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ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has launched a new payment and fraud risk assessment (PFRA) offering, which is designed to help firms identify and remediate vulnerabilities within payment flows in order to reduce the risk of costly fraud issues. The service is overseen by the ACA Aponix division’s senior principal consultant Kamlesh Harry.
Before joining ACA, Kamlesh was an Executive Director at JP Morgan, where he led various teams across the firm’s technology, client support services, cybersecurity, and payment fraud functions for over 13 years. Amongst other key contributions, he was instrumental in developing controls for the EMEA Wholesale Banking payment platforms
Arrowpoint Advisory has advised CGC Technology Limited (CGC) on its sale to Comtech Telecommunications Corp (Comtech) [NASDAQ:CMTL] for approximately USD23.7 million.Founded in 1999 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, CGC is a leading provider of innovative X/Y satellite tracking antennas, radomes and other ground station equipment globally to the high-growth Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Middle Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite markets. CGC combines its deep internal expertise across both hardware and software with in-house design and engineering capabilities to deliver unique turnkey solutions for a range of critical communication applications.
CGC has successfully installed over 160 systems in over 36
Northern Trust has appointed Sara Gilbert to spearhead business development for its alternatives asset servicing business in Europe.
Jensen Partners has expanded its global footprint to meet the growing demand for specialised alternative investment recruitment services with the appointment of Peter Mayer, formerly a Partner at PJT Park Hill, as Head of Europe.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Laura Friedrich as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Group in New York. Friedrich will join the group’s private equity fund formation team, focusing on advising US domestic and international private investment fund sponsors, distributors and investors on formation, investment and regulatory matters. Friedrich previously served as global head of the Investment Funds team at Shearman & Sterling, where she was a partner for 12 years.
“Laura is a talented fund formation lawyer who is highly respected and a leader in the private fund and asset management community,” says Margery Neale, Chair of the
Global law firm Paul Hastings has added a bi-coastal Finance and Restructuring partner duo from Winston & Strawn to its Finance and Restructuring practice.Justin Rawlins, who currently leads Winston & Strawn’s Restructuring practice, will join as a partner in Los Angeles, and Phil Ratner will join as a partner in New York.
“The investments we are making in our Finance and Restructuring practice reflect the trust major financial institutions are placing in us to help them with their most important transactions and restructurings,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings. “In the current economic environment, the need for expertise
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has partnered with management to acquire Len the Plumber (LTP), a leading full-service residential plumbing contractor in the Baltimore-Washington metro area and the surrounding regions.
ThinCats, an alternative lender to mid-sized SMEs has provided a total of GBP5.9 million in funding facilities for two businesses backed by NVM Private Equity.
Private equity manager Elbrus Capital’s Elbrus Capital Fund II has sold its 75 per cent stake in OSG Records Management (OSG) to Iron Mountain Incorporated, a NYSE-listed company, for RUB6.0 billion, over 4.5 times the original investment amount. OSG was acquired by the Fund in 2013 and, under its ownership, the Company has established itself as the fast-growing leader of the records management markets in Russia and the CIS. Since 2013, Elbrus Capital has provided consistent operational support to the OSG management team, including the strategic disposal of OSG’s Polish business in 2014, the negotiation of a landmark contract with Russia’s
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, has completed a structured capital investment in Ascent Behavioral Health (Ascent).Ascent provides wilderness therapy, residential treatment and therapeutic boarding school programs for adolescents with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and attachment disorder. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1989, Ascent Behavioral Health operates adolescent behavioural health programs throughout Utah. The Company was built by mission-driven founders on principles committed to clinical quality and superior outcomes based on its experiential therapeutic approach. Ascent takes pride
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