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Link Fund Solutions, part of Link Asset Services, has appointed Andrew Lelliott to the post of Head of Transfer Agency.
The appointment reflects Link’s continued strategy to grow within the UK transfer agency market, building upon its strength in transfer agency and registrar services, as part of the company’s wider fund services offered in Europe.
Lelliott joins from Northern Trust where he was Senior Vice President responsible for the significant growth of their transfer agency business in the UK. Prior to this and with 31 years’ experience in financial services, Lelliott has worked for IFDS (now DST), Schroder Investment Management,
Capzanine is selling its stake in Oui Care as part of a Sponsorless transaction arranged by the group’s founder, Guillaume Richard.
The origins of the Oui Care group date back to 1996 in Lille. It is now France’s market leader in personal and household services, providing house cleaning, childcare, adult day care, gardening and local concierge services at the homes of its 100,000 customers. Oui Care is underpinned by a network of over 400 agencies in France and in Spain. It employs 17,500 people and has been one of France’s main job creators in recent years, hiring 6,500 people in
LeoVegas, Sweden’s leading mobile gaming operator, has completed its acquisition of the assets of Intellectual Property & Software Limited (IPS) and other related assets from two further companies, including brands such as 21.co.uk, Slotboss, BetUK and UK Casino.
Corporate lawyers from leading offshore law firm Carey Olsen advised LeoVegas on the GBP65 million purchase of IPS and its associated brands – now collectively known as Rocket X – alongside UK lead counsel Baker McKenzie.
The Carey Olsen team was led by partner Annette Alexander, with assistance from senior associate Arya Hashemi and associate Felicity White. The firm advised on
Dash Financial Technologies co-founders Peter Maragos and David Karat, have partnered with private equity investment firm Flexpoint Ford to acquire the business from private equity firm GTCR in a management-led buyout.
Dash is the provider of a multi-asset trading technology and execution service platform.
Maragos will continue to lead the business as CEO and a board member, while Steven Begleiter, Managing Director of Flexpoint Ford, will serve as Non-Executive Chairman, and Daniel Edelman, Principal of Flexpoint Ford, will join as a board member.
“This is a very exciting moment for our firm as we embark on the next
Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners has appointed Andrea Taurozzi, Valentina Lattanzi and Federico Bal as new equity partners.
Federico Bal graduated in law from University of Pavia and has been working in the corporate department of the firm since 2013, specialising in private equity, mergers and acquisitions.
Valentina Lattanzi graduated in law from Bocconi University and has been working in the firm’s banking & finance department since 2016, specialising in structured finance.
Andrea Taurozzi, who graduated magna cum laude in law from University of Macerata and master’s degree from Roma Tre University,
Nova Capital Management (Nova) is to sell its portfolio company, Ashland Hardware (Ashland), to Tyman plc for a price of USD101 million.
Nova acquired Ashland as part of a portfolio acquisition of five businesses from Newell Rubbermaid (now Newell Brands) in September 2013. Profits at Ashland have more than doubled under Nova’s ownership.
Nova was advised on the transaction by Robert W Baird & Co, Reed Smith LLP and Deloitte LLP.
Private markets firm StepStone Group has named six new partners in four of its offices around the world.
Monte Brem, Chief Executive Officer of StepStone, says, “We are delighted to recognise these extremely talented colleagues, who have been instrumental to StepStone’s growth and success. We are committed to supporting our firm’s collegial culture and the professional development of our employees, and we are proud to welcome our latest Partner group.”
Ian Aaker (La Jolla) joined StepStone in 2008 and is a member of the private equity team, focusing on US-based middle, large, and global buyouts.
Rebecca Ajavananda (New
By Olivia Munro, Eze Castle Integration – All too often we hear from firms before a IT and cybersecurity audit asking what they can do to make the audit process go as smoothly as possible. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to ensure a stress-free audit. In this two-part blog series, we will help you create a checklist to prepare for your audit and also remediate the findings post-audit.
1 Notify internal and external partners that an audit is happening.
Your team and partners should be prepared to act quickly to remediate the findings or provide any documentation the auditors
By Mary Beth Hamilton, Eze Castle Integration – As 17 April (US) and 30 April (Canada) near, cyber scammers are pulling out all their tax scams to trick consumers and capitalise on the flurry of activity. Our friends over at Proofpoint say that this time of year, [they have] tracked malware distribution in addition to the customary phishing schemes among the email threats related to federal taxes.
The IRS is also urging people to remember that “the IRS doesn’t initiate contact with taxpayers by email, text messages or social media channels to request personal or financial information. In addition, IRS
Albion Capital has closed its 2017/2018 VCT top up offers after successfully raising the GBP32 million targeted amount. The offers, which launched on 6 September 2017, are fully subscribed across the five Albion VCTs participating in the fundraising.
Albion Capital will now focus on investing the money raised in technology-driven, high growth companies, with a particular emphasis on its sector specialisms in digital healthcare, automation, digital security and data analytics.
Albion has expanded its presence in the technology sector significantly in recent years, with notable investments including Black Swan Data (predictive analytics), Egress (data privacy and communication platform), Panaseer
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