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Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment firm with more than USD31 billion in assets under management, has established an office in Seoul, South Korea.
The new office will enable the firm to more effectively serve clients and access investment opportunities in the region. Chris Cho, who joins the firm as a Principal, will lead the office and will focus on the development of institutional client and consultant relationships within South Korea as the firm expands its efforts there.
“Adams Street Partners is excited to announce the opening of our office in Seoul and to welcome Chris to our
Elsen, a Platform-as-a-Service company for large financial institutions, has raised USD2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital with participation from Accomplice, Launch Capital and hand-picked angel investors from the startup and financial community.
As part of the investment, Hyperplane managing partner, Jack Klinck (pictured), who previously spent nearly two decades in executive roles at State Street and BNY Mellon, will join the company’s board of directors as Chairman.
This investment brings Elsen’s total funding to USD2.9 million since the company’s inception in 2014. The funds will be used to bolster sales and marketing, expand Elsen’s engineering team, extend support
KOGER, provider of the NTAS platform for fund administration and compliance, is now offering Chinese-language capability for investor statements.
More than 8,000 funds with USD2 trillion in assets are administered through NTAS, used by many of the largest asset managers, fund administrators and financial institutions. With this new product innovation, hedge funds and private equity funds can provide statements to Chinese investors in their native language.
“Today most fund managers have investor bases that span the globe. Our platform makes complex processes easy to manage and increases efficiency for fund administrators, asset managers and financial institutions. We felt it was
Foresight Group has launched the FP Foresight UK Infrastructure Income Fund, an FCA-approved, actively managed fund that will invest in UK listed renewable energy and infrastructure fund/investment company equities and bonds.
It will target an annual income of 5 per cent per annum with dividends paid quarterly.
Available on a variety of platforms and wraps, the Fund has a minimum investment of GBP1,000, or GBP100 per month for regular savings, and comprises one share class for both retail and institutional investors with the option for either income or accumulation.
The Fund’s model portfolio delivers higher returns and lower
EnCap Investments, a provider of capital to the independent sector of the US oil and gas industry with offices in Houston and Dallas, has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund XI with capital commitments of USD7.0 billion, exceeding its target.
Fund XI provides growth capital to proven management teams focused on the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America.
EnCap is led by seven managing partners including founders David B Miller, Gary R Petersen, D Martin Phillips and Robert L Zorich, as well as Jason M DeLorenzo, E Murphy Markham IV and Douglas E Swanson, Jr.
This year Pantheon Group has been celebrating its 35th anniversary. It is testament to the drive and determination to evolve the business model in response to changing market dynamics that has helped Pantheon stand the test of time to become, arguably, one of the most important global private equity, infrastructure and real assets fund investors.
One only has to consider the numbers: 450 investors; 200 staff across six global offices; USD36.9 billion of AUM (as of 30 June, 2017), with USD21.5 billion committed in PE primaries and USD11.1 billion in PE secondaries; USD 2.4 billion committed to global private equity co-investments; and
Agilitas, a pan-European private equity firm, has completed the buyout of Danoffice IT, a global value-added reseller of Information Technology and Information Systems to international organisations and businesses operating worldwide. Consideration on the transaction is not being disclosed.
Danoffice IT is headquartered in Svendborg, Denmark, with offices in several locations across the globe, providing high-value support to a wide range of international clients with significant cross-border operations and exposure to developing countries. Danoffice IT offers a one-stop-shopping platform with an array of products, services and logistical solutions, backed by professional and certified personnel ready to assist its client’s headquarters or
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired workplace safety and training company Lewellyn Technology from Evolution Capital Partners (Evolution).
This is ACP ’s first platform investment from the business-to-business training and certification thesis ACP launched earlier this year.
Lewellyn is a market leader providing critical, high impact electrical safety training and inspection services such as Arc Flash, Combustible Dust and Lockout/Tagout risk assessments. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Company provides onsite training, hazard assessments, and mitigation for Fortune 1000 companies nationwide through its highly skilled in-house network of engineers and technicians.
“We are excited to partner with Mike Vea
Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm specialising in capital markets technology, has expanded its team with the appointment of former UBS and IHS Markit Managing Director, Roger Spooner as Head of Strategic Relationships.
Andrew Patey, former Group Finance Manager at Octopus Investments has also joined as Head of Finance.
Previously on the firm’s Executives in Residence program, Spooner will now manage the relationship between buy side and sell-side institutions and Illuminate Financial’s portfolio companies, as well as its extensive pipeline of fintech firms.
Spooner spent over a decade at IHS Markit, serving in a variety of roles
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has appointed Stefan Rose as a Portfolio Manager in its Infrastructure Debt team.
Rose’s appointment further strengthens REPM’s USD4 billion infrastructure platform, which invests in both equity and debt, and it follows the announcement of three other senior hires last month. The team now comprises over 30 professionals located across five offices globally.
With over 17 years of experience in financing pan-European infrastructure projects Stefan brings a wealth of relevant experience with him and will report to Tommaso Albanese, Head of Infrastructure. Based in London, he will be
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