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Inflexion Private Equity’s portfolio company Ocorian, a financial services firm, has acquired Capco Trust, a Jersey-based private client and corporate services business.
The deal will expand Ocorian’s service capabilities and client base, as well as the scope of its service offering to include expertise in international shipping finance. In turn, Capco’s clients will now benefit from an enhanced range of specialist financial services across a much wider range of international jurisdictions.
The deal is the third for Ocorian in the last 6 months, having announced the acquisitions of MAS in July 2017 and Intruad/Intruma in October 2017. Each acquisition
Silversmith Capital Partners (Silversmith) has held the first and final closing of its second fund, Silversmith Capital Partners II (Fund II) at its target and hard cap of USD670 million of commitments. The fund was significantly oversubscribed.
Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor fund, Fund II will focus on growth companies in two core industry verticals: Software-as-a-Service & Information Services; and Healthcare Information Technology & Services.
Silversmith received strong support from its existing investor base of leading endowments, foundations, fund of funds, and pension funds, while also adding a small number of new investors. In addition, more than
Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the blockchain technology sector and crypto ecosystem, has appointed Jimmy Song as a Venture Partner.
Song, a Bitcoin Core developer, brings deep technical expertise to Blockchain Capital and will serve as a new bridge between Blockchain Capital and the crypto developer community, providing technical expertise to the firm’s investment research, and lead upcoming programs to foster blockchain technology innovation.
“The blockchain sector is evolving much differently than that of the internet, which has made it possible for the engineers and developers at the forefront of innovation in this sector to
Law firm Morrison & Foerster has appointed Jesse Gillespie as a partner in the corporate practice in the firm’s Tokyo office.
Gillespie comes to Morrison & Foerster from Sullivan & Cromwell with expertise in cross-border capital markets transactions.
Gillespie’s expertise further strengthens Morrison & Foerster’s capital markets practice – the only capital markets practice in Tokyo that covers both Japanese and US laws, and provides advice with respect to primary and secondary market transactions. His arrival also enhances the firm’s cross-border M&A transactions offering in relation to securities law issues.
“Jesse’s pan-Asian credentials are impressive,” says Eric Piesner,
Mediware Information Systems, a portfolio company of TPG Capital, has acquired MEDTranDirect, a specialist in software solutions for healthcare revenue cycle management and an approved network service vendor for Medicare.
The transaction complements the revenue cycle management and Medicare claims capabilities in Mediware’s leading home care market solution, Kinnser Software, while simultaneously leveraging Mediware’s heritage of supporting data-driven clinical excellence and improving efficiencies in administrative workflow.
“At Mediware, we are transforming and empowering data-driven decision-making across the continuum of care to help providers determine the most cost-effective paths to improving patient outcomes,” says Bill Miller, CEO of Mediware. “With
Equistone Partners Europe has completed the sale of Concept Life Sciences to London Stock Exchange-listed productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company Spectris (LSE: SXS) for GBP163 million.
Concept Life Sciences provides integrated drug discovery, development, analytical testing and environmental consulting services to an international customer base mainly in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical and environmental sectors.
The Manchester-headquartered company was initially formed in July 2014 with backing from mid-market private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe. The investment provided the business with a platform to make acquisitions and develop into a world leading contract research and testing organisation focused on delivering scientific
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has appointed Michel Fryszman as Head of Structured Finance. He joined on 15 January and is based in Paris. Fryszman reports to Laurent Gueunier, Head of Real Assets, SME Lending & Structured Finance.
Fryszman’s appointment is the latest in a series of additions to BNPP AM’s Private Debt & Real Assets investment group, which was established in 2017 and manages EUR7.7 billion, including more than EUR1 billion in European securitisation funds. In this role Michel will be responsible for the management of BNPP AM’s structured finance team, expanded to five professionals, and for the
Sentinel Capital Partners has held the simultaneous first and final closings of Sentinel Capital Partners VI at USD2.15 billion and Sentinel Junior Capital I at USD460 million. Total capital raised for the two new funds was USD2.6 billion.
“We are delighted by this fundraising outcome and grateful for the strong show of support from our existing investors and several new prominent investors,” says David S Lobel, founder and Managing Partner of Sentinel. “We are also very pleased to launch our inaugural junior capital fund, which will serve the financing needs of our lower middle market companies.”
Sentinel will continue the same
US public pension plans announced 121 new commitments to private equity in the fourth quarter, according to the latest data from eVestment.
This is down from the 124 private equity commitments US public pensions announced in Q3, but still enough for private equity to be by far the No1 asset class these plans committed to in Q4.
Real assets came in at No2, with 76 new commitments in Q4, followed by private debt at No3 with 47 commitments. Private equity was also the No1 choice for new US public pension plans commitments tracked by eVestment in Q3 and Q1
The Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has stepped up its activities in Asia-Pacific for members operating private credit strategies in the region.
As part of the expanded activity, a new APAC Committee of the ACC has been formed, co-chaired by global ACC Board members Justin Ferrier of BlackRock and Barry Lau of Adamas Asset Management.
The ACC is already active in the US and European markets, and the formation of the APAC group will consolidate the association’s position as the voice of the global private credit sector.
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