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Ropes & Gray has advised Hamilton Lane on Hamilton Lane Strategic Opportunities Fund IV. The Fund announced its final close with USD900 million in commitments on 5 June, substantially above the initial target.
The Fund is focused on making credit-oriented investments with consistent cash yield, shorter duration and attractive risk-adjusted returns. Fund IV is comprised of a diverse set of institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments/foundations and high net worth individuals, including a number of existing as well as new investors from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North and South America.
Fund IV represents the fourth dedicated
Regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners has appointed former Bain Capital chief compliance office Alan K Halfenger as a Partner at the firm.
In his role at Optima, Halfenger (pictured) will focus on the regulatory and compliance needs of private equity managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers and global financial services firms.
Optima CEO Jonathan Saxton says: “Our reputation as a trusted adviser and go-to resource for CCOs and CFOs is essential to our approach and growth. Alan’s deep knowledge and broad regulatory expertise will be significant contributors to our mission and to our clients. He joins a team of highly talented regulatory
Intelliflo, a UK technology platform for financial advisers, has been acquired by Invesco. Intelliflo has been owned by HgCapital, a European private equity investor in B2B technology companies, since 2013.
Since its inception in 2004, Intelliflo has experienced rapid growth and has become the No1 technology platform for financial advisers in the UK, successfully supporting the business of approximately 30 per cent of UK advisers. Intelliflo’s Intelligent Office (iO) software platform is the backbone of the UK wealth sector, assisting financial advisers with client relationship management, financial planning, client reporting, portfolio valuation and provision of advisor-led automated advice.
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Global law firm Dentons has hired partner Gianpaolo Garofalo to establish the firm’s Italian Desk in London, and lead the Structured Finance group within the Banking and Finance practice in Italy.
Garofalo (pictured), joins from Italian law firm BonelliErede, where he worked for the past two years in the London office. Prior to that, he worked at Allen & Overy in Rome. He has more than 15 years’ experience in banking and finance, with a particular focus on structured finance. He assists national and international clients in securitisation, factoring and repackaging transactions. He has solid experience in derivatives, liability management
Ogier has strengthened its funds practices in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg with three partner promotions.
Funds specialists Justin Savage and Anne-Gaëlle Delabye have both been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg respectively, while fund finance lawyer Mark Santangeli has been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands.
Savage, who joined Ogier in 2013, advises some of the firm’s largest investment fund clients on the full life-cycle of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds and private equity structures.
He has also played a leading role in the firm’s cross-jurisdiction innovation strategy which last week saw Ogier
Hailo, a company developing a proprietary chip for deep learning on edge devices, has completed a USD12.5 million Series A round.
The company’s investors include Ourcrowd.com, Maniv Mobility, the Drive accelerator fund: Next Gear; as well as angel investors, Hailo Chairman Zohar Zisapel and Delek Motors CEO Gil Agmon. The company will use the funding to further develop its deep learning processor, which will deliver datacenter processing capacity to edge devices. This latest funding round brings the total raised to date by the Tel Aviv-based company to USD16 million.
Hailo’s breakthrough deep learning processor, whose initial samples are expected
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has sold RotoMetrics, a provider of high precision rotary cutting tool solutions. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, RotoMetrics provides made-to-order precision rotary cutting dies and engineered tooling for web converting and printing applications. These products are critical components in the production of a wide array of tags, labels, and packaging items used in the consumer goods, healthcare, electrical component, automotive, and industrial markets. RotoMetrics has an established global footprint of ten sales offices
Where will institutional investors be focusing their alternative asset allocations over the next 12 months? What are the top-line issues they have when assessing managers, and how are their expectations changing?
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Technology continues to infiltrate every aspect of global business. Not a day goes by where the impact of platforms like Amazon, Facebook etc, isn’t felt by those in the asset management industry. The fact is, investor habits are rapidly changing and the way they choose to invest is beginning to mirror the way they use technology to support all other aspects of their lives, from shopping online to algorithms providing recommendations, personally curated to them, on Netflix.
Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Galina Markova to its Corporate & Acquisition Finance team, which is responsible for the origination and structuring of leveraged finance and private debt solutions for mid-market corporates and private equity clients across Europe.
Based in the team’s London office, Markova will play a key role in driving growth from both the client base as well as from new strategic initiatives, which includes tapping into the strong institutional demand for private debt assets.
Markova joins from SMBC where she was an Executive Director in their European Leveraged Finance team. Prior to this, she was
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