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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.
DEALS
KKR and Salesforce Ventures have invested USD62 million in a Series B round for Copenhagen-based, no-code software test automation platform Leapwork, to accelerate its global expansion.
ALLOCATIONS
Allocators are blurring the boundaries between the hedge fund and private equity sides of their portfolios, as once strictly segmented alternatives buckets begin to blend, according to investment firm Cambridge Associates.
Dan Aylott, Managing Director and Head of European Private Investments, at Cambridge Associates says that the distinction between hedge funds and private equity has become an increasingly “grey area”.
“Those parts of a portfolio are less distinct today than they were. Within Cambridge Associates, hedge funds don’t compete against private equity for the best ideas or vice versa, there’s a lot more overlap,” he commented.
The palette mixing of
ESG
Hedge funds and private equity are both improving their transparency over ESG. However, while on the private equity side, ESG is more seen as an investment opportunity, complexities remain on the hedge fund side around issues of reporting and shorting, according to Cambridge Associates.
Trudi Boardman, Hedge Fund Specialist at Cambridge Associate said that many hedge funds are still in the earlier stages of introducing ESG policies and processes, and that “there’s still a long way to go.”
She commented: “The ESG area is still very much a work in progress on the hedge fund side. There are challenges in
DEALS
Info Edge Ventures has led a USD2 million seed round into Lumiq, an Indian data and analytics company that provides data-driven decision-making for financial enterprises.
The funding round also saw participation from Redstart Labs and angel investor Parampreet Bhasin. Lumiq plans to utilise the fresh capital in the company’s sales growth, improve its product offering, as well as expanding its global presence.
Lumiq is on a mission to make financial enterprises manage their data better, as it believes that most data pipelines of financial enterprises are broken. This results in an inefficient and suboptimal utilization of a vast pool
SPACs
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has revised its Listing Rules to attract Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).
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