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Jersey has a population of around 100,000 people, of whom approximately 12,000 work in the finance industry. This is an island jurisdiction with financial fund services at the heart of its economy. As such, it is able to draw upon a deep pool of talent, including graduates from UK universities as well as resident professionals with years of experience.
“We have a good talent pool here and a very buoyant financial funds industry. Talent isn’t an issue. That said, if you can’t find specific talent you are allowed to bring someone to the island. If it’s a specific role you
By Ivan Grech (pictured), FinanceMalta – Malta is, in many ways, an attractive place to do business. This applies to business in general of course, but is particularly the case for financial businesses. This includes funds, be they retail collective investment schemes, alternative investment funds or any of a wide variety of hedge funds falling under the wide umbrella of a “professional investor fund” or PIF.
There are myriad reasons for this attractiveness, starting from the regulatory and legal environment within which financial businesses and funds operate in Malta. While clearly important, these are dealt with at length in many other places,
The Global Fund Media Guide to Relocation 2018 is the seventh edition of this unique online publication being made available to the 40,000-strong audience of investment managers, institutional investors and fund service providers that read GFM’s family of investment management newswires daily.
The focus of the Guide is to help managers, promoters and their advisers decide where best to locate their investment funds – and themselves – and complements the daily news, special reports and fund data delivered through our specialised investment management portals (see below for complete list).
This edition of the Guide draws together in one volume the
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has completed the sale of one of its legacy, pre-fund investments, NorPaper Group (NorPaper), to Gemayel Freres & Chaoui Industriel Group, a Lebanon-based business specialised in recycled corrugated cardboard and packaging products.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
OpenGate Capital acquired NorPaper from Canadian paper conglomerate, Cascades, in 2011. NorPaper is a leading producer of white top testliner paper that is sold to European packaging manufacturers. Realising an opportunity to increase capacity within NorPaper, OpenGate completed an accretive, add-on acquisition in February of 2015 of DS Smith Packaging Papeterie de Nantes SAS
AnaCap Financial Partners’ (AnaCap) AnaCap Credit Opportunities III has acquired a portfolio of UK 2nd lien performing and non-performing mortgage consumer loans from Welcome Financial Services (Welcome).
This transaction represents AnaCap’s third acquisition of assets from Welcome since August 2015, totalling over GBP250 million in aggregate. AnaCap’s reputation and long track record acquiring and managing both performing and non-performing debt portfolios, often working with repeat sellers, enabled a seamless completion of this transaction.
AnaCap’s best-in-class digital platform and deeply embedded expertise in consumer finance facilitated the granular analysis of over 19,000+ accounts included in this most recent portfolio
Foresight Autonomous Holdings, a specialist in automotive vision systems, has raised USD5.5 million through a private placement agreement with Harel Insurance, an Israeli institutional investor.
Following the closing of the private placement, Harel Insurance will hold an aggregate of approximately 8.15 per cent of Foresight’s issued share capital.
Foresight, subject to customary closing conditions, will issue 9,756,097 ordinary shares at a price per share of NIS 2.05 (approximately USD0.56 per ordinary share, or USD2.81 per ADS). In addition, Foresight agreed to issue warrants to purchase 9,756,097 ordinary shares at an exercise price of USD0.80 per share (approximately USD4 per
European Fund Administration (EFA) has appointed Cédric Jauquet as Head of Private Asset Services and member of the company’s Executive Committee.
Jauquet (pictured), joins from Credit Suisse Fund Services Luxembourg, where he was Head of Private Equity and Real Estate Administration. Cédric has 18 years’ experience in private asset services in Luxembourg at Credit Suisse, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg’s corporate and fund services subsidiary, RBC Alternative Investor Services and PwC.
EFA further strengthens its existing team of experts by appointing Fabrice Freilinger, Head of Private Asset Investor Services, and Tomasz Szubartowski, Head of Private Asset Accounting Services. Both also
Golding Capital Partners (GCP), an independent asset manager for alternative investments, has appointed Marco Sedlmayr as a Managing Director with responsibility for institutional client services and sales activities in German-speaking countries.
The appointment of Sedlmayr enables GCP to expand its advisory competence and expertise, in the insurance and pension fund segment. Sedlmayr previously worked at Allianz Global Investors, where he was a member of the European insurance team responsible for supporting insurance companies and pension fund managers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His work focused on the structuring and implementation of individual investment solutions to align capital investments with increasing
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has appointed Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder and President of Cheyne Capital Management, and Richard Lightburn, Chief Executive Officer of MKP Capital Management, to its Board.
The SBAI is the global standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry and custodian of the Alternative Investment Standards. The SBAI and the Standards are supported by approximately 200 alternative investment managers and institutional investors who collectively manage USD3.5 trillion.
Dame Amelia Fawcett, Chairman of the SBAI, says: “Stuart and Richard, as prominent leaders in alternative investment management, will bring invaluable insights to our board as the SBAI
Noerr has appointed private equity/ M&A expert Holger Ebersberger as an equity partner. He will be accompanied by his team from previous firm Ashurst and will boost Noerr’s Private Equity practice group at its Munich office.
“The Noerr Private Equity Group has achieved success by focusing on a sector-specific implementation of growth strategies in both the buy-out and growth capital fields,” says Georg Schneider, co-head of Noerr’s Private Equity Group. “With Holger Ebersberger we are strengthening our team to assist in complex PE transactions in the mid- and large-cap sector and are honing our profile in the provision of integrated
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