Hamilton Lane has appointed Lydia A Gavalis as general counsel and Frederick W Shaw as chief compliance officer, effective as 1 April. Robert Cleveland, who served as general counsel at the firm for more than 16 years, will retire at the end of March. Gavalis (pictured), who had previously
HIG Middle Market (HIG), the middle market investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has appointed Andrew Freeman, formerly a partner at Paine & Partners, as a managing director in the firm’s San Francisco middle market team. Freeman will focus on making LBO investments in the food and agribusiness sectors and will
French private equity market participants raised EUR14.7 billion in global commitments during 2016, up 51 per cent relative to 2015, according to a report from the Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance (AFIC) and Grant Thornton. These funds will be largely invested in French companies over the next five
In today’s unpredictable world, it’s more critical than ever that investment managers and advisers establish plans to keep their businesses from experiencing undue harm. Daily business operations can be impacted by a wide variety of scenarios– from the most threatening, large-scale disasters (like terrorism, natural disasters, etc.) to more common,
Sealed Air Corporation is to sell its Diversey Care division and the food hygiene and cleaning business within its Food Care division (New Diversey) to Bain Capital Private Equity for approximately USD3.2 billion. New Diversey will be a leading hygiene and cleaning solutions company that integrates chemicals, floor care machines,
SEI increased its assets under administration (AUA) by 25 per cent in 2016, with year-over-year net flows in its UK private banking business rising by 21 per cent. The business, which provides outsourced investment processing technology for private banks and wealth management firms through the SEI Wealth Platform, ended the
UT business solutions firm Orion has acquired New York-based Structured Network Solutions (SNS). Orion says the deal strengthens its capabilities in network design, directory authentication services, IT security policy, design strategies and storage solutions and adds strength to its market share in government, non-governmental organisations, and not-for-profits verticals. It
Recently, investor demand has increased for private equity, hybrid public / private funds and alternative yield strategies such as direct lending, asset leasing and royalty streams. As such, the more complex nature of these strategies makes both pre- and post-investment due diligence far more important. Swiss investors, like all investors,
According to last year's Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, Asia Pacific's hedge fund industry had USD159 billion in AUM and the largest allocator, with USD29.9 billion of committed capital, was China Investment Corporation (China's Sovereign Wealth Fund). In total, there are an estimated 1,709 active hedge funds being managed in
By Fiona Frick, Unigestion – In a world where returns from traditional asset classes are under pressure, many investors are turning to alternative investments to boost their portfolio's performance potential. However, although an allocation to hedge fund strategies offers potential for attractive risk-adjusted returns and portfolio diversification, the low interest-rate
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