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Eight Advisory, a consulting firm in Transactions, Restructuring, and Transformation, has opened a new office in Cologne, its fourth in Germany.
Eight Advisory develops its pan-European network, with strong operations in France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands, to provide seamless support and added value to both corporate and private equity clients on complex cross-border operations.
The Eight Advisory Cologne office will be headed by Curt-Oliver Luchtenberg, who joined Eight Advisory together with some other highly experienced colleagues and will lead the Transformation practice in Germany. This already strong team will also be able to call on the expertise
Private capital secondary market investor Coller Capital, and international law firm Akin Gump have hosted their first quarterly Women in Secondaries networking event for 2022, a fireside chat with Priya Lakhani OBE.
Lakhani is a serial entrepreneur who has founded a food business, a social enterprise and now leads CENTURY Tech, a company developing, for use in the education sector, the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology to understand how the brain learns.
Lakhani’s session discussed the background to her career and various businesses, the cutting-edge work her company is carrying out and the lessons for training and
BayPine has promoted four individuals across its investment and operations teams. Tom O’Rourke has been promoted to Partner, Charles Rayner has been named Managing Director, Emily Osman has been named Vice President, and Erika Glass has been promoted to Director of Firm Administration.
BayPine has also appointed Farhan Siddiqi, a proven executive who has driven some of the most visible and successful digital transformations in the consumer sector over the past two decades, as an Operating Partner.
DHG, a pan-European medical device manufacturer backed by ArchiMed, has completed the acquisition of Danish patient turning system manufacturer, Vendlet ApS.
Vendlet, based in Aabenraa, Denmark, has over 30 years’ experience in the development, manufacturing and application of powered patient turning systems that deliver a safe and
comfortable turning experience for the patient whilst preventing the risk of musculoskeletal injury for the caregiver.
The acquisition of Vendlet, DHG’s first of 2022, is the latest in DHG’s ongoing period of growth and expansion, following on from the acquisitions of Talley Group and United Care in 2021, and the acquisitions of Gate
Private equity firm LongRange Capital has appointed Michael Houy has joined the firm as a Senior Principal.
Houy spent nearly a decade as an investment professional at KPS Capital Partners, LP where he focused on control equity investments in manufacturing and industrial companies. At KPS, his responsibilities included identifying, evaluating, executing investments, and then working with the management teams to enhance operating performance.
Prior to LongRange, Houy was a Partner at FC Crestone where he was responsible for co-managing the firm’s investment strategy of investing in operationally underperforming businesses.
Accrete, an alternative asset management technology platform designed to unlock private investment opportunities for those historically boxed out by six-figure minimum investments, has launched.
Amadys, a provider of passive network equipment solutions for utility infrastructures in the Benelux region and a portfolio company of Equistone Partners Europe, has acquired distribution specialists SKG Netzwerktechnik and Muth Kommunikationstechnik.
Blue Peak Aviation, which specialises in the acquisition and leasing of aviation assets, including commercial aircraft and engines, has appointed Angus Clarke as Chief Executive Officer and Enrique Dupuy de Lome Chavarri as Non-Executive Director.
ThinCats, an alternative finance provider to mid-sized SMEs, has extended its partnership with specialist global asset manager Insight Investment, which has agreed to allocate a further investment of up to GBP100 million from its funds under management.
Molten Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth technology businesses, has led the latest USD8 million seed financing round in IndyKite, a San Francisco-based software company that is building the identity layer for Web 3.0, with products that securely manage human, IoT, and machine identity.
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