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By Ashley Coups (pictured) – As private equity assurance leader, my main relationships within private equity houses are with CFOs and COOs. When it comes to working through the impact of regulatory issues, however, one tends to deal with a variety of people. Whereas most of the large US and UK firms have full-time compliance officers and teams, inside the smaller and mid-market firms – of which there are around 100 in the UK – compliance is often one of several roles performed by the COO.
There are several direct regulatory impacts affecting the private equity industry today, the most
Aureos Capital, a small and mid-cap private equity fund manager, has made an investment in Clinique Biasa, a private hospital and clinic providing medical services in Togo, West Africa.
The investment has been made by the Africa Health Fund, which is managed by Aureos Capital.
The fund’s objective is to enable low income Africans access to affordable, high quality health services while providing investors with strong long-term financial returns.
Aureos’ USD1.7m investment will enable Clinique Biasa to complete the financing of its modernisation and expansion plan which will cost approximately USD5m. This will in turn increase the range of
The total value of UK mergers, acquisitions, flotations, rights issues and placements was GBP141bn during the first six months of 2012 – an increase of 29 per cent on the total disclosed value during the same period in 2011, according to Experian.
This was led primarily by an increase in transactions worth GBP1bn or more.
During the first half of 2012, 24 large deals were announced worth GBP92.3bn in total involving some of the UK’s largest companies. Sixteen of these were proposed acquisitions of UK companies by overseas firms.
During the same period last year, there were 18 such
There were 1,249 venture capital financings announced during quarter two 2012, representing an aggregate value of USD10.9bn, according to Preqin’s deal flow data.
This is a 16 per cent increase in both the number and value of VC deals in comparison to Q1 2012, and is the largest amount of aggregate capital committed by VC firms since Q3 2011.
The data shows that 67 per cent of the number and 75 per cent of the aggregate capital of VC deals announced in Q2 2012 occurred in North America, with 839 VC financings in the region valued at USD8.2bn during the
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has provided a GBP25m debt facility to support the buy-out of Enotria Group, a trade wine importer and distributor, led by chief executive Alison Levett and backed by BlueGem Capital Partners.
Enotria was originally founded in 1972 by Remo Nardone and further enhanced by the acquisitions of Wheeler Cellars in 2008 and Great Western Wine in 2010.
Headquartered in West London, the group’s wine portfolio is sourced worldwide directly from vineyards. Enotria employs 181 staff and in 2011 generated over GBP100m in sales.
Enotria will be acquired by BlueGem alongside its management team. BlueGem
Masashi Oda, Chief Investment Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group on the latest activity in Japanese equity markets…
Despite downward revisions to consensus forecasts, the Japanese equity market still offers an attractive forward PER of 12.1x: a historic low. The market is also at a historical low relative to the US: the estimated PER gap between TOPIX and the S&P500 is now in negative territory, reflecting the relative outperformance of U.S. equities
Following May’s corporate earnings releases, our analysts have reviewed their FY2012 forecasts. While our initial view was that guidance from some companies was overly conservative, further analysis has led
AXA Private Equity has agreed to acquire a 45 per cent stake in Arkadin, a provider of collaboration services.
The transaction, which sees AXA Private Equity working alongside Olivier de Puymorin, founder and chief executive of the company, follows the exit by the historical investors, Apax Partners, Altamir Amboise, Innovation Capital and UFG-Siparex, which supported Arkadin during the first stage of its development.
The deal is subject to anti-trust agreement and is scheduled to close by the end of July 2012.
Founded in France in 2001, Arkadin provides a range of remote collaboration solutions (audio, web and video conferencing
Alexandre Masson has joined Activa Capital as an operating director.
Masson previously worked for six years as a director at Alvarez & Marsal where he conducted operational and financial improvement assignments on behalf of private equity firms or family-owned companies.
He specialised in the retail, manufacturing industry and healthcare sectors.
Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, Masson worked for four years as a director at KPMG (audit).
Charles Diehl, partner of Activa Capital, says: "Alexandre will actively contribute to the strategic and operational development of our portfolio companies while accelerating their financial performance. He will work hand in hand
Aurora Venture Capital investment fund has acquired 25 per cent of xLander, the Russian travellers’ social network.
The amount of the transaction has was been disclosed.
The investments will be directed to the development of the social network, particularly to the development of new Web services for travellers and professionals of the travel market.
There were 705 private equity-backed buyout deals in Q2 2012, valued at an aggregate USD60.4bn – a 37 per cent increase in deal value from Q1 2012, and a six per cent increase from the USD56.8bn in Q4 2011, according to figures from Preqin.
There were 705 private equity-backed buyout deals in Q2 2012, valued at an aggregate USD60.4bn – a 37 per cent increase in deal value from Q1 2012, and a six per cent increase from the USD56.8bn in Q4 2011, according to figures from Preqin.
In addition, 293 private equity-backed exits were announced in Q2 2012, with
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