The Dutch Parliament has approved a law that implements the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The Netherlands is the first European country to implement this new piece of regulation created to limit risks for investors in those alternative investment funds. According to a KPMG survey, the Netherlands is now
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Jeremy Hunt as a partner in the corporate practice in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Hunt (pictured) represents private equity firms and other investors and advisors in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and related matters. Hunt, who joins the firm from Allen & Overy,
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has appointed Joseph A Schenk, former Jefferies Group chief financial officer and most recently chief executive officer of First New York Securities, as an operating executive in the global financial services group. Schenk will provide strategic guidance to Carlyle professionals throughout the investment process,
HM Government of Gibraltar has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with the Government of the Italian Republic. The minister with responsibility for financial services, Gilbert Licudi QC, signed the agreement at the London Embassy of the Italian Republic. Ambassador Alain Giorgio Maria Economides signed on behalf of the Italian
Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has sold NES Global Talent, the international technical recruitment group, to funds advised by AEA Investors for GBP234m. NES places highly skilled contract engineers and project managers with blue chip, multi-national clients, principally in the oil and gas industries, and also in
Maples and Calder recently welcomed six new funds partners to its Cayman Islands office. Heidi de Vries, Julian Ashworth, Sheryl Dean, David Marshall, Philip Millward and Gwyneth Rees join associates Greg Barwick, Philip Dickinson, Patrick Head and Lucy Nicklas, who commenced employment in August. Tim Clipstone, a partner in the
Econocom, a European business-to-business IT and communications technology infrastructure management provider, has acquired 100 per cent of the shares of Cap Synergy. Cap Synergy, known in the field of IT security and which generates a turnover of nearly EUR10m, brings to Econocom its portfolio of clients consisting of medium and
Private Advisors has acquired the investment advisory business of Cuyahoga Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based independent secondaries-focused private equity firm. As part of the transaction, Cuyahoga Capital’s investment professionals will be joining Private Advisors’ private equity team and will be focused upon the deployment of their latest secondaries fund, which
Hong Kong and Singapore have suffered a reverse of fortunes as they compete with New York and London as major centres for the world’s biggest hedge funds. Referring to a survey produced by an industry publication, the Financial Times this week reported that the number of hedge fund groups managing
Houston-based private equity firm Rock Hill Capital Group has closed on a majority recapitalisation of Big Lake Services, a West Texas oilfield services provider operating throughout the Permian Basin. Big Lake, founded in 2006 by chief executive Casey Davidson, has a management team with over 150 years of Permian Basin
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