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Hitachi Capital’s elite cycling squad, Team Hitachi400, has presented The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital charity with a cheque for GBP33,000 following a gruelling four-day cycle from the UK to France.
After vigorous training in the months before the 14-man team were waved off by staff from Hitachi Capital’s offices in Staines-Upon-Thames on Thursday 20 September. Over the course of the four days, the team cycled 400 miles crossing the channel and finished their marathon journey in Bordeux on Sunday 23 September.
Progress was continuously tracked from day one via Hitachi Capital’s social media pages, where hundreds of messages
Private capital adviser Campbell Lutyens has opened a new office in Charlotte NC. This is the firm’s fourth office in the US, and supports the continued growth of its fund placement and secondaries advisory business in North America.
The office is led by Matt Flynn, Principal, who joined Campbell Lutyens earlier this year.
“We have always recognised the need for a local presence, even in a global business such as ours,” says Chris Davidsson, Partner. “Charlotte is a natural complement to our offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, providing us with a base from which to maintain
EY has appointed Andres Saenz as the new EY Global Private Equity Leader, effective immediately. In his new role, Saenz will oversee more than 25,000 EY professionals serving the private equity enterprise worldwide.
Andres has more than 20 years of experience assisting private equity firms with investment strategy, commercial due diligence, portfolio company strategy, value creation and sell-side engagements. He has worked in a variety of sectors, including consumer products and retail, healthcare and life sciences and business and industrial services.
Shaun Crawford, EY Global Vice Chair – Industry, says: “Andres takes the helm at a critically important juncture
Imperative Execution, a financial technology company that created IntelligentCross, a trading venue for institutional investors, has completed a USD9 million Series A round of financing.
The investment round included participation from prominent buy side firms, industry executives and leading venture capital funds. It follows a USD5 million five-investor seed round in 2017 and provides Imperative Execution with funding to grow IntelligentCross, launched in September. IntelligentCross is a smart venue, pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the venue level. It uses AI-assisted scheduled matching, engineered to reduce market impact – a key implicit cost of trading.
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KKR has appointed Sumanth Cidambi and Vijay Padmanabhan as Directors for the firm’s credit business in India.
KKR operates in the credit space in India through an NBFC and Alternative Investment Funds, suitably complemented with global capital pools. Since 2009, the firm has executed on over 140 transactions in India, valued at close to USD6 billion.
Speaking on the appointments, BV Krishnan, Member, KKR, and CEO, KKR India Financial Services, says: “Both Sumanth and Vijay join our team at a very opportune time. Sumanth brings to us the much necessary owner-operator mindset and has a track record of delivering
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has completed the acquisition of a non-core division of Gunnebo Group and renamed the business Fichet Security Solutions (Fichet).
A provider of security products, services and solutions, Fichet has operations in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Recognised as an integrated security solutions provider, Fichet has two production sites and 12 sales branches in France, and a sales office in Luxembourg and Belgium. Fichet offers products and services across five lines: electronic security, security doors and partitions, safes and vaults, cash management and entrance control. The acquisition includes
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focussed on the specialty material, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, is expanding its senior leadership team with the addition of Mario Toukan as a Managing Director.
Toukan has over 20 years of mergers and acquisitions experience focused on the chemicals sector, most recently serving as the Global Head of Chemicals and Materials at KeyBanc Capital Markets. Since assuming the leadership role at KeyBanc in 2012, he built one of the strongest M&A advisory practices dedicated to the chemical industry. Leveraging deep sector knowledge, Mr. Toukan established himself as a prominent advisor to CEOs and
Yukon Partners (Yukon), a provider of mezzanine capital for middle market private equity transactions, has partnered with Sentinel Capital Partners (Sentinel) in its investment in Apex Companies (Apex), a water resources, environmental services, and industrial hygiene firm.
Apex offers comprehensive services to assess, prevent, and cure environmental issues related to water, ground, facilities, and air quality. Apex serves a large and diverse client base spanning both the public and private sectors and a broad range of end markets, including energy, industrial, manufacturing, real estate, retail, and telecom. Apex’s client-centric operating model, nationwide presence, and industry reputation as a leader in
Kuber Ventures, an alternative investment platform specialising in EIS and SEIS, has appointed a new Head of Client Services to continue to drive the platform’s expansion.
Anne Butler, a former Associate Director of Fidelity International has joined the senior management team to lead on all elements of client services as the company adapts to an increasing demand for tax efficient investment products.
Kuber was the first platform of its kind to be established in 2012 and has since raised a total of GBP50 million of new assets from over 570 investors, spread across more than 60 investment funds.
Global fund administrator HedgeServ, and Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, have expanded their existing partnership.
Powered by Hazeltree’s platform, HedgeServ will deliver comprehensive treasury and portfolio finance technology and operational support, as part of its enhanced middle-office treasury services to alternative fund managers.
Building upon their existing successful partnership around wires and OTC collateral management, HedgeServ and Hazeltree are responding to client demands for comprehensive treasury and portfolio finance solutions.
As part of this expanded partnership, HedgeServ is hosting Hazeltree’s entire suite of products and complementing them with integrated middle office outsourcing and operational
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