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The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has released an updated Due Diligence Questionnaire and Diversity Metrics Template.
The documents are intended to standardise the key areas of inquiry posed by investors during their diligence of managers and to provide a framework for ongoing monitoring of progress related to DEI. Each has been meaningfully updated to reflect changes in the marketplace and to incorporate comments received during ILPA’s public consultation process earlier this year.
“Market practices—and ILPA’s own guidance in response, as reflected in the ILPA Principles—have evolved significantly since the release of the DDQ in 2013. While DEI is a
GT Gettaxi Ltd has entered into a business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Rosecliff Acquisition Corp I (RCLF). Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company, GT Gettaxi ListCo (NASDAQ: GETT), will trade on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
BidX1, a European digital property investment platform, has secured strategic growth investments from doValue, a Servicer in Southern Europe for loan and real estate management services, and Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. Both acquire minority equity stakes in the Dublin-based PropTech company.
Oliver Wyman and doValue will join existing investor Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), a London-based private equity firm, and BidX1’s Founder, Stephen McCarthy, as shareholders in the Company.
Pollen Street made a strategic investment in BidX1 in 2018 to accelerate the platform’s international expansion. Both Pollen Street and McCarthy maintain majority stakes in the business. The
Kerv, a cloud and digital transformation services provider, has acquired Gyrocom, a network and security integrator with a specialisation in SD-WAN.
In addition to SD-WAN, Kerv’s strategic acquisition brings skills in managed networks and network security, including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), the rapidly emerging cybersecurity solution. Gyrocom will operate as Kerv’s specialist networking and security division.
Gyrocom, headquartered in Surrey, was founded in 2006 by Graham Brown and Ryan Coombes, who had worked together previously at Nortel Networks; fellow director Jane Hamlyn joined the company in 2011. The company brings strategic technology relationships with VMWare Velocloud, Dell, Cisco,
Delio has been selected by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB) as the provider of a new digital platform that will accelerate the promotion and distribution of private market investment opportunities to the bank’s high-net-worth (HNW) and institutional clients.
The platform launch marks the start of a strategic partnership between Delio and SMTB and is a significant milestone in the bank’s strategy to offer its clients greater access to private markets.
The launch of the platform comes as many industry commentators predict that Asia will become a global force in the private markets space over the next decade. Driven by
Core BTS, a technology consulting and managed services provider, today entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nomura Research Institute.
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a Japanese research and consulting firm, is to acquire technology consulting and managed services provider Core VTS from Tailwind Capital.
NRI was established in 1965 and since its inception, the Company has been dedicated to assisting clients to confidently manage the complexity of modern markets. Core BTS is a US-based solution provider leveraging both the Microsoft and Cisco ecosystems to modernise business applications and maximise the value of the cloud. As an NRI Group
Novata, a new technology platform and public benefit corporation that provides the private markets with a cutting-edge Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) solution, has announced a Series A investment round of USD21 million.
The investment represents one of the largest initial funding rounds for a public benefit corporation.
Principal investors include members of the one-of-a-kind consortium that collaborated to launch Novata in October 2021, including the Ford Foundation, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) and Omidyar Network. This significant funding enables Novata to meet the private markets’ critical and immediate need for an independent, unbiased and flexible
Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty (P&C) carriers, brokers, and MGAs has secured a strategic growth investment from global growth private equity firm TA Associates.
TA, along with Insurity’s current investor GI Partners, plan to further accelerate Insurity’s growth and expand the delivery of the P&C insurance industry’s most configurable, cloud-native, and intuitively analytical software platforms.
Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hartford, CT, Insurity has built a team of nearly 1,500 team members globally. The team’s deep industry expertise and software offerings supporting the entire policy lifecycle have enabled it to build a strong
EQT is to acquire LSP (Life Sciences Partners), a European life sciences venture capital firm with approximately EUR2.2 billion of assets under management (AUM) and a team of 34 professionals.
LSP, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies with strong scientific and clinical rationale across several life sciences strategies. The Company was founded in 1998 and today is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced life sciences investment firms. LSP employs 34 professionals across its offices in Amsterdam, Munich, and Boston.
Over the past two decades, LSP has invested in over
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry with USD1.3 trillion in global AUA, and Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company redefining data management processes for alternative investors and allocators, have formed a strategic partnership to provide clients with alternative data management solutions that combine best-of-breed automated technology and data accuracy.
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