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Ropes & Gray has advised Ares Management on the sale of its portfolio company Cordium – a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance services – to ACA Compliance Group, a US-headquartered leading provider of risk management and technology solutions that focus on regulatory compliance, performance, financial crime, and cybersecurity.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the summer, subject to regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by London-based private equity partner Kiran Sharma. Other members of the team included tax partner Brenda Coleman, private equity associates Laura Kayani,
Cardiff and London based legal firm, Capital Law, has added to its Board with the appointment of Non-Executive Director, David Williams, a private equity specialist.
Capital comprises two businesses – a commercial law firm and a people consultancy. The business was founded 12 years ago by three founder partners and has since grown to comprise over 140 staff.
Previously Williams was a senior partner at Dunedin Capital, and before that at Graphite Capital. His expertise will add much to Capital’s Board and its planning for continued growth.
Williams has sat on a number of boards over the years as
Barclays UK has today established a new unit that will focus on developing new business lines, promoting innovation and driving returns within Barclays UK.
The new unit, Barclays UK Ventures (BUKV), will be led by Ben Davey, formerly Barclays’ Group Head of Strategy, who will also join Barclays UK’s Executive Committee.
Davey’s new team will have the mandate and space to find and develop opportunities both within and outside Barclays that have the capacity to grow Barclays UK. Those opportunities will then be captured through a combination of organic build-out, commercial partnerships and venture investments. Davey and his team
ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform, is now helping businesses to bridge the funding gap that prevents them continuing to grow their operation whilst waiting for their R&D tax claim to be repaid.
ArchOver’s Research & Development Advance (RDA) service is the first provided by a P2P lender funding advances upwards of GBP100,000. This bridging finance enables organisations to use their pending R&D tax credit, based on two years’ successful claims, to raise funds from ArchOver’s community of lenders.
“Investment in research and development is crucial not only to individual businesses, but to the wider economy as well,” says Angus
Antares Capital has appointed Timothy Lyne as senior managing director and co-head of Sponsor Coverage and Vivek Mathew as head of Asset Management and Funding.
Lyne, based in Chicago, will be responsible for leading the company’s sponsor coverage activities on the East Coast. He previously served as head of the firm’s Asset Management Group which last year added more than USD3 billion of targeted loan commitments for third party investors. Lyne also led the efforts in establishing a joint venture between Antares Capital and Bain Capital Credit to provide first lien unitranche loans of up to USD350 million per single
Unigestion has launched Unigestion Global Choice VII, a global small and mid-market investment programme and a continuation of the ‘Unicapital Global’ and ‘Euro Choice’ series of funds.
Unigestion Global Choice VII is seeking EUR300 million to build a portfolio of around 30 specialist buyout, growth capital and selectively special situations funds in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
In line with Unigestion’s conviction-driven investment style, the private equity team will continue to seek areas of growth, spot attractive investment themes and focus exclusively on managers with proven industrial and strategic transformation skills. Several fund investments have already been pre-selected for
Stroock has added to its Private Funds Group with the appointment of Michael Emanuel as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
Emanuel (pictured), has served as senior regulatory and compliance counsel at both big banks and leading investment management firms. He joins as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
Emanuel joins from Eagle Investment Solutions, a Princeton, NJ-based asset management firm, where he served as general counsel, chief compliance officer, and co-chief operating officer. Previously he served as regulatory and compliance counsel for other major investment managers, including Harbinger Capital Partners, Loeb Partners Corp. and State Street
Onex Corporation (Onex) is to acquire a stake in PowerSchool Group (PowerSchool) from Vista, which will also invest new capital in the business.
PowerSchool is an education technology platform for K-12 schools. Concurrent with the Onex/Vista transaction, PowerSchool will acquire PeopleAdmin, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions for the education sector, creating K-12 education’s most comprehensive and integrated suite of products. The transactions are expected to close in the second half of 2018 subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.
PowerSchool provides best-in-class, secure and compliant online education solutions, which include the industry’s leading student information system, the
By George Ralph, Managing Director of RFA – How does a modern business organise its technology estate so that it is meeting the needs of the workforce, while making best use of infrastructure and the resources that it has available to it?
It used to be the case that most organisations stored their data on site, in NAS filers or similar, using block storage for high-performance input/output, which is great on-premise or across locations operated by the same organisation. However, block storage doesn’t offer practical mobility features because it depends on the use of a file system above the
Beringea has advised and arranged debt funding worth up to GBP2 million to Edesix Ltd, a manufacturer of Body Worn Camera solutions.
The Edinburgh-based company will use the funding, provided through Beringea’s ProVen Legacy debt vehicle, to support the expansion of its sales operations as it targets growth in the US market.
Edesix’s VideoBadge wearable camera system enables users across a wide range of industries – from law enforcement and security to healthcare, retail, and public transport – to record high-quality video and encrypted footage. The company’s VideoManager software facilitates efficient and secure monitoring and control of cameras, as
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