The Conifer Group, which merged with Vastardis Capital to form Conifer Financial Services – an asset services firm offering front to back capabilities across all asset classes to pensions, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital managers, RIAs and traditional asset managers – is celebrating 25 years
CITIC and KKR jointly have formed a consortium to make a pre-conditional voluntary offer (VGO) for all the shares in United Envirotech Ltd (UEL). UEL is a Singapore-listed membrane-based water and waste-water treatment and reclamation solution provider with businesses mainly in China’s chemical, petrochemical and industrial park sectors. The
Chuck Hansen, managing partner of Hansen Investment Holdings, has joined the investment board of Moneta Ventures. Headquartered in Folsom, California, Moneta Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies with a focus on software and cloud services, IT services, internet and consumer services sectors. Moneta
Varonis Systems is to supply Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, with a platform to monitor, manage and capture unstructured data in the Abacus private cloud. Through this new relationship Abacus clients will have access to enhanced reporting capabilities and greater
Wynnchurch Capital has closed its fourth private equity fund, Wynnchurch Capital Partners IV, with USD1.2 billion of limited partner commitments. The fund, which had a target of USD900 million, was oversubscribed, resulting in the fund reaching its hard cap closing relatively quickly after its initial launch in September 2014.
Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised 31 venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the past seven months. The firm’s VCT team has advised on 20 completed offers, with a further 11 offers ongoing, with a combined market value of GBP443m. The firm has advised 14 VCTs as both sponsor and legal adviser,
Albion Ventures has sold Tower Bridge Health and Fitness Club to Encore Capital, delivering a total return of 2.8 times the amount invested and an IRR of 25 per cent. Tower Bridge Health and Fitness Club is a premium club located at the More London estate near Tower Bridge, overlooking
Cloud Equity Group, an investment management company focused on opportunistic acquisitions of web service providers, has acquired Just199 Hosting, a budget web hosting provider based in South Carolina. Just199 Hosting, which operates under Just199.com, was founded in 2006 by Dave Wykofka with the goal of providing easy-to-use budget hosting services
On 1 October the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) clarified its position that US managers with master-feeder structures would not be required to report on positions held in the master if only the feeder was marketed into the UK. For many firms that have been deliberating over whether to
Mid-market advisory firm Clearwater International has advised recruitment agency GatenbySanderson on its management buyout (MBO), backed by private equity house Primary Capital. GatenbySanderson provides permanent and interim executives across public services and the not for profit sector. The business has a particular expertise in headhunting chief executives, senior management teams
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