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Castle Harlan promotes Anand Philip to MD

New York private equity firm Castle Harlan, Inc, has promoted Anand T Philip (pictured) to Managing Director, while Joyce M Demonteverde has joined the firm as Vice President. Demonteverde had previously been with Castle Harlan, Inc prior to going to the Harvard Business School. Castle Harlan believes that Philip’s promotion

LogMeIn acquires Pachube

LogMeIn, Inc, a provider of cloud-based connectivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of the Pachube service (www.pachube.com) and substantially all other assets of Connected Environments Ltd.    Pachube (pronounced “Patch Bay”) is a web-based service for connecting people and devices to the Internet of Things – a network of sensor-enabled

Actis exits its stake in Asia Books

Berli Jucker Public Company Limited has acquired 100% of Asia Books from Actis and Thailand Equity Fund (TEF). This exit marks the culmination of Actis’s five year investment in Thailand’s leading retailer and wholesaler of foreign language books and magazines. Actis completed the MBO of Distri-Thai in 2006. Distri-Thai was

Guernsey Lyndon Trott

Guernsey removed from US “blacklist”

Guernsey’s engagement with Washington has resulted in Democrat Senator Carl Levin removing the Island from his “blacklist”. Guernsey’s Chief Minister Lyndon Trott (pictured) this week met with officials in Washington. The meetings continued a dialogue started nearly a decade ago to strengthen ties between the Guernsey and US governments and

CORESTATE strengthens pan-European platform

CORESTATE Group, a specialist private equity investor based in Zug/Switzerland, with partner offices in Frankfurt, London and Luxembourg, has made a number of strategic appointments which will further strengthen its European investment and asset management expertise.  Making four additional appointments, it has recruited Jerry Melchionna to its origination team in

Castle Private Equity to initiate new distribution policy

Castle Private Equity, the SIX Swiss Exchange listed fund of private equity funds, has approved a new distribution policy. The policy will enable the company to share realised gains with shareholders and has been initiated due to the strong recovery of the portfolio in the past two years and the

Former TPC associate to pay USD112,000 over insider trading ring role

The Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on July 14, 2011 ordered former TPG Capital, LP (TPG) private equity associate Vinayak S Gowrish to pay in excess of USD112,000, consisting of USD12,000 in disgorgement (with interest to be calculated thereon) and

HVPE NAV down 0.1%

HarbourVest Global Private Equity’s (HVPE) estimated economic NAV is USD902.3 million or USD10.91 per share, as at 30 June 2011. This is a 0.1% decrease from the 31 May 2011 estimated Economic NAV per share of USD10.92. This nominal change was driven by decreases in the value of publicly-traded holdings to

ESMA Steven Maijoor

European regulatory body invites comment on AIFM Directive implementation

The European Securities and Markets Authority, which succeeded the Committee of European Securities Regulators at the beginning of this year, has asked for industry comment on the advice it proposes to send to the European Commission on detailed implementation measures for the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. The

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