EMIS Group has conditionally agreed to acquire Ascribe Group, a software and IT services provider to the UK’s secondary healthcare market, from ECI Partners and certain other vendors for an initial enterprise value of GBP57.5m. Ascribe was taken private by ECI from the AIM market in January 2009 in
Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Oriol Barrachina, partner and current director of Cushman & Wakefield in Barcelona, as the new managing partner for Spain with effect from 1 January 2014. Barrachina (pictured) will take over from Roger Cooke, who has led the Spanish business since 1995. Cooke will remain at
Mark Cummings has joined Walkers’ Hong Kong office, strengthening the firm’s position as a Pan-Asian provider of offshore legal services. Cummings joins the office’s investment funds group as counsel. He previously worked at Appleby Global and has extensive experience in advising on the laws of the Cayman Islands and
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu-Dhabi’s department of finance have created a partnership for investing in Russian infrastructure projects and developing cross-border investment cooperation between the countries. Under the agreement Abu-Dhabi’s department of finance will invest up to USD5bn in the partnership. When implementing investments, the
Confluence, a provider of data management solutions, has acquired Data Agent, a provider of alternative investment industry data management and reporting solutions. Already a provider of Form PF and Form CPO-PQR reporting solutions, Data Agent brings the experience and expertise to position Confluence to provide a data management and
EMW, the commercial law firm, has advised Whitworths senior management on the offer to them to subscribe for employee shareholder shares. EMW says that the deal is believed to be one of the first deals to take advantage of the new employee shareholder status which became available from 1
Nova Capital has acquired a portfolio of businesses within Newell Rubbermaid’s hardware group in North America for USD214m. The acquisition was announced on 9 August and includes five home improvement and hardware brands: Amerock, Ashland, Bulldog, Drapery Hardware and Shur-Line. The acquisition was funded through a newly established
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has stated that he does not think it fair to refer to Jersey, Guernsey and other UK Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories as tax havens. In responding to a question from Labour MP Fiona O’Donnell in the House of Commons, following his statement on
Alternative investments provider Altegris has made a number of additions to its sales and legal teams to support its expansion. Since Altegris launched one of the first actively managed, managed futures mutual funds in 2010, the firm has experienced significant growth both in assets and in adoption by financial
Money market fund (MMF) regulation proposed by the European Commission on 4 September, if adopted, would have far-reaching implications for the EUR1trn MMF industry and cash investors, according to Fitch Ratings… Certain aspects of the regulation should make MMFs less risky through enhanced liquidity and diversification, consistent with the practices
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