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By Susana Garcia-Robles, Venture Partner, Capria Ventures – Face masks and frequent hand-washing are the new routine. But how can a company be safer in the new normal? “Good contractual hygiene,” says Joe Wallin, principal at Seattle-based Carney Badley Spellman. In particular, companies should be sure to understand – and where possible, standardise – force majeure language across all their legal contracts.
Wallin, and attorneys like him that work with venture stage companies, point to the same disturbing pattern. “I talked to someone who reviewed 200 [force majeure clauses] and he didn’t find the word ‘pandemic’ once”, he says. With
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Grand Rounds, a healthcare quality and clinical navigation company, has secured a USD175 million round led by investment funds affiliated with global investment firm The Carlyle Group.
The healthcare focused company will use the funds to accelerate clinical navigation and virtual primary care. Grand Rounds has raised over USD270 million to date.
“We are at a turning point in American healthcare, a moment when healthcare has become virtual-first and data can be used to dramatically improve outcomes,” said Owen Tripp, co-founder and chief executive officer of Grand Rounds.
“Since our founding, Grand Rounds has helped millions navigate their way through
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By Rodrigo Tavares, founder and president of the Granito Group – With fewer regulatory requirements compared with listed equity, the global USD4 trillion private equity market is lagging behind other asset classes when it comes to the adoption of ESG strategies.
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By Richard Beresford, partner and chairman of McCarthy Denning – Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been grabbing the headlines recently in the US, with record amounts being raised for these so-called “blank-cheque” companies: over USD27.5 billion so far this year, including the USD4 billion garnered by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine Holdings.
That is by far the largest amount ever raised by a single blank cheque vehicle. Not only have the amounts raised been rising, but there has been a shift in focus towards Silicon Valley, with veteran tech VC players, such as Kevin Hartz, who was an early backer of Airbnb
Q&A
Iron Pillar, a VC firm focused on investing in Indian high growth tech companies, recently onboarded Cyrus Wadia, head of sustainability at Amazon, to guide its companies on sustainability.
PEWLIVE EUROPE
Being at the forefront of ESG today means fully integrating it into the investment process rather than viewing ESG as a ‘parallel process’, according to Elin Ljung, director of sustainability and communication at Nordic Capital, one of the most prominent private equity firms in the Nordic region.
PEWLIVE EUROPE
The pandemic has made investors ask a different set of questions, and shown how a ‘hybrid-approach’ will increase efficiency in the new normal, according to Sebastian Junoy, speaking on the operational due diligence panel at the PEWlive event today (2 September).
Interview
Covid-19 has had an effect on the Chinese economy, but not on longer term trends in the Chinese private equity market, according to Ivo Naumann, Shanghai-based partner and leader of McKinsey’s private equity & principal investors practice in Greater China.
China is the third largest private capital market in the world, of which USD66 billion was invested in private equity in 2019. The country is the third largest market for private equity today, after the US and UK.
“If you look at the private equity industry in China, in many ways it’s a growth story. Looking at long term trends
WHITE PAPER
The latest CEPRES Private Capital Market Outlook shows how Q2 2020 M&A deal value in the US declined by 60 per cent quarter-on-quarter which also represents a 50 per cent decrease year-on-year. These developments in the US exit markets reflect the weak market and investor sentiment during Q2, most likely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Comparing to the last crisis, post-GFC private markets deal level median gross DPI (Distributions to Paid-in) recovered sharply to a 1.50x median DPI in 2009 compared to those deals with investment years between 2006 and 2008. This is followed by a softening of deal level
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Unicorn VC deal value grew to EUR3.1 billion in H1 2020, and is on pace to surpass the EUR5.7 billion record set in 2019, according to PitchBook’s latest VC report, as companies like Deliveroo and N26 both closed substantial rounds in the first six months of the year.
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