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DLA Piper advises European Capital on sale of Farrow & Ball

DLA Piper has advised European Capital on the sale of Farrow & Ball, a specialist in high quality paint and wallpaper, to Ares Management for GBP275 million. DLA Piper has advised European Capital on the sale of Farrow & Ball, a global leader in high quality paint and wallpaper, to

White & Case advises EQT on Gerber tender offer for Sanitec

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised leading European private equity group EQT on the SEK9.7 billion (around GBP820 million) tender offer for all of the shares in Sanitec by Geberit AG. Switzerland-based Geberit is the European leader in the sanitary technology sector. It has a global presence

Taliance unveils new version of Holistic GlobalAsset Platform

Taliance, a global analytics provider serving the alternative investments marketplace, has released a new version of its asset and data agnostic platform, GlobalAsset.  The new release enables users to view their investment platform as a whole and then drill down into asset level detail, while also providing a top level

Osborne Clarke advises on GBP50m Life Science Venture Capital Funding

Osborne Clarke, has advised a group of investors consisting of Imperial Innovations, Invesco Perpetual and Woodford Investment Management on the GBP50m Venture Capital funding of Cell Medica Limited. Partner Rob Wood, who led the Osborne Clarke team assisted by Senior Associate Caroline Drummond, says: “This is a significant deal in

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First Names Group expands into Global Structured Finance Services

First Names Group has formed Global Structured Finance Services Unit in the USA. To drive this new corporate service the Group has appointed Orlando Figueroa (pictured) and Mark Ferraris as Managing Directors.  Ferraris and Figueroa will be responsible for driving the global strategy to deliver services through both First Names

Hall Capital adds IR office

Hall Capital has created an investor relations office to provide a focal point of communications and services for investors in the firm’s various private equity, automotive, real est

Hugh Stevens, Head of Private Equity and Real Estate Services at BNP Paribas Securities Services

Coping with the demands of risk transparency

Today’s prevailing narrative is quite simple: heightened demands for a transparent view of investment risks are putting considerable pressure on private equity and real estate fund managers, and their service providers. In short, risk transparency is becoming a key requirement which managers need to address. This is not that easy

James Williams, Hedgeweek

The growing perils of operational risk

In the last few years, operational due diligence on hedge fund managers has taken on the same level of forensic detail as the hit TV show CSI New York. Given that this has coincided with greater institutional allocations, it is entirely understandable; mom and pop’s pension is at risk. To

Driving PE operations: Popularity drives growth in outsourcing, says Viteos

Outsourcing, as a general trend, has grown in popularity among asset managers as they look to benefit from economies of scale. This is playing to the advantage of service providers such as Viteos, an industry leader in the provision of outsourced shadow accounting. By using outsourced providers, managers are freed

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