Natixis has acted as Financial Advisor, Rating Advisor, Mandated Lead Arranger and Co-Hedge Coordinator for the EUR1.4 billion senior debt refinancing of French virtual power plant Exeltium. The operation was achieved through an innovative financing structure, combining two pari passu tranches : • a Bank Tranche of EUR1 billion; •
Peter Freire is to assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) on 8 June. Freire succeeds Kathy Jeramaz-Larson who has served as Executive Director for the past eight years and will be stepping down at the end of the month. Freire joins
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has a new Chairman, Max Römer, Founding Partner of Quadriga Capital. He succeeds Anne Glover of Amadeus Capital. Römer has more than 37 years of private equity experience, including working as Investment Manager in the Asean Department of the German Development
Richard A Silfen has rejoined law firm Duane Morris as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Silfen is returning to Duane Morris from having served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of American Realty Capital Properties, Inc, a commercial real estate investment trust based in Phoenix.
JLT Specialty Insurance Services has added several new team members to the firm’s Private Equity and Financial Lines Group. This group will provide brokerage and advisory services to clients in the private equity sector as well as financial institutions, and will be based in JLT Specialty USA’s New York office.
Demands and nuances of Annex IV reporting across Europe could lead to a steady adoption of an outsourcing model among PERE fund managers. Private equity and real estate (PERE) fund managers are having to adjust quickly to life under the AIFMD, specifically in relation to Annex IV transparency reporting. The
Cybersecurity issues have existed as long as the internet. What seems to have changed in the last 18 months is not only that the nature of the breaches has become more sophisticated, but also the fact that hedge funds have become a much bigger target. For fund-of-hedge-fund (FoHF) managers, whose
Kensington Capital Partners (Kensington) has held the second closing of the Kensington Venture Fund (Fund) increasing total investor commitments to the fund to USD193 million. The fund's second closing adds Torstar Corporation to the list of investors, and includes increased commitments from RichardsonGMP and other investors who participated in the
Price Res, a portfolio company of Nexxus IV Trust (Nexxus IV) and Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund V, LP (Nexxus V), has acquired www.lostiquetesmasbaratos.com (LTMB), an international retailer of tourism services, based in Colombia. LTMB operates mainly in Colombia, the United States and Mexico, and has a recognised brand with
NextStage has unveiled a new logo and a new name with the management company is now called NextStage AM. With this new name, the Partners at NextStage AM assert the ambition of the management company, one of the leading investors in middle-market companies and champion in their market, to move
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