Steadfast Capital has achieved a first close of its third fund at EUR104 million in just four months. Support from existing investors Electra, Axa and F&C combined with the addition of some well regarded new institutions including EIF, Goldman Sachs, IdInvest, Graphite and Swiss Re enabled the fund, which
Global growth private equity firm TA Associates has appointed Dietrich Hauptmeier as a Senior Vice President in the firm’s London office. Hauptmeier will focus on growth equity investments, recapitalisations and management-led buyouts in Germany and other European markets. Hauptmeier joins TA from Palamon Capital Partners, where he served as an
Cortus has closed a funding round led by financial partners Credit Agricole Entreprises and Banque Dupuy de Parseval and institutional partners OSEO and the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon.

 Since starting in 2005, Cortus has completed the development of an extensive ecosystem for its APS3 core and achieved key design wins in
David Silver is to succeed John Fordham as Head of European Investment Banking (EUIB) at Baird, an employee-owned, international investment banking, private equity, wealth, and asset management firm. Fordham will transition to the newly created position of Chairman of Baird International. Silver will oversee all of EUIB in addition
The Aureos South-East Asia Fund II (ASEAF II) has completed an MBO transaction of a leading Indonesian engineering company, ODG Wormald Indonesia (ODG). ASAEF II, which is currently fundraising with a target of US$250m, is a regional private equity fund focusing on investments in South East Asia, particularly Indonesia, Thailand,
Newly-launched, location-based mobile gaming start-up Red Robot Labs has raised USD8.5 million in funding led by Benchmark Capital. Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky will be joining the company’s board of directors. Shasta Ventures and existing investors Rick Thompson, co-founder of Playdom, and Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive, also participated in the
Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has appointed Savio Tung as Chief Executive Officer, North America. Tung returns to a full time role at Investcorp, where he was one of the founding partners and served from 1984 until 2009, from 1995 until 2000 as Head of Corporate Investment, North America and
Kelso Place Asset Management LLP (Kelso Place), the special situations investor, has appointed Philip Dougall as Partner. The appointment takes Kelso Place’s London-based investment team to nine. Sion Kearsey, Managing Partner of Kelso Place, says: “Phil has a wealth of experience and knowledge of the turnaround landscape, which will be
Grove Street Advisors, a discretionary private equity investor with USD6.4 billion under management, has added Bruce Ou as its third Principal, following Dr Kiran Rao in 2009 and Philippe Schenk in 2010. Ou will focus on fund investment activities across sectors including fund due diligence, evaluation and monitoring. Ou
Anne Dolan, a chartered secretary with Walkers Management Services in the Cayman Islands, argues that it is telling that in the recent case regarding the collapsed Macro Fixed Income Fund, which resulted in a USD111m judgement against the fund’s independent directors, significant weight was given to documentary evidence of board
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