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Global investment bank GCA Altium has made four new appointments in its Birmingham office.James Taylor and Rashma Begum take up the role of Associate, with both joining from KPMG’s corporate finance team in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Conor Murray has been appointed as Analyst from the boutique, Bracebridge Corporate Finance. Stephanie Topping joins as Executive Assistant and Office Manager.
The appointments come within six months of the new office being established in the region. They will continue to build GCA Altium’s local presence under the leadership of Jeremy Harrison and Jamie Hope – former long standing partners of Alantra in the Midlands. GCA Altium is committed to
Shore Capital’s portfolio company EyeSouth Partners (EyeSouth) has completed an affiliation with Coastal Eye Associates (CEA). The affiliation represents EyeSouth’s first in the state of Texas and sixteenth affiliation overall. EyeSouth is an eye care-focused management services organisation backed by Shore Capital Partners, committed to partnering with leading physicians to build a premier network of eye care services in the South. EyeSouth’s affiliate network consists of 16 practices with approximately 114 doctors providing medical and surgical eye care services at approximately 70 locations including 11 surgery centres throughout Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama.
Coastal Eye Associates is
Simon Tilley is a managing director at Stephens Europe and leads the European Financial Sponsors Group. He acts as a focal point for the firm’s interactions with European private equity firms and the wider financial sponsors community.
By Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO, InCloudCounsel – The Covid-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts across the globe, though the ultimate effect on business remains to be seen. What will likely become clear in time, though, is that the pandemic will have a substantial negative impact on private markets that extends to almost every corner of the economy.
InvestEco Capital has held the final close of the InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund III at USD100 million in capital commitments. The Fund will continue the Toronto-based venture capital firm’s mandate of investing in private, high-growth Canadian and US companies that promote health and sustainability in the food sector. This Fund follows two previous successful food funds managed by InvestEco that have invested in and partnered with many leading North American sustainable food brands, including Vital Farms, Mama Earth Organics, Maple Hill Creamery, Le Grand, NadaMoo, and LesserEvil, among a number of others.
InvestEco welcomes new institutional investors Farm Credit Canada, BDC
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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