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Redgate Investments has made a substantial investment in Croatia-based monitoring and administration software company, SysKit.
Redgate Investments, a sister company to Redgate Software, the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, was created to make sizeable minority investments in founder-led businesses, without the onerous terms and conditions often required by private equity and venture capitalists.
Looking beyond the typical software investment locations like Silicon Valley in the US or Cambridge in the UK, it has chosen to invest in SysKit, which was founded in Zagreb just eight years ago. SysKit creates solutions for the SharePoint, Office 365 and Citrix environments
Noerr has appointed five new equity partners as of 1 January 2018, including four women.
Meike von Levetzow, Annette Pospich, Marlies Raschke, Bärbel Sachs and Ralph Schilha were admitted to the partnership. Michael Bergmann and Pavol Rak were designated as (non-equity) partners and will work as Senior Counsel in the future. The firm promoted 18 lawyers – including eight women – to the position of Associated Partner, and another six as Counsel.
“Due to their excellent work, our new partners have contributed to further consolidating our position in the premium segment over the last few years,” says co-speaker Alexander
Frederic Mege, a dual-qualified French and English private client lawyer, has joined Moores Rowland, an independent firm based in Monaco.
A member of the Paris Bar Association, the Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux (IACF), the Law Society (England & Wales) and the Society for Tax and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Frederic has many years’ experience advising international private clients on personal tax and other legal issues.
Commenting on the appointment, Eamonn McGregor, Managing Director and International Tax Specialist at Moores Rowland, said: “Moores Rowland specialises in cross-border tax planning, and has for many years advised clients on French inbound tax
Harvest Partners has named two new partners in its structured capital business effective 8 January 2018. The new partners – Steven Duke and Sean Murphy – co-lead the strategy and were formerly Managing Directors. Structured capital is Harvest’s non- control senior equity product.
Duke joined Harvest in 2014 and serves on the board of LAZ Parking.
Murphy joined Harvest in 2016 and serves on the boards of GPM Investments, Roland Foods and OTG Management.
Of the new appointments, Thomas Arenz, partner of Harvest Partners, says: “We are pleased to recognise Steve and Sean and welcome them as our
Britbots, an organisation dedicated to promoting UK-based robotics companies, and Sapphire Capital Partners, have launched the second British Robotics Seed Fund.
The new fund follows the success of the first fund, which has now been fully invested, leading the seed rounds of six high-potential robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) related ventures.
The new fund will be predominantly focused on SEIS-qualifying investment opportunities thereby delivering the most significant tax benefits to investors, nonetheless there will be scope for the fund to make a number of investments under the EIS scheme when there are scale-up opportunities for existing portfolio companies. Further
Bpifrance, China Development Bank (CDB) and Cathay Capital are to launch the Sino French Midcap Fund II, which has a fundraising target of EUR1.2 billion and is the successor to the first Sino French Midcap Fund which was Iaunched in 2014.
The fund should complete its first closing and first investments before June 2018.
Following the previous EUR500m investment vehicle, the Sino French Midcap Fund II will focus mainly on lower to upper mid-cap companies having their principal place of business or activities in France and/or China, with a high potential for growth and value creation as well as
By Olivia Munro – As the deadline to the GDPR steadily approaches, it is important to start preparing for the regulation if you haven’t already. In case you aren’t aware, the EU took a major step to protect their citizens’ personal data and privacy rights by instating the EU Greater Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is scheduled to go into effect on 25 May, 2018. However, just because the GDPR is an EU regulation, it doesn’t mean that US based firms are exempt.
Any firm, even those based in the US, that monitors the behavior of EU citizens must comply. This means
Genstar Capital portfolio company Apex Group (Apex) has acquired M M Warburg & Co’s Asset Management and Servicing business in Luxembourg (Warburg). Upon completion of the transaction, Apex, a Genstar portfolio company, will have nearly USD350 billion of AuA.
The transaction is the third for Apex in the space of six months following the acquisition of both Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services and Deutsche Bank’s Alternative Fund Services business in 2017. This latest move reaffirms Apex’s position as the fastest growing fund administrator in the world and brings it closer to achieving its goal of becoming one of the top five
TMF Group is a prominent financial services organisation operating out of 125 offices in more than 80 jurisdictions worldwide, offering a range of outsourcing solutions with respect to fund services, accounting, reporting and consolidation services, corporate legal and secretarial services, as well as tax compliance services, and works for a wide range of client segments.
One of those segments, which is growing in importance for the group, is private equity and real estate (PERE), TMF Group is able to provide fund services at the fund level, the SPV level, down to the underlying operating companies.
With global PE groups continuing to
Waterland Private Equity has added the coeo Inkasso Group to its portfolio. The service provider for receivables management with annual sales of around EUR50 million is active in telecommunications, e-commerce and retail, among other industries.
Dr Tom Haverkamp, the owner to date, will remain part of the company as co-owner and managing director, and he will also continue to be actively involved in shaping the company in the future.
coeo Inkasso, based in Dormagen, collects receivables from consumers and companies as a specialised service provider, thereby securing the liquidity of its customers. The range of services comprises fiduciary collection,
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