Latest News
Noerr has appointed four new equity partners, effective 1 January 2019 with the promotions of Sebastian Fischer, Arun Kapoor, Maurice Séché and Stephan Schulz.
In addition, Karsten Fink, Christoph Rieken and Evelyn Schulz have been made new senior counsel (non-equity partners). The firm has also promoted ten other lawyers to the position of associated partner and five to the position of counsel. “The new partners and counsel are outstanding colleagues and reflect our standing as a premium law firm,” says co-leader Alexander Ritvay.
With the start of the new year, the terms of the new co-speaker duo Torsten Fett
Sidley Austin has appointed Mark Knight as a partner in the firm’s London office. He will be a member of Sidley’s global Restructuring practice.
Knight is experienced in leading multijurisdictional restructurings on both the creditor and debtor sides. Before joining Sidley, Knight served as a partner and general counsel of an investment platform that services non-performing loans in some of Europe’s most challenging restructuring jurisdictions, including Greece and Italy. Prior to this, Knight was a partner in the restructuring group of an international law firm where he advised clients on the acquisition, disposal and reorganisation of distressed businesses.
James
Albion Capital is seeking to raise up to GBP36 million through top up offers for its six venture capital trusts.
The fundraising targets GBP6 million for each of the six Albion VCTs: Albion Venture Capital Trust PLC, Albion Development VCT PLC, Albion Enterprise VCT PLC, Albion Technology & General VCT PLC, Crown Place VCT PLC and Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC. Investments spread across all six portfolios will receive a monthly dividend with a yield of approximately 5.5 per cent, or 7.8 per cent after tax relief, a potentially attractive income source in the current low interest rate environment.
Investors
Experienced Cayman funds specialist Barry McEwan has joined Ogier’s Cayman Islands team as Counsel.
McEwan (pictured), whose practice spans all areas of corporate and commercial work, with a focus on investment funds and private equity, is listed in Legal 500 as a ‘Next Generation Lawyer’ for Investment Funds.
Having started his career at Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance in London before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2014, Barry adds strength to Ogier’s growing funds team which is highlighted as an ‘early leader in Cayman’s nascent cryptocurrency space’ by IFLR 1000.
Partner Bradley Kruger says: “Our team continues
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity firm focussed on the financial services sector – and in particular hedge fund and private equity fund managers – has appointed Nathan Ford as a partner.
In this new role, Ford will be responsible for supporting the continued growth, team build out, and deepening client relationships across the West Coast & Midwest.
“Realising our vision of becoming the most trusted provider of cybersecurity solutions to the financial services vertical requires an investment in the highest calibre of talent available,” says Jason Elmer, Drawbridge Partners founder and managing partner. “We’re truly delighted to have been
AIMA and CAIA are proposing a new system to help reduce the complexity of current methods of risk ratings at investment dealer firms.
The Associations have published guidelines on these methods in response to new regulations and consistent feedback from AIMA member firms that retail risk ratings unfairly rate alternative products automatically as high risk.
The final amendments to regulation NI 81-102 will make alternative investment funds available to retail investors. This has the potential to expand the market for alternative investment products that were previously only available to accredited investors. Consequently, some early predictions anticipate the Canadian alternative
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has acquired EMS Safety Services (EMS). Based in San Clemente, California, EMS is a fast-growing provider of first aid and CPR training solutions and is an add-on to Riverside’s Health and Safety Institute (HSI) portfolio company, a leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) software, training and compliance services.
Both EMS and HSI’s ASHI/MEDIC First Aid brands are well-known for a wide range of high-quality, competitively priced emergency care (EC) training content that is flexible and easy-to-use. The acquisition significantly increases HSI’s presence in the EC market, further reinforcing HSI as
Principle Capital has appointed Raymond Lau as a Vice President of the firm, effective 2 January 2019.
Lau has over 17 years of financial industry experience and was the Managing Director of Lau Equity, a family investment office that invests across a broad range of sectors and geographic areas in private equity, public equity, fixed income and real estate. Prior to Lau Equity, he worked at GE Asset Management for nine years. At GE, he managed a USD2 billion private equity portfolio on behalf of the GE Pension Trust, where he developed deep transaction and portfolio management experience in both direct deals and private
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has acquired ATTOM Data Solutions (ATTOM), a provider of national real estate data and analytics.
Lovell Minnick acquired ATTOM from Renovo Capital and Rosewood Private Investments. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, ATTOM manages a comprehensive data platform that draws upon a wide range of sources to provide property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard and neighbourhood data for more than 155 million US residential and commercial properties covering 99 per cent of the
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has completed the sale of procurement specialist Inprova Group Limited (Inprova) in two separate deals.
In December 2018, AIM-listed Inspired Energy plc acquired Inprova’s energy division, with the existing management team acquiring the non-energy procurement business upon completion.
Headquartered in Warrington, Inprova delivers procurement services for private and public sector organisations across the UK. The business offers outsourcing, technology and consultancy services, providing its clients with a complete procurement solutions package.
LDC first backed the business in March 2014 to help fuel its ambitious growth strategy. Over the past four years the team has worked closely with CEO Paul Kennedy and
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
