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Eight Advisory hires former EY Senior Partner

Eight Advisory, a financial and operational consultancy firm specialising in transactions, restructuring and transformation, has hired former EY senior partner, Steve Taylor to expand its valuation practice in the UK. Taylor joins with more than 25 years’ experience in valuations, advising governments, private equity firms, lawyers and corporates. He brings

RegTech Firm Cappitech secures USD4m in Series A funding

Cappitech, a provider of automated regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, has secured USD4 million in series A financing. The financing round was led by 83North with participation from Rony Grushka and Kevin Gould, co-founders of Markit, one of the world’s most highly respected financial information companies with

LBO France acquires majority stake in My Media Group

LBO France has acquired a majority stake in My Media Group, an independent French media buying agency. Since it was founded in 2005, My Media has developed specific know-how in optimising TV-to-Web media campaigns (ie, the impact of offline communication, mainly television, on online traffic) and search engine optimisation (SEO) through

Eventador closes USD3.8m seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners

Eventador.io, a fully-managed Stream-Processing-as-a-Service provider has closed a USD3.8 million seed round (including conversion of USD1.3 m angel round) led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation by Deep Space Ventures, RSH Ventures, Capital Factory and joined by existing investor, Keshif Ventures. Venu Shamapant, Partner at LiveOak will join the board

Apposite Capital raises GBP144.5 million for new healthcare fund

Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has successfully raised GBP144.5 million of capital for Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles. Apposite received strong support from existing investors and a well-diversified group of new investors comprising fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices, endowments,

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UMB Fund Services adds to business development team

UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired three associates to join its business development team – Michelle Benner, Ana Burke and Jose Rincon who all join as vice presidents, business development. The trio will focus on new business development for UMBFS’ array of services for the asset management industry which include fund

Carey Olsen advises Silverfleet Capital on sale of Ipes

Lawyers from Carey Olsen in Guernsey and Jersey have advised Silverfleet Capital on the sale of Ipes, a leading provider of fund administration and other outsourced services in the private equity sector, to Apex Group. Silverfleet Capital, a pan-European private equity firm, has owned Ipes since acquiring it from RJD

InvestCloud buys rplan for USD20m

Global fintech firm InvestCloud Inc has announced the acquisition of London-based rplan Limited for USD20 million. rplan is a provider of client engagement technology in the UK to support bespoke investment propositions for web and mobile. Its client base includes some of the largest institutional asset managers in the world,

Industrial cybersecurity specialist Claroty attracts USD60m in Series B Investment

Claroty, a specialist in cybersecurity for industrial control networks, has secured USD60 million in Series B funding from a prominent syndicate of investors, including industrial operators and control system vendors, bringing the company’s total investment to date to USD93 million. The round was led by Temasek and included Rockwell Automation,

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Paul Hastings appoints financial services regulatory partner

Financial services and regulatory partner Arun Srivastava is to join the London office of law firm Paul Hastings from Baker McKenzie, where he is head of the Financial Services Regulatory Group. Srivastava will lead Paul Hastings’ London regulatory and fintech and payments practice.   “Arun is one of the leading

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