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John Kupiec has joined Vinson & Elkins’ Mergers and Acquisitions practice as a partner. Kupiec, who joins V&E from Kirkland & Ellis, is based in the firm’s New York office.
“John is an exceptional talent with M&A experience across a range of industries. He is a perfect fit for our New York office,” says V&E chairman Mark Kelly. “We expect John to work with our partners in New York and Texas to continue the growth of our M&A work for private equity, as well as strategic clients.”
Kupiec’s practice also includes corporate and securities law matters and corporate governance.
DWS Group and Tikehau Capital have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance, deepening their relationship following Tikehau’s participation in the initial public offering of DWS in March 2018. With the agreement, the two asset managers aim to identify and develop various business opportunities.
“This is an important alliance aligned fully to our ambition to expand our presence further in the Alternatives asset class, an area where we see sharply increasing interest from clients,” says Nicolas Moreau, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of DWS Group. “We look forward to working closely with Tikehau Capital to the benefit of
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, delivered a forceful call for confidence in the UK post-Brexit at an event to mark the arrival in London of one of America’s largest accountancy and advisory firms.
Littlewood welcomed EisnerAmper’s arrival in London as a prime example of the possibilities for trans-Atlantic business engagement in a post-Brexit environment, suggesting that the UK, with commitment and resolve, might even look forward to matching the 4 per cent growth rate of America today. Littlewood was addressing an invited audience of 250 business leaders from across the spectrum of financial services and
Linedata, a provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, is to operate an integrated technology and services solution in Europe for London-based Inverewe Capital, a credit-focussed global investment manager.
This expands Inverewe Capital’s relationship with Linedata, allowing the firm to leverage Linedata’s holistic offering to streamline and scale its operations across a range of capabilities for risk management, research and the middle office.
Alternative managers across the global investment spectrum are implementing new operational models as they tackle challenges in the form of fee pressure and increased regulatory, compliance and investor demands. Linedata provides reconciliation, shadow
Activa Capital has appointed Elliot Thiéblin as Associate. Thiéblin will reinforce the investment team in screening and analysing new opportunities.
Prior to joining Activa Capital, Thiéblin spent more than Three years at Lincoln International as an Analyst and then as an Associate. He worked on many LBO transactions, especially in the consumer, healthcare, packaging, and business services sectors.
Thiéblin is a graduate of the EM Lyon Business School.
Christophe Parier and Alexandre Masson, Partners at Activa Capital, say: “We are very pleased to welcome Elliot to our investment team, which counts now 11 professionals dedicated to investments. His
Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has appointed Lauren Edison as Investment Executive.
Edison joins Apposite Capital from Jefferies International where she was a Healthcare Investment Banking Analyst. During her time at Jefferies, she advised on a number of sellside and buyside European M&A, product licensing and public capital raises across various healthcare sub-sectors including dental, nanomedicine, biopharma and children’s services.
David Porter, Managing Partner, says: “I am delighted to welcome Lauren to the Apposite team. Her investment banking expertise, healthcare knowledge and financial skills will be valuable in supporting our investment activities
Inflexion Private Equity’s portfolio company Huws Gray, an independent builders’ merchants, has acquired Ridgeons, an independently owned timber and builders’ merchants trading from over 40 mixed branches in East Anglia.
This follows a minority investment by Inflexion Partnership Capital I in Huws Gray in April 2018.
The transformational acquisition will significantly increase Huws Gray’s store base and broaden its national presence, making it the UK’s largest independent builders’ merchants. Like Huws Gray, Ridgeons has a strong focus on the growing repair, improvement and maintenance segment, as well as a large and diversified customer base of over 16,000 clients. The
Quadrille Capital, an independent French private investment firm, based in Paris and San Francisco, has held a first closing above EUR200 million for its Technologies Fund IV, which is targeting EUR300 million.
Consistent with Quadrille’s original and successful strategy, this new fund invests between EUR8 million to EUR12 million across direct investments (2/3 of total), selected from portfolios of VC and private equity technology funds (1/3 of total).
Quadrille’s performance ranks in the top US and European VC quartiles (Preqin). These results leverage proprietary tools the team has used to deliver, for more than 12 years, many successful investments
OakNorth has appointed Martin Stewart, the former Director of Banks, Building Societies & Credit Unions at the Bank of England, as an Independent Adviser on its advisory board.
Stewart joined the Bank of England in April 2013 and spent five and a half years there. In addition to supervising UK banks, building societies, credit unions and new entrants into UK banking, he was a Member of the PRA’s Executive Team responsible for PRA regulatory policy. His regulatory experience also includes spending three years at the FSA between 2010-2013, where he was a member of the leadership team that defined and implemented
TRI, a leading global provider of Risk-Based Monitoring (RBM) solutions for clinical trials, has completed a growth capital fundraise to accelerate development of its core technology platform, OPRA and expand its international presence.
Funding was raised through Octopus Investments, part of the Octopus Group headquartered in London.
Founded in 2014, TRI developed the first dedicated cloud-based software for RBM, enabling early risk detection, improved data quality, increased operational efficiency and compliance with regulatory requirements. The adoption of new regulatory guidance requiring risk to be considered from the start of a trial has driven demand for OPRA. TRI’s clients include
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