Global investment bank GCA Altium has made three senior promotions in its Manchester team. Dominic Orsini and Adam Sivner become directors, while Mark Smith takes the role of assistant director. Orsini has spent four years at GCA Altium, joining the company as an associate in September 2012. During his
Maples and Calder has advised Western Digital on the Cayman Islands corporate and financing aspects of the acquisition of SanDisk by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Western Digital Technologies. The deal completed on 12 May 2016 and valued SanDisk at a total equity value of approximately USD19 billion. Under the terms
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 11 attorneys as partners of the firm, effective 1 November, including Hong Kong-based Vincent Ip. Ip joined Ropes & Gray in 2006 in the private investment funds group. Ip represents institutional and other investors in connection with investments in private equity
The Montreux Healthcare Fund now owns the ninth largest care group in the UK following the merger of two of its companies. The ACH Group, which operated 25 residential services in England, last month merged with The Regard Partnership which provides learning disability, brain injury, and mental healthcare. The
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has appointed Melanie Goward as investment director in the firm's London-based investment team. Goward brings more than 15 years’ experience in investing in early-stage businesses, including the technology, life science and biotechnology sectors. Goward will be responsible for handling new early-stage and
SS&C Technologies has acquired CRM solution provider Salentica. Tequity acted as the exclusive adviser to Salentica, which will now become a platform partner to the firm's Black Diamond wealth platform. The Salentica team brings expertise in providing integrated CRM solutions for both Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce CRM platforms.
Otterbourg has named Daniel Fiorillo as head of the firm’s restructuring practice group as of 1 January 2017. Jonathan Helfat, who led the group for more than 25 years, will be stepping down from the position but will continue to practice actively with the firm. Fiorillo (pictured) has a
The pace of consolidation within the hedge fund administration space shows no let-up, with MUFJ Investor Services, the asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, having just announced its latest acquisition; Rydex Fund Services, a 1940-Act fund administration business formerly owned by Guggenheim Investments. One of the reasons fuelling
In order for the alternative funds industry to evolve one point that needs to be addressed is that the term 'Hedge Fund Administration' is too narrow. Firstly, one cannot avoid a trend towards convergence within alternatives that has steadily gained traction in recent years as hedge fund managers develop more
Conifer Financial Services is one of the world's leading independent fund administrators. It has more than 200 clients representing more than USD110 billion of combined assets under administration (AuA) and has a strong footprint in both the US and Asia (Singapore) following its successful merger with Vastardis Capital in 2014.
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