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Specialist investment advisory firm Gravis Advisory has expanded the team focusing on the VT Gravis UK Infrastructure Income Fund and VT Gravis Clean Energy Fund, with hires from Columbia Threadneedle and Fidelity.
Nick Winder will take on the role of Sales Director. He has worked in the investment industry for 30 years, initially for 10 years with GT Asset Management as Sales Director-Discretionary Sales. For the past 20 years Winder has worked for Columbia Threadneedle, heading up Third Party Distribution, and was responsible for the UK advisory market as well as life company and platform distribution.
Lexi Diggins who
The GBP1.275 billion GLIL Infrastructure platform (GLIL) is looking to bring the benefits of its leading infrastructure capabilities to a wider range of investment partners, following strong growth in the three years since its launch.
The platform has also been re-launched under a regulated structure.
GLIL’s successful track record is based around a collaborative partnership between like-minded institutions in the local government pensions sector, with a common interest in increasing exposure to UK infrastructure and delivering long-term liability matching returns.
Formed in 2015 by the Greater Manchester Pension Fund and the London Pensions Fund Authority with an initial
Prytania Asset Management has appointed Fahd Basir (pictured), as a Managing Director. Basir’s broad structured credit experience over 14 years includes both agent and principal transactions across the capital structure over a wide variety of asset classes.
He will be based in Prytania’s newly opened New York City office.
Previously, Basir was a Director at 25 Capital Partners, where he was instrumental in launching a closed-end mortgage opportunities fund. Before that he was a Senior Vice President at Atlantic Asset Management and portfolio manager for its TALF Fund, where he managed a USD1.1 billion ABS portfolio. Prior to moving
Warren Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity fund, closed its acquisition of the solid waste subsidiaries of Meridian Waste Solutions (MRDN).
The acquired entities which comprise MRDN’s integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services business, primarily operating in Missouri and Virginia, will maintain and operate under the name Meridian Waste post-closing.
“Warren Equity has a successful track record of investing in infrastructure service companies,” says Steven Wacaster, Managing Partner at Warren Equity. “The acquisition represents an excellent opportunity for us to partner with management to build an industry-leading waste services platform through optimization of Meridian Waste’s existing assets, as well
Media intelligence specialist Meltwater has acquired Sysomos, a specialist in social analytics and engagement.
The addition of Sysomos to Meltwater enables organisations to analyse social media, news and other human-generated content in one platform.
“All the social analytics companies look at social data in isolation, limiting the insights for brands and businesses,” says Jorn Lyseggen, founder and CEO of Meltwater. “With our acquisition of Sysomos, we can bring together news and social media under one company, giving social data context while adding social engagement to our news and media monitoring offering.”
For the PR and communications teams who
MadDog Ventures has held the closing of its first venture capital fund, Mad Dog Venture Fund I with capital commitments of USD26.675 million, exceeding its target of USD25 million.
MadDog Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies that develop and market cloud-based business applications that disrupt existing industry models and help monetise underutilised information.
“We believe that the successful application of technology to solve compelling problems in new ways is the key that unlocks unprecedented value while also benefitting the world as a whole,” says Peter Karmanos, Jr, General Partner and Fund Manager. “We look to
PNC Bank has closed a USD33 million of senior secured credit facility for Motley Services (Motley), a portfolio company of Irving, Texas-based District 5 Investments.
Headquartered in Odessa, TX, Motley will use the funds for capital expenditures and ongoing working capital needs. PNC Bank served as administrative agent. Treasury management products and services also were included in this transaction.
Founded in 2010 by CEO Marco Davis, Motley is an oilfield service company that provides well completion and intervention services in the Permian Basin region of Texas and New Mexico. Motley offers coiled tubing, wireline, pumping, thru tubing and nitrogen
Boutique investment bank Liberum Capital, is using TeleWare’s mobile communications recording technology to ensure teams across the bank are compliant with the record keeping requirements of the recently introduced MiFID II legislation as well as the forthcoming GDPR regulation.
The revamped version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID II, is designed to offer greater protection for investors and inject more transparency into all asset classes: from equities to fixed income, exchange traded funds and foreign exchange.
The directive demands that all communications are recorded and stored for at least five years. Records need to me made available which are
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has backed the GBP22.5 million management buyout (MBO) of Precision Micro Limited, a European-based photo-chemical etching company, from global aerospace, defence and energy group Meggitt PLC.
As part of the deal, LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has invested GBP13 million of equity for a significant stake in the company, supporting a management team led by current Managing Director Ian McMurray.
Operating from its state-of-the-art processing plant in Erdington, Birmingham, UK, Precision Micro manufactures more than 50 million high-precision metal components each year for major global manufacturing customers across multiple markets.
Augentius Compliance has appointed Andrew Shrimpton as its Chairman. He will spearhead further expansion of the business, following yet another year of strong growth for Augentius’ Regulatory Compliance Business.
As the investment management industry strives to navigate its ever-tightening regulatory frameworks – while the regulators are more proactive than ever – demand is intensifying for workable solutions which allow fund managers to focus on their core investment strategy, while being confident in ensuring compliance.
Shrimpton says: “In an ever-expanding universe of complex rules and directives, including the imminent GDPR regulation, it is a huge challenge for managers to keep
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