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Sanne, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed Jan Barre as Director of Business Development.Based in Luxembourg, Barre will be responsible for building new relationships for Sanne that align with the company’s key industries and services including private equity, real assets, private debt, capital markets and hedge. Working in collaboration with expert colleagues across Sanne’s global jurisdictions, he will implement an integrated plan to ensure growth targets are exceeded. Jan will also ensure all activities comply with legal frameworks, policies and service standards.
With more than 15 years’ experience in the financial and funds industry,
A consortium of investors led by Elbrus Capital and Winter Capital Funds has completed the acquisition of a stake in Banki.ru, Russia’s largest financial marketplace.
The sellers included the company’s founders Philip and Kirill Ilin-Adaev, as well as Elena Ishcheeva, who exited the business as a result of the transaction. The second shareholder, Russia Partners fund, retained its stake in the company. The deal settled all disagreements between the founders of Banki.ru and Russia Partners.
Dmitri Krukov, Senior Partner at Elbrus Capital Funds, says: “With the development of digital economy and financial services, Russia will see steadily growing consumer demand
Trace3, a portfolio company of HIG Capital (HIG), has acquired Groupware Technology (Groupware) to expand its market position in Northern California and Arizona.
Through elite-engineering and a continual focus on emerging technology, both companies are committed to assist their commercial and enterprise clients, including many of the Fortune 500, in realising superior business outcomes through advanced technology solutions and services.
Headquartered in Campbell, California, Groupware serves several Fortune 500 companies well-known for complex and challenging technology deployments. The newly combined company will serve as a leading technology solutions provider in Cloud, Data Intelligence, Security, and overall Enterprise IT.
The acquisition
IHS Markit, a provider of benchmark indices for fixed income and credit markets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm with a global presence in private capital markets and a provider of private investment benchmarks.
As part of the partnership, IHS Markit will have exclusive rights to distribute the Cambridge Associates benchmarks in aggregated and anonymous form via digital formats to end users, data redistributors and reporting and analytics platforms. Cambridge Associates will remain responsible for fund manager relations, data collection, benchmark development and production, as well as managing the security and confidentiality of
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, is to add Iain Leigh to the Riverside Board of Advisors (RBA) on his retirement as founder of the private equity business of APG Asset Management.
Leigh is also well known for his prior role leading AlpInvest Partners in North America.
The RBA was formed by Riverside Co-CEOs Stewart Kohl and Béla Szigethy in 2015, valuing the board’s strategic guidance for the growth of Riverside as a global GP providing leading LP’s global access to the smaller end of the middle market. Leigh
SICCAR has received an investment of GBP1.3 million led by specialist technology investment house, Par Equity.
Scotland-based SICCAR, previously Wallet Services, connect organisations with reliable, protected data. The investment will strengthen its product development and customer teams as the company builds on its success in two industry sectors.
SICCAR aim to empower organisations to remove friction from digital interactions with partners customers and citizens. The SICCAR platform addresses issues of data protection, consent, and accountability, using distributed ledger technology.
In high value manufacturing the SICCAR platform has enabled secure sharing of data along complex supply chains (known as industry 4.0).
Solar power producer Amarenco Groupas closed a EUR150 million investment led by Tikehau Capital, the alternative asset management and investment group.
Amarenco started a capital raising process at the beginning of the year to secure a total investment capacity of EUR3 billion to fund growth in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East markets whilst maintaining Amarenco as an independent, founder-led company.
This new capital commitment a share capital increase and an equity line totalling EUR150 million. The capital raise was subscribed to by the co-founders themselves, by IDIA Capital Investissement and by Tikehau Capital through its Energy
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Andrew Harris as Director of Investor Relations, effective 9 November.
Based in TA’s Boston office, Harris will lead and manage the firm’s global investor relations and fundraising functions.
“We are very pleased to welcome Andrew to TA,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and a Managing Partner at TA Associates. “Andrew has a wealth of investor relations experience and is a terrific fit for TA’s culture. We are confident that he will prove to be a valuable contributor, representing TA in the market, and further strengthening relationships with investors.”
Prior to
Westhook Capital (Westhook), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has made an investment in RainShadow Labs (RainShadow), a full-service provider of private label manufacturing services to natural and organic personal care brands.
Since its founding in 1983, RainShadow has been the pioneer in helping independent brands, entrepreneurs, and skincare professionals custom formulate, manufacture, and launch thousands of successful personal care products into the natural and organics skincare marketplace. RainShadow offers cutting-edge product development and creative product design; technical support including packaging and label procurement; warehousing for excess product packaging, contract filling, multi-product packaging, shipping, and logistics support.
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RFA: Best Technology Infrastructure Provider – Private equity is seeing considerable interest from institutional investors hunting for return. Although the pandemic has impacted valuations, it has also triggered the potential for opportunity creation and caused a shift in the type of investments being made. As the sector moves to broader digitalisation, PE managers are also using big data in a more proactive manner.
“Assets under management in private equity have continued to grow from strength to strength off the back of exceptional performance. Institutional investors – a number of whom are struggling to generate decent returns because of the unprecedented low
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