Harmonic Fund Services has gone live with Finastra’s Fusion Loan IQ solution. The independent fund administration and alternative asset fund servicing firm will use the platform – traditionally employed by banks and service providers to service their bilateral, specialised and syndicated loan portfolios – to provide a new loan administration
OakNorth has completed a GBP4.2 million transaction for Dartmouth Partners Ltd, the award-winning recruitment consultancy, with Literacy Capital plc taking a significant minority position. Founded in 2012 by Logan Naidu, Dartmouth has built itself a reputation in the financial and legal sectors by adopting a unique ‘classroom to boardroom’ approach
Omnes Capital and Ilmatar Windpower have launched a joint wind platform Ilmatar Energy which will target further acquisitions of Finnish and other Nordic development stage and construction ready assets. In the next five years Ilmatar Energy aims to construct and operate up to 1000 MW of wind power and has
IQ Capital, has held the first close of its GBP125 million third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at GBP92 million. The fund will invest at Seed and Series A stages into UK deeptech companies with transformational deep-tech, AI or disruptive algorithms at their core and led by visionary founders.
Highland Europe has closed its third fund in six years, raising EUR463 million to boost funding for globally ambitious European software and internet-enabled businesses. Significantly oversubscribed, the fund was raised in just 12 weeks and takes the firm’s assets under management to EUR1.1 billion. There are now 29 active
Paragon Group, a provider of Customer Communications, Identification and Graphics services, has acquired SIMS, the managed services division of St Ives plc. Following this acquisition, Paragon Group revenues will exceed EUR700 million during the next financial year. SIMS will become part of Paragon Customer Communications’ business in the UK.
PraxisIFM has acquired Nerine, a provider of private client and corporate administration services to an international client base. This is Channel Islands-based PraxisIFM’s fourth acquisition in a two year period during which it has grown from employing 300 staff in the summer of 2017 to 520. Nerine Trust was established
SALU Capital (SALU), together with its partners Apex Group, Genstar Capital, and Inlife Holding, has purchased at least 95 per cent of the shares of Augur Financial Opportunities 2 SICAV (AFO-2). The Luxembourg investment vehicle, which is managed by German Augur Capital and includes the fund’s portfolio companies, German life
Man FRM, Man Group’s alternative investment specialist, has appointed Samantha Rosenstock as Sector Head of Relative Value and Private Markets. She will be based in New York and report to Jens Foehrenbach (pictured), Chief Investment Officer at Man FRM. Rosenstock has 20 years of experience in the alternative asset management
A veteran of litigation finance has launched a well-capitalised company with a commitment to elevate fairness and client objectives in financing commercial and business legal disputes. Ralph Sutton, formerly chief investment officer of Bentham IMF, has formed Validity Finance to provide businesses, law firms and individuals with non-recourse funding for
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