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Visma, a provider of business-critical software to private and public companies in Europe, today announces that it has expanded its shareholder base through a secondary sale to leading institutional investors – Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind, and GIC – valuing Visma at EUR16 billion (~NOK165 billion).
DEALS
Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management have received a binding offer and entered into exclusive negotiations with Perrigo for the sale of HRA Pharma.
E-BOOK PREVIEW
Each year SS&C Intralinks, in partnership with Private Equity Wire, polls limited partners (LPs) worldwide for an insider’s view of their sentiments toward their current funds, how they select general partners (GPs), and allocation plans for the coming 12 months.
FUNDRAISING
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative asset management firm with USD45 billion of equity capital under management, has closed its inaugural European Middle Market Fund, HIG Europe Middle Market LBO Fund, with aggregate capital commitments of EUR2 billion.
PODCAST
Private Equity Wire speaks to Ian Connatty, managing director of funds at British Patient Capital. The conversation centred around BPC´s new GBP375 million ‘Future Fund: Breakthrough,’ how it aims to accelerate the growth of R&D-intensive businesses, and the recent growth of unicorns in the UK and Europe.
FUND LAUNCH
Green entrepreneur Jo Bamford has joined forces with multi-family office Vedra Partners to launch HYCAP, a hydrogen investment fund which has set its sights on raising GBP1 billion.
DEALS
Funds advised by private equity firm Apax Partners (Apax) and global growth investor Warburg Pincus, have agreed to acquire T-Mobile Netherlands Holding from Deutsche Telekom AG and Tele2 AB. The transaction values the company at an Enterprise Value of EUR5.1bn.
RESEARCH
The increased usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) will boost the sector’s operational efficiency greatly and transform the ways in which partners perform their work, according to a new study. However, the paper’s author, Professor Thomas Åstebro of HEC Paris Business School, says it will also lead to a technological arms race and cause an eventual ‘industry shakeout’.
Titled ‘An Inside Peek at AI Use in Private Equity’, Åstebro’s new study looks at the growing use of AI by PE/VC firms and how it will impact firms’ performance, and the overall future of
PARTNER FEATURE
Stephen Kenny (pictured) from Blick Rothenberg’s Financial Services team reviews HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) recent announcement on moving the accounting year end for unincorporated businesses.
INTERVIEW
European private equity firm Nordic Capital signed its largest deal to date last week, in a USD7.3 billion all-cash transaction that will take Inovalon, a publicly traded American tech company that provides cloud-based tools to support data-driven healthcare, private. Private Equity Wire sat down with Fredrik Näslund (pictured), Stockholm-based partner at private equity firm Nordic Capital, for an exclusive interview on the back of the deal.
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