Venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners has appointed Manish Patel as a principal. Based in Highland’s Menlo Park office, Patel will expand Highland’s reach into Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial community and help identify and work with the next crop of start-ups. Patel joins Highland from Google where he has held diverse
Telecoms industry veteran Chris Wade has been named executive chairman of VC-Net by the UK’s video conferencing and telecoms solutions provider and its backers MMC Ventures. Wade says: “We are seeing the rise of the ‘smarter corporate’ who use video conferencing to create globally integrated businesses. As a result VC-Net’s
IK Investment Partners, a Pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Kai Wärn as partner with future responsibility for strategy, operations and business control. He is currently chief executive of Swedish-listed company Seco Tool and will begin at IK in January 2011. Wärn will be based in IK’s Stockholm office. Wärn
Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in North America’s energy infrastructure, has hired Rahman D’Argenio as a principal in the firm’s Short Hills, New Jersey office. D’Argenio will be responsible for leading new investments as well as monitoring portfolio company activity across all of the firm’s
MGPA, the private equity real estate investment advisory company, and financial services provider Axa have agreed terms for Axa to become the anchor tenant for 8 Shenton Way, Singapore. The building, which has been leased for an initial six year term, will become a key hub for Axa’s Asian operations.
Peak Ridge Capital’s venture capital funds, the Avolte Venture Partners Midwest Fund, has made an investment in New River Technologies, a Wisconsin-based technology company that allows financial institutions to aggregate demand for purchased items. New River develops a web-based software transaction platform that helps financial institutions, specifically banks, aggregate demand
Research and consulting firm Carbon360 has launched the Fund Administration Market, a service designed to aid fund managers with the selection of fund administrators. The free service matches fund managers with the best-qualified administrators for their needs. It also aims to reduce the cost of search and implementation, and minimise
TerraNua, a provider of investment compliance solutions, has launched a new version of MyComplianceOffice for hedge fund and private equity firms. The new version features the Compliance Program Wizard, a module that allows firms to build their compliance programme while simultaneously automating all their compliance activities. MyComplianceOffice enables firms
Securities and investment banking firm Jefferies has appointed Kamlesh Bhatia as a managing director responsible for private placement origination within the firm’s equity capital markets group. Bhatia brings to Jefferies more than ten years of investment banking experience, including five years in the equity capital market groups at Piper Jaffray
Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on real estate and energy investing, is hiring Rodolfo Senra and Vitor Senra to open the firm’s first office in Brazil headquartered in Sao Paolo. As directors of Starwood Capital do Brasil, the two executives will be responsible for expanding Starwood’s presence
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