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Technology, media and communications global investment bank Drake Star Partners has hired two new partners to strengthen its US senior team in both its New York and San Francisco offices.
Kevin Berry joins the firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner, Business Development. Juan Mejia joins the firm’s New York office as a Partner.
Berry has more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking and financial services industry. Prior to Drake Star, he was a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology-Media-Telecom team, where he was responsible for originating some of the group’s marquee transactions.
Mejia brings more
AMP Capital has appointed Malcolm Brown as a Senior Principal in its Global Infrastructure Equity business in London, marking the continued growth of its global real assets capability.
Brown was formerly Chief Executive of Angel Trains, the UK’s largest rolling-stock company. AMP Capital manages a majority stake in Angel Trains on behalf of investors in its Global Infrastructure Equity strategy. In addition to this role, Brown has acted as a Senior Advisor to AMP Capital’s infrastructure business since 2015.
David Rees, Global Co-Head of Asset Management, AMP Capital, says: “Having worked closely with Malcolm for several years through our
International private equity firm Cinven is to acquire Envirotainer, a global provider of temperature-controlled air cargo containers, for an undisclosed consideration.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Envirotainer designs, manufactures and leases active temperature-controlled containers used primarily for air freighting biopharma products, transporting up to two millions doses of medicine per day. The Group serves circa 600 customers worldwide, including many of the blue-chip global biopharma companies. With circa 300 employees, Envirotainer operates from regional centres in Stockholm, Frankfurt, Dallas and Singapore, with a portfolio of more than 5,500 leased containers globally. The Group developed and marketed the first container with an active
Natixis developed a new Green Weighting Factor methodology which will be applied to analytical RWA on the company’s financing deals in a move to address potential changes in regulation.
The Green Weighting Factor provides for a positive adjustment on analytical RWA for deals that create affirmative climate and environmental action, while involving a negative adjustment on deals with an adverse environmental impact. This innovative mechanism helps Natixis further comply with Paris Agreement targets in its financing operations.
The Green Weighting Factor is an in-house capital allocation mechanism that aims to promote finance deals with a positive impact on both
Law firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has appointed Lisa Phelan as a partner in the firm’s Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Group based in Washington DC.
For the last 16 years, Phelan has been Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice, after previously serving as a senior criminal litigator.
As Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division, Phelan supervised and coordinated all investigative and litigation work on international and national criminal cartel cases.
BlackRock Real Assets (NYSE:BLK) has completed the first close of its latest energy and power infrastructure fund, Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (GEPIF III).
GEPIF III focuses on equity investments in the mid-market energy and power infrastructure value chain primarily in developed countries.
GEPIF III has secured USD1.5 billion in commitments from prominent institutional investors in North America, Middle East, Europe and Asia, subject to certain post-closing conditions. This first close marks an important milestone for the fund and for BlackRock Alternative Investors, which offers clients comprehensive alternative investing capabilities from real assets to private credit, private
CUSIP Global Services’ (CGS) CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for June 2018, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity, has revealed a found a fourth straight monthly increase in requests for new municipal bond identifiers, while CUSIP request volume for corporate equity and debt decreased in June.
CGS says this is suggestive of steady improvement in municipal issuance and continued volatility in corporate issuance for the second half of 2018.
CUSIP identifier requests for the broad category of US and Canadian corporate offerings, which includes both equity and debt, totalled
FrontLine Compliance has strengthened its consulting team in response to the continued growth of the firm’s offerings of regulatory compliance advising and support for SEC registered investment advisers and private funds.
Mike Spero, a former Chief Compliance Officer, recently joined FrontLine Compliance as Senior Vice President to handle clients’ compliance requirements.
Spero specialises in complex regulatory compliance matters for investment advisers and private funds. With over seventeen years of compliance specific experience, he has excelled in senior compliance roles guiding money managers on the implementation and oversight of an effective compliance program. Spero most recently served as Chief Compliance
Clearly Drinks, a private equity-backed soft drinks manufacturing company, has completed the acquisition of the IP and distribution rights for the Powerful Water Company (POW).
This follows a year of double-digit growth in which Clearly Drinks increased headcount to over 100 people and secured a contract with a major supermarket.
Founded by the ex-Monster Energy and Capri Sun, Head of Sales Ed Woolner, with the financial backing of former Diageo and Red Bull executives, POW used natural ingredients to deliver healthier functional beverages to the soft drinks industry.
Based in Sunderland, Clearly Drinks is a soft drinks manufacturer
Health-focused restaurant brand True Food Kitchen, which is backed by private equity firm Centrebridge, has secured an equity investment from Oprah Winfrey, who also joins the board of directors.
Founded in 2008, True Food Kitchen has received national recognition as a culinary leader, with a health-driven menu of seasonal dishes and natural beverages guided by the principles of founder Dr Andrew Weil’s anti-inflammatory food pyramid.
Today, True Food Kitchen operates 23 restaurants in 10 states, with plans to double its store count in the next three years. Key focus areas include new markets on the east coast in New York, New Jersey and North
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