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finnCap Group (finnCap), an adviser and broker to growth companies, has added two senior hires to its debt advisory team.
Graham Cooke joins Debt Advisory from RBS/Natwest where he worked for 30 years. He has experience in corporate coverage and debt origination. Among his previous roles within RBS/Natwest, Graham was national head of debt origination in structured finance with a focus on the small to medium sized enterprise (SME) marketplace.
Krishan Raval joins Debt Advisory from Livingstone Partners. He has five years’ experience and brings specific expertise in sponsored and non-sponsored mid-market debt raise transactions including refinancings, recapitalisations and
Estera has provided fund services support to Greensphere Capital’s launch of its second private fund and will also be providing ongoing fund administration services.
Greensphere Capital manage a diversified portfolio of sustainable growth companies. It is a leading sustainability investor backing companies and projects that help to mitigate the biggest risks facing our generation – resource scarcity, commodity and fuel volatility, and climate stress.
Estera Director, Norman Amey says “This Guernsey Private Investment fund is a perfect example of a structure that allows for further fund raising in sustainable investing. We have extensive experience in the sustainable and impact investment
Cohere Capital, a growth focused private equity firm seeking to invest in leading middle market businesses in the United States and Canada, has launched.
The firm has a flexible mandate across growth markets, but will primarily target majority stakes in profitable technology-enabled business and healthcare services companies.
Cohere Capital was co-founded by Nik Shah and Daniel Gedney, two experienced private equity executives who worked at leading firms, including HIG Capital/HIG Growth Partners and Gauge Capital. the pair have over 30 years of combined experience investing in and working with growth companies, and they look forward to bringing that experience to
BNF Capital, SteelEye, Talan, Lyxor Asset Management, Kreston Reeves, Sandler Capital, Hentu, GlobeTax, Wavestone, Margo Group, and Equita have all been confirmed as sponsors of the 2nd annual Rocktoberfest-London which is due to take place on 19 June to raise funds for UK and US charity A Leg To Stand On (ALTSO).
Members of the hedge fund and private equity communities will come together for a night of live rock & roll entertainment, to support ALTSO’s mission of providing free prosthetic limbs, mobility aids, and wheelchairs to children in the developing world.
Since its foundation in 2002, ALTSO has helped to treat over 18,000 children with
BlueBay’s Private Debt business is to become independent from BlueBay Asset Management.
The move comes following the continued growth of the Private Debt business, from a small part of the BlueBay global leveraged finance business to a EUR13 billion AUM largely stand-alone business within the company.
As two distinct businesses, BlueBay and the Private Debt business believe the move is the best way to serve our clients and support the future growth of both businesses. BlueBay is fully supportive of the Private Debt business, to ensure it is in the best possible position to succeed as a standalone business.
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Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has appointed Andrew Macklin as General Counsel and member of its Executive Committee.
Apex has expanded exponentially over the past eighteen months diversifying its product set following a number of bolt-on acquisitions around the world. The appointment of Andrew supports the strategy to broaden Apex’s capabilities beyond asset management services, into the institutional provider space.
Most recently Head of Legal at Monzo Bank, Andrew has strong experience advising high growth companies. Prior to moving in-house, Andrew held senior roles at top-tier international law firms Latham & Watkins and White & Case and
Westbridge Capital has held the final close of WestBridge II (the Fund) having raised GBP140 million in fund commitments and associated earmarked co-investment monies.
The fund, which had a GBP100 million hard cap, was oversubscribed. Commitments were made by existing and new institutional investors and WestBridge’s industrialist Strategic Investor Group.
WestBridge II will typically invest between GBP10 million and GBP20 million in established, profitable and ambitious UK SMEs with enterprise values of between GBP15 million and GBP40 million. The fund is expected to invest in 10 to 12 companies.
Over the past nine months, WestBridge II has completed three
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Northleaf Capital Partners’ (Northleaf) has held the final closing of the Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund II (NVCF II) at its hard cap of USD300 million.
NVCF II is Northleaf’s third Canadian venture capital fund and forms part of the Government of Canada’s Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative.
In addition to initial capital commitments received in December 2018 from BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Sun Life and TD Bank Group, NVCF II received new commitments from Manulife, BMO Capital Partners, clients of BMO Private Bank Asia and other high net worth and
Private equity investor Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa) is to sell Knjaz Miloš, a producer of mineral water and non-alcoholic beverages in Serbia and the surrounding region, to a joint venture between Karlovarské Minerální Vody (KMV) and PepsiCo.
The transaction is subject to customary competition authority clearance and is expected to close in Q3 2019.
Mid Europa acquired Knjaz Miloš together with Imlek and Bambi, the leading regional dairy and confectionery players, respectively, forming the consumer group – Moji Brendovi, in 2015. Following the acquisition and the appointment of a new management team, Knjaz Miloš, already a leading producer of
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