Brad Ackerman has joined Kinetic Partners’ New York office as a director within the consulting team. In his new role, Ackerman will support the existing due diligence team and further develop the global alternative investment operational due diligence service offering to investors. An increasing number of investors are
Alter Domus hosted a breakfast seminar in London entitled ‘AIFMD Depositary: Concrete solutions to the challenges ahead’. Private equity and real estate funds will, as AIFs, fall under the scope of the AIFM Directive and will require firms to appoint an independent depositary in order to comply with the regulations.
NBGI Private Equity (NBGIPE), the lower mid-market buyout firm, has sold its majority stake in Ochre House to US-based Pinstripe backed by Accel-KKR, which delivers a 4x return on NBGIPE’s original investment. The sale will result in the combined business becoming the largest independent provider of global recruitment process
Alter Domus hosted a breakfast seminar on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive at the Savoy Hotel in London this week, entitled “AIFMD Depositary: Concrete Solutions to the challenges ahead”. The event was attended by several representatives from some of the leading international private equity and real estate firms.
AnaCap Financial Partners and the management of Simply Business have completed the management buyout of the small business insurance provider. Under the terms of the agreement, funds advised by AnaCap and Simply Business’s management will acquire 100 per cent of Simply Business. Established in 2005 by parent company
Germany’s largest online optician Mister Spex, a portfolio company of private equity firm DN Capital, has acquired two Swedish online eyewear operations, Lensstore and Loveyewear. “With this step we demonstrate our leading position in Europe and accelerate our international expansion,” says Dirk Graber, founder and chief executive of Mister
RRE Ventures, an early stage venture investor based in New York, has appointed Steve Schlafman as a principal. Schlafman (pictured) brings a wide range of investment experience to RRE. "New York represents one of the most exciting markets in the Venture Capital industry today," says Stuart Ellman, RRE Ventures co-managing partner. "As one of the largest and most active
SC Distributors, an alternative investment distribution organisation, has appointed Shelle Graves as regional vice president for the South Central region, which includes Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Graves joins SC Distributors from RS Funds, where she was a proven top performer over the past nine and a half years. During
Livingstone Partners’ debt advisory team has concluded a debt refinancing in support of Dunedin’s recently announced GBP43m buy-out of York-based Trustmarque Solutions. Livingstone arranged a GBP19.5m debt package with HSBC Bank, with additional capacity for acquisitions. Trustmarque is a provider of technology services and solutions to private and
US property/casualty (P/C) insurers invest in alternative and other less traditional asset classes, including hedge funds and private equity investments, in an effort to gain portfolio diversification and enhance investment returns, according to a report by Fitch Ratings. At year-end 2012, alternative investments represented eight per cent of P/C
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