Stephen Older has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in its corporate and securities group in New York. As part of his practice, Older (pictured) routinely represents both issuers and underwriters in a broad variety of securities transactions and has experience in a number of different industries, including healthcare, consumer
Neuralstem has secured USD8m in debt financing with Hercules Technology Growth Capital to fund the company’s capital budget through late 2014. "This debt financing extends our cash runway well into late 2014 at a critical time in our clinical product development cycle. We have multiple NSI-566 cell therapy clinical
European private equity fundraising remains subdued, with volumes raised over the last four years (2009-2012) being only 40 per cent of those raised in the four year period prior to that (2005-2008), according to research carried out by Acanthus Advisers. However, for funds with well differentiated strategies and solid
Napier Park Global Capital has chosen Options’ PIPE Core and Momentum services as its fund’s technology infrastructure. Napier Park is an independent asset management firm with approximately USD6.8bn under management and more than 110 employees in offices in New York and London. The firm manages a diversified product mix,
A new Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Disclosure Framework for Private Equity has been published, following a 16 month consultation and drafting process that involved a group of more than 40 limited partners from 11 countries, 20 private equity associations, and 10 general partners. The ESG Disclosure Framework
Pluribus Networks, a specialist in hardware-accelerated network virtualisation for private and public cloud data centres, has secured investment form China Broadband Capital (CBC) in its Series C funding round. This brings the total amount raised to date to over USD44m from investors including Menlo Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and
BNP Paribas Securities Services has reinforced its global offering ahead of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which is set to significantly transform the fund management industry. The bank has just opened a new branch in the Netherlands, which comes shortly after the launch of its trustee and
Shawn Pride, the founder and chief executive officer of P & L Consulting Group, along with her former team, has joined Ernst & Young’s financial services office (FSO) in New York and Dallas. P & L Consulting Group was a boutique advisory company focused on fund administration system selection,
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has received an irrevocable offer from an investor group for its entire stake in AXA Investment Managers Private Equity SA (AXA Private Equity). The proposed transaction would be structured with a view to protecting AXA Private Equity’s investment expertise and performance-driven culture, and to ensuring
import•io has raised GBP600,000 (USD900,000) from Wellington Partners, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, and long-time French technology investor Emmanuel Javal to help expand and develop its “big data” platform. import•io turns the web into a database, releasing the vast potential of the data trapped within the web. It lets companies,
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