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Equus Capital Partners (Equus), a real estate investment manager, has appointed Moira DiSandro as an associate.
In her role, DiSandro will focus on business development efforts, specifically capital raising for the firm’s commingled closed-end fund series as well as for its co-investment and programmatic joint venture activities.
Prior to joining Equus, DiSandro served as the director of business development for FS Investment Solutions, where she was responsible for identifying and developing new relationships with OSJs and centres of influence advisor groups across the country.
East Ventures has become the first Indonesian venture capital firm to sign the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).
East Ventures is committed to taking the lead in identifying and supporting the relevant initiatives to drive more sustainable actions.
The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment supported by the United Nation. Through the signing of UN PRI, East Ventures will further practice and implement the signatories’ contributions to develop a more sustainable global financial system, as well as to continue the application of six Principles for Responsible Investment to achieve broader objectives of the society.
SeaBeLife, a biotech company developing drug candidates intended to block cell necrosis, has received EUR1.37 million (USD1.49 million) in financing from Bpifrance.
This financing, which has been granted in connection with the French government’s ‘Deeptech Plan’, will contribute to research into first-in-class drug candidates for the treatment of acute liver, kidney, heart and brain disease.
These funds will enable SeaBeLife to develop drug candidates with the unique ability to simultaneously inhibit necroptosis and ferroptosis, two modes of regulated cell death that are activated in individuals living with certain pathologies. The objective is to protect or regenerate organs affected by
AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments with cEUR183 billion of assets under management, expects the bulk of its investment in 2022 to be in conviction asset classes such as life sciences, healthcare, residential, and industrial & logistics, as well as in repositioning offices, as it announces that it completed EUR10.8 billion of real estate equity transactions in 2021.
This comprised cEUR8.7 billion of acquisitions and almost EUR2.1 billion of disposals, and compares to EUR9.7 billion of transactions completed in 2020. The business’ real estate equity assets under management exceeded EUR87.7 billion by the end of 2021, up
Apex Group Ltd has been appointed by Perennial Partners to provide fund administration services to the Perennial Private Ventures Fund.
This mandate win follows a series of successful acquisitions for Apex in the region, including Australia-based Mainstream Group, and New-Zealand-based MMC.
Perennial Private Ventures Fund is targeting a raise of AUD200 million to invest in high growth private businesses, providing “patient” capital in the years before a potential liquidity event. The Fund has secured cornerstone investment and attracted further interest from private wholesale investors, family offices and superannuation funds.
The launch of the Fund follows the success of
CoinShares, a European digital asset investment firm, has, following approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, acquired an additional 20.8 per cent stake in Swiss-based FlowBank.
This acquisition was priced at CHF24,740,000. Following the Company’s October 2021 strategic investment of a 9.02 per cent stake in FlowBank, the deal brings CoinShares’ overall holding to 29.3 per cent, with voting rights equal to 32.06 per cent.
To support its own product innovation CoinShares built Galata, a proprietary technology platform that acts as a gateway to the digital asset ecosystem, connecting CeFi platforms to digital asset protocols and markets. By leveraging
Fasanara Capital has made two significant additions to thitse team to strengthen deal origination and support the launch of its new Fintech-focused Venture Capital Fund.
The first addition is Raj Dutta, who has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer.
Dutta joins Fasanara having spent the majority of the last twenty years in various head of marketing and investor relations roles at institutional hedge funds and fund of hedge funds. These include Lombard Odier, Oxford Asset Management, at its peak a USD5 billion quantitative hedge fund, and UBP, at the time the second largest allocator to hedge funds globally, with USDF55
The Oxfordshire Pension Fund Committee has been recommended to approve cutting its multi-asset (DGF) target allocation of 5 per cent to 0 per cent.
The Board has also been recommended to increase its allocations to private equity from 9 per cent to 10 per cent, infrastructure from 3.0 per cent to 5.0 per cent, and private debt from 3.0 per cent to 5.0 per cent.
The GBP3.2 billion fund’s total allocation to alternatives would remain at 33 per cent of fund investments as a result of these changes.
Global private markets investor Pantheon has made a key new hire within its private equity investment team, with the appointment of as Amyn Hassanally as Partner and Global Head of Private Equity Secondaries.
Hassanally brings considerable experience to the role from a formidable career in private equity forged over the past 23 years. He joins Pantheon following almost 17 years at Coller Capital in both New York and London, where he was an Investment Partner and formerly Global Co-Head of Investment Execution. He has significant experience with LP and GP-led transactions and participated in the firm’s investment committee.
Prior to
Insurtech MGA Loadsure has closed a USD11 million Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures and Crowley, a global maritime, energy, and logistics company and existing investor Insurtech Gateway.
Loadsure, which delivered the industry’s first transactional cargo insurance platform and automated claims process, will rapidly scale its organisation to accelerate the development of its proprietary smart technology, increase its reach, and better serve the global cargo and freight insurance market through a more efficient, effective distribution chain.
Loadsure, an international insuretech managing general agent, was the first to digitalise the full cargo insurance life cycle, bring one-click coverage to
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