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Private equity funds have accelerated the acquisition of European oil and gas assets, with 16 deals worth a combined £12 billion announced in the 12-month period ended 31 July 2022, according to data from global law firm Mayer Brown.
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KKR is to invest $300 million for a 13.33% stake in Advanta Enterprises Limited (Advanta), a subsidiary of UPL and a leading global seed company that aims to deliver innovative farming solutions and technology to farmers around the world.
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Blackstone Group has moved to reflect a sharp decline in global equity prices caused by rising interest rates and a slowing economy, by marking down the value of its sprawling investment portfolio, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Vista Equity Partners has completed its acquisition of Avalara Inc, a provider of tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, for $93.50 per share in an all-cash deal worth $8.4 billion.
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Cordis Corp, a portfolio company of private equity firm Hellman and Friedman (H&F), is to acquire MA Med Alliance SA (Medalliance) in a transaction valued at up to $1.135 billion, according to a report by BioWorld.Â
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EQT has completed the acquisition of Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia, in a cash and stock transaction that was worth €6.8 billion when first announced in March, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Data is yet to capture the full extent of the ‘valuation reset’ across late-stage VC, while lower valued early-stage start-ups could face consolidation…
Late-stage VC has been hit hardest by the reset in valuations, with the number of high-profile examples snowballing through 2022.
At one point last year, payments start-up Stripe was the most highly valued VC investment in the US. Last month its valuation was slashed by 64% by one investor. Weeks earlier, valuations were cut at Swedish buy-no-pay-later fintech Klarna, following delivery app Instacart before it.
“The startups that enjoyed sky high valuations based on hype and ‘FOMO’
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Billion-dollar start-ups are spreading across Europe at a rapid rate. US VC firms have taken notice. But do hubs in London and Paris really have an advantage over Silicon Valley?
Once considered a frontier market by VCs in Silicon Valley, Europe has developed a network which currently leads the industry by several measures.
Of the total number of unicorns created there – start-ups valued at $1 billion or above – more than half were created last year alone.
Though they still only represent a slice of last year’s global total (14%, according to Crunchbase), the high number of births seems
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Dry powder now exceeds $500 billion but VC funds are more likely to be cautious and counter-cyclical in the current market…
Global start-up funding is slowing but still exceeds pre-pandemic levels, both by deal number and total deal value. Q2 saw the largest quarterly drop in investment in nearly a decade (by 23%), according to data from CB Insights. The $108.5 billion total marked a six-quarter low but was still the sixth largest quarter for investment on record.
The scale of the venture boom during 2021 has overshadowed the dot com bubble at the end of the 1990s. After almost a
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Historically high levels of venture capital are still being raised by fund managers, but the number of them doing so is starting to fall…
Despite the valuation bubble bursting in parts of the venture capital market, the amount of capital raised by funds during the first half of 2022 has continued to boom, driven by record numbers of follow-on funds in the US and funds closing at more than $1 billion.
In July, Bay Area-based Lightspeed Ventures said it raised more than $7 billion across three new US funds, and one focused on India. A few days later, London-based Index
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