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Tom Donovan is joining private equity fundraising advisory specialist Rede Partners from Credit Suisse as a Partner to lead the company’s North American business.
The news builds on Rede’s recent success as global fundraising advisor to AnaCap Financial Partners LLP, which closed the Credit Opportunities Fund II at its hard cap of GBP350m after only a six month active fundraising campaign.
Donovan, says: “It has been clear to me for some time that the fundraising market has changed and that fundraising advisors need to change with it. Rede has a creative, bespoke, partnership approach, providing comprehensive advisory services touching
KPS Capital Partners’ portfolio company American & Efird Global (A&E) has acquired the outstanding two-thirds share ownership of A&E Sri Lanka and A&E Bangladesh from its two joint-venture partners, Brandix Lanka Limited and Brandot International Ltd. A&E now owns 100% of both businesses. Financial terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
A&E is the largest US manufacturer and the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of premium quality industrial sewing thread, embroidery thread and technical textiles. A&E thread is used by producers of apparel, automotive components, home furnishings, medical supplies, footwear and certain industrial products. A&E owns or operates 23
Property portal Zoopla.co.uk has acquired UpMyStreet.com, one of the UK’s leading and longest standing property information websites, for an undisclosed sum.
Launched in 1998, UpMyStreet.com was one of the first property websites in the UK and has been helping consumers find places to live and discover local information and services since. Recent figures from independent website monitoring firm, Nielsen, show that in March UpMyStreet.com attracted over 600,000 unique users.
With immediate effect, users of UpMyStreet.com will be re-directed to Zoopla.co.uk, the UK’s most comprehensive property website that focuses on property search, helping consumers find their next home and property research, helping them
The Riverside Company has appointed Jamie Kiggen as President of the global private equity firm. Riverside Co-CEOs Béla Szigethy and Stewart Kohl say Kiggen will play a key role on the management team and work with Riverside’s teams around the world to drive efficiency, enhance the portfolio, provide investment advice and support fundraising efforts.
A proven executive, Kiggen brings more than 25 years of experience, most recently as Senior Managing Director at Blackstone, where he headed up their cleantech venture capital effort while also playing a senior technology investment role in their private equity group. Prior to that, he was at AllianceBernstein, where
In his latest Market Update, Russ Koesterich, iShares Global Chief Investment Strategist, argues that current market expectations for volatility appear too low and investors should consider adopting a modestly more defensive stance…
Equity market volatility has been relatively low in the past six months. Since early 2008, the annualized volatility on the S&P 500 has been close to 30%, but in the last six months, it’s been a pleasantly dull 17% and stocks have benefited from another torrent of central bank liquidity. Whilst the VIX has risen in recent days, it has still tended to trade below its long term
Citi has been appointed by Phase4 Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm, to provide document safekeeping and fund administration services.
Citi has been serving private equity funds and investors for nearly two decades and is a leading global provider of accounting, administration and tax services for private equity, venture capital and institutional investors.
Phase4 Ventures was established in 1999 to invest in and manage a portfolio of global life science companies for Nomura, the global investment bank. Since then, Phase4 Ventures has invested in 28 companies and built a reputation as one of the world’s premier life science venture capital
Venture capital investment activity in companies that are providing innovative water solutions to the oil and gas and mining industries is increasing according to a report released by the London Environmental Investment Forum.
The report, ‘Water Innovation in Extractive Industries’, identifies 25 private early and growth stage companies operating in the sector. According to publicly available data, 18 have successfully raised funds over the past five years, with several completing multiple rounds, and three are currently seeking funding*.
According to the report there has been an increase in investment activity in the sector over the past five years – 18
Cinven and GS Capital Partners have completed of the sale of Ahlsell, the leading distributor of building products in the Nordic region, to CVC Capital Partners for SEK15.5 billion (EUR1.8 billion). This follows the announcement in February 2012 of the signing of a definitive agreement to sell the business.
Cinven and GS Capital Partners invested in Ahlsell in January 2006 having identified the company as an excellent platform for growth and continued consolidation in the Nordic building products market.
Despite challenging trading conditions, Ahlsell performed strongly during Cinven and GS Capital Partners’ ownership – with revenues and EBITDA up over
Coupa Software, a provider of spend optimisation software, has completed a USD22 million Series E financing round led by new investor Crosslink Capital.
Venture capital firms Battery Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures continued their commitment to Coupa by also participating in the round. The latest valuation was a very significant multiple of previous rounds.
"Coupa’s unique technology platform and customer focused approach are disrupting the spend management market," says Jim Feuille, general partner of Crosslink Capital. "In just the last year, the e-procurement space has found itself at the tipping point in moving to SaaS-based
Capital International Private Equity Funds (CIPEF) has held the final close of the Capital International Private Equity Fund VI (CIPEF VI).
According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), CIPEF VI, which exceeded its target of USD2.5 billion and met its hard cap of USD3.0 billion, is the largest global emerging markets private equity fund closed in the last five years.
As a pioneer of the global emerging market model for private equity investment, CIPEF has been consistently backed by the leading global LP programs which span all major geographies and investor types. Since 1992, Capital International’s research
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