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The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has appointed Sean Ozbolt Managing Partner. Ozbolt will lead Riverside’s new initiative focused on value investing.
“We are thrilled to have Sean join our team of more than 300 Riversiders across the world,” says Riverside Co-CEO Stewart Kohl. “Sean’s depth of experience and reputation precede him, and we believe his strategic approach, cultural attributes and turnaround track record make him a perfect fit for the firm at this point in our development as well as the economic cycle.”
Ozbolt brings more than
Alternative investment firm EnTrust Global has appointed Matt Meissner as a Vice President focused on investment research in the firm’s private debt and real assets division.
Meissner, with more than 15 years’ experience in the aviation industry, joins EnTrust Global from Blue Moon Analytics, a cloud-based analytical platform he founded for aircraft lease pricing and maintenance forecasting. Prior to founding Blue Moon, Meissner served as a Vice President at CIT Aerospace, where he spearheaded the development of advanced financial models used to analyse investments throughout the commercial aircraft capital structure and was an integral part of structuring and managing a
Alternative investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has executed a Deed of Company Arrangement related to certain subsidiaries of Axsesstoday Limited (Axsesstoday), a provider of equipment finance solutions to small and medium businesses in Australia.
Upon closing of the transaction, Axsesstoday will operate as a privately held company, majority-owned by Cerberus.
“Axsesstoday is a recognised specialist lender for commercial equipment for businesses across Australia,” says Lee Millstein, President of Cerberus Global Investments. “We look forward to leveraging our industry expertise, operating experience, and financial resources to expand the Company’s platform. Together with the Axsesstoday team, we are confident we will
French private equity firm Activa Capital has appointed Amira Oueld-El Hachemi as Finance Department Analyst.
This appointment is in line with Activa Capital’s development strategy, which aims to strengthen its Finance Department.
Oueld-El Hachemi will manage the Activa Capital funds under the direction of Alexandre Chollet, Chief Finance Officer.
Oueld-El Hachemi is a graduate of SKEMA Business School. She joins Activa Capital after prior experience at Essling Capital and Weinberg Capital Partners.
Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) has appointed Pierre Vinci as the new General Manager of its London Branch.
Vinci joins from ABN AMRO where he was the Head of Corporate and International Origination within the UK branch’s Asset Based Finance business line. Prior to that, he worked for GE Capital where he spent ten years executing high profile structured financings in the larger UK and European mid-market.
“I am delighted to be joining such a long-standing and prestigious institution as CIC London. We have the ambition to continue to grow the business in the London marketplace, in line with our
Asset management industry veteran Ole Rollag has launched Pueblo, a new venture which aims to simplify and improve the investor/manager engagement process, reducing the burden of speculative emails from unsolicited fund managers that arrive in investor’s inboxes every day.
Pueblo is a simple and free-to-use diary scheduling tool that allows professional investors to see which managers are visiting their area and request meetings, information or other follow-up activity. Pueblo aims to eliminate the need for professional investors and capital allocators to trawl through emails and inbound calls tfrom unknown and un-curated managers. Pueblo can also be used by investors to identify
CreativeCap Advisors, a global business advisory firm exclusively focused on asset managers, has ubveiled its second class, S’19, for the Global Emerging Manager Incubator.
The S’19 cohort includes: Navis Capital Partners’ Yield Fund, Tareo Capital Management and Pisano Capital.
“We are incredibly excited to announce our newest cohort, S’19. This round of Incubatees comes from a range of different countries illustrating our global commitment to funds worldwide,” says Tyra S Jeffries, Founder and CEO of CreativeCap Advisors. “Our program continues to be very competitive following our core mission of identifying and developing only the best-in-class emerging fund managers. Our class
The current rally in the European bond markets, and the associated fall in bond yields, could create a strong driver for immediate and future investment in renewable energy. That’s according to Augusta & Co (Augusta), a trusted financial advisory firm that has handled over EUR10 billion of European renewable energy transactions.
As the cost of debt servicing has fallen to its lowest level in 40 years, managers in the insurance and pension fund investment community face the prospect of maintaining portfolio returns, while coming to terms with decreasing fixed income streams, which will have formed a large part of those
Guernsey is proposing to adopt limited liability companies (LLC) in a move intended to enhance the island’s competitive position in the United States.
The island’s government, the States of Guernsey, has launched a consultation exercise, as it considers following many other international financial centre jurisdictions in introducing LLCs.
LLCs are commonly used in the US as structures for trading businesses, holding vehicles and special purpose vehicles. It offers a flexible hybrid structure for any lawful business purpose or activity, offering legal personality and limited liability in a tax-transparent structure. There has been commercial interest in Guernsey in introducing LLC
MJ Hudson has advised 4BIO Partners LLP (4BIO) on the establishment of a closed-ended venture capital fund. 4BIO is a London-based investment firm that invests in venture capital and public equities in life sciences focussing on gene, cell and RNA-based therapies.
The fund focuses on investments in unlisted life sciences companies with a focus on development stage clinical life sciences, pre-clinical life sciences, early clinical life sciences, and advanced therapeutics. 4BIO is seeking to raise up to USD150 million of investor commitments.
MJ Hudson law division supported the 4BIO team right from the outset of the launch of their
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