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BioClinica, a provider of clinical trial management solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a holding company controlled by private equity firm JLL Partners.
Simultaneously, JLL Partners has reached a definitive agreement to acquire CoreLab Partners, a provider of medical imaging solutions and cardiac safety services based in Princeton, New Jersey.
Following the proposed acquisitions, BioClinica and CoreLab Partners will be merged to create a provider of medical imaging services and eClinical solutions for clinical trials. Ampersand Capital Partners, which is the majority owner of CoreLab Partners, will also be a significant investor in the combined
Manager of the RWC Europe Absolute Alpha Fund, Ajay Gambhir (pictured) believes that European Equities offer his equity long/short strategy some of the greatest investment opportunities in the last ten years.
Gambhir has highlighted two reasons for optimism for the asset class. Firstly, the dislocations in European equities have been so severe that the opportunity for long/short investing between sectors and stocks is greater than it’s been for almost ten years. Secondly, the almost unprecedented gap in value between European equities and European corporate credit opens up the opportunity for money to rotate into European stocks, with the greatest benefit
Return hungry investors are likely to continue parking their cash in high yield bonds allowing over indebted European companies to refinance their debt and new ones to access markets, according to Debtwire Europe’s 2013 Distressed Debt Outlook.
“To judge by the headlines, the intensity of the European crisis has abated since the summer of 2012," says James Roome (pictured), co-leader of Bingham’s global financial restructuring practice group. "Although it remains to be seen whether the world is as disconnected as this trend tends to indicate, European leaders certainly seem to have quelled the fears of Eurozone break-up for the moment.”
Lightbank, a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, has opened an office in the Flatiron District of New York.
Lightbank’s New York presence will enable the firm to better serve and grow its portfolio in New York and the East Coast, where it will join a community full of promising tech start-ups.
"New York is an active and diverse tech hub that has produced many remarkable companies, and we look forward to collaborating with great entrepreneurs as they grow their businesses," says Keywell. "The New York tech community has deep roots in spaces like ecommerce
Israel Cleantech Ventures (ICV) has held the final closing of its second fund with just above USD74m in commitments.
Having raised its debut fund in 2007, ICV now has approximately USD150m under management.
ICV’s second fund has attracted new limited partners, including institutional investors, multi-national corporations and family offices. Many of its existing LPs also re-upped from the previous fund.
The fund is managed by partners Jack Levy, Meir Ukeles and Glen Schwaber working together with a team of venture partners – all industry veterans – led by Arnon Goldfarb, with nearly two decades of experience at Israel Chemicals and
Omnes Capital (formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity), via the LCL Régions Développement and CAPE Région Expansion funds, and Odyssée Venture are investing in a management buy-out deal for Nomios, alongside the founding director Sébastien Kher and key employees.
Based in Boulogne Billancourt, Nomios is a specialist integrator in the fields of IT security and the optimisation of company network performance. The company offers a full range of services combining integration and maintenance of IT security systems and audit and consultancy services.
Created in 2004, the company has tripled in size over the last four years, whilst conserving profitability levels
At a time when investors are hungry for income, some 59 per cent of the Association of Investment Companies’ member venture capital trusts are yielding over five per cent.
The average VCT is up four per cent over one year, 21 per cent over three years, two per cent over five years, and 61 per cent over ten years.
Despite the difficult economic environment, a recent AIC survey of VCT fund managers found that 70 per cent of VCT managers’ investee companies were net recruiters last year.
The AIC hosted a press roundtable lunch on the outlook for VCTs
Pan-emerging markets private equity firm Actis has appointed Arjun Oberoi as global healthcare sector head and Ivy Santoso as Indonesian country head.
Oberoi will head Actis’s global healthcare sector, an area of increasing interest for the firm as an ageing population, changes in lifestyle, increasing income, and better insurance coverage continue to drive demand for high quality medical products and services across emerging markets.
Actis’s current healthcare investments include hospital chain Sterling Add-Life, clinical research organisation Veeda, healthcare IT provider Anthelio, and the largest local player in the Chinese endoscopy consumable sector, Nanjing Micro-Tech.
Santoso will be Actis country
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, which has just celebrated its 10th anniversary, has revealed plans to raise EUR500m over the next four years and increase net asset under management to EUR1.3bn.
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners currently manages EUR1bn focusing on growth capital and life sciences in France and Europe.
Despite a difficult environment since 2008, institutional and private investors have continued to support the teams in successfully raising three funds: BioDiscovery 3, Winch 2 and Cabestan. BioDiscovery 4 is also expected to reach its EUR200m target very soon.
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners aims to raise EUR500m over the
Purchasing Platform, a Chicago-based procurement company focused on the real estate industry, has closed an angel round of investment capital.
The company raised a total of USD565,000 from various angel investors and intends to use the investment to fund start-up operations and complete the development of its ecommerce platform.
The Purchasing Platform application is a membership-based website aggregating the buying power of real estate operators to provide a centralised vehicle for the purchasing needs of both property managers and corporate staff. With more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience, the company’s founder and chief executive Peter Hepner identified
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