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Akin Gump has appointed Michael Gustafson as a finance partner in the firm’s London office. Gustafson joins from Pricoa Private Capital – the private debt investment arm of Prudential Financial Inc – where he served as deputy chief legal officer, Europe, based in London.
Gustafson focuses on sophisticated debt finance work, including institutional private placement transactions, direct lending and financial restructurings.
Before moving to Pricoa in 2013, he was a partner in the London office of Bingham McCutchen LLP, working closely with the team that moved to Akin Gump in late 2014. Over the last six years, he has
Apex Group (Apex) has received Full Depositary authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland for its subsidiary the European Depositary Bank (EDB) to operate in Ireland.
Through EDB, Apex offers independent banking, depositary and custody services to institutional investors and asset managers for UCITS and alternative investment structures. Apex is subsequently now one of the largest providers of depositary services in Europe for regulated UCITS and alternative funds, offering a service suite that covers the full spectrum of asset classes including private equity, real estate funds, hedge funds, infrastructure funds and renewable energy funds. The firm’s partnership approach allows for
The PE space raised USD426 billion in 2018 and USD566 billion in 2017. But what are the best practices PE managers, of all sizes, should think about, when going out on the fundraising road? That’s one of the main questions that this Private Equity Wire webinar – in conjunction with FIS – addresses.
Stone-Goff Partners (SGP) has invested in Walker Sands, a marketing agency focused on accelerating the growth of B2B brands.
The investment will fuel further growth for Walker Sands, including new service offerings, new offices and potential acquisitions.
From strategy to execution, Walker Sands offers tailored solutions to drive real business results for its B2B clients. Core capabilities include public relations, demand generation, branding, creative, marketing strategy, and web.
The company is a seven-time member of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and has received numerous workplace culture awards, including top agency to work for (Holmes Report), a
HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Ed Pallesen to lead its Infrastructure team in the US.
Pallesen was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he led the Americas team at the Goldman Sachs Infrastructure fund. He started his career in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking division, spending several years on the TMT team. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He also clerked at the US Supreme Court.
HIG’s Infrastructure investments are focused on mid-market opportunities and target mostly operating companies that can benefit from HIG’s value added
Growing demand among investors for private equity is coinciding with changing dynamics in how companies are raising capital, according to new research from The Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI), which highlights the growing importance of the private equity market to both companies and investors.
Increasing demand from investors for private equity has been significant, with the industry growing more than 500 per cent since 2000, valued at over USD3 trillion in 2019. This has corresponded with changing dynamics in how companies are raising capital.
Liang Yin, Senior Investment Consultant at the Thinking Ahead Group, says: “Today’s knowledge-based business models tend
finnCap Group (finnCap) has appointed Leigh Webb to head its private equity sponsor coverage and expand its M&A advisory business across the mid-market private equity community.
Webb has an extensive track record in private equity sponsor coverage and finnCapp says his arrival will further strengthen the Group’s offering in the mid-market advisory arena with private equity backed businesses, which make up such a significant portion of the growth company landscape.
Webb joins finnCap from leading business advisory firm RSM where as an Associate Director he was a key member of the team focused on UK private equity sponsor coverage for
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made three senior appointments to its Luxembourg Private Equity team.
Philippe Detournay has been appointed as Director, while Waqas Khan and Gianmaria Lombardo have been appointed as Associate Directors.
Detournay joins the Group from Luxembourg-based Axior, where he was an advisor and Non-executive Director. Prior to this, he spent 13 years as a Managing Director of Lone Star Funds, overseeing the operation of several European real estate and private equity fund structures across Europe.
Khan joins the Group following tenures with KPMG and PwC Luxembourg, where he led
Akin Gump has added two energy-focused transactional corporate and private equity partners, Shaun Lascelles and Simon Rootsey, to the team in the firm’s London office.
Lascelles and Rootsey are expected to join Akin Gump from Vinson & Elkins in October.
Lascelles’s practice focuses on transactional public and private cross-border M&A, private equity and international joint ventures. He advises private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates regarding their complex, high-end transactions. Lascelles has particular experience in the oil & gas and energy sectors, often across emerging market jurisdictions, including Africa and Russia.
Rootsey’s practice focuses on transactional cross-border M&A
Hermes Infrastructure, on behalf of Hermes Infrastructure Fund II (HIF II), is to invest in an 813 megawatt (MW) portfolio of five Swedish onshore wind farms in conjunction with consortium partner CGN Europe Energy (CGNEE).
HIF II will take an initial 20 per cent equity ownership stake and CGNEE has underwritten the remaining 80 per cent. Aquila Capital will retain an ongoing role in relation to the portfolio.
The portfolio comprises two operational onshore wind farms with an aggregate capacity of 216MW and three onshore wind projects in late-stage construction with an aggregate capacity of 597MW, all located in
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