Duff & Phelps has appointed Ven Balakrishnan as a managing director in the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. Balakrishnan will lead the firm’s Strategy and Commercial Diligence offering and will be based in London.Balakrishnan has over 25 years of experience, including 15 years as managing director/partner, providing strategic and financial
Managing forex spreads has been the biggest trading challenge for hedge fund traders since the pandemic and resulting lockdowns began, according to Refinitiv. In a new global survey of over 1,000 FX trading clients, which included responses from 44 traders at hedge funds, 68 per cent per cent of respondents felt
Next Century Spirits has completed a USD6 million Series C fundraising round led by private equity firm the Blue Hill Group. Since its inception in 2018, the Raleigh-based full-service spirits producer has raised capital from various private investors and angel networks including the Wolfpack Investor Network and Carolina Angel Network. Next
PharmaLex Group, a provider of specialised services for the pharma, biotech and medical device industries worldwide, has completed its legal merger with Regulis Consulting Limited (Regulis) in the United Kingdom, Regulis was supported by Consulting M&A throughout the transaction process. Kim Wharton, the Founder and Managing Director of Regulis, says: “We
Titanbay, a new online platform, has launched enabling small and medium-sized institutional and professional private investors to easily access and strategically invest in a curated selection of top-tier private equity funds.Based in London, Titanbay has been launched by a team of industry insiders with extensive experience from a range of
European private equity deal volume dipped in Q2 2020 to its lowest quarterly figure since Q3 2013 driven by the uncertainty caused by Covid-19, Pitchbook’s Q2 report shows. The Q2 European Private Equity Breakdown report, published by Pitchbook, demonstrates that 650 transactions closed in the second quarter of the year
Sumeru Equity Partners has led a USD100 million investment in SocialChorus, a workforce communications SaaS company, along with existing investors.
Private Equity (PE) firms in the US and UK spend many millions of dollars on legal services annually, but they are scrutinising their external legal spend like never before, according to a new Apperio research study entitled “Rocketing Scrutiny, Eroding Trust – The Changing PE Legal Spend Landscape.”
Private equity firms invested in 464 companies in Central and Eastern Europe in 2019 – a new record for the region – according to a new study by Investment Europe.
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has strengthened its Asia restructuring practice with the appointment of Edward Middleton as Managing Director based in Hong Kong. This appointment demonstrates A&M’s commitment to bolstering the firm’s growing capabilities in Asia. Middleton brings more than three decades of experience in restructuring,
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