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PARTNER FEATURE
As any start-up founder knows, launching a new business can be an exhausting and all-consuming experience. Â When not dealing with day-to-day operations or handling accounts, there are investors to deal with and venture funding to be raised, often from multiple backers with competing agendas.Â
PARTNER FEATURE
As more alternative fund managers explore the yield opportunities in private debt, one of the risks is introducing too much complexity to their middle- and back-office operations. Outdated accounting and portfolio management systems or insufficient internal resources for tracking individual loan performance increase that risk.
DEAL
EIG, an institutional investor to the global energy and infrastructure sectors, is to acquire a 10 per cent interest in Australia Pacific LNG Pty Limited (APLNG) from Origin Energy Limited (Origin) for an equity purchase price of USD1.592 billion.
DEALS
KKR, together with its co-invest partner, Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, has purchased the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio (Fund II) from KCL for approximately USD1.1 billion.
FUNDRAISING
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has closed its latest early-stage healthcare venture capital fund, Sofinnova Capital X, oversubscribed at EUR472 million (USD548 million).
NEWS
LK Bennett, the luxury women’s clothing and fashion brand, has received a GBP4 million inventory facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance to support it as it looks to invest in future performance.
Fundraising
allplants, the D2C plant-based food company, has secured a record-breaking GBP38 million Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, backers of Revolut, Cazoo and Trustpilot.
FUND LAUNCH
SWEN Capital Partners, a specialist sustainable private equity, is offering privileged access to the infrastructure asset class, generally reserved for institutional investors, with the launch of SWEN Exclusive Infrastructures.
ALLOCATION TRENDS
US investment consultant, Meketa Investment Group, is witnessing an increase in interest in venture capital strategies, particularly at the late stage, as allocators look to harness their investments to early-stage opportunities.
PARTNER FEATURE
Allocations to alternative asset classes, like private capital, have risen sharply in the past two years. As the interest in such investments broadens to include retail clients, managers are facing growing regulatory and administrative burdens as calls for increasing transparency and reporting become more insistent.
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