Federal Reserve’s Covid response fuels private equity debt boom
Private equity firms are bingeing on junk bonds as central bank moves have supported high-yield debt markets
Private equity firms are bingeing on junk bonds as central bank moves have supported high-yield debt markets
Occident has led a CHF 5.1m round for therapeutic blood purification technology developer Hemotune, with participation from South Korea-based Greencross Medical Science Corp (GCMS) and the Zürcher Kantonalbank.
Dublin-headquartered startup Antikytera E-Technologies has received an investment from a venture capital house to further expand its remote assistance software and artificial intelligence technology.
Germany-based venture capital investors EVentures, 468 Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures have backed a €5m seed round for Klima, an app that allows users to make donations to mitigate their carbon footprint.
Italian private equity firm Clessidra is acquiring a majority stake in wine producer Casa Vinicola Botter from Dea Capital Alternative Funds and the founding Botter family.
Arsenal Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of AIM-listed healthcare consultancy Cello Health for a purchase price of £181.8m.
Vista Equity Partners CEO Robert Smith has said that companies which profited from the transatlantic slave trade should consider making reparations to African-Americans.
Danish recycled glass firm Shark Solutions has raised funding from Scotland-based venture capital firm Circularity Capital.
La Famiglia has announced its second B2B-focused venture capital fund, which is targeting €50m.
Churchill Real Estate has picked up $2bn of new institutional capital as it looks to capitalise on residential transition lending.
Mid-market US private equity house Stellex Capital Management has expanded its operations through the opening of a new office in Michigan.
MCH Private Equity has acquired a majority stake in Molecor, a Spanish manufacturer of molecular orientated PVC (PVC-O) pipes.
One Equity Partners has picked up advanced wound care and medical procedure supplies and services company American Medical Technologies.
Europe's Advent Life Sciences has sealed a sale of KaNDy Therapeutics Ltd to industry giant Bayer in a deal which could see it collect in excess of $975m.
This week, the Unquote Podcast focuses on Germany, where private equity activity has remained resilient despite Covid-19.
Family offices are sticking with venture capital despite the growing coronavirus crisis - but their expectations of returns threw up a surprising result, new research shows.
Credit Suisse has hired ex-UBS banker and former banking regulator Alan Wang as its chief operating officer for China.
Industry giant Mittal, the Swarovski family and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström are all among backers of a €50m fund raised by woman-led venture capital firm La Famiglia.
Too many Chinese investors focus on the originator more than the asset pool. That undermines one of the crucial purposes of securitization.
GlobalCapital Asia has spent the last two months talking to banks and their clients to determine the most impressive capital markets transactions and advisers across Asia ex-Japan in 2020, a volatile and unpredictable year. We
