Hg is a private equity firm targeting technology buyouts primarily in Europe and the US. Hg focuses on investments in technology and services sectors. It invests out of its 8th £2.5 billion core fund and its 2nd £575 million Mercury fund, targeting smaller technology buyouts, both raised in February 2017. Both funds were closed on their hard-caps and were more than 3x oversubscribed versus their targets, receiving strong re-ups from existing investors. The company raised its 1st time £1.5B Saturn large-cap fund in March 2018 and in 2020 raised $ 11B across three funds, Mercury 3, Genesis 9 and Saturn 2.
5-453: EidosMedia S.p.A. is a publishing software company. Established in 1999, the company maintains headquarters in Milan, Italy with offices internationally. Its main products are used by large media companies and include Méthode, a content management system and Cobalt, a digital delivery framework. Eidosmedia was founded in 1999 and purchased by Hg Capital in 2015. EidosMedia's flagship product
10-408: A long-established UK-based asset management firm. Mercury Asset Management was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1997. In December 2000, the executives of Mercury Private Equity negotiated independence from Merrill Lynch, and HgCapital (as it was then known) was established as a fully independent partnership wholly owned by its Partners and employees, who together work with a common purpose and culture. Hg
15-527: Is Méthode, a content management system for multimedia publishing that is mainly used by large news organizations. The product is based on the XML markup language. It also provides a digital delivery framework known as Cobalt. Its software is also available in the cloud . Early customers were Il Sole 24 Ore , RCS MediaGroup and Adnkronos in Italy, with the first international client to purchase Méthode being
20-887: The Financial Times of Londo in 2002. Other news organizations include The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , and The Boston Globe , The Financial Times , The Times and Le Figaro , Les Échos and Le Monde , as well as national and regional publishing groups in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Hg (equity firm) The company has close to 120 employees in investment offices in London, UK, Munich, Germany, San Francisco, and New York, NY, and serves over 100 institutional investors, including private and public pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and fund of funds. In April 2023, Hg announced it
25-498: Was in the nascent stages of adding a dedicated unit within its client services team to focus on individual clients and their wealth advisers, as well as family offices. In June 2024, Hg was ranked tenth in Private Equity International ' s PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. Hg began life as Mercury Private Equity, the private equity arm of Mercury Asset Management plc,
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