Vision Capital related stories
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3i appoints Citigroup’s Swannel to board3i, Europe’s largest quoted private equity manager, appointed Citigroup Europe vice chairman Robert Swannel at its annual general meeting yesterday. The board also approved a £700m return of capital to shareholders, reported earlier in the year.
- Nikko acquires Cabot in £275m secondary
European mid-market investor Barclays Private Equity has made an almost 3x multiple on the sale of UK debt business Cabot to Nikko Principal Investments.
- Vision buys 7 deals from LGV
Legal & General Ventures has agreed to sell a portfolio of seven companies to secondary investor Vision Capital for an undisclosed sum.
- Omega emerges as direct secondary player
The firm, led by former AlpInvest life sciences specialist Otello Stampacchia, has agreed to acquire six ‘tail-end’ portfolio investments from Atlas Venture in a secondary transaction.
- Top dogs, new tricks
The big, dedicated secondary funds are finding creative ways to put all their capital to work. Some take it as a sign that the biggest buyers are feeling the heat of competition. David Snow and Philip Borel report
- The purchase of a direct portfolio from Morgan Grenfell Private Equity
Julian Mash, Chief Executive of Vision Capital, provides a case study in how investors can achieve liquidity in the private equity asset class via a secondary direct portfolio transaction, or 'synthetic secondary'.
- Dial W for liquidity
A new firm finds deal flow in the more than 1000 corporate venture programmes launched during the boom.
- Vision Capital completes CS syndication
Vision Capital has sold positions in a recently purchased partnership comprising almost the entire portfolio of CS Structured Credit Fund to a syndicate of private equity investors.
- Barclays buys debt purchaser for £100m
Barclays Private Equity, the mid-market private equity firm, has completed the £100m management buyout of Cabot Financial, a specialist debt purchaser.
- Vision Capital buys CS portfolio
The London-based firm has acquired a portfolio of five controlling stakes comprising the entire investment portfolio of CS Structured Credit Fund.