K&L Gates has appointed James CH Lee as a partner in the private equity practice in the firm’s New York office. He joins K&L Gates from Goodwin Procter. Lee has extensive experience advising private equity funds, venture capital funds, private investment firms, high-net-worth family offices, and their respective portfolio companies
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns. It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative offers, including the Uni-Global – Cross Asset Trend Follower, Uni-Global
Harvest Partners (HP SCF), the non-control private equity strategy of Harvest Partners LP, has appointed Chris Peyser as a senior associate on the investment team. Peyser will evaluate, structure, execute and monitor portfolio investments. He was most recently at Kelso & Company. Jay Hegenbart, senior managing director and
Bloq has acquired Skry, a specialist in blockchain analytics, to enhance its suite of analysis tools and position the firm to maximise the value of blockchain data sets through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Bloq is an enterprise software company focused on building and scaling blockchain networks for global companies.
JTC Fund Services has made senior appointments in Luxembourg and London as it continues to strengthen its fund servicing business. Daniel Essoo (pictured) has been appointed as a senior director based in JTC’s London office. With 14 years’ experience in the international financial services industry, Essoo joins the established London
African private equity specialist Development Partners International (DPI) has become a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (the UNPRI). DPI has been investing in a responsible manner since its inception 10 years ago. All of DPI’s companies benefit from this work, which is headed by specialist sustainability
Cairngorm Capital has appointed Stuart Whiteford as investment manager. Whiteford joins from the EuroAsia special assets group at Goldman Sachs, where he was an executive director involved in strategy and investment for a range of European opportunities. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he was a member of Citigroup’s UK investment
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has completed a GBP6.5 million management buy-out of Healthpoint Limited, a supplier of healthcare and beauty products into the retail sector. The equity investment was funded through Maven’s co-investment network for professional clients, Investor Partners, with debt and working capital funding provided by
BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to expand its team covering the South West of England with the appointment of James Skade, who will be based in the firm’s Bristol office. Before joining BGF Skade spent five years at EY, most recently in the corporate finance team where he advised
Private equity firm NMS Capital Group has launched a real estate investment and advisory firm called NMS Capital Realty Advisors (NMSRA). NMSRA will focus on providing direct and indirect financing solutions for construction, senior secured and mezzanine loans to clients and advisory solutions related to real estate sales, recapitalisation and
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