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Ashley Le Feuvre (pictured), VG, considers the key trends currently driving growth and development within Jersey’s funds industry…
By Sam Sturrock (pictured) & Paul Monahan – As frequent advisers on Jersey fund start ups, Collas Crill are often involved in preliminary structuring discussions with new fund managers and sponsors.
These sponsors are typically focussed on ‘alternative’ assets such as real estate, private equity, venture capital, debt and infrastructure assets for a professional / sophisticated / institutional / HNW / sovereign wealth fund investor base (i.e. not necessarily retail investors).
We understand the anxieties that often sit behind the questions we receive, namely:
• Will investors be turned off if I choose a particular jurisdiction and are my choices for
By Chris Griffin (pictured) & Robert Milner – Recently, the unprecedented combination of Brexit and Covid-19 has generated a sharp rise in the number of fund managers contemplating a move to Jersey. In this article, Chris Griffin, a funds partner in the Jersey office of leading offshore firm Carey Olsen, explores the reasons behind the increase in interest.
By A Paris – Jersey is capitalising on its future position outside of the EU to attract US fund managers to its shores. This is despite the potential uncertainty driven by the looming end of the Brexit transition period and the global pandemic.
“As the largest law firm in Jersey with the busiest investment funds practice, we have experienced a sharp increase in US managers seeking access to European Union or European Economic Area capital through the use of Jersey vehicles.
“This trend is also evidenced by assets under management for funds incorporated in Jersey with US managers or promoters having increased
By Joe Moynihan, CEO, Jersey Finance – Rafts of global regulatory initiatives are continuing to challenge traditional fund structuring models and make the fund domiciliation picture far more complex, with investor buy-in becoming absolutely vital.
As a result, key issues including Brexit, BEPS, substance and transparency have shot up the agenda when it comes to domiciliation decisions while increased uncertainty, costs, and regulatory and reporting requirements are all becoming major factors for managers and investors. In particular, an investor’s familiarity with a fund domicile and compliance with international standards remains vital. If a jurisdiction is respected by investors, then this gives
EQT Ventures and Creandum have co-led a EUR1.5 million investment round into Kive, a company that enables creatives to collect visual assets in a library self-organising through machine-learning.
Providence Strategic Growth (PSG)-backed Arcoro, a provider of human resources management (HR) solutions for high-risk industries, has appointed John Herr as Chief Executive Officer. Herr, a 25-year internet technology industry veteran, most recently served as CEO of Avetta, a global cloud-based supply chain risk management and commercial marketplace platform. He will assume day-to-day leadership of Arcoro and join its Board of Directors. Herr’s appointment comes as John O’Hara retires from his role as Chief Executive Officer. O’Hara will serve in an advisory role to Herr through the end of 2020.
“I am incredibly proud of everything our team has accomplished
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Akhil Johri, former United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Chief Financial Officer, as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds. Johri worked for more than 30 years at UTC, serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of UTC from 2015 to 2019 and as Special Advisor to the Chairman and CEO from 2019 to 2020. He was also Chief Financial Officer for Pall Corporation, a publicly traded leader in filtration, separation and purification solutions. He currently serves on the boards of Boeing and Cardinal Health.
In his new role, Johri will work on a range of
The latest research from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, reveals that the global private equity market showed higher resiliency and lower volatility over the first two quarters of 2020 compared with public equity markets, as firms dealt with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis.However, the under-reaction of private markets exhibited in Q1 was not followed by the performance bounce back that public markets went through in Q2.
The adverse effects of the economic slowdown lasted longer in the European private equity market than in other regions, with US and Asian funds performing more
Shamrock Environmental (Shamrodk) a portfolio company of private equity firm CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), has acquired Virginia American Industries (VAI). VAI is a regional provider of non-hazardous wastewater treatment services, operating through Centralised Wastewater Treatment (CWT) facilities in Florida and Virginia under the Aqua Clean and Reco trade names, respectively. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Shamrock, which was formed in 1994 and is headquartered in Browns Summit, North Carolina, provides mission-critical, non-hazardous wastewater treatment and related industrial services to customers in diverse end markets across the Southeast US. The Company is led by CEO and shareholder Greg Kiser,
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