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Month: January 2020

Pantheon partners with Kermony Capital for France push

The London-based firm believes there are “strong fundamentals driving the growth in French private equity”

Warburg Pincus’ potential bid for Quilter highlights appeal of wealth management

Wealth management groups are set to be a hot takeover target this year

IK in talks to sell space and defence components manufacturer Exxelia

The transaction would give Exxelia an enterprise value of around €500m, according to a person familiar with the business

UK biotech sees investment plunge

The UK BioIndustry Association said financing was £1.34bn in 2019 compared with £2.2bn raised in 2018

Citi M&A head will remain as UK mergers regulator boss

Simon Lindsay will head the Takeover Panel for another two years

Standard for Classifying a Minority Stockholder as a Controlling Stockholder

Posted by Francis J. Aquila, Melissa Sawyer, and John L. Hardiman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Editor's Note: Francis J. Aquila, Melissa Sawyer, and John L. Hardiman are partners at Sullivan

New $500m platform to invest in businesses aiming to achieve UN’s sustainability goals

Luxembourg-based private equity firm Bamboo Capital will manage the investment platform with six different funds targeting businesses in emerging and frontier markets

Ardian closes €3bn private debt fund

The fund has surpassed its predecessor that closed at €2bn in 2015

Central bank group to assess potential cases for central bank digital currencies

Opalesque Industry Update - The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International Settlements

ROUNDTABLE :- Opalesque Roundtable Series – Miami 2020

In the future, every stock, every bond, every currency, every commodity and more assets will be digitized and cryptographically secured on a blockchain. But, not only that: whoever is first to issue the digital currency

Private equity managers often miss diversity targets, survey shows

Fund managers are trying to hire from a wider group of schools and strengthen family friendly policies as a pathway to improving gender and ethnic diversity

Growing Chinese tourism in Europe offers investors opportunities in hotel groups

European capitals steeped in history, such as Amsterdam, Budapest and Vienna, are now displaying the same occupancy and tourism growth rates as Paris and London

AMB :- Institutional Investors back alternatives heading into 2020

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Institutional investors are backing alternatives heading into 2020. According to the newly released Eaton Partners LP Pulse Survey, 72% of institutional investors expect alternative ass...Article Link

AMB :- Incline Equity Partners closes the fifth private equity fund with $1.2bn

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Incline Equity Partners closed its latest private equity fund, Incline Equity Partners Fund V, with $1.2 billion of capital commitments. The Pennsylvania-headquartered private equity firm said...Article Link

Institutional Investors back alternatives heading into 2020

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Institutional investors are backing alternatives heading into 2020. According to the newly released Eaton Partners LP Pulse Survey, 72% of institutional investors expect alternative assets to meet or exceed their

Actis partners with Egypt’s sovereign fund to boost country’s inbound investments

The two groups have signed an agreement to steer investments into infrastructure and energy projects in Egypt

Levine Leichtman expands European team with Inflexion hire

Josh Kaufman and Luc Sandmann have been hired as managing director and associate director, respectively

Infrastructure manager Asterion raises €1.1bn for maiden fund

The firm had an initial target of €850m

Mayfair Equity Partners hires managing director from Lloyds

Neil Price was previously head of strategic debt finance and capital structure advisory at Lloyds

Secondary buyers become pickier about deals as bonanza continues

Secondary buyers say they expect the pace of deals to pick up again in the first quarter of 2020 as the pacing clock resets

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