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Following Rothschild & Co’s acquisition of Livingstone in the UK, which was completed in December 2019, the team has become Arrowpoint Advisory and is the dedicated UK lower mid-market team within Rothschild & Co’s Global Advisory business.
CAPZA, a major European private investment platform focused on SMEs, today has appointed Oliver Nell as Flex Equity Partner in Germany.Nell, who has a strong track record in the German mid-cap market will be responsible for origination, execution and monitoring of investments in the DACH region for CAPZA’s Flex Equity strategy. CAPZA’s Flex Equity funds offer flexible financing solutions combining majority or minority capital, convertible bonds and mezzanine to support small and mid-cap companies with EBITDA ranging from EUR3 million to EUR10 million in their development projects.
With this appointment, CAPZA further expands the geographical exposure of the Flex Equity
Stephen Welton, founder CEO of BGF, has been appointed by the company’s Board to the new role of Executive Chairman.
Welton has been responsible for the management and strategic direction of BGF since 2011 and will continue to focus on the expansion of the company, which has become the most active investor of growth capital in the UK and Ireland.
As part of the announced Board changes, Sir Nigel Rudd will retire as BGF Chairman in June 2020, at the end of his third term in the role. Sir Nigel became Chair when the company was founded and has
Foresight Group LLP (“Foresight”), a leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has supported the MBO of Signature Private Finance Holdings Limited (Signature), from private equity firm, Cabot Square Capital, with an investment of GBP16.8 million to secure a majority stake in the Company. Foresight will also provide an initial GBP5 million revolving credit facility for the specialist property lender. Signature is also pleased to announce an updated brand, Signature Property Finance, to better reflect its market offering.
Signature’s experienced management team is led by co-founder and CEO, Tony Gilbertson, who has 30 years’ experience in banking and property development alongside Finance
Since the launch of Edmond De Rothschild’s Bridge IV in April 2018, which comprises a combination of subfunds, the Bridge platform has raised EUR1.25 billion, well above its initial EUR750 million target. This latest fund raising brings total Bridge platform assets raised since its initial launch in August 2014 to EUR2.6 billion. Considering new Bridge assets rely mainly on third party fund raising by Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management’s in-house sales teams, this is a notable accomplishment for ad independent family-owned firm.
Bridge is one of Edmond de Rothschild’s core long term strategies and part of the firm’s commitment to Infrastructure,
Glasgow based investment syndicate Kelvin Capital has seen a 19 per cent increase in its total investments in 2019, compared to 2018 levels. The record figure saw GBP12.5 million being invested, up from GBP10.5 million in 2018, with new syndicate members joining from Europe and the Far East.
In the last quarter of 2019 alone, GBP2.75 million was invested in Scottish based businesses including GBP1m into hydrogen technology company Logan Energy. In the first quarter of 2020, GBP3.3 million of new investment has already been committed to portfolio companies.
Other significant investments made throughout 2019 include Biotangents, ProFactor Pharma, Novosound
CEPRES has appointed Lauren Iaslovits, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of SunGard Investran, a shareholder in CEPRES since the Fall of 2019, has a Special Advisor to the CEPRES’ Board.
Iaslovits is a serial entrepreneur and well-known personality in Private Capital Markets technology. Together with her father, Jose Sinai, she founded two well-known and transformative technology companies: Sinper corporation, developer of the first OLAP engine, TM1, which through a series of acquisitions now powers IBM’s planning and analytics and data mining suite and then Financial Technologies Inc, where she created Investran, the first accounting and administration system for Private
With the UK on the brink of finally exiting the EU at the end of this week, only a third of financial professionals view the city as the world’s number one financial hub.
According to the latest Global Regulatory Outlook (GRO) report released by Duff & Phelps which surveyed senior financial sector professionals from around the world, only 33 per cent currently see London as the world’s foremost financial hub, down 20 per cent over the last two years.
New York, which also topped last year’s standings, picked up momentum this year on the other hand, with more than half
The percentage of female partners at private equity firms has been measured at 14 per cent for the third year running by employment and partnership law specialists Fox & Partners, with the PE sector lagging the broader financial industry.
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Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Dawn Turner as a member of the firm’s Community Housing Advisory Committee. Turner is the sixth member of the Advisory Committee, which was formed in early 2019 to provide advisory support to Man GPM’s Community Housing investment team.
Turner has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and expertise advising local governments, pension funds and impact fund managers on responsible investing. She is the former Chief Executive of the £30 billion investment management company Brunel Pension Partnership[1], a Local Government Pensions Scheme (LGPS)
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