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Partners Capital, a global Outsourced Investment Office, has appointed  Emmanuel Pitsilis as a Managing Director based in Singapore.  Pitsilis will serve as co-head for the Asia Pacific region alongside Managing Director Adam Watson and report to CEO Arjun Raghavan.   Pitsilis will work closely with Watson and Dominik Burckgard, Head of the firm’s Hong Kong office, to deepen the firm’s capabilities in offering blue-chip regional and global investment solutions for its world-wide client base.   “We are thrilled to welcome Emmanuel to Partners Capital at a time when the client demand for investment services and solutions across Asia has never
Anu Balasubramanian, Paul Hastings
In this week’s podcast, Anu Balasubramanian, partner at international law firm Paul Hastings, shares her views on whether US/European cross border M&A deal making will continue its upward trajectory, her outlook on the US economic recovery and what that will mean for European PE.
Freya Capital a venture capital fund that aims to provide investment support to early-stage companies has been added to the latest edition of the Polish Development Fund (PFR) Starter programme. The total capitalisation of Freya Capital is PLN64 million.  Freya Capital intends to invest in seed/early-stage companies operating in Europe, with high growth potential and plans to expand into international markets. In the course of its cooperation the fund will support enterprises on the merits and business-wise, benefiting from the knowledge of its partners. Freya Capital was established by a team of experienced entrepreneurs – Hubert Anyżewski, Zbigniew Barwicz, Jan
The UK wireless telecommunications services business WHP Telecoms (WHP), backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has completed the acquisition of Intelligent Communications Solutions Limited (ICS Group), a telecoms rigging installations and design company, marking the group’s third acquisition in the space of a month.
AURELIUS Group has appointed wo new members to its investment team in London. Simon Jobson joins as Principal and Shivani Sheth as Investment Associate, bringing the total investment team in London to 12. Jobson and Sheth will work with Tristan Nagler, Partner, AURELIUS European Opportunities IV, who with the London-based investment team has led several of AURELIUS’ most recently announced investments with the complex carve-out of SSE Contracting, AutoRestore, Pullman Fleet Solutions and GKN Wheels & Structures. The new hires mark continued growth for AURELIUS in the UK, which has expanded year-on-year since inception in 2014. The announcement of new
Andera Partners is strengthening its presence in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, German speaking Switzerland) by opening an office in Munich. The management company has already been active in this region for several years, notably through its Andera Life Sciences activity. It has invested in companies such as Jenavalve, Noxxon, Probiodrug, and Allecra and, more recently, in T-Knife, Exciva and Tricares. Andera Partners will continue to focus on the biotech and medtech sectors in these markets, while preparing the ground for its SME, Mezzanine and Renewable Energy and Infrastructure funds. “The German, Austrian and German speaking Swiss markets have traditionally
Boston-based NorthBridge Partners (NorthBridge) and New York-based Park Madison Partners have announced the final close of NB Partners Fund III, LP (Fund III), which was oversusbcribed at its USD500 million hard cap.  Investors in the fund included a mix of public and private pensions, foundations, asset managers, family offices, and high net worth individuals. NorthBridge launched its logistics strategy in 2014 with the goal of acquiring, modernising, and developing small-to-mid sized final-mile logistics assets on the US East Coast. Fund III’s strategy is a continuation of the prior two vehicles, targeting strategically located US East Coast industrial assets that are
Main Sequence, Australia’s deep tech investment fund founded by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has raised AUD250m for its second fund.  The oversubscribed raise was supported by returning investors including Horizons Ventures, Hostplus, Lockheed Martin and Temasek, as well as family offices and private investors from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Mutual Trust.   Investments from Fund II will continue Main Sequence’s mission to solve the world’s biggest problems in health, food, space, and industrial productivity, by turning science and research into breakthrough companies. Main Sequence is also increasing its focus on science and engineering discoveries that address decarbonisation as
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a global private equity firm, has invested in Prime Global Medical Communications Ltd (Prime Global), in partnership with the company founder and existing management team. Founded in 1997, Prime Global is a global medical communications and market access group that provides the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses with full-service professional communications, including healthcare strategy and consultancy, scientific and medical communications, consumer health, patient-integrated science, and market access. The Company is an active player in a market that is poised for rapid growth as a result of increased spending on pharmaceutical research and development
UX-Republic joins Smile, a specialist in open source technologies known through its brands Neopixl, the mobile applications specialist, and SensioLabs, creator of the Symfony framework.  UX-Republic will continue to operate under its own brand and will benefit from Smile’s capabilities to strengthen its customer offering – particularly on the technological side – and roll out its expertise in France and Europe. The acquisition benefits from the active support of the two companies’ management teams and Smile’s shareholders: Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout1 investments, and Eurazeo PME. Smile and UX-Republic are bringing

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