Corporate, private client and funds business, Hawksford, has enhanced its management capabilities with four director promotions. Private client specialist Steve Carr joined Hawksford, formerly Rathbones, in 2000. As director he will be responsible for developing new products and services, growing the business in new jurisdictions and expanding the private client
UK fund management company Octopus Investments has appointed serial retailer John Browett (pictured) as Non-Executive Director. The appointment comes as Octopus continues to expand rapidly, driven by its commitment to customer service and transforming markets that are failing to serve their customers effectively. Browett brings with him a wealth
Paraic Cosgrave (pictured) has joined BNP Paribas Securities Services as head of sales and relationship management for the firm’s alternative fund administration business. Cosgrave brings twenty-five years of experience in international capital markets. Most recently, he was Head of EMEA alternatives business development at SSC GlobeOp. Previously, he held leadership
Main Street Hub has closed a USD25 million Series C equity financing round from Vista Equity Partners. The investment will support the company’s rapid growth, which includes plans to introduce several new product offerings and hire 300 employees in its Austin and New York offices by the end of the
Maxim Group, a full service investment banking, securities and wealth management firm has expanded its Equity Research platform with the appointment of Stephen Anderson as a Senior Vice President and Senior Restaurant & Consumer Analyst. Anderson has more than 15 years of Equity Research experience in the Consumer Space, and
Fuel.Ventures, a newly formed fund led by one of Europe’s leading technology entrepreneurs and investors, Mark Pearson (pictured), partnered with Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to give everyday investors access to a pipeline of high growth European e-commerce start-ups. To date, 274 investors have helped the fund push past
International investment bank Altium has had a strong start to 2015, advising on 26 deals worth GBP5.4 billion. The first half has seen a team, led by CEO Phil Adams, advise on the GBP1.9 billionn sale of UK retail business New Look to South African investment company Brait. Altium also
Exponent Private Equity (Exponent) is to acquire The BBI Diagnostics Group (BBI), a provider of products and technologies to the diagnostic, healthcare, research, defence and food industries, from Alere Inc for USD164 million. Founded in 1986, BBI became a listed company on London’s AIM market in 2004, before being acquired
Preqin’s Real Estate Online provides comprehensive information on 76 institutional investors based in Chicago that actively invest in real estate, which collectively represent over USD57 billion invested in the asset class. Nearly a quarter of all institutional real estate investors based in Chicago are foundations (Fig 1), closely followed by
Venable has co-advised, with Canadian business firm McMillan LLP, client PlentyOfFish Media, Inc on its sale to the Match Group, a subsidiary of IAC, for USD575 million in cash. The parties have entered into a definitive acquisition agreement and expect to close the transaction early in the fourth quarter.
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