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​​​​​​​In this week’s podcast, Private Equity Wire hears from Andrew Bernstein, senior managing director and head of private equity at Capital Dynamics, on why some managers able to meet their fundraising targets despite the pandemic, while others are struggling to reach their targets, and why firms with proprietary sourcing capabilities might be better positioned to take advantage of liquidity-based opportunities at the moment?
NEWS
Broadridge Financial Solutions is to acquire Itiviti Holding (Itiviti), a provider of trading and connectivity technology to the capital markets industry, in an all-cash transaction valued at EUR2.143 billion (approximately USD2.5 billion) from Nordic Capital.
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By Steve Phillips, CFO, and Somil Goyal (pictured, far left with Philips), Investment Lead, at GovGrant – After the turmoil of 2020, there are signs of growing optimism in markets. Accelerating vaccination programmes are feeding investor hopes of a return to normal life and business activity in 2021.
AWARDS
We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Private Equity Wire European Awards, compiled in conjunction with Bloomberg.
NEWS
New York-based private investment firm Orangewood Partners has closed Orangewood Fund II with USD200 million in equity commitments, as well as raising nearly USD100 million in equity across other vehicles.
PODCAST
In this week’s podcast Private Equity Wire speaks to Sumit Mehta, Managing Director of Arrow Capital, about the growth of SPACs in emerging markets. The podcast looks into the differences between the US ecosystem versus emerging markets and forecasts the challenges that need to be resolved in order to fully leverage the trend globally.
GUEST ARTICLE
By Chris Gauld, director at Equator – With an ageing population, pandemic weary societies, exponential growth in health and wellbeing spend, and an explosion of health data, it’s little wonder that healthcare is a key trend in private equity deal origination. In fact, according to Pitchbook, in 2020, healthcare was the third most active section in US PE deals, and fourth most active sector in Europe.
At Equator, we undertook research into twenty healthcare businesses that have seen a PE-backed buyout or significant growth funding in the last three years. We analysed them using a combination of qualitative and quantitative
DIGITAL SUMMIT
Private Equity Wire’s PEWlive Healthcare Investing Summit brought together GPs, LPS and other private equity experts to share their insights into the fast-changing healthcare sector.
RESEARCH
Ten scaleups, which between them secured 20 per cent of total UK tech VC investment at USD3.5 billion drove UK tech in 2020, according to Tech Nations’ latest report on the state of the UK tech sector.
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GUEST ARTICLE
Over the Hill and (still) far away for UK biotech companies
GUEST ARTICLE
Over the Hill and (still) far away for UK biotech companies