European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has made four new hires to its investment team who will be based across the firm’s offices in London, Munich and Paris. Johan Boork has joined Silverfleet in London as an associate and will also work closely with Karl Eidem (co-head of the
HSBC Commercial Banking has appointed Sheldon Wong as the head of its expanding middle market financial sponsors (MMFS) team in Asia-Pacific, aiming to capitalise on the region’s growing level of mergers and acquisitions. As head of MMFS Asia-Pacific, Wong will build on the success of HSBC’s MMFS South-East Asia
Redpoint Capital Group, an alternative investment company focused on providing financing solutions to companies in the specialty finance and fintech sectors, has appointed Alex Dunev as a managing partner. Dunev will be responsible for driving Redpoint’s strategic priorities, including sourcing new investment opportunities and raising capital to deploy into
The demand for infrastructure funds remains evidently strong. Last year, these vehicles raised USD62.9 billion in aggregate based on figures provided by Preqin*. In Q1 2017, that number had already reached USD29.5 billion; nearly twice the amount raised in Q1 2016 (USD16 billion). “We’ve seen increasing interest in infrastructure deals,
Infrastructure has become a key area of focus for institutional investors as they look to diversify their fixed income portfolios to access longer term, resilient credit opportunities for income-like returns. Within this asset class, infrastructure debt is on the rise as investment managers look to construct new debt vehicles: either
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, an investment manager specialising in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure assets, has acquired Scout Clean Energy, a Colorado-based developer and operator of US wind power projects. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Scout is developing a 1,600-megawatt (MW) pipeline of US wind
Baird, an international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm, has selected CAIS as the enterprise alternative investment platform for its financial advisers. Established in 1919, Baird has more than 3,400 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients, and has more than
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FAB Partners, a global alternative investment platform, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Halkin Asset Management, a London-based alternative asset manager. The combined company will be rebranded as Centricus and will continue to target returns across all asset classes, sectors and geographies for its investors.
Kirkland & Ellis has appointed Daniel Dusek as a partner in the corporate practice group of the firm’s Hong Kong office. Dusek has extensive experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and a variety of other complex and cross-border corporate matters. “Daniel has a strong reputation as
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