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Manulife Investment Management has appointed Marc Feliciano as global head of real estate, private markets.
In this position, reporting to Christoph Schumacher, global head of real assets, Feliciano will oversee all aspects of the real estate business, including portfolio management, investments, asset management, and the integration of sustainability into both investments and operations. He will also be responsible for developing and implementing Manulife Investment Management’s global real estate investment strategy and increasing its capabilities on behalf of clients, including Manulife’s General Account.
Feliciano joins Manulife Investment Management from DWS where he was the chief investment officer (CIO) of real
New elderly care search platform, Lottie has raised GBP2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Kindred.
Lottie also secured investment from angel and Zoopla executive, David Wascha as well as former Airbnb and Facebook director, Caroline Hudack. Tom Blomfield and Lendable co-founder Victoria van Lennep also reinvested.
HV Capital has launched the first continuation fund in the German venture capital tech sector, with a size of over EUR430 million.
HV COCO Growth will enable HV Capital to continue supporting portfolio companies from existing funds and take advantage of further growth opportunities facing them. All existing investments from the three very successful funds HV IV, HV V and HV Co- investment Fund from the years 2010 to 2015 will be taken over by the new fund.
In addition to HarbourVest, which is the anchor investor, LGT Capital Partners, Pathway Capital, and a number of family offices and financial
Hildred Capital Management (Hildred), a New York based private equity firm, has closed its first institutional fund, Hildred Equity Partners II with total commitments of USD362.5 million, exceeding its target.
Hildred will continue to focus on generating strong financial returns for its partners by tapping into secular growth opportunities in attractive healthcare sectors such as consumer products, medical provider services, pharmaceuticals services, information technology, life science tools and diagnostics, as well as related businesses, and will pursue both majority and influential minority investments.
The Fund received strong support from a diverse group of both new and existing Hildred investors globally,
The Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) has appointed Drew Guff, Managing Director and Founding Partner of Siguler Guff & Company, as Chair of the Board of Directors, along with new Board members Otavio Castello Branco, Senior Managing Partner and Board Member of Patria Investments, and Dr Karim El Solh, Co-Founder and CEO of Gulf Capital.
The GPCA Board has also appointed Nicolas Rohatyn, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Rohatyn Group (TRG), as Chair Emeritus.
GPCA members are leading investors across Asia, Latin America, Africa, CEE and the Middle East, who collectively manage more than USD2 trillion in assets.
Centauri Therapeutics Limited (Centauri), an immunotherapy company founded by Animatrix Founders LLP and focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, today announced the close of its GBP24 million Series A investment round.
Centauri secured equity funding from Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Evotec SE, and Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund. Existing investors include founding investor Animatrix Founders LLP (via its company LAK Holdings LLP), as well as Kent Life Science LLP and Wren Capital.
The funds will support the continued advancement of the Company’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research and development, using the Alphamer® platform to identify and progress novel antibacterial candidates
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) ISAE3402, SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 standards for the twelfth consecutive year.
In 2011, Options became one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to achieve SOC 2 Type II compliance. The firm has continued to meet the latest AICPA examinations each year since. Audit compliance attests that Options meets the latest information security, data availability, and privacy standards.
Mayer Brown has appointed investment funds lawyer Matthew Griffin as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice in London.
Griffin advises on fund formations and fund investments across illiquid and liquid asset classes in Europe and around the world for sponsors, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds. His practice also includes advising on co-investments, secondary transactions, carried interest arrangements and other complex fund related matters, including fund restructurings, continuation funds and liquidity events.
Griffin joins Mayer Brown from White & Case, where he was head of the London funds and investment management practice. He has also worked in
Sharegain, a capital markets infrastructure fintech, has raised USD64 million in a series B round led by WestCap.
Citi, EJF Capital LLC and Optiver PSI, also participated, along with existing investors include Maverick Ventures Israel, Blumberg Capital, SixThirty, Rhodium, and the Kessler family office.
The round is the largest series B to date in the securities lending industry. WestCap Partner Scott C Ganeles will join the Sharegain board. Ganeles presently sits on the boards of Tradeweb and NYDIG, and is the former CEO of Ipreo, a global fintech company servicing global financial institutions.
Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP), an investment house providing flexible capital solutions to successful entrepreneurs and management teams in the European mid-market, has invested in Gorent, an Italian specialist in the rental of eco-sustainable vehicles for urban sanitation, via Three Hills Capital Solutions III (THCS III).
THCS III has committed cEUR50 million to support further organic growth of the business as well as the buyout of certain minority shareholders. The transaction, which is expected to complete in March 2022, represents the third investment in Italy for THCS III and the last investment out of the Fund’s portfolio of ten assets.
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