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Crowell & Moring is expanding its financial services capabilities in London with the arrival of a new derivatives team. The team is recognised for its experience advising global investment banks and private equity funds on a range of complex structured finance and derivatives transactions in the US, UK, and European markets.
The diverse team consists of partners Jennifer Kafcas and Charles Wakiwaka, and counsel Alvino S van Schalkwyk and Lauren Blaber.
Browne Jacobson’s corporate health lawyers have advised specialist healthcare services private equity investor, Weight Partners Capital (WPC) on its investment in Grosvenor Health and Social Care (Grosvenor) for an undisclosed sum.
WPC’s investment will support Grosvenor in its ambitions for further geographical growth across the UK and will also give the organisation the opportunity to broaden out its service offering.
Global tax software provider Sovos has acquired Germany-based TLI Consulting, a specialist in value-added tax (VAT) determination.
TLI Consulting serves businesses whose transaction and tax determination needs are too complex or costly to configure and maintain via native SAP and in-house tax experts. The company’s software solution extends native SAP VAT determination functionality, and its consultants have the integration and implementation expertise to ensure that SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA enterprise resource planning systems can seamlessly determine the right VAT decisions and tax codes for any outbound or inbound transaction.
RA Capital Management has led an oversubscribed USD40,750,000 Series A round of financing in NanoMosaic, the developer of a suite of analyte interrogation technologies which has successfully exported its platform to leading hospitals and institutes.
Insight Partners, Pura Vida Investments, Time BioVentures and Tiger Gene also participated in the fundraising.
South Korean video game developer KRAFTON, Inc, maker of the popular battle royale game PUBG, has led a USD11 million Series B Round in Arabic mobile games publisher Tamatem Games.
Venture Souq, Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors also participated.
Private equity manager Keensight Capital is to invest alongside existing management in Buckaroo, an online Payment Service Provider (PSP) based in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Keensight Capital will replace Blackfin Capital as majority shareholder alongside the management team led by Paul Scholten.
Headline Asia (formerly known as Infinity Ventures) has led a USD7.5 million Series A funding round in Xen Capital with the investment set to be used to scale Xen’s B2B2C alternative investment platform.
Xen Capital has created an open architecture client management platform for wealth advisors and asset managers, to solve the problem of distribution at scale, and has processed more than USD200 million of transaction volume in private market deals through its platform in the last 12 months.
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore)has promoted Deputy Portfolio Manager and Managing Director, Deborah Cohen Malka to Partner and Portfolio Manager.
Cohen Malka is the firm’s fourth partner alongside Founding Partners, David Allen, Chief Investment Officer, Bill Ammons, Portfolio Manager and Matthew Courey, Chief Operating Officer.
Intelligo, the provider of an AI-powered background risk intelligence platform for investment due diligence, has appointed Dan Reidy as the Vice President of Sales in North America. He will be based in Chicago.
PraxisIFM Group, a global financial services business listed on The International Stock Exchange (TISE), has received regulatory approval to complete the sale of its Fund Administration division to Sanne Group plc, in an all-cash deal totalling GBP54 million. This follows the original announcement of the sale in July.
As part of the terms of the transaction GBP5.5 million of the total consideration will now be held in escrow and is expected to be released in July 2022, subject to certain performance criteria.
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