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Former SEI MD David Morrissey joins DMS

Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has recruited David Morrissey, former Managing Director of SEI Investments Global Fund Services to serve as Executive Director with its Dublin team. He will lead all aspects of client service delivery across multiple product lines and will also serve as an independent

Private equity-backed Questback continues global expansion

Questback, a specialist in enterprise feedback management which is 70 per cent owned by private equity firm Reiten & Co, increased enterprise revenues by 40 per cent in 2015. Greater sales were driven by the growing importance of feedback to business competitiveness, the strength of Questback’s powerful, cloud-based platform, and

OpenGate Capital adds Nugget to executive operations team

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has strengthened its bench of professionals with the hire of Desmond Nugent as a Principal, overseeing the operations of the firm’s North American portfolio companies. Nugent was most recently a Principal with The Gores Group and will be working from OpenGate Capital’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Lovell Minnick Partners makes three new hires

Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial services and related business services companies, today announced the addition of three investment professionals to the staff in its Los Angeles and Philadelphia offices. Benjamin Kaplan has been appointed a Vice President in Los Angeles, where Steven Korff also joined 

US alt manager buybacks could affect liquidity, leverage, says Fitch

A recent spate of stock buyback programs in the alternative investment management (AIM) sector could have modest impacts on liquidity and leverage, according to Fitch Ratings.  Three firms have recently implemented share repurchase programs in an effort to improve their public stock valuations. Repurchase activity has been rare in the

JZ Capital Partners completes sale of six European investments for EUR96.3m

JZ Capital Partners has completed the sale of six of its European investments – held through the EuroMicrocap Fund 2010 (EMC 2010) – to a major financial institution for EUR96.3 million (USD104.6 million). This transaction will be completed in two phases. Firstly, on 1 February, 2016, JZCP sold its stake

Vinson & Elkins adds partner to London private equity practice

Corporate lawyer Paul Dunbar, whose practice focuses primarily on private equity and special situations funds, has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the firm's London office. Dunbar was previously a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in London.   "Growing our London private equity practice is a

Fried Frank strengthens M&A, corporate governance and litigation offerings

Warren S de Wied has rejoined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm's New York office. In addition,Scott B Luftglass will join as a partner in the Litigation Department, also resident in the Firm's New

GLEIF launches new data quality management program

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has launched its data quality management program. Based on a set of clearly defined criteria, the program allows the quality of the LEI data pool (the publicly

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