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INDOS Financial Limited (INDOS), the independent UK depositary, has been appointed as depositary to four alternative investment funds (AIFs) managed by Gresham House.
The AIFs are Gresham House Strategic plc, an AIM quoted investment company, Gresham House Strategic Public Equity LP and Gresham House British Strategic Investment Fund LP, both Guernsey Limited Partnerships, and Gresham House Forestry Fund LP, a Scottish Limited Partnership.
Bill Prew (pictured), CEO of INDOS, says: “We are delighted to have been appointed as depositary to the Gresham House funds. The appointment leverages our expertise as an independent depositary across a number of disciplines, including
CoInvestor, a platform digitising alternative asset transactions for fund managers, investors and advisers, has appointed Rob Ferguson as its Chief Operating Officer.
Ferguson has more than 20 years’ experience working within software, financial and legal firms in accelerating growth in financial companies. While serving as a member of CoInvestor’s board, he has gained invaluable insight into the firm’s unique offering and its mission to digitise access to, and management of, alternative assets.
In his last executive role Ferguson was Chief Commercial Officer of IG Investments at IG Group, a global leader in online trading. At IG, he spearheaded
Hg Saturn Fund and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) have partnered to make an investment in IRIS, a provider of software and services to the UK accountancy, education and business market, representing the largest UK and third largest European private equity software buyout ever.
The terms of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
Over 21,000 accountancy practices and more than 80,000 small and mid-sized businesses, corporates, and payroll bureaus rely on IRIS to run their business every day.
IRIS exhibits a number of Hg’s ‘sweet spot’ business model criteria, including a strong product
Global investment manager AMP Capital has entered into a 50/50 partnership with Invenergy Clean Power LLC (“ICP”) to invest in Invenergy’s operating and development portfolio of natural gas-fired power generation facilities across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The investment provides AMP Capital access to one of the largest privately-held gas-fired generation portfolios in the US and a rare opportunity to invest in a low-emissions generation fleet with scale. The operating and development projects are diversified across multiple North American power markets, contract counterparties, and technologies.
AMP Capital and ICP will share joint ownership and governance of the new
Antin Infrastructure Partners (Antin), an independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments, is to acquire Idex, an independent energy infrastructure and energy services company in France, from Cube Infrastructure Managers (Cube).
Founded in 1963 and headquartered near Paris, Idex is an integrated operator of energy infrastructure assets, operating 41 district heating and cooling networks (including the Paris La Défense network), 13 energy-from-waste facilities and a large portfolio of energy services contracts for a wide variety of counterparties. With a nationwide footprint, the Company employs almost 4,000 people and posted revenues of approximately EUR 860 million in 2017.
Following
Gloucestershire law firm BPE Solicitors has acted for Allenby Capital Limited, a nominated adviser and broker for the AIM market in a deal that raised approximately GBP3.5 million for Grafenia.
Grafenia is the company behind the Nettl network of web studios – including those situated in Cheltenham and Gloucester. Allenby Capital Limited is employee-owned and provides brokerage and advisory services to fast growing companies, especially those looking to join AIM.
This most recent deal builds on the experience of the Corporate team in BPE; having acted for a large number of AIM company clients, this represents the first time
International law firm CMS has advised UK gaming company The Rank Group (Rank) on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of QSB Gaming Limited, owner of YoBingo.es, a Spanish digital bingo business, for up to EUR52 million.
The acquisition of the Yobingo Group expands Rank’s digital footprint in Spain and provides it with a proprietary platform and content for the Spanish market with strong potential to support other regulated markets. This deal further solidifies CMS’ pre-eminence for M&A in the gaming sector, and follows the firm’s recent roles on the GBP176 million recommended takeover of AIM-quoted online gaming
Private equity investor Compass Partners has added James Kester to its team to help grow the firm’s business and increase origination in the US.
Since 2000, Kester has built and managed global investment businesses for institutional investors. Most recently, he served as Chief Investment Officer of the Private Equity department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds since 2010. James has also been a member of Advisory Board of DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH since 2017.
Compass Partners says: “We are delighted that Jim has joined the team. We believe
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP3 million investment into Altrincham-based, DA Languages Limited (DAL).
DA Languages is a fast-growing interpreting and translation services business with a network of thousands of vetted professional linguists, who speak more than 450 languages, from Polish to Abkhaz and Zulu and complete thousands of interpreting and translation jobs each month. The Company offers three core services, face-to-face interpreting, telephone interpreting and written translation services to corporates, charities, NHS Trusts and City Councils.
The Company was founded in 2007 by Actar Arya, when she recognised a gap for high quality and reliable interpretation services
Malwarebytes, a malware prevention and remediation solution, has acquired Binisoft to strengthen its platform for protecting endpoints by integrating the top Windows Firewall Control tool.
The management software allows admins quick access to Windows Firewall settings and enhances the management functionality of networking rules for each application.
Continued increases in cyber threats, including malware that communicates and coordinates data theft and other malicious attacks, means it is more important than ever to deploy tools that allow better management of a user’s Windows Firewall. Doing so ultimately enables the user to manage networking rules for each application in a more
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