Month: February 2020
Brief: Family office MD leaves to set up lower middle market buyout firm with prominent retail family
Ira Perlmuter, the managing director of T5 Equity Partners, an investment group owned by the Canadian-based…
This week’s family/private investment office deals
Family Capital’s Deal of the Week involves a transformative sum of money for a transformative cleantech c…
Deal of the Week: Transformative cleantech group gets transformative sum from private investors
A Californian cleantech company has secured a big sum of money from a number of prominent investors,…
Family office opens in London, hires big guns
A new family office has opened in London’s West End and has hired a number of senior directors, all s…
Slater and Slater – following your father’s investment advice
Succeeding your father in the asset management can be a daunting experience, particularly when he happens…
Schism emerges at big Norwegian family enterprise and investment office
The death of a patriarch or matriarch at a family business can often cause ruptures and disputes to emerge…
Dennis Jaffe: The 21st century is the family business century
Corporate culture in the 21st century is increasingly being influenced by the values of family businesses,…
Family capital is backing perhaps the most revolutionary healthcare company of the moment
Healthcare company Schrödinger has drawn on family capital led by billionaires David Shaw and Bill Gates …
Brief: Family-owned real estate group goes private
London-based real estate group Daejan Holdings has been taken private by the family behind it after more…
This week’s family/private investment office deals
Family Capital’s Deal of the Week involves a Hong Kong and Boston-based family office investing in a…
Deal of the Week: Family office makes big PE investment in AgTech
A Hong Kong-and Boston based family office has committed $75 million to a Canadian AgTech data analytics…
Borrowing billionaires – and why it makes sense
These days, the truly wealthy do not need to invest in bonds to make money. They borrow
Saving the Planet? Don’t rely on big corporates, even less so finance companies
Companies are happy to talk about the need to fight climate change but reluctant to join the war, according…