Private equity firm HIG Capital has sold the Holding VM Industries group (H-VMI) to Actomezz (the mezzanine financing team of ACG Capital) and management. The H-VMI group was created in late 2009 following the partial acquisition of the automobile connectivity business of the Molex group at the Villemur-sur-Tarn site by
Counselytics has deployed its AI technology in the alternatives investment space. Using machine learning technology, Counselytics is aimed at providing a fast, economical and automated process to find and analyse limited partnership agreements wherever they reside. As Counselytics finds and centralises LPAs, it classifies and extracts up to 35 key partnership terms,
Oligo Swiss Fund Services received its license from the Swiss authorities 13 months ago to provide Swiss legal representative services and has already onboarded more than 200 funds registered for distribution to Swiss qualified investors. These include offshore hedge funds, UCITS-compliant hedge funds and private equity funds. "Our team has
Switzerland is a key part of the global business model at BNP Paribas Securities Services, whose successful acquisition last June of Credit Suisse Prime Fund Services has helped it to become an industry leader in alternative fund administration. With a depositary bank network spanning 15 European jurisdictions, EUR1.2 trillion of
It is now one year in to the Swiss Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) and overall impressions appear to be that it has been a success. One particular aspect of CISA, namely the requirement for alternative fund managers marketing their funds in Switzerland to "unregulated qualified investors" (eg pension funds,
By Michaël Malquarti (pictured), SYZ Asset Management – Although the phenomenal growth in index management since the 1990s had already begun to shake up the fund management industry, the 2008 crisis triggered a more profound reform process. This change is particularly visible in the alternative investments arena. As well as reinforced
Geneva-based SwissRepCo was established in January 2014 by industry veterans Dermot Butler (pictured), former chairman of Custom House Group, a leading fund administrator, and Lancelot Frick, a fifth generation Swiss private banker and CEO and President of Frick Capital SA. ("Frick"). SwissRepCo arose in response to FINMA's decision to beef
Middle market private equity firm HGGC is to sell Serena Software to UK-based Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus) an international software product group, at an enterprise value of USD540 million in cash. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Serena is the world’s largest independent provider of IT application development and
Thoma Bravo is in exclusive negotiations to sell InfoVista, a market leader in service performance assurance solutions for IP-based network and application services, to Apax Partners. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. Thoma Bravo acquired Paris-based InfoVista in April 2012 through a complex take-private acquisition on the
SK Capital Partners (SK Capita), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, has completed the previously announced sale of IBA Molecular (IBAM) to funds advised by private equity firm CapVest Partners. IBA Molecular was jointly owned by SK Capital and Ion Beam Applications S.A. prior to the sale.
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