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SpendMend, a portfolio company of Sheridan Capital Partners, has acquired Contract Management Strategies (CMS).
Founded in 2002 by Clayton Hale and headquartered in Irvine, California, CMS provides audit recovery and professional services for its clients with specialisation in Accounts Payable Audit Recovery, Sales & Use Tax Consulting and Audit Recovery, Pharmacy Audit Recovery & Price Reduction, Medical Device Audit Recovery and Tracking.
“We are pleased to be able to bring these two organisations together,” says Dan Geelhoed, CEO of SpendMend. “Together we are able to bring SpendMend’s spend visibility, technology and analytics to the CMS client base, open up CMS’ broad
Vistra, a global fund administration, trusts and corporate services provider, has appointed Scott Kraemer as Managing Director, Alternative Investments in North America, effective immediately.
In this role, Kraemer is responsible for the development and execution of the AI strategy for North America, including operations, key account management, strategic partnerships and resource allocation across Vistra’s offices in the region. He will be based in New York, reporting to Onno Bouwmeister, Vistra’s Group Managing Director of Alternative Investments.
With over 25 years of professional experience in financial services, Kraemer has held senior roles in operations, accounting, technology and risk at various
Offshore law firm Appleby has appointed James Fox as Partner in the corporate team in the Group’s Jersey office.
Fox, who is a Jersey advocate, has over 18 years’ experience as a transactional corporate and commercial lawyer. He started his career at Shepherd and Wedderburn, then Dundas & Wilson in the UK, before working at another offshore law firm in Jersey for 11 years. Fox has detailed knowledge of Jersey’s legal and regulatory framework and is an established practitioner in the funds and M&A environment. He has also acted for a large number of listed companies in relation to flotations,
Peer-to-peer business lender, Assetz Capital, has appointed Chris Macklin as chief risk officer.
With over 35 years of experience at RBS/NatWest, including four years as head of complex customer management and strategic relationship management, Chris Macklin brings to the company a wealth of knowledge and experience in strategic, credit and risk management within the financial sector.
In his new position, and with his extensive experience in working with thousands of SMEs, Chris will build on Assetz Capital’s leading position in risk management within the peer-to-peer market.
As chief risk officer, Chris will head up all of the risk management operations of the company, as well as building on the established
Pelsis, the leading European manufacturer of branded pest control products, has acquired US-based Curtis Gilmour in a deal that will see it significantly expand its global presence.
The acquisition follows LDC’s multi-million-pound investment in Pelsis in August 2017 to accelerate its global growth strategy. The enlarged group will now operate from 15 locations worldwide, selling into over 80 countries employing more than 420 people worldwide. Specifically, Curtis Gilmour will add significant scale in the US through its Georgia and Indiana operations and will also broaden Pelsis’ European footprint through its manufacturing facilities in Wales and Sweden.
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PJT Partners is to acquire CamberView Partners Holdings, an advisory firm providing independent advice to assist public company boards of directors and management teams in building strong and successful relationships with investors.
CamberView has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of corporate governance and shareholder activism, including contested situations. The CamberView team has an unparalleled depth of institutional client insight, bringing many years of leadership experience from some of the largest index, actively managed and pension funds as well as governance advisory firms.
CamberView was founded in 2012 with headquarters in San Francisco and offices in New York
Growth equity investor Summit Partners has acquired MercuryGate International, an independent provider of SaaS-based transportation management system (TMS) solutions.
Co-founded in 2000 by CEO Monica Wooden and President Steve Blough, MercuryGate began with a mission to solve the most complex, high-volume transportation management challenges at an affordable price. Since those early days, the company has grown immensely. Last year alone, the MercuryGate TMS managed more than USD70 billion of annual freight spend and supported over 300,000 daily logins from 80 countries.
At the forefront of logistics technology innovation for the past 18 years, MercuryGate today is one of the
Polaris and Falck have signed an agreement whereby Polaris will acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Falck Safety Services Holding A/S and take over all Safety Services activities in Falck.
Falck Safety Services is the world’s largest provider of specialist safety training for the offshore, maritime and renewables industries, operating from over 30 training centres in 21 countries. Each year, Falck Safety Services provides the most realistic and valuable training to thousands of employees from the energy and shipping industries.
The divestment of Falck Safety Services is in line with Falck’s overall strategy to focus on its
According to a recent risk alert issued by the SEC, investment advisers continue to show deficiencies when it comes to best execution of client securities transactions.
The alert, issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the SEC, highlighted six areas where advisers typically came up short, including not performing best execution reviews, not seeking comparisons from other broker-dealers, and not fully disclosing best execution practices and soft dollar arrangements.
Jamie Nash (pictured), a lawyer with Kleinberg Kaplan, notes that advisers have a fiduciary duty to seek best execution of client securities transactions, taking into consideration
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed James (Jamie) Athanasoulas as a Managing Director. Based in Boston, Athanasoulas (pictured), will join Managing Director, Peter Lipson, to help lead the continued growth of the firm’s private credit investment program and team.
The credit business leverages HarbourVest’s decades of experience and relationships with private equity general partners to offer tailored financing solutions. HarbourVest’s private credit program complements the firm’s existing business practices, offering investors access to a new asset class characterised by differentiated credit deal flow, capital preservation, and current income.
“The private credit asset class has grown
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