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Answers to frequently asked questions pertaining to setting up investment funds in Ireland
Why Luxembourg?
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg became in a few decades one of the leading locations for investment funds, being today the world’s second fund centre, overtaken only by the USA. Since 1959, when the first fund was established, the investment fund industry hugely expanded, counting 3,521 funds at the end of April 2010. This success originated with the authorities’ encouraging attitude to foreign capital and investment, and was considerably strengthened by its prime location in the heart of Europe – close to the main markets targeted by investment funds – by its highly qualified multilingual workforce, as well
Malta became a member of the European Union in 2004 and is one of the 15 members of the Eurozone.
Evolution Group, a UK investment bank, has appointed Steve Bartlett as head of private company and private equity coverage.
Bartlett will be responsible for leading Evolution’s growing focus on private companies and the private equity market.
He will report to Garry Levin, Evolution’s newly appointed head of the corporate finance division.
Bartlett has 20 years’ experience as an adviser, focusing on private company M&A and private equity. Most recently, he operated his own advisory practice. Prior to that, Bartlett spent five years in the London corporate finance team of BDO where he was a partner. Before that, he worked
Wheb Ventures, a European clean technology private equity firm, has invested in the German company Friedola, a recycled plastics processing and products business.
Wheb led the round with a EUR10.8m investment.
Friedola’s products consist of up to 80 per cent recycled materials, feedstock which is generated by its own plastic waste recycling facilities in Germany. Its products are mainly used in the automotive and logistics industries.
Friedola’s main product is Con-Pearl, a lightweight board made of polypropylene. They are mainly used as automotive components such as floor boards in light commercial vehicles.
Jörg Sperling, partner at Wheb
European financial directors are concerned about accessing sufficient levels of working capital in 2010, according to research from London-based working capital solutions provider Demica.
As a result, a majority (62 per cent) believe they will be unable to make the most of economic recovery when it emerges.
European corporations are faced with a number of hurdles – the unsustainable demand to extend payment terms, the looming threat of supplier failure and the withdrawal and rise in the cost of credit insurance.
The continued lack of availability and tightening of traditional lines of credit have shown no sign of easing, causing
Augmentum Capital, the entrepreneurial fund founded by Tim Levene and Richard Matthews, has formally launched.
It comes soon after its first investment in BullionVault, the online physical gold investment platform.
The fund is targeting GBP50m of private equity deals over the next three years and is backed solely by RIT Capital Partners, the London listed investment trust in which Jacob Rothschild and family are substantial investors.
Augmentum focuses on dynamic, growth businesses that are break-even or profitable in the e-commerce and technology sectors. Geographically its prime areas of focus include the UK and Hong Kong. Its typical investment size is
The Amplio Group, an operator and investor in the renewable energy and environmental sectors, has acquired a majority stake in Puresep Holdings, the UK water purification, filtration and separation company.
This acquisition is the first geographic expansion for Amplio Filtration, a subsidiary of Amplio Group, which last year acquired Nasdaq-listed Basin Water out of Chapter 11 and subsequently formed Envirogen Technologies.
With over 300 clients, a team of 15 employees, revenues of GBP3.7m and a range of conventional and leading edge water treatment and process filtration technologies, Puresep gives Amplio Filtration a solid foothold in the large, growing and fragmented
Lloyds Banking Group is selling a portfolio of 40 private equity investments in its Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance business to a new joint venture called Cavendish Square Partners.
The new joint venture will be majority owned (approximately 70 per cent) by private equity firm Coller Capital, with Lloyds Banking Group owning a stake of approximately 30 per cent.
The total cash consideration for Coller Capital’s majority stake is GBP332m. This values the portfolio at approximately GBP480m, which is a small premium to current book value.
The group held a competitive tender process before selecting Coller as its preferred
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