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Despite being cautious on G5 growth, it’s difficult seeing value in bonds. Unless, of course tepid recovery rates are now relapsing into something more sinister, in which case, deflation-risk re-emerges and QE gets dusted off again. Neil Williams (pictured), Chief Economist, Global Government and Inflation-Linked Bonds at Hermes Fund Managers, discusses why any comparisons that liken now to the 2008-2009 crisis look premature…
Activity levels are still improving, China is growing strongly, Japan will reconstruct, and global inflation is rising. Thus, backing up Bernanke’s assertion that deflation is no longer a “non-trivial risk”, and the Fed is now in “…a
Bichot & Associes , the new corporate law firm dedicated to M&A/private equity, has advised Clément d’Harcourt, founder of the company AlbumBlog, on its second fund raising.
AlbumBlog manages the website www.albumblog.com, a leader in online virtual and interactive photo albums. The funds raised from the industrial investment holding Qualis, for a non-disclosed amount, will be used to support the development of AlbumBlog.
BICHOT & ASSOCIES’ team was led by Charles van den Broek d’Obrenan, partner.
Charles van den Broek d’Obrenan says: "Working with entrepreneurs is always very stimulating. We speak the same language. Anyway, AlbumBlog is a nice
Pan-Asian equities are at an inflection point this summer. The question everyone is asking is: have the Chinese authorities over-tightened, thus causing a hard landing in the economy, or have they finessed their tightening expertly and managed to create the much sought after ‘soft landing’. Rupert Foster (pictured), manager of the Matrix Asia UCITS Fund comments on why he is in the ‘soft landing’ camp…
I disagree with the bears who would point to the bursting of the property market bubble, stubbornly high levels of inflation creating fears of stagflation, and the likelihood of savage bad debt escalation after the
Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Zeus Technology Limited (Zeus) on its sale to Riverbed Technology, Inc (Riverbed). Under the terms of the acquisition, Riverbed will pay approximately USD110 million in cash at closing and up to an additional USD30 million in cash based on the achievement of certain bookings targets over the following year.
Founded in 1995 and backed by Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) and DFJ Esprit, Zeus delivers high performance software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments. Zeus enables enterprises to deliver applications and websites with a consistently excellent user-experience, whatever
John Thomas Financial, an independent broker/dealer and investment-banking firm located in New York City’s Financial District, today announced its participation has raised USD40m in a private equity placement for Kadmon I, LLC, the investment vehicle for Kadmon’s operations, including Kadmon Corporation.
Kadmon, headquartered in New York City, is a privately held biopharmaceutical company pioneering medicines in oncology, infectious diseases, immunology and other serious diseases. The Company currently commercializes products for the treatment and management of hepatitis C and is advancing a robust pipeline of therapeutic candidates in various stages of development.
Proceeds from the equity placement will support Kadmon Corporation’s
Bound Tree Medical has acquired Alliance Medical, Inc (AllMed). The acquisition advances Bound Tree Medical’s initiative to provide its customers with leading-edge equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and value-added services.
Alliance Medical is a specialty distributor of emergency medical services (EMS) products, supplies, equipment and clothing. Headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri, the company serves customers in more than 30 states. Bound Tree Medical’s acquisition of Alliance Medical further extends its national footprint and expands its portfolio of specialty medical products to the EMS market.
“Our customers will be in good hands with Bound Tree Medical,” says Larry Dahl, founder and chief
Stanmore Implants (Stanmore), specialists in the design and manufacture of patient specific implants for complex orthopaedic reconstructions, has received GBP4m in equity investment from Imperial Innovations Group plc.
This news follows the announcement in June that Stanmore had received US FDA 510k approval for its Juvenile Tumour System (JTS) non-invasive extendible distal femoral replacement (JTS implant), for use in paediatric orthopaedic oncology surgery. Stanmore is now launching the JTS in the United States market and the proceeds will be used in part to help build a specialist sales force for this important product. The proceeds will also be used
LogMeIn, Inc, a provider of cloud-based connectivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of the Pachube service (www.pachube.com) and substantially all other assets of Connected Environments Ltd.
Pachube (pronounced “Patch Bay”) is a web-based service for connecting people and devices to the Internet of Things – a network of sensor-enabled devices publishing and sharing data that some predict will exceed 50 billion devices worldwide by the next decade. This acquisition furthers LogMeIn’s investment in highly scalable connectivity and data sharing platforms, and extends its reach beyond computers, smartphones and tablets to potentially all Internet-connectable devices.
“We believe the volume of
ECO Plastics (ECO), a leading European plastic bottle recycler backed by Disruptive Capital and SAM Private Equity, has raised GBP24m from Ludgate Environmental Fund Limited and Close Brothers to fund its expansion.
The financing will allow ECO to double its production of food-grade recycled material (rPET) for soft drinks bottles, increasing overall processing capacity from 100,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes of plastic bottles per year – equivalent to 420,000 bottles per hour or 2.8 billion bottles per year. This represents just under half of the total plastic bottle recycling in the UK last year.
Alongside a joint venture valued
JMI Equity, a private equity firm focused on investing in software, internet and business services companies, has made a strategic growth investment in BrightLine a leading producer of marketing services in the interactive TV space.
Headquartered in New York City, BrightLine develops and executes advanced TV marketing strategies for global consumer products companies including Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, Intuit, Cisco and Kellogg’s. The company’s proprietary process aggregates consumer behavior trends and measures program results across all cable, satellite and other TV platforms, providing a unique value to its clients that extends beyond traditional TV advertising. BrightLine transforms TV advertising into an effective,
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