Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Jorma Ollila, former chairman and chief executive officer of nokia and current chairman of the board of directors of Royal Dutch Shell and Outokumpu Oyj, as advisory partner. Ollila will provide senior counsel to the firm and its clients, particularly in Europe. Joseph Perella,
Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (OCCF) has advised ISIS Equity Partners on its GBP45 million secondary buyout of Metronet (UK) from Lloyds Development Capital. The OCCF team, led by James Chapman-Andrews and supported by Anthony Yaneza, provided full M&A advisory services to ISIS throughout the deal and ran a competitive leveraged
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has invested in Afriflora, a Dutch company operating in Ethiopia with 450 hectares of land and 8,700 employees and the world's largest producer of fair trade roses. The deal is the US private equity firm’s first in Africa. The Barnhoorn family, a father and his
With less than one month to go until the transitional phase of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) comes to an end, Jersey is seeing a strong take-up in its private placement route into Europe. Figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) show that more than 70
BC Partners portfolio company Mergermarket Group has acquired Perfect Information, the London-headquartered provider of global workflow solutions and financial information for investment banks and corporate finance advisory professionals, for GBP26 million. Founded in 1991 as the first online provider of original corporate filings, Perfect Information offers a suite of digital
DKG Group has obtained USD10 million in a new round of fundraising, which raised its net worth to an estimated value of USD800 million. Private equity firm CPC, KGV venture group and DAG Asia investment advisors have jointly invested. DKG Group has targeted its listing onto the preferred exchanges
Private equity fund administrator Ipes has appointed Mark Coppin as operations director for Ipes UK. Coppin (pictured) brings with him more than 16 years financial services experience during which he has specialised in private equity accounting and administration. A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and
The AIM-quoted investment fund Adamas Finance Asia (ADAM) expects to benefit from newly-introduced reforms to ease controls on cross-border lending to Chinese businesses. The new reforms were introduced this month by China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to address concerns that tight credit and slowing investment may stall the
Castle Hall Alternatives has launched OpsDiligence, an online platform allowing investors to build due diligence programmes across all asset classes, including hedge fund, private equity and long only portfolios. “OpsDiligence offers a new solution to the challenges of investor due diligence,” says Chris Addy, Castle Hall’s president and chief executive.
The Islamic Development Bank has launched the USD2 billion Islamic Development Bank Infrastructure Fund II, the largest private equity infrastructure fund dedicated to the 57 member countries of the IDB. The IDB Fund II is supported by the Public Pension Agency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Public Investment
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