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Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has promoted 14 new partners across its tax, audit and advisory teams. The promotions, which are effective as of 30 June 2018, take BDO’s intake of new partners to 66 in the last two years.
BDO promoted seven people in its audit practice: Joe Aswani, Arbinder Chatwal, Matt Crane, Charles Ellis, Andrew Radford, Louise Sayers and Chris Young.
In the tax team, Cory Blackmore, Andrew Crossman, Richard Dalton, Brad Payne and Steve Talbot have been promoted.
Within the advisory team, Iain Nettleton, who specialises in complex international projects, and Duncan Berry, who
Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data, and analytics, has partnered with global professional services firm, Alvarez and Marsal (A&M) to provide enhanced integration and optimisation of Ipreo’s Private Capital Markets (PCM) solution suite for alternative asset managers.
Ipreo PCM’s solutions enable private capital firms, their LPs, and service providers to manage the overall data flow across their respective asset classes. Ipreo’s iLEVEL platform is a private market portfolio management solution, and counts many of the world’s top private capital firms, fund managers, and institutional investors as clients.
A&M’s Alternative Investment Services group helps funds address complex challenges
NextGen Growth Partners (NGP), a Chicago-based private equity firm that taps top entrepreneurs to acquire and grow businesses, has held the final close of its inaugural fund, above its original USD50 million target.
“We are thrilled with the ultimate investor group in this fund,” says Brian O’Connor, NGP Founder and Managing Partner. “It establishes a network of strategic investors and advisors that will be instrumental in the success of our strategy.”
NGP’s business model is to identify and mentor top talent within Chicago’s world-class entrepreneurial community – particularly business school alumni from the University of Chicago Booth School of
Kerry Logistics Network Limited has acquired a majority stake in Milan-based logistics company Saga Italia, as part of its ongoing global expansion strategy.
The acquisition will also add three new countries to Kerry Logistics’ network – the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Egypt, as well as new offices in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Russia, and the US.
Founded in 1985, Saga Italia provides end-to-end solutions tailored to its customers’ project requirements. More than 150 logistics professionals manage projects for multinational corporations across the globe, particularly for customers in the oil and gas industry. Saga Italia’s comprehensive range
K&L Gates has appointed Jae W Park as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice, effective from 1 June 2018.
Park is based in the firm’s New York office.
He advises and counsels public companies and financial sponsors on a wide variety of US and cross border transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, equity purchases, asset acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and dispositions.
Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has completed a GBP25 million secured term loan for Zacky & Sons Poultry, a vertically integrated grower, processor, and distributor of premium poultry products.
In addition, Great Rock Capital partnered with GemCap Solutions, an innovative lending firm that provides senior-secured, commercial asset-based loans, which provided a GBP16 million revolving loan.
The capital will enable Zacky & Sons to refinance existing senior indebtedness and fund capital expenditures to expand its production facilities to support the company’s growth.
“We are excited about our partnership with Great Rock
Gide has advised ENYO Pharma on its EUR40 million Series B round of financing from US and European investors.
ENYO Pharma is a clinical stage biotech company developing innovative drug candidates by mimicking virus strategies to modulate host cellular functions. This very significant funding will enable the company to finance the two first Phase II clinical trials of its EYP001 asset in both chronic HBV and NASH. A second asset is also expected to enter the clinic by 2019.
This round was led by OrbiMed, followed by Andera Partners and Bpifrance Large Venture as new shareholders. Existing shareholders Sofinnova
GCM Grosvenor, a global alternative asset management firm with more than USD50 billion of assets under management, has appointed Matthew Rinklin as Managing Director.
Rinklin joins GCM Grosvenor from Oaktree Capital Management and will be responsible for executing the firm’s Labour Impact Infrastructure investing strategy. Labour Impact Infrastructure investing is investment in infrastructure that relies on a collaboration with union labour to unlock infrastructure opportunities and generate high quality risk-adjusted returns, while creating an enduring positive impact on organised labour.
“Matt is widely respected in the infrastructure investing space and shares our firm’s vision for impact infrastructure investing in partnership
Target Global, a Berlin-based international venture capital fund with USD600m in assets under management, is launching a dedicated fund to invest in next-generation mobility and transportation.
Its unique evergreen structure means that, unlike traditional VC funds which have a fixed end-point, this one will run indefinitely. The fund can deploy up to USD300 million in capital, providing investors with a long-term interest in disruptive changes across the entire mobility spectrum. The primary targets for investment will be European and Israeli startups that focus on innovation and technology in automotive, private & public transportation, logistics & delivery and related cross-services.
Venture investing platform Portfolia Funds has launched its sixth fund – The Portfolia FemTech Fund – which will invest exclusively in emerging technologies, products and services focused on improving women’s health and wellness.
Frost and Sullivan recently published a report stating that FemTech will be a USD50 billion market by 2025. Spurred on by rapid innovation in the health space, a positive regulatory environment and the fact that women now control 80 per cent of healthcare decisions in the US household, FemTech is predicted to be the next big disruptor in the global healthcare market. While the benefits of FemTech
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