TwinFocus Capital Partners has established TwinFocus Equity Partners, a private equity advisory unit specialising in co-investment opportunities. Orlando Mendoza, formerly of Harvard Management Company, joins the TwinFocus team as managing director working from the company’s Boston office. Mendoza will oversee a disciplined co-investments programme and spearhead a private
Post Oak Energy Capital and funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) have made a USD100m capital commitment to PetroEdge Energy III. PetroEdge’s management team will be co-investing alongside Post Oak and GSAM. PetroEdge is a newly formed oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The
Milwaukee-based private equity fund Generation Growth Capital has held the final close of its second fund, Generation Growth Capital Fund II, which significantly exceeded total capital commitments raised for Fund I. In addition, the company has closed companion fund Generation Growth Capital Wisconsin Fund II Wisconsin. “We are
Global investors have been somewhat sceptical about the touted structural reforms in Japan and the ability of Abenomics to achieve its aims, says John Vail (pictured), chief global strategist at Nikko Asset Management… At Nikko AM, we have been confident that this time it is indeed different for Japan and
A strong performance in mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2013 by the corporate finance arm of BDO LLP pushed the firm up to first and second place respectively in the Experian Corpfin and Thompson Reuters league tables, ranking advisers to UK deals by volume. BDO moved
Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust has committed a total of GBP60m to Dunedin’s latest buyout fund, Dunedin Buyout Fund III. The fund has closed at GBP300m, exceeding its target of GBP250m. It is dedicated to investing in UK SME businesses with an enterprise value of between GBP20m and GBP75m.
New York-based private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners has closed on USD300m in limited partner equity commitments for its latest fund, Blue Wolf Capital Fund III. The fund’s investors, which are primarily located in the US and Europe, include foundations, endowments, fund of funds and public, corporate, and Taft-Hartley
The much anticipated Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive enters into force on 22 July 2013. GFM’s comprehensive AIFMD Implementation Guide outlines the regulatory position in key alternative investment fund domiciles – the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey and Malta and also examines key issues such as depositary
The role of the depositary is set to become an integral part of how offshore hedge funds operate in Europe under the AIFM Directive, which will be transposed into law on 22 July 2013. Never before have Cayman-based hedge fund managers had to think about using depositaries. Under the Directive,
The imminent arrival of the EU-wide AIFM Directive is set to shake up the apple cart somewhat, in terms of how hedge fund managers approach internal governance. Many London-based managers are, of course, perfectly comfortable with their compliance obligations under the FCA (formerly FSA). And whilst the Directive, on face
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