Pharma and Healthcare
COVID-19 set to shake up private equity performance

COVID-19 set to shake up private equity performance

Opalesque Industry Update - According to Preqin, 2018/19 vintage funds will see higher returns as a result of the pandemic, while earlier vintages will suffer. The global COVID-19 health crisis has prompted the most extreme

Fintech and Finance
Shadow banking poses challenges for global financial markets in coronavirus crisis – DBRS Morningstar

Shadow banking poses challenges for global financial markets in coronavirus crisis – DBRS Morningstar

Opalesque Industry Update - Ongoing disruptions in the global financial markets have refocused attention on nonbank financial intermediaries (FIs) and shadow banking. These nonbank FIs are important, especially now. Shadow banking assets now represent more

Politics
UK-based Elysian scores 4.5x return on sale of software provider Wellbeing

UK-based Elysian scores 4.5x return on sale of software provider Wellbeing

The sale marks the sixth exit from Elysian Capital I, which closed on £130m in 2010

Limited Partners
Advent sets up $25m fund to help health workers and portfolio company employees

Advent sets up $25m fund to help health workers and portfolio company employees

The Advent Relief Fund will be distributed by the buyout group's local offices

Boards of Directors
Filling the Sponsor PIPE-line

Filling the Sponsor PIPE-line

Posted by Daniel E. Wolf, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Sunday, April 5, 2020 Editor's Note: Daniel E. Wolf is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. This post is based on his Kirkland &

Large
Insight Partners raises $9.5bn to invest in software businesses

Insight Partners raises $9.5bn to invest in software businesses

Despite coronavirus uncertainty, technology investor Insight Partners closes its largest fund yet

Oil and Energy
Glennmont Partners sells Portuguese solar portfolio

Glennmont Partners sells Portuguese solar portfolio

The exit is the first Glennmont has made through its €500m Clean Energy Fund II, which reached a final close in 2013

Manufacturing and Industrial
A private equity firm turns to triage as coronavirus strikes

A private equity firm turns to triage as coronavirus strikes

The virus disrupted the supply chain for HKW’s portfolio and also for roughly 75% of US companies

Oil and Energy
Private equity-backed oil producers find coronavirus relief by hedging prices

Private equity-backed oil producers find coronavirus relief by hedging prices

Energy-focused firms’ financial hedges could protect against a coronavirus-prolonged oil price slump

Politics
Opalesque Exclusive: Monroe Capital eyes opportunities in technology and software lending

Opalesque Exclusive: Monroe Capital eyes opportunities in technology and software lending

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: A small but growing area of private debt could be a new source of opportunity for investors. A new paper from Monroe Capital highlights how technology and software as a

Fintech and Finance
Raymond James hires European investment banking co-head from Jefferies

Raymond James hires European investment banking co-head from Jefferies

Bertie will work alongside current head of European investment banking and chief operating officer Steve Hufford

Pharma and Healthcare
European healthcare specialist closes latest fund at €416m

European healthcare specialist closes latest fund at €416m

Gilde Healthcare V will focus on companies that enable improved care at an affordable cost

Fintech and Finance
Private equity firm sees a ‘phenomenal time’ to do deals

Private equity firm sees a ‘phenomenal time’ to do deals

Centana Growth Partners is going ahead with its planned investment in a fintech company, but has revised the underwriting of the deal in light of changed conditions

Oil and Energy
Long volatility and tail risk strategies outshined their peers as equities and oil slumped in February

Long volatility and tail risk strategies outshined their peers as equities and oil slumped in February

Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge fund managers were down 1.70% in February, reports Eurekahedge, as the development of the COVID-19 outbreak outside of Mainland China weighed on risk assets throughout the month. More than 90%

Event
Finnish buyout firm CapMan invests in software provider PDSVision

Finnish buyout firm CapMan invests in software provider PDSVision

The investment is the first made by CapMan’s eleventh buyout fund, which raised €170m

Fintech and Finance
Coronavirus lockdown: Massive surge in the use of fintech apps

Coronavirus lockdown: Massive surge in the use of fintech apps

Opalesque Industry Update - Coronavirus-triggered social distancing, isolation and lockdowns have driven-up the use of financial apps in Europe by 72 per cent in a week, reveals deVere Group, an independent financial advisory organisations. The

Consumer Services
Private equity firms left exposed as coronavirus shutters UK restaurants

Private equity firms left exposed as coronavirus shutters UK restaurants

Buyout houses are holding consumer assets they can’t offload now or in the foreseeable future

Consumer Services
L Catterton applies lessons learned in Asia to coronavirus-hit US companies

L Catterton applies lessons learned in Asia to coronavirus-hit US companies

The consumer-focused firm’s companies include restaurant chains and fitness providers

Academic Research
Can Investors Time Their Exposure to Private Equity?

Can Investors Time Their Exposure to Private Equity?

Posted by Gregory W. Brown (University of North Carolina), on Friday, March 27, 2020 Editor's Note: Gregory Brown is professor of finance and director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at University

Pharma and Healthcare
Socialising and mental health during the Covid-19 crisis

Socialising and mental health during the Covid-19 crisis

Being isolated from colleagues can lead to workers feeling lonely and lacking motivation

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