation and verification toolkit technology used in computer-aided manufacturing. The firm’s software products simulates machining and helps manufacturers to avoid expensive production mistakes which could cause expensive raw materials to be scrapped or production runs to be disrupted.
Eirc Tung, partner at Mobeus and non-executive
Placement agent Eaton Partners has launched a secondary advisory group following the addition of three senior professionals, Michael Pilson, Alexander Mejia and Kevin Imhoff.
The formation of the secondary advisory group further enhances Eaton Partners' product offerings and capabilities as secondary market activity continues to play an increasing role in both general partner fundraising and limited partner portfolio management activities.
Pilson, Mejia and Imhoff previously ran the secondary advisory business at Atlantic-Pacific Capital, where they advised a wide range of clients on secondary market transactions.
"We are extremely excited about adding Michael, Alex, and Kevin to our team. As the private
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has appointed Jeffrey C Holland as managing director and head of the private client group.
Holland comes to this newly-created position from Cole Real Estate Investments, where he was president and chief operating officer, overseeing the private capital and real estate groups.
Holland joined the firm on 17 March and is based in New York.
Holland will oversee the group responsible for the development of Carlyle's relationships with individual investors and intermediaries serving these investors. The group led by Holland will focus on arrangements with bank feeder funds and other financial advisors
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