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Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners has led a seven-figure financing round for adeven GmbH, a technology company headquartered in Berlin and London, that verifies and optimizes mobile advertising campaigns for publishers and advertisers in real time.
The financing will support the company’s international growth.
Adeven GmbH analyzes the overall context of mobile advertising campaigns, including the number of screen inserts. The company focuses on apps and mobile websites. "We process over 20 GB of data from Apple’s app store alone, and extract more than 100 billion individual data points, which we analyze, evaluate, and prepare", stated Paul H Müller,
The Private Equity investment company sector was hit hard by the credit crunch, with the average discount widening out to 51% at the end of 2008. Whilst this has affected the Private Equity sector’s previously strong longer-term performance figures, over the shorter-term the sector has bounced back and is up 62% over the last three years to 30 April 2012 compared to 43% for the wider investment company sector.
Tim Spence, Finance Director at Graphite believes that the listed Private Equity sector has come a long way since then, and balance sheets are in general much more robust. He does
The Taipei office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has appointed Paul J Cassingham as a senior legal consultant in its corporate practice. He joins K&L Gates from Yangming Partners.
Cassingham advises clients in the electronics, chemicals, industrial equipment, and other sectors on an array of corporate matters, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure projects, cross-border investment, and taxation. He regularly counsels and speaks on topics related to foreign investment in Taiwan and U.S./Taiwan political and economic relations.
“We are happy to have Paul join us and his practice adds on to the platform of services that
As Denmark prepares to issue its first ever inflation-linked bond at auction on 24 May, David Dyer, Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at AXA Investment Managers, discusses the size of the inflation-linked bond market and looks at why institutional investors should consider going global in their allocations…
Today, the Danish government will become the newest entrant to the global inflation-linked bond market. They propose to issue an inflation linked 2023 government bond at auction, to the value of up to 6 billion Danish crowns (or USD1.06 billion) and have already had strong indications of interest.
The Danes will join a
Some 30 emerging markets private equity funds raised USD7.8 billion in the three months ended 31 March 2012, compared to 46 funds that raised USD9.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011, according to figures released by the Emerging Markets Private Equty Association (EMPEA).
On the investment side, 198 deals were completed for USD4.8 billion through 31 March 2012, compared to 217 deals completed for USD8.5 billion in the first quarter of last year.
International law firm Eversheds has advised private equity firm Baird Capital Partners Europe on its acquisition of the instrumentation solutions business of e2v technologies plc for GBP15 million. The acquired business will be re-named SGX Sensortech Ltd (SGX).
SGX designs and manufactures sensors that provide environmental, health & safety research and analysis to customers in Europe and Asia including automotive companies Volvo and VW. Its products include high specification x-ray detection sensors used in a range of industries such as the pharmaceutical sector and academic research, pollutant gases sensors for the automotive industry and combustible and toxic gas sensors used
Quikr, an internet and mobile-based classified ads specialist, has attracted an investment of USD32 million led by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing.
Existing investors Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay Inc. also participated in this round of fund raising, which is the fifth and the largest round of capital raised.
Quikr is India’s largest horizontal classifieds platform with 17 million unique individuals and small businesses using it across 83 cities every month. These individuals and businesses access Quikr to sell, buy, rent or find products and services in a variety of categories
For the first quarter of 2012, the IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which provides an early view of current deal flow activity and trends in the global market prior to public announcement, shows a 23 per cent increase in global merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity compared to Q1 2011.
All regions also showed a year-over-year positive trend for Q1 2012 over Q1 2011, with the strongest growth in Asia Pacific (58 per cent) and similarly positive trends in Latin America (42 per cent) and Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) (29 per cent). While North America also posted an increase, it was
China is shrugging off the financial woes of Europe and the US and China’s long-term growth and economic prospects are positive, says Daniel Murray (pictured), Head of Global Research, EFG Asset Management…
Flexible monetary policy, encouraging intra-demographic shifts and a planned leadership transition will all contribute towards a balanced, growing economy. These long-term positives in China offset short-term difficulties. China has combated its inflation issue by raising the reserve requirements of the Central Bank forcing domestic lenders to increase the level of reserves. This has reduced the growth rate to a current 8.1% for the first quarter this year from
Harris Williams & Co has advised on the sale of Silverchair Learning Systems, LLC (SLS), a healthcare IT (HCIT) provider delivering online learning and communication solutions to the senior care industry.
SLS, a subsidiary of Silverchair Holdings, Inc. (Silverchair), was sold to Vista Equity Partners (Vista). The transaction was led by Sam Hendler from the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Cheairs Porter from the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Group.
“Attracting capital from an investor of Vista’s caliber is a testament to what the SLS team has achieved and the ongoing opportunity for differentiated SaaS businesses
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