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Nomura adds two to prime finance business

Nomura has made two new hires into its prime finance business, which encompasses equity financing, prime services and Delta 1. Massimo Labella has joined as head of directional Delta One sales. He previously spent 12 years at JP Morgan, focusing on flow equity derivatives and Delta 1 products.   Babita

Waypoint Capital and Montagu PE agree Euromedic sale

Montagu Private Equity is to sell its entire holding in Euromedic International to Waypoint. Waypoint is already the majority investor in Euromedic through Ares Life Sciences and will now assume full ownership.   Headquartered in Budapest, Euromedic is a provider of Advanced Diagnostics Imaging (ADI) and cancer care (CC) services

OurCrowd portfolio company ReWalk launches IPO on Nasdaq

Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd’s portfolio company ReWalk Robotics has completed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq. The company issued 3,450,000 million shares and expects to receive total estimated net proceeds from this offering of approximately USD36.3 million after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.  

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Optimism in European M&A activity continues to grow, says CMS report

Europe’s executives are more bullish about the European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) outlook than they were a year ago, according to research by law firm CMS and Mergermarket. Two thirds of respondents expect M&A activity will increase, with 11 per cent anticipating a significant increase.   This compares with 47

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Dunedin hires two

Dunedin, the UK mid-market private equity house, has appointed Lorna Eltringham as investor relations manager and Jessica Hardy as an analyst.  At the same time, Dunedin’s David Williams joins Ross Marshall as a senior partner of the firm.   Eltringham joins from Coller Capital where she worked with the fundraising

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Setting up the Middle Office: Part 1

SEI’s Holly Miller (pictured) and Ross Ellis explain the core tenets of establishing a successful middle office… A survey published by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, entitled From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two, found that the US alternative mutual fund industry has experienced 38 per cent annualized growth since 2008.

Big hopes for Small Business bill, say SMEs

Some 80 per cent of SMEs believe that the government’s new Small Business bill will provide them with greater access to funding, according to research from private equity firm Key Capital Partners. The latest ‘Growth Panel’ report, which surveys 100 UK SMEs, revealed that 95 per cent of small businesses

ACG Capital adds three to fund of funds team

ACG Capital has added three investment professionals to its fund of funds team. With commitments of EUR1.8 billion, the team invests globally across all sub-sectors of private equity.   Gilles Michat leads the primary and secondary fund of funds’ team, which is now comprised of eight professionals.   Jérôme Marie

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Zuma Energía appoints chief executive

Actis, the global pan-emerging market private equity firm, has appointed Adrián Katzew as chief executive of its Mexican energy platform, Zuma Energía. In addition, Mesopower México Corp, a vehicle managed by the investment firm Mesoamerica, has taken a 30 per cent stake in Zuma Energia.   Katzew has a long

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