New York Pacific Capital has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Finance for the establishment of an RMB-denominated private equity fund in Beijing. According to the memorandum, the fund will invest primarily in high growth Chinese companies in the healthcare, cleantech, education/culture and consumer products
Investment banking firm Evercore Partners has appointed Lincoln C. Singleton as a managing director in the firm’s private funds group. Singleton will be based in Evercore’s New York office where he will be responsible for managing the group’s relationships with limited partners in the south-east and Texas. Previously, he was
Law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted Ying Z. White to partner. White leads the firm’s investment funds practice in its Beijing office. Prakash H. Mehta, co-leader of Akin Gump’s firm-wide investment funds practice, says: “Ying’s command of the China funds market, her solid public-sector credentials
China Minsheng Banking has entered into a partnership with investment and technology development firm D. E. Shaw Group. Under the partnership, both sides will launch cooperation in the fields of investment strategy and Renminbi private equity. Established in 1988, D. E. Shaw Group focuses on investing in major industrial countries
Castle Harlan’s president Justin Wender has resigned from the firm and its associated companies, effective immediately. The New York private equity investment firm has appointed Howard Morgan and Bill Pruellage, two of its senior managing directors, as co-presidents. Morgan and Pruellage will assume all the responsibilities formerly handled by Wender.
The Blackstone Group has appointed Dr Robert Galvin as chief executive officer of Equity Healthcare. Equity Healthcare is Blackstone’s health management programme which aims to improve quality and contain costs in providing healthcare to the employees and their families of private equity portfolio companies. Currently Equity Healthcare encompasses 34 companies,
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Okapi Partners, the proxy solicitation firm, has hired Geoff Sorbello as a managing director. Sorbello joins Okapi Partners from ISS, a division of RiskMetrics Group which is now a subsidiary of MSCI. While at ISS, Sorbello was responsible for providing governance services and advice, including M&A research, to the firm’s
Black Diamond Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, has appointed Philip Raygorodetsky as managing director. Raygorodetsky is joining the firm immediately and will be based in Black Diamond’s Greenwich, Connecticut office. Raygorodetsky joins Black Diamond’s controlled distressed/private equity team, where he will work alongside the current senior team, including
Apex Fund Services, a fund administration business, has opened its Luxembourg office. Apex will begin providing administration services from Europe’s largest fund domicile. The Luxembourg office opens with ten Ucits and regulated SIF Sicav funds. In addition to offering services for all types of public and private Luxembourg funds, the
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