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Two niche property law firms, Equilaw and Thomas Legal, have secured a multi-million pound investment from BGF.
Set up in 2007, Equilaw is the UK’s only dedicated equity release legal adviser, working with homeowners and financial advisers to provide independent legal advice on the process of releasing home equity for a range of purposes including retirement planning, house improvements and care provision.
Over the last few years, Equilaw has built a team of over 70 members of staff based in its Gloucester offices and has completed tens of thousands of cases since its inception. Equilaw has also developed a highly-automated
NorthEdge Capital has appointed Lloyd Williams as Portfolio Director and Maninder Minhas as Investment Manager, bolstering the private equity house’s Yorkshire base.
Williams has over 25 years’ experience covering private equity, investment banking, corporate advisory and restructuring. He was formerly the Head of Private Equity for Kuwait Finance House (Bahrain), where he was responsible for the management and exit of a USD300 million portfolio of international investments. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles with KPMG, Deutsche Bank (Singapore) and Zeus Capital.
Minhas joins the Northern-focussed private equity house from Deloitte, where he was an Associate Director having spent
Pathway Capital Management has formed a USD250 million customised co-investment fund in partnership with Oregon Public Employees’ Retirement Fund (OPERF), which is managed by the Oregon State Treasury.
The new fund will make systematic investments alongside OPERF’s current portfolio of private equity managers.
The new venture expands on the more than 15-year relationship between OPERF and Pathway and also represents an extension of each entity’s decades-long record of investing in the private markets.
OPERF has committed more than USD45 billion to private equity since it began investing in the asset class in 1981, and Pathway has committed
Quadrille Capital, an independent French investment company, based in Paris and San Francisco, has made six new hires in its investment team.
In line with Quadrille Capital’s investment strategy in technology, all the new joiners have a financial background. The new appointments bring Quadrille’s team to 15, including 11 investors connected to the deployment of Quadrille Technologies fund IV, which held a first closing above EUR200 million in October 2018.
Edouard Brunet – Vice-President – was the Executive Director within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, since 2016 where he advised corporate clients and private equity funds. Previously,
Botify, a specialist in organic search marketing, has closed USD20 million in Series B funding and is opening its second US headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
Botify’s Series B financing was led by Idinvest Partners, with participation from Ventech, bringing the company’s total funding to USD27 million. The investment will be used to fuel product innovation, customer adoption and success, and global expansion.
“With today’s financing and the tremendous support of our investors, we will further cement Botify as the go-to partner for enterprise search professionals,” says Adrien Menard, CEO and Co-Founder of Botify. “Since we founded Botify in 2012
Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focussed on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding round, raising GBP20 million in seed and seed extension capital from a number of prominent partners.
Founded three years ago, Nivaura’s focus is on the deployment of digital investment banking platforms for banks, exchanges and other financial institutions, to connect and automate fragmented and manual processes involved in the issuance and administration of instruments such as any form of debt, equity and structured products. For certain transaction types, this can reduce time to market by as much as 60-80
ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (OMPE), a business unit of ORIX Corporation USA, has exited its equity investment in Perennials and Sutherland. OMPE partnered with Acacia Partners on the investment in December of 2015.
“We are very pleased with the outcome of our investment,” says Jeff Sangalis, head of OMPE. “Perennials and Sutherland, along with Acacia Partners, worked incredibly hard to increase the value of the brand, invest for growth and solidify its position as a leader within its market. We are thankful for their effort and dedication to making this a great equity investment.”
Perennials and Sutherland is
Shawbrook Bank has provided private equity firm Rubicon Partners with a funding line to complete the purchase of leading specialist manufacturer Cortland Fibron BX Ltd.
Founded in 1987, Fibron is the leading global supplier of sub-sea umbilicals to the offshore oil & gas, remotely operated vehicles, geophysical, diving, defence and oceanographic markets. From its headquarters in Hertfordshire, UK, the Company designs, engineers and manufacturers umbilicals for safety- and process-critical applications around the world. It was acquired by Actuant in 2008.
Rubicon Partners is a hands-on investment partnership focused on acquiring complex industrial businesses across Europe and North America. Over
Edison Partners, a growth equity investment firm, has led a USD62 million financing in New York-based YieldStreet, a digital wealth management platform.
YieldStreet will use the funds to introduce new investment offerings, expand investor access, and increase retail investor education and engagement.
While fintech innovation continues to upend traditional banking and investing, wealth creation and investment diversification through multi-asset investments and yields available to institutional investors remain elusive to both accredited and non-accredited investors alike. YieldStreet eliminates this inequity by enabling investors to participate in investments across a broad range of asset classes such as real estate, legal finance,
Intertrust has appointed Amit Taylor as head of corporate services in Guernsey and part of the new senior management team in the island.
Taylor (pictured), has over 20 years’ experience as a finance industry professional in the UK and in Guernsey. He moved to the island in 2010 to become managing director of HSBC’s fund administration and custody business. He then became group managing director of Trust Corporation before moving to Estera to become the Guernsey managing director.
He has expertise in the development and implementation of strategic plans, sales and business development, business management and in corporate, fiduciary
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