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Victory Park Capital (VPC) has appointed Connell Hasten and Joshua Platek to lead the firm’s new insurance services division.
Hasten, who joins as partner, and Platek, who has been appointed vice president, will serve as co-founders of the insurance services platform, primarily responsible for sourcing, underwriting, executing and managing investment opportunities for insurers.
“Connell and Joshua bring a breadth of insurance industry expertise that will give our firm a definitive advantage as we grow our investment management offerings,” says Richard Levy, founder and CEO of Victory Park Capital.
“Their knowledge of the industry’s complexities, compliance standards and regulatory
Private equity and hedge fund managers alike are finding their investor base is challenging what products fit best within their portfolio and, in many cases, no longer want a “one size fits all”, according to EY’s 12th annual Hedge Fund Survey, which has been released under the new name of the Global Alternatives Survey.
The survey – ‘At the Tipping Point: Disruption and the pace of change in the alternative asset management industry’ – explores specific disruptions that are impacting all asset managers, and finds that, while overall allocations to alternatives are steady, investors seem to be challenging large allocations
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been appointed to provide administration services to VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF).
Established in 2003, VOF is a Guernsey-domiciled, closed-ended investment company listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. With approximately USD1 billion in assets, VOF provides investors with access to the Vietnamese market across a range of sectors and asset classes, including listed and unlisted equity and private equity.
VOF’s objective is to achieve medium to long-term returns through investment in assets either in Vietnam or companies with a majority of their assets, operations, revenues
European Buy & Build activity in the first half of 2018 fell by 12 per cent compared to the same period in 2017 with Brexit concerns dampening the normally buoyant UK and Irish markets, according to Silverfleet Capital’s European Buy & Build Monitor.
The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken by European- headquartered companies backed by private equity, identified a provisional total of 287 add-ons in the first half of 2017 with a total deal value of GBP4.1 billion, down from 327 add-ons worth GBP4.8 billion recorded over the same period in 2017.
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K&L Gates has appointed Liz Boydston as a partner in its restructuring and insolvency practice based in the firm’s Dallas office. She joins K&L Gates from Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.
Boydston focusses her practice on corporate and financial restructuring and insolvency, as well as complex commercial litigation matters, including bankruptcies, restructurings, domestic and cross-border insolvencies, Chapter 11 proceedings, and creditor representations. She has particular experience with bankruptcy related matters involving the health care industry.
“Liz’s recruitment is another strategic hire for the firm as we increase our investment in the Dallas legal market,” says John E Garda, Managing Partner of
AMP Capital is to provide a USD190 million term loan to EQT Infrastructure-owned Synagro, a US provider of residuals management solutions.
Founded in 1986 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, Synagro is a core infrastructure company with an asset-based business model delivering an essential service to more than 600 municipal customers in 37 states and the District of Columbia. The company owns or operates 21 dryers, incinerators and compost facilities that help customers beneficially reuse their biosolids. The company is also the largest US player servicing municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Synagro relies on relationships stretching back 20 years and its
Albion Capital, an independent investment manager, has invested GBP5 million in The Evewell, a fully-integrated centre of medical excellence dedicated to caring for and protecting all aspects of fertility and gynaecological health.
The centre, which opened on Harley Street in London this month, focuses on both gynaecology and reproductive health to ensure that fertility patients receive the most appropriate treatment and advice to maximise their prospects of conceiving. It offers a fully integrated suite of women’s health services that differentiates it from other clinics. The clinic is equipped with the latest technologies for screening and treatment, and is set in
Citco has launched Æxeo Treasury, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that allows alternative fund managers to manage treasury functions through a new tool running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Citco says Æxeo Treasury adds value by improving operational efficiencies and workflows, and provides a secure, centralised module for treasury operations.
Æxeo Treasury is a stand-alone solution that enables firms to centralise their treasury functions, including funding investments, settling OTC trades and margin, making transfers between accounts or paying invoices, and other transactions through Citco’s SWIFT Service Bureau functionality.
Additionally, this new platform offers unprecedented flexibility and utility by:
WestBridge Capital has appointed chartered accountant James MacLeay from Kingston Smith, where he qualified before joining the firm’s corporate finance team.
During this time, MacLeay worked on many deals including the sale of Freightex to UPS; the readmission to AIM of Live Company Group plc; the investment in Axel Arigato by Vaultier7; and the acquisition of Good Eating Company by Sodexo.
At WestBridge he will work closely with the partners, assisting on deal origination, execution and portfolio management.
MacLeay says: “This is a very exciting time to join WestBridge. As well as a growing reputation for successful investment, the
Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC), a UK fund manager and social enterprise, has added to its team with the appointment of Gilly Orr as Fund Development Director.
Orr joins the team designing, developing and raising investment for new products that SASC plans to launch in the near future, including a fund that will set a benchmark in how capital is made available for meeting housing needs in the charitable sector.
Orr brings extensive experience of large-scale project management in the public, private and third sectors to the SASC team. Prior to joining, she worked in youth services and helped
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