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Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Restructuring & Turnaround practice in Asia with the appointment of Budi Mulyana as Senior Director, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. With this first appointment in Indonesia, A&M expands its presence in Southeast Asia, five years after the opening of its Singapore office.
Mulyana’s appointment reinforces A&M’s Restructuring & Turnaround offering in Asia, following several recent senior appointments in the region, including Managing Director Joshua Taylor and Senior Director Steffi Thio based in Singapore, Senior Advisor Tod Macri in Hong Kong and Senior Director Ben Hsiao in Shanghai. It also rounds
Alderwood Capital (Alderwood), a London-based fund manager, has appointed Cathy Jones as a Partner and a member of its Investment Committee.
A senior human capital executive, Jones focuses on all aspects of high value performance management in the asset management sector, with a particular emphasis on succession planning, understanding how investment teams interact and make successful decisions, and sustaining thriving cultures. Alderwood’s investment process places a heavy reliance on understanding the leadership and investment ‘DNA’ of its target businesses and Jones will lead this effort.
Jones was previously a Partner at Northill Capital where she worked alongside existing
Sustained buoyant private equity activity continued to drive growth in Jersey’s investment funds sector as the total value of fund assets administered in the jurisdiction grew by GBP26.3 billion to stand at a new record level of GBP436.3 billion at the mid-year point, according to new industry data.
The latest quarterly figures for Jersey’s finance industry, collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) and published by Jersey Finance for the period ending 30 June 2021, show that the value of total funds business booked in Jersey grew by 15 per cent over the first half of 2021.
In particular,
Leading healthcare investors Avista Capital Partners (Avista Capital) and Nordic Capital are to o sell Acino, a Swiss pharmaceutical company headquartered in Zurich, to ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy.
In partnership, Avista Capital and Nordic Capital acquired Acino in 2013 via a take-private transaction from the Swiss stock exchange (SIX: ACIN). Since that time, both investors supported Acino’s long-term growth strategy and transformed the business to become a high-growth emerging markets- focused pharmaceuticals platform with significant market presence in the Middle East,
Unigestion has led in the buyout of Home Instead Holding (Home Instead), a provider of home care services across Europe.
As part of the sale of Home Instead, Unigestion as lead investor has invested in the company, alongside the founder of Home Instead, Paul Fritz, who, together with Verium, continues to hold a majority stake in the company. With Unigestion’s investment, the shareholder base of Home Instead has been supplemented with an experienced institutional investor to support the successful implementation of the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of home care services, predominantly for the
Tyk, a London-based global tech company, has closed a USD35M growth equity funding round led by new investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), alongside existing investors MMC Ventures.
Tyk’s innovative API management solution helps to build mission-critical systems in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. It is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises such as Societe Generale, Starbucks and Domino’s.
With businesses reinventing the way they work, software is now built across multiple clouds, locations, and teams. APIs are the backbone of this, and Tyk’s technology enables modern engineering teams to monitor, secure and manage
MyTutor, a UK-based trusted tutoring platform and a provider of in-school tuition in last year’s Government-backed National Tuition Programme, has raised GBP15 million in a funding round led by SEEK Investments, with support from existing investors including Mobeus Equity Partners.
The leading online tutor’s mission is to provide life changing tuition for all, regardless of background, and is unique in its offering by supporting both disadvantaged students through its schools programme and private tuition partnering directly with parents. With their base of 20,000 tutors they’ve supported over 1,000 Secondary Schools, hundreds of thousands of parents, and delivered over 2 million
AIM-listed Falanx Group (AIM:FLX), a global intelligence, security and cyber defence provider, has secured a substantial investment that will enable the Reading-based firm to strengthen its core cyber division, in addition to supporting its plans for organic growth. An initial GBP1 million growth loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co is expected to rise to GBP2.5 million.
The business has a long track record of providing organisations with comprehensive cyber defence, intelligence and technology to deliver targeted threat prevention. With businesses subject to increasing cyber security and geopolitical threats, Falanx offers specialist services in areas around cyber security monitoring, cyber security
Benefit Street Partners (BSP), a credit-focused alternative asset management firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, and Malk Partners (Malk), an adviser to private markets on ESG and impact investing, have published a co-authored white paper detailing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) integration and considerations in the private credit investment process.
TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP), the dedicated real estate equity investment platform of alternative asset firm TPG, has signed an agreement to acquire a significant stake in Studio Babelsberg.
TREP will acquire the stake from Studio Babelsberg’s main shareholder, Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg GmbH, which is controlled by Dr Carl L Woebcken and Christoph Fisser, CEO and COO of Studio Babelsberg, respectively. Woebcken and Fisser will maintain ownership in Studio Babelsberg. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of several closing conditions.
As part of the transaction, TREP intends to launch a public tender offer to the shareholders of Studio Babelsberg
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