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IQ-EQ has appointed Edwin Chan as its Chief Commercial Officer for UK and Ireland – the latest in a series of senior new hires.
Chan brings with him over 20 years of experience helping launch and grow fund services businesses, including within leading international banks in London, Bermuda and Hong Kong. An expert in sales and negotiation, he will be entrusted with fostering strong relationships with IQ-EQ clients and prospects, as well as developing and executing key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans.
As IQ-EQ pushes ahead with ambitious growth plans, Chan will play a critical role
Kramer Levin has appointed Elisia M Klinka as a partner in the time’s Private Equity/M&A practice in New York.
Klinka’s practice focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions, and she represents several private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers.
Kramer Levin co-managing partners Howard T Spilko and Paul H Schoeman, say: “We are pleased to welcome Elisia to the firm. We have been growing our Corporate practice dramatically in recent years, particularly our private equity and M&A capabilities, and that growth continues to be a strategic priority for the firm.”
“We are experiencing extraordinarily high demand for our group’s services
A record high of over GBP6.5 billion was invested by Venture Capital (VC) in UK scaleups over the summer, according to new research.
The KPMG Venture Pulse report reveals that after two extraordinarily high quarters in 2021, UK scaleups continued to attract funding from across the globe in Q3 21, with eager investors prepared to pay premium prices for strong UK innovators with a proven track record. Nearly GBP20 billion of VC investment has been raised so far this year by scaleups in the UK.
While fintech was the hottest area of investment in the UK, a diversity of
Following the realisation of Avantia in September, ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has announced the close of its ninth fund, generating a three-times return and 36 per cent IRR.
A new study (1) reveals over half (53 per cent) of professional investors believe that over the next two years, institutional investors will look to dramatically increase the level of diversification in their portfolios, and a further 40 per cent think there will be a slightly greater focus on this.
Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), a European investment manager dedicated to the digital assets market, commissioned research with institutional investors and wealth managers from the US, UK, France, Germany, and the UAE who collectively have USD275.5 billion in assets under management.
As part of their plans to diversify, the majority
KKR, together with its co-invest partner, Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, has purchased the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio (Fund II) from KCL for approximately USD1.1 billion.
Genstar Capital and existing investor GI Partners have recapitalised Daxko, a health, fitness, and wellness industry software and integrated payments provider.
The investment supports Daxko’s accelerated innovation in product development, customer support, sales and marketing, and strategic acquisitions.
Daxko provides mission-critical membership management software and integrated payment solutions to member-based health and wellness organisations. The company serves large health clubs, boutique fitness studios, YMCAs, and JCCs with products to help its customers with daily operations and member management. During GI Partners’ ownership, Daxko has invested in growing the business, offerings, and employee base in service of delivering a quality
Early-stage venture capital firm Flyover Capital Partners has appointed Tristan Mace as Managing Partner.
Mace will focus on expanding the firm’s growth initiatives, sourcing new investments, and supporting portfolio companies.
Mace relocated to Kansas City from New York City, where he founded and invested in technology ventures and advised leading venture capital firms. Prior to Flyover Capital, he was a Venture Partner at Warburg Serres (formerly Animal Ventures), where he led Blockchain and Web3 investment strategy on behalf of Merck and AXA. He has served on Advisor Panels for the US Government’s Executive Branch, the Council of Experts for the
Building on three decades of future-proofing companies, EQT is launching EQT Future fund, an impact-driven longer-hold fund with a EUR4 billion target size, which will apply EQT’s active ownership model to accelerate sustainable transformation of companies alongside creating attractive risk adjusted returns.
The launch of EQT Future comes just days after the announcement of EQT as the first private markets firm globally to formalise science based targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). EQT will address climate change by defining ambitious greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction targets, for both its own and the portfolio companies’ operations.
The EQT Future
DiRx, an online pharmacy platform that delivers savings on commonly prescribed, FDA-approved generic medicines without the need for insurance, has raised USD5.75 million in Series A funding.
Additional funding interest is under advanced contract negotiations and will conclude in the coming weeks. Coinciding with the anniversary of its initial USD5 million Seed Round in September 2020, this Series A round was also a private placement with healthcare-specialised investors including new as well as returning participants.
With over 40 million uninsured and 80 million underinsured Americans struggling with unaffordable out-of-pocket medicine costs, the DiRx model reduces the number of supply chain
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