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Sudrania opens Toronto office

Sudrania Fund Services (Sudrania), one of the world’s fastest-growing fund administrators, has opened its newest office in Toronto, Canada to introduce its end-to-end cloud-based fund administration platform to institutional investors.  Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

WestBridge appoints new director

Private equity house WestBridge has promoted Peter Barkley to director. Barkley joined WestBridge in August 2019 to head the firm’s newly opened Manchester office and establish the firm in the north west, north east and Yorkshire markets.   After qualifying at BDO, he joined Dow Schofield Watts where he came

MiddleGround Capital appoints Managing Director

MiddleGround Capital, a Kentucky-headquartered, middle market private equity firm that makes control investments in B2B industrial, manufacturing and distribution businesses, has appointed Justin W Steil as a Managing Director on the firm’s Investment Team.  Steil is based in the firm’s New York office and is responsible for sourcing, evaluating and

Investec Fund Solutions adds six to team

Investec Fund Solutions has hired six new people as it continues to build its presence in NAV, secondary financing and fund hedging. This brings the UK Fund Solutions team to 26 professionals, demonstrating Investec’s commitment to helping fund managers seize opportunities as they arise.   Olivia Blundell joins from Rabobank,

BGF appoints Baroness Brown as Chair of newly-created Clean Growth Advisory Board

BGF has announced the creation of a specialist advisory board to accelerate its investment activity in companies engaged in carbon reduction and the energy transition.  The advisory board will be chaired by Baroness Brown of Cambridge, one of the UK’s leading specialists in the field of climate change and carbon

PwC UK grows Deals practice

PwC UK has made changes to its Deals leadership team and strengthened the practice with the promotion of 18 new equity partners, effective 1 July 2021.  Hein Marais takes on leadership of Transaction Services and Nicola Preedy will head up Regional Deals. They join the firm’s Deals leadership team reporting

SS&C adds senior executive to SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets Team

SS&C Technologies Holdings has appointed Suresh Krishnamurthy to lead client solutions for SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets, SS&C’s private equity and real assets fund administration business.   He will report to Bhagesh Malde, global head of SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets.  “We are very excited to have Suresh join our rapidly growing

Schulte Roth & Zabel adds finance lawyer in New York

Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) has added Gregory Ruback as a partner in the Finance & Derivatives Group, resident in the firm’s New York office. He joins SRZ from DLA Piper, where he was a partner in the Finance Group. “Greg is a market-leading lawyer with specialist expertise, and we

Innovate Finance appoints new board member

Innovate Finance, an industry body representing UK FinTech, has appointed Yvonne Bajela as its newest board member. Bajela brings a wide range of expertise as an investment specialist, as well as being a strong and active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion.   Bajela is an Investor at Impact X

YFM Equity Partners opens new office in Reading

Fast-growing private equity house YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has an expanding network of regional offices across the UK, is strengthening its presence in the Thames Valley with the opening of a new office in Reading to be closer to businesses and professional advisers in the region and build its

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