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...In January, the VC firm Highland Europe closed its new €1bn fund, while last month the London-based software investor Dawn Capital raised $700mn....
...On this front, the value of invested assets that Preqin reports is done on a net basis, i.e. after subtracting the amount of any external funding....
...About a year ago it raised £20mn from backers including Highland Europe and actor Idris Elba....
...Higher interest rates and a dearth of funding have helped push the volume of corporate buyouts down sharply....
...Liberty has previously said it “monetises” future cash flows from mature businesses it acquires, in addition to using its own equity funding and borrowings secured against assets....
...Located in the Highlands and 50 miles north of Glasgow, this is Scotland’s first commercial gold mine....
...On Friday, RedT said the deal’s outline terms included some interim funding to allow it to continue work on the merger process....
...While European tech funding has recovered from a slowdown in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, VC firms focused on the UK tech sector have struggled to generate the levels of funding of those investing in...
...GFG’s assets include the UK’s last aluminium smelter in the Scottish Highlands, a steel mill in the US and an Indian car parts maker....
...The rapid expansion has also left many London metals traders and industry figures wondering how the charismatic entrepreneur is funding the endless flow of deals....
...It was founded by Rutgers Business School students, who won last year’s grand Hult Prize — $1m in funding....
...and portfolio manager at Toro Ltd....
...“In order to succeed and seize the technology highland, one has to have friends, partners and alliances.”...
...DoNotPay has received $1.1m of funding from Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and hired its first employee. Other funders include Greylock Capital and Highland Capital....
...Funding problems led to the collapse of CovPress in September, three years after it was bought out by a Chinese-British consortium for £30m....
...Any step up in BoJ asset purchases, however, could increase USD funding costs and make the carry position on US assets (like CLOs) less appealing....
...The stoppage of this CLO “assembly line” is also pushing private equity groups and their banks to consider using more private debt to get deals done....
...Working with Leeds University, he discovered that academics tend not to be interdisciplinary; “they usually follow the funding”....
...Hopes are brewing that the Cairn CLO will prompt a rash of other deals and help fill the looming funding gap in Europe....
...This raises the prospect of a major funding gap opening in the coming years....
...Liquidity and credit are not always best friends — Funding for Lending in the UK and the LTROs spring to mind....
...However, CLOs have become more palatable for investors in Europe over the past few months as the underlying loan values have risen and the cost of funding has fallen....
...The demand has raised loan prices, sending interest rates lower – a boon for private equity buyers wanting debt funding for buyouts, but limiting returns for investors....
...since the financial crisis, adding to hopes that a once important source of funding for business in the region is making a comeback....
...Offshore, the currency also rose to a near five-month high. http://on.ft.com/P2jux9 Highland Gold hit by production costs The high price of gold was not enough to prevent a fall in profits at Highland Gold...
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