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Alter Domus launches new regulatory and compliance services

Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to private equity and real estate firms, multinationals, private clients and private debt managers, has launched a new Regulatory and Compliance Service.  This new service was created in response to the growing needs of our clients in managing the growing complexity

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Trina Solar, PingAn Trust and Jiuzhou Investment to develop PV power plants

Trina Solar Limited has signed a framework investment agreement with PingAn Trust Co and Jiangsu Jiuzhou Investment Group to jointly develop selected photovoltaic power plants in China, with a total capacity of 500MW-1,000MW over the next three years. Under the terms of the agreement, the Investors will enter convertible loan

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Carrick Capital Partners closes second growth equity fund at USD275m

Carrick Capital Partners has closed its second growth equity fund, Carrick Capital Partners II at USD275 million.  Carrick's first fund closed two years ago with USD180 million, and the closing of Fund II brings the growth equity firm's total capital raised to nearly half-a-billion dollars. Carrick takes an operational approach

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Maples Fund Services fulfils AIFMD Annex IV reporting requirements

Maples Fund Services has completed Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reports for December 2014 for seven EU jurisdictions, utilising its regulatory reporting platform.  AIFMD requires European and certain non-European alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) as well as non-EU alternative investment funds ("AIFs") marketing through national private placement

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QIC secures USD528m in initial capital commitments for global infrastructure fund

QIC’s Global Infrastructure Fund (the fund) has secured initial capital commitments totalling USD528 million from four institutional investors. CEO Damien Frawley, says: “We’re pleased that major institutional investors, including an Asian sovereign wealth fund and a major Australian pension scheme, have committed to our new global infrastructure fund. This is

Is casual dining on the menu for PE investors?

Joe Bedford (pictured), corporate partner at law firm Stevens & Bolton who advised the management team of TGI UK on its recent acquisition by Electra Partners, looks at how the casual dining sector is attracting interest from private equity investors… Looking at trends over recent months and years, together with

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Zetta Venture Partners debuts with USD60m venture fund

Zetta Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on the high-growth analytics market, has closed its first fund at USD60 million.  Mark Gorenberg, a 25-year veteran venture capitalist, and Ash Fontana, who formerly launched online fundraising at AngelList, are Zetta’s managing directors. Debuting with a portfolio of eight investments, Zetta

Force Over Mass Capital launches SEIS EIS Technology Fund

Force Over Mass Capital has launched a Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) – Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund which will invest in fast growth technology companies.   The fund will provide high net-worth investors with the opportunity to invest in technology, through a risk-mitigated portfolio of early stage technology companies

Beringea exits Speed Trap Holdings

Beringea, manager of the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts, has sold the VCTs’ stakes in Speed Trap Holdings (STH), a digital data analytics company, to IS Solutions plc. STH is the parent company of Celebrus Technologies – the developer of software that allows organisations to understand their customers’ interactions with their

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Vector Capital to acquire Saba

Vector Capital (Vector) is to acquire Saba, a specialist in cloud-based intelligent management solutions, for USD9.00 per share in an all cash offer. "Over the course of Saba's comprehensive review, the Board of Directors and our advisors evaluated a wide range of strategic alternatives, and engaged with a number of

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