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Gavin White, Chief Executive Officer of Invast Global, has been promoted to Global Head of Strategic Relationships for the Invast Group.
Invast Global provides multi-asset prime services, liquidity and execution services to hedge funds, asset managers, brokerages and HFT firms globally. Since White took over as CEO of Invast Global in 2014, the company has gained acclaim across the industry, including numerous awards and testimonials.
President and CEO of Invast Securities, Takeshi Kawaji, is enthusiastic in his support for the Invast Global team.
“Gavin, Jon Leung (COO), James Alexander (CCO) and Nicholas Briscoe have built a team and infrastructure which is the
Chicago-based financial firm, Rush Street Capital, has added two new associates its team; Patrick Kelly and James Sheehan. Both associates joined the firm in August 2018, and will work out of the Chicago headquarters location at 125 S Clark Street.
Patrick Kelly has over five years’ experience in the financial services industry, most recently with West Suburban Bank as a Senior Underwriter in their Commercial Lending division. In this role Patrick was a vital member of the Bank’s lending practices to Chicago based companies. Patrick Kelly is a University of Kentucky graduate.
Prior to joining Rush Street Capital, Sheehan worked
An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock) is to acquire the TNT Crust business (TNT), a manufacturer and distributor of pizza crusts, from Tyson Foods, Inc.
Founded in 1981, TNT is a manufacturer and distributor of partially baked, self-rising, flat breads and other pizza crusts for the foodservice and retail channels. TNT has a diverse customer base, including blue chip national and regional restaurants, pizza manufacturers, and foodservice distributors. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and operating out of two BRC-certified manufacturing facilities, the Company has built an excellent reputation in the industry for its outstanding
Mekong Capital’s Mekong Enterprise Fund II (MEF II) has successfully sold 100 per cent of its final remaining investment, resulting in the fund achieving a net return multiple of 4.5x and net IRR of 22.5 per cent for its investors.
This has marked one of the most successful funds in Asian Private Equity.
Launched in 2006, MEF II is the second private equity fund managed by Mekong Capital. MEF II’s notable investments included Mobile World (Vietnam’s largest nationwide retailer of mobile devices and consumer electronics), Golden Gate (the leading restaurant chain operator in Vietnam), Vietnam Australia International School (a
ADM Capital has exited its Central Eastern European and Kazakhstan private equity business, collectively known as the CK Region, through a management buyout.
The disposal, which completed on the 1 August, will allow ADM Capital to focus its strategic resources on further growing its Asian fixed income business, leveraging its global Cibus Fund platform and expanding the work of the ADM Capital Foundation.
Founded in 2006, ADM Capital CK Region was established to manage the ADM Ceecat Recovery Fund, the ADM Kazakhstan Capital Restructuring Fund, Kazakhstan Growth Fund and the CCL Kazakhstan Silk Road Agriculture Growth Fund.
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One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Simplura Health Group (Simplura), a provider of care services for elderly and disabled populations, has completed the acquisition of Helping Hand Home Health & Hospice Agency (Helping Hand).
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Helping Hand is an independent provider of non-medical home care services for seniors in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The Company provides a wide range of services including personal care attendant services, home health services, hospice services and skilled nursing, among others.
“Helping Hand has an excellent reputation for delivering quality care
Sixpoint Partners, an adviser serving the middle-market private equity industry, has appointed Richard Siegel as Vice President on its Capital Solutions team.
In his new role, Siegel will be responsible for due diligence, execution and origination efforts in the secondaries and co-investment markets.
Siegel brings over a decade of experience to Sixpoint, having worked in a number of different roles within private equity. Most recently, Siegel was a Director in the Private Equity Group within the Merchant Banking Division of Opus Bank. Previously, he was an Investment Analyst at Spectrum Group Management. He has also held positions at Rothschild
YFM Equity Partners has backed the MBO of DSP Database Managed Services (DSP), a provider of database and data platform managed services, and invested GBP4.5 million from its managed funds into Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS), to support the continued growth of the business through ongoing new product and market development.
CPMS provides multidiscipline Project Management to the railway system across track, signalling, telecoms, civils, and overhead lines.
DSP and CPMS are the sixth and seventh investments from YFM’s Buyout Fund, since its final close in April 2017.
It has become more challenging for institutional asset owners to find compelling opportunities in private debt, according to new research from Willis Towers Watson which examines the key principles that investors should follow in order to invest most effectively in the sector.
According to the report, ‘Finding value in private debt’, adoption of private debt has become more widespread amongst asset owners since the company published its 2015 paper, ‘Illiquid credit – playing the role of a (good) bank’, with assets allocated to credit strategies more than tripling between 2007-2017. However, Willis Towers Watson believes that investors are placing too
Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital investor in Southeast Asia, is spinning out a dedicated fund for global blockchain investments. LuneX Ventures is a partnership between the firm and its former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen, now Founding Partner of LuneX.
LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from the early-stage VC firm, Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX is a Venture Capital firm with a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets.
Drijkoningen says: “We view blockchain as a foundational technology, on a par with or possibly exceeding the Internet in disruptive potential. Right now valuations have
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