Indigo Paints to come up with its IPO on January 20. All you need to know

For the initial share sale ₹1,488- ₹1,490 has been set as the price band. The public issue would get ₹1,170.16 crore at the upper end of the price band. Indigo Paints is coming up with its initial public offering (IPO) this week. The company ranks fifth in the decorative paints industry in India. The public […]

BlackRock is forcing finance to take climate risk seriously

“Climate risk is investment risk,” concluded BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in his annual letter to chief executives last January. With climate change rewriting core assumptions in modern finance, he argued, trillions of dollars are at stake. “Sooner than most anticipate, there will be a significant reallocation of capital,” Fink wrote. “We believe that sustainable investing […]

Dating App Bumble Makes IPO Filing Public, Reveals Steady Revenue Growth

Bumble Inc’s plans to go public come at a time when companies are seeking to capitalize on what has been the strongest IPO market in two decades Dating app Bumble, which is backed by private equity firm Blackstone Group, on Friday made public its regulatory filing for an initial public offering, revealing steady revenue growth […]

A Large Cogeco Shareholder Reduces Its Position

PSP SELLS COGECO FOR $ 20 MILLION Cogeco’s third largest shareholder, the federal institution PSP Investments, sold about $ 20 million in shares of the telecommunications company in December. Remember that the Audet family, which controls Cogeco, rejected last fall a purchase offer of more than $ 10 billion filed by Altice USA and Rogers. […]

Kyri Yiannakis joins Holland Mountain as Head of Client Development

Holland Mountain has appointed Kyri Yiannakis as Head of Client Development. In this role, Yiannakis will oversee all of Holland Mountain’s commercial activity, continuing to drive the exceptional service delivered to Holland Mountain’s Private Capital clients. Leveraging 13 years of Private Capital technology experience, Yiannakis will also expand the reach of Holland Mountain’s Private Capital […]

Goodwin adds partner to private investment funds practice

Global law firm Goodwin has expanded its Private Investment Funds practice in the Frankfurt office with the addition of fund formation and regulatory partner Dr Joachim Kayser. “During a period of continued expansion in Frankfurt, we are thrilled to launch Goodwin’s German funds platform and amplify the firm’s dominance at the intersection of capital and […]

CVC Growth Fund exits Kount in USD640 million deal

CVC Capital Partners’ (CVC) CVC Growth Fund is to sell Kount Inc (Kount), a provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI)- driven fraud prevention and digital identity solutions, to global data and analytics company Equifax in a deal valued at USD640 million. The transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, and is […]

H.I.G. Realty Invests in Production Studios & Content Hub in Madrid

H.I.G. Capital, LLC (“H.I.G.”), a leading global alternative investment firm with $43 billion of equity capital under management, announced today that one of its affiliates has invested in Madrid Content City, an approximately 140,000 square meter hub with state of the art audio-visual facilities, including production studios, production & post-production technical facilities, and a university […]

GPG investors targeted by scammers

Investors in the failed German Property Group have been targeted by a scam letter inviting them to make a claim on their investment. The letter, sent earlier this month, stated the group had been able to sell some of its assets to a private equity investor and was making available £280m to claim on a […]

Affirm Raises $1.2B, Pricing Above Range In Hot IPO Market

Online lender Affirm Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM) has raised roughly $1.2 billion by pricing its initial public offering (IPO) at $49 per share, above the expected range of $41 to $44, the company announced Tuesday. What Happened: Affirm is a fintech company providing installment loans to online shoppers and is led by PayPal Holdings Inc […]