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ClearCourse has acquired Hart Square, a provider of specialist Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and digital consultancy services for charities, not-for-profits (NFP) and professional membership organisations across the UK.
The Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has reached a Net Asset Value of GBP100 million in just seven months following launch in June 2019.The Fund has consistently outperformed its objective of UK CPI +3 per cent over the medium term, through its strategy of investing in renewable energy and infrastructure asset-owning companies. Total return to 31 December 2019 was 14.75 per cent, with a maximum drawdown of just 4.19 per cent since inception, materially lower than Global Equities, Infrastructure indices and other Global Listed Infrastructure Funds.
Foresight’s two OEICs are managed by the award-winning Foresight Capital Management team.
Global law firm Reed Smith has opened an office in Brussels with five partners, one counsel and two associates from five international law firms. All five partners are joining the firm’s Global Corporate Group.The firm now has five offices across the region and 30 throughout the world.
The new partners focus their practices on competition/antitrust, regulatory and trade work across a range of industries that align with the firm’s five core sectors: energy and natural resources, entertainment and media, financial services, life sciences and health care, and transportation.
The new capabilities in Brussels not only strengthen the firm’s already robust
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has promoted six attorneys to counsel. Their experience spans private equity, hedge funds, finance, asset management, real estate, tax and estate planning. “These are best-in-class advisors who know their industries inside out,” says chair Julie Jones. “Our newly elevated counsel each have the experience and know-how to strategically tackle challenging client issues, and they are excellent collaborators and colleagues.”
“In the finest Ropes & Gray tradition, these lawyers are relentlessly focused on our clients,” says managing partner David Djaha. “They are in the trenches with them, digging into complex issues and securing the best results.”
Gateway Private Markets (HK) Limited (Gateway), specialists in direct secondary investments in growth and late-stage private technology companies, has selected RegTech provider Know Your Customer to deliver digital onboarding to its clients.Working with a large number of financial intermediaries and institutional investors in Asia, Gateway was looking for a comprehensive, reliable and easy to implement technology solution to streamline its investor onboarding process and KYC checks.
The implementation of Know Your Customer’s end-to-end KYC solutions is aimed at simplifying, accelerating and automating the most time-consuming aspects of the investor onboarding process, while strengthening overall regulatory compliance through innovation.
Maitland, a global advisory, family office and fund administration firm, has appointed Natasha Head and Craig Rowland as Business Development Managers based in London.Natasha will be responsible for growing Maitland’s Management Company (ManCo) and Fund Administration businesses across the UK, Guernsey and Luxembourg. She brings over eight years’ experience working in the alternative investment industry, having previously worked at an independent fund administrator selling fund solutions to UK private equity and venture capital managers.
Rowland will be primarily focused on growing the UK domiciled ACD and Fund Administration businesses, bringing twenty years’ experience building sales teams across North America, Europe
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has appointed Shvetank Shah as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Shvetank previously worked at Gartner where he held many leadership roles including Senior Vice President of its Technology & Service Provider practice. Shah will be based in ACA’s Silver Spring, MD office.
As ACA’s CEO, Shah will oversee all global operations and the corporate growth strategy. His responsibilities will include executive leadership, management, strategic vision, and accelerating the growth of the business.
Shah has almost 30 years of experience as a business unit General Manager, strategic advisor,
Hedge fund and private equity investors to focus 2020 due diligence efforts on alternative data compliance, says Corgentum survey.The vast majority (83 per cent) of hedge fund and private equity investors intend to continue increasing the resources they allocate to analysing compliance procedures surrounding alternative investment managers use of third-party research including expert networks.
That’s according to the results of a new survey by Corgentum Consulting, a provider of operational due diligence reviews and background investigations.
In particular, investors believe that a key focus in 2020 will be on the security and privacy considerations surrounding hedge funds and private equity
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has issued a final set of regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA).
The new rules which were revealed on Monday and will come into effect in February, are geared towards increased investigation of foreign investors whose potential stakes in US businesses could pose a national security threat.
According to Jeremy Swan, managing principal of CohnReznick’s Financial Sponsors & Financial Services Industry and leader of the firm’s M&A Consulting Services Practice, the proposed final FIRRMA regulations have expanded CFIUS’ authority beyond control investments and transactions to
IQ-EQ, a global investor services group, has appointed John Legrand as Managing Director of UK and Ireland and member of its executive leadership team. The company says this key hire reflects the strategic significance of its growing UK & Ireland business.
Legrand’s 22-year career has afforded him the opportunity to operate across five continents and over 80 countries globally. Having held leadership positions both in Fortune 500 companies and multi-million-dollar FinTech start-ups, he has extensive operational and commercial expertise and is well accustomed to building businesses and leading teams delivering operational excellence.
Prior to joining IQ-EQ, Legrand was Managing
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