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Investec Growth & Leveraged Finance (Investec) has made two new appointments to its team, as it continues to bring in new external talent.
Tim van Heusden joins from ABN Amro, where he spent seven years and was an Associate Director in the bank’s leveraged finance arm in Amsterdam. Van Heusden will create additional bandwith and focus on the bank’s lending abilities in the Benelux alongside Alexandre Neiss, who has spearheaded Investec’s lending in the region since 2014.
Fred Kinsman joins from Deloitte’s private equity debt advisory team, and prior to that spent five years at Commonwealth Bank, working in the
As part of its wider strategic growth programme Enterprize Energy has bolstered its experienced specialist and diverse teams with the hiring of three senior financial executives.
Nuta Chen has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, based in Taiwan. David Houlton joins in the role of Business Advisor and Economic Modeller and Woon Soon as Financial Consultant. The trio join during an upward trajectory in the company’s growth and will play key roles in its mission to provide nations and communities with a clean, renewable, and independent energy future.
Chen brings nearly two decades of experience in Taiwan and Thailand’s renewable
CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has agreed to sell AOC, a global producer of specialty resins, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds (Lone Star).
The contemplated transaction is subject to AOC workers’ councils information and consultation and relevant regulatory authorities’ approval.
Headquartered in Schiphol, The Netherlands, AOC is a global CASE & Colorants leader, producing and formulating unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins, and other solutions for applications in Coatings & Protective Barriers, Colorants & Visual Effects, Adhesives, and Conventional Composite Resins.
AOC serves customers globally with specialty products for the automotive, marine, corrosion, construction, and infrastructure segments. The
Vaayu, a carbon tracking software company for retailers, has raised USD1.57 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by CapitalT, supported by a number of angel investors including Atomico’s Angel Program, Planet Positive LP, Saarbrücker 21, Expedite Ventures and NP-Hard Ventures.
This comes as the fashion industry is still responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Vaayu integrates seamlessly with various point-of-sale systems, such as Shopify and Webflow, to pull data on logistics, operations and packaging so retailers can monitor, measure and reduce their carbon
InfanDx AG (Cologne, Germany), a privately held diagnostics company focusing on the development and commercialisation of novel diagnostic solutions for newborns, has held the first closing of a Series A financing round raising EUR4 million from new and existing investors.
In the transaction, new investor Alluti GmbH – Smart Invest, the family office of entrepreneur and brand specialist Bert Bleicher, joined existing investors participating in the raise, such as serial entrepreneur Jochen Tschunke and the LSI Pre-Seed Fonds GmbH of Life Science Inkubator Bonn, among others.
The proceeds will fund the further development of the Company’s lead product, the HypoxE
Golding Capital Partners, a European independent asset manager for alternative investments, has appointed Nadejda de Lousanoff as a new Director of Institutional Sales.
In this new position de Lousanoff will be responsible for advising corporate investors, as well as charitable foundations and family offices. Hans Ohlrogge, an recognised expert on company pensions, is also helping to develop Golding’s expertise for corporate clients. Hans Ohlrogge led the IBM pension schemes in Germany and will be working as an external consultant.
“With the support of Nadejda de Lousanoff and her long-standing expertise we can now focus on our strategic goal of developing
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has appointed of Chris Goodgame as a Managing Director in its Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG).
The arrival of Goodgame marks the latest step in the group’s strategic growth plans in Europe and across the world, following the recent launch of A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory practices in Spain and the Middle East.
Goodgame has more than 15 years’ experience advising private equity investors on M&A, with a focus on the financial services sector. He has worked on over 200 transactions across Europe throughout his career. In the last eighteen months, these have
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), a global provider of independent valuation support and advisory services, has completed of three solvency opinions in connection with the recapitalisation of three private equity-backed health and cosmetic care companies.
VRC was engaged to provide solvency opinions by the boards of Milan Laser Holdings, a physician-owned permanent laser hair reduction provider operating in 20 states; OB Hospitalist Group, a provider of on-site, board-certified obstetric and gynaecology hospitalist programmes and related physician support services; and Soliant Health, a nationwide healthcare staffing company.
“We are pleased that these three leading healthcare organisations chose VRC to provide solvency evaluations
An affiliate of Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Daniel Measurement and Control business (Daniel) from Emerson Electric Co (NYSE: EMR).
Headquartered in Houston with a state of the art, strategically located manufacturing facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, Daniel is a global leader providing flow and energy measurement technologies and services to the natural gas and refined hydrocarbon industries. With an 85-year heritage as the preeminent supplier of engineered solutions for flow measurement in custody transfer applications, Daniel is the most trusted brand for customers across the energy and hydrocarbon supply chain.
The transaction
Time Finance has appointed Rebekah Middleton as Head of Hard and Soft Asset and Direct Business. She previously held the role of Head of Hard Asset and the move sees her take on additional responsibility to oversee the company’s Asset offering with both its broker networks and through direct channels.
Middleton’s focus will be on enabling UK businesses to access the funding solutions they require to invest in the vital equipment their firms need to achieve their plans.
Middleton brings over 20 years’industry experience to the role having built a credible career working in sales management and business development roles
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