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The IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which tracks global sell-side merger and acquisition (M&A) mandates and deals reaching the due diligence stage prior to public announcement, shows an overall decrease of two per cent between Q3 and Q4 2012.
EMEA and Latin America showed increases (13 per cent and 19 per cent respectively), while North America dropped 13 per cent and Asia Pacific decreased 16 per cent.
At the close of 2012, optimism returned to the M&A climate. The Q2 2012 DFI anticipated that dealmaking would see an increase several months down the line, as early-stage M&A had risen dramatically.
Results International has appointed Julie Langley as managing director of its advertising technology and digital media practice.
Langley has over 15 years experience advising technology and digital media companies on M&A, financing and disposals. She has completed transactions with many of the key buyers across the technology and media spectrum including Oracle, Microsoft, Experian, Moody’s, IAC, BT, Axel Springer, CNET and DMGT.
Langley started her corporate finance career at Broadview, an adviser on technology transactions, where she specialised in the software and digital media sectors.
In 2003 she joined Jefferies International where she was a managing director and
Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation, an emerging medical technology company developing brain stimulation products, has raised EUR7.5 m from the Dutch investment group Inkef Capital, in a further extension of its series A financing round.
The proceeds will be used for the development of its Steering Brain Stimulation implant and procedure solutions to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other functional brain disorders.
This additional investment supplements an initial EUR16.5 m series A funding round with Wellington Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, LSP and the Wellcome Trust in 2011.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is approved in Europe for the treatment of
Ruth Lea (pictured), Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the downgrade to Britain’s debt rating, the latest public finances data and the Bank’s February Inflation Report.…
Moody’s downgraded Britain’s sovereign debt rating from Aaa to Aa1, which was expected. Britain’s public finances are, if anything, deteriorating. But in a world where Germany and Canada are the only major economies to retain their “triple A” status, Moody’s assessment that the UK remains highly credit-worthy is surely as satisfactory an assessment as can be expected under current circumstances.
The January PSNB data were better than expected and, even after
Intel Capital and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have made a follow-on investment of USD7.8m in Altobridge, a specialist in technology that cuts the cost of delivering mobile voice and data across wireless networks.
This new investment will provide Altobridge with additional capital to accelerate the pace of roll-out of its mobile data optimisation solution, Data-at-the-Edge, in both urban and rural markets globally.
Data-at-the-Edge (DatE) optimises data delivery for mobile network operators. It is a self-learning, content pre-positioning platform that enables network operators to drive down their data transmission costs while, at the same time, dramatically improving their end-users’ Quality of
Experian Corpfin has confirmed Grant Thornton UK as the number one financial adviser to UK companies by deal volume for 2012, with reported deals advised on rising to 121.
This is the second year Grant Thornton has topped the annual ranking and was achieved despite the total volume of industry deals falling by three per cent last year.
The technology (30 deals), consumer (21 deals) and manufacturing & industrial (26 deals) sectors were the busiest in terms of deal activity that Grant Thornton advised on during 2012.
Investment into the UK continued in 2012, with 25 per cent
OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension plans, has seen net assets grow to CAD60.8bn, rising by CAD5.7bn in 2012 and by over CAD17bn since the 2008 global credit crisis.
Now in its 50th year, OMERS is an active, diversified investor, pension innovator, and an engine of economic growth and employment in Ontario and Canada.
OMERS total Plan investment return of 10 per cent was driven by strong performance in its private market portfolio and solid public market performance in line with expectations and current market conditions.
“OMERS had a strong year in 2012. The CAD5.7bn increase in our net assets
The Carlyle Group has reported USD0.49 per common unit in distributable earnings in Q4 2012 and USD1.39 per common unit in distributable earnings since The Carlyle Group IPO in May 2012.
A quarterly distribution of USD0.85 per common unit has been declared, along with aggregate distributions of USD1.12 per common unit for 2012, which represents 80 per cent of post-IPO, after-tax distributable earnings.
Carry fund realisations totalled USD18.7bn in 2012 and with more than USD36bn in carry fund realisations achieved over the past two years.
A total of USD14.0bn in new capital was raised in 2012, including USD4.6bn in Q4
Hamilton Lane, a private equity asset management firm, has acquired Shott Capital Management (SCM), a provider of private equity and distribution management services for institutional investors, including major public and private pension plans, foundations, endowments, and other financial institutions.
The firm has offices in San Francisco and Boston.
With the acquisition, Hamilton Lane will continue to provide investment services to SCM’s institutional private equity clients.
The acquisition of SCM will also allow Hamilton Lane to assist actively with the management, processing and disposition of newly-public portfolio company securities, thereby providing more sophisticated stock distribution management as an ancillary offering to
JP Morgan has appointed Jose Berenguer as senior country officer of Brazil, effective 1 April 2013.
Berenguer (pictured) will report jointly to Mary Callahan Erdoes, chief executive of JP Morgan Asset Management, and Martin Marron, chief executive of JP Morgan’s Latin America franchise.
"We are thrilled to build on the success of our Gavea partnership and welcome Jose to JP Morgan in an expanded role," Erdoes says. "Jose brings more than two decades of local and global experience across wholesale banking, a client-first mindset, and a proven track record of leading and growing organisations."
Senior country officers are responsible for building
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