UK to seek ‘permanent’ equivalence for City after Brexit

Evidence of the government’s negotiating stance was captured by a photographer with a long-lens camera, who took a picture of an unreleased briefing paper being carried into Downing Street

ICR launches ESG due diligence services to help private equity and venture capital firms assess ESG risk for portfolio company investments

Opalesque Industry Update - ICR, a leading strategic communications and advisory firm, today announced the launch of ICR ESG Diagnostics, a comprehensive Environmental, Social Governance analysis to help private equity and venture capital firms identify

Former Apollo partner’s private equity firm makes debut deal

Iman Capital Partners has taken a majority stake in Crealsa Investments, a Spanish digital banking specialist

New SoftBank tech fund falls short of $108bn fundraising goal

The new pool could end up being less than half its planned size, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself

Private Equity—Year in Review and 2020 Outlook

Posted by Andrew Nussbaum, Steve Cohen, and Karessa Cain, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Saturday, February 8, 2020 Editor's Note: Andrew J. Nussbaum, Steven A. Cohen, and Karessa L. Cain are partners at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen

Critical hedge fund sees better way to do ESG

Environmental, social and governance investors have been patting themselves on the back this year because their funds have tended to outperform during the coronavirus crisis. But a San Francisco hedge fund believes they are doing

BASF Construction Chemicals next bridge to drop after TKE blowout

Banks have launched the buyout funding for Lone Star’s purchase of BASF Construction Chemicals into market, as the storming execution of ThyssenKrupp Elevator shows the discount banks must take to exit pre-Covid positions is rapidly

Bain Capital takes over Italian IT company Engineering Group

The transaction marks an exit for Apax Partners after three years

CBPE seals 3x return with ABI Holiday Homes exit

The sale of the manufacturer of caravan holiday homes to its management team generated an IRR of 36.9% for the UK-based firm

AMB :- Natural resources assets under management surpass $760bn in 2019, a new record

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Strong fundraising and AUM numbers, boosted by mega-infrastructure funds investing in energy, masked a challenging landscape for natural resources funds, said a study. In 2019 natural resour...Article Link

Credit Suisse starts syndication of Zayo buyout debt

Credit Suisse has started general syndication of more than $5bn of debt funding EQT and Digital Colony’s acquisition of Zayo, one of last year’s largest LBOs. The dollar market will take the lion’s share of

Brexit Day is here: Britain steps into the unknown

Compared to the threats posed by climate change and China’s hostility to liberal democracy, the consequences of Brexit may seem far less significant — but the UK has chosen a dangerous time to go it

UK fintechs brush off Brexit attracting record investment

Fintech companies in the UK attracted $4.9bn in venture capital and private equity investment in 2019

Sovereign Capital scores 5.5x return on insurance broker sale

Under Sovereign’s ownership, Arachas made four bolt-on acquisitions

Goldman Sachs promotes new head to European mid-market group

US bank’s investment banking for Spain chief steps up to Emea-wide role to win more M&A fees from smaller companies

The ties that bind: UK and Europe will be close again

What Brexit cannot do is change the behaviour, feelings, work and leisure practices of 500 million people who have lived together for the better and worse for almost half a century

AMB :- Opalesque Roundtable: Digital fiat currencies are coming, but they won’t sideline Bitcoin

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: More governments are considering digital fiat currencies. However, none of them are fully developed yet. Delegates at the recent Opalesque Miami Roundtable offered their ideas about whe...Article Link

Opalesque Roundtable: Digital fiat currencies are coming, but they won't sideline Bitcoin

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: More governments are considering digital fiat currencies. However, none of them are fully developed yet...Article Link

AMB :- European private equity fundraising hits record in 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New data from Pitchbook says that 2019 was a record year for European Private Equity fundraising, with €86.4 billion raised across 89 vehicles. Nearly three-quarters of total capital was rai...Article Link

AMB :- Mega-funds push private equity fundraising to $301bn in 2019, up 52%

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: 2019 saw record private equity fundraising with mega PEs and tech-focused PEs attracting the lion's share of capital, said a study. Mega-funds dominated the PE space in 2019, pushing up fundr...Article

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