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Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, strengthens its team with the appointment of Dr. Edwin Moses and José Luis Martín as Operating Partners.Edwin Moses’ appointment follows a very successful career as a biopharma entrepreneur, with decades of experience in building successful businesses. Among various achievements, he led the IPO for Ablynx and OAI (Oxford Asymmetry International), companies which he built and managed as CEO.
José Luis Martín was responsible for the development and implementation of corporate strategy at Werfen. For more than thirty years, he played a lead role in transforming
Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired Ariel White-Tsimikalis to bolster its London M&A and Corporate Finance team.White-Tsimikalis joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she advised banks, corporates and private equity funds on equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and general public company representation. Ariel has extensive experience having worked at Latham & Watkins and undertaken secondments to the in-house legal teams at Jefferies, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Deputy Departmental Managing Partner Simon Beddow says: “We are delighted to be welcoming Ariel to the team. Her extensive equity capital markets experience further strengthens our team and continues
Warburg Pincus will co-invest in Tilney and Smith & Williamson’s revised transaction structure for their proposed merger, alongside funds advised by Permira.
Since the deal was first announced in September 2019, both firms have been involved in planning for the combined business.
The combined group will be known as Tilney Smith & Williamson, and will become one of the UK’s largest integrated wealth management and professional service businesses following the deal.
It will have GBP 44 billion in AuM, and generate around GBP 530 million of revenue. The combined business is expected to be the fourth largest UK wealth management
29Bison, a human capital management consultant for private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, has launched AlphaCalc, a business intelligence platform that enhances due diligence, portfolio-monitoring, and value-creation processes. In addition to standard metrics around top- and bottom-line performance, as well as key risk factors, the platform also provides measures and industry-specific benchmarks around the impact of human capital, creating actionable insights to improve productivity across the business enterprise.
“Amidst an uncertain economic environment, and as operating models evolve in a shelter-in-place world, the timely and actionable human capital analysis AlphaCalc offers is more important than ever,” says
WhiteHorse Capital, the direct lending affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG), has provided a new senior secured term loan facility to Connexity, to support its acquisition of SkimLinks. California based Connexity is an independent provider of new ecommerce customer prospecting across the US and Europe, serving the retail performance marketing industry. UK based SkimLinks is an ecommerce monetisation business focused on connecting its network of 61,000+ publishers to 48,000-plus retailers.
“We closed this transaction in a very challenging underwriting environment and WhiteHorse delivered in all respects: moving on a compressed timeline, being commercial on documentation, and acting with integrity
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Inflexion has exited Glide, a UK infrastructure provider to difficult to serve markets – like high-density accommodation – to US infrastructure investor Alinda Capital, generating a return of over 3x.
Zedra Fund Services, the boutique and mid-tier alternative funds administration specialist, has seen little fall out or changes to business patterns during the eight week Covid-19 lockdown which has gripped the UK and all main global markets.All well run businesses have a continuity plan, but few organisations will have been prepared for the scope of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fund administrators have faced a range of challenges ranging from reporting continuity against the backdrop of significant market swings shredding valuations, to the service challenges presented by lockdown and the forced dispersal of front and back office staff worldwide.
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Glennmont Partners (Glennmont) has completed the sale of Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant (Sleaford REP) to Greencoat Capital (Greencoat). With this sale, the last remaining asset of Glennmont’s EUR437 million Clean Energy Fund I has been divested.Sleaford REP is an operational 39 MWe renewable CHP plant which uses a blend of straw and sustainable woodchip to generate power and heat. The plant benefits from accreditation for 2.0 ROCs per MWh and has circa 15 years of ROC life remaining. Located within the ‘Grain Belt’ in Lincolnshire, the plant provides a reliable route to market for straw, an agricultural by-product which can
Secondaries investor Coller Capital is leading a GP-led secondary transaction to acquire the four remaining assets of Permira’s fourth fund.
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