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In the wake of the financial crisis, investors (LPs) are driving rapid change in the private equity industry, including a wide-ranging re-balancing of their portfolios and the recruitment of more in-house staff, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.
Having had time to gauge the effects of the financial crisis, the majority (54%) of investors now believe private equity is more correlated with public equities than they once did – and they now expect one in five of today’s private equity managers (GPs) to fail.
However, their confidence in the asset class overall remains strong. This is
PwC is increasing its capabilities to advise businesses on raising capital and re-finance existing loans with the appointment of one of the industry’s leading figures.
Nick Atkinson, who starts as a partner in the firm today (20 June), is heading up an expanded business unit, which will advise on capital structuring options for mid-sized and large businesses. PwC is also making two further partner hires into the group with John Williams and David Godbee both joining the firm today. Both are highly experienced leveraged finance practitioners who have worked at a number of investment banks. Nick Carmichael also joins
EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has elected Claude Kremer as its President for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place in Lucerne during the association’s Annual General Meeting.
The representatives of the European investment management industry also appointed two Vice-Presidents, Mr Christian Dargnat and Mr Massimo Tosato. It is the first time that EFAMA has elected two Vice Presidents, reflecting its commitment to engaging with the industry regulatory and operating environment.
The new President, Mr Kremer, has already served as Vice-President and will succeed Jean-Baptiste de Franssu who served for two years. Kremer
The Aureos Africa Fund has completed a USD5.35m investment in Bio-Plastics Limited, a fast-growing Ghanaian plastics manufacturer. The investment will allow the company to expand its capacity and start manufacturing biodegradable plastics. This will be the 14th investment by the $381.1 m Fund since its first close in September 2008.
Aureos Capital Limited is a private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets.
Bio-Plastics currently employs 70 people, and is one of the key suppliers of plastic products to the Ghanaian and West African markets. 38% of the company’s turnover
The Hedgeweek USA Awards 2011 for excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers have honoured the US industry’s best performers and their ability to demonstrate consistency and depth of expertise against the backdrop of a more complex, but also potentially more rewarding, investment climate.
The awards, presented at a lunch at New York’s Gansevoort Hotel on Thursday, June 16, were decided by the votes of Hedgeweek’s nearly 20,000 US-based subscribers, who include institutional and high net worth investors as well as managers and other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians and advisers.
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Responding to growing market demand for European domiciled investment fund products, and the emergence of Dublin as a centre for alternative investment products, DMS Management Ltd (DMS) has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland.
Led by Irish resident principals Derek Delaney and Don Ebanks, and leveraging DMS’ global fund governance platform, DMS Ireland is ideally positioned to help fund sponsors grow their asset management businesses by establishing UCITS, QIFs, SPVs and other European products to attract European and other international investor clientele.
As residents of Ireland, Delaney and Ebanks are able to serve as directors to a wide range
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, a leading international law firm, announced that Garrett Hayes (pictured) has joined the London office of international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, enhancing the firm’s M&A and private equity practice in London. Garrett joins the firm from Macfarlanes where he has been a partner since 2005.
Haye’s expertise covers a broad range of general corporate work, M&A and private equity and in particular he has acted for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, restructurings and auction sale processes. He has also advised management on a number of high profile transactions.
Actiwave AB, a Swedish start-up technology company has raised SEK15 million in a rights issue lead by SEB Venture Capital. SEB also acquired all shares held by the current seed financier, Innovationsbron.
Founded in 2007 by Pär Gunnars Risberg, Actiwave AB is a Swedish start-up company that has developed a unique algorithm that significantly improves sound reproduction. The company has combined various research findings to pioneer an innovative technology that provides considerably enhanced sound quality to loud speaker systems, enabling small and flat panel speakers to reproduce a richer and wider sound spectrum.
The technology can be applied to loudspeakers
New Evolution Ventures, LLC (NeV), a developer and operator of health and fitness brands, and international investor Vision Capital, have formed a global investment partnership focused on the health, fitness and wellness industries, encompassing multiple brands that incorporate health clubs as well as nutrition, media, content and technology.
The strategy of the NeV – Vision partnership is to continue to invest in and develop the existing NeV brand portfolio as well as to make additional targeted investments in the health, wellness and fitness sector. NeV was founded in 2008 by Mark Mastrov and former 24 Hour Fitness executives Jim Rowley
Paris-based real estate group Nexity Participations has sold its entire stake in Eurosic to two investors, Batipart and Predica.
Nexity secured a price of EUR34.30 per share for its 32.07% stake in Eurosic amounting to a total consideration of EUR195.7m.
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