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Bedell Cristin has appointed Lee Osborne as a Senior Associate in its Guernsey office.
Osborne (pictured), advises on a broad range of corporate, commercial and banking matters including investment funds and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross border transactions and corporate re-structuring.
A member of the BVI Bar Association, Osborne qualified originally as an English lawyer and spent time working at Shoosmiths in London, before moving to the BVI in 2008. In addition to advising on Guernsey law, Osborne also practises BVI law and has previously advised on Cayman Islands law with specific emphasis on open-ended
Prestige has appointed Dr Phil Hobbs as a specialist finance arranger at Privilege Finance, a provider integrated specialist consulting and financial solutions for small businesses within the agricultural, farming and food related sectors across the UK.
Hobbs will be focusing on optimising new and under-performing digesters in the agricultural and food waste industries – a core area of funding growth.
Privilege Finance offers a range of funding strategies, including specialist project finance focused on the development of on farm energy, waste to energy and waste to heat related projects within the UK.
Hobbs brings with him considerable experience
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies in the lower middle market, has sold PlayCore, a North American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of play, park, and recreation products. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“We are very pleased with the excellent results PlayCore has achieved,” said Eric Bommer, a Sentinel partner. “PlayCore has successfully executed a broad range of organic growth and add-on acquisition initiatives. PlayCore’s talented management team has incorporated new brands seamlessly and accelerated growth by cross-selling, accessing new market opportunities, and capturing cost efficiencies. During our
Schroders has appointed Reto Schwager as Chief Executive Officer of Schroder Adveq.
Schwager joins from the financial services group Orix Corporation where he was Global Head of Private Equity at Robeco and member of the executive committee of Robeco SAM. Prior to that Schwager was a partner and member of the executive board at Partners Group. Before that he was chairman of AIG Investment (Europe).
Schwager will be based in Zurich and report to Stephen Mills, Executive Chairman of Schroder Adveq. He succeeds Sven Liden in the role of CEO and will join the company on 01 January 2018.
Guernsey’s Private Investment Fund regime was launched in November last year and has so far proved to be a popular route to launch a private fund. As the regime approaches its first anniversary, Annette Alexander (pictured) of Carey Olsen, on behalf of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association, explains the PIF’s key features and the reasons behind its popularity.
Guernsey’s new Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime, launched in November 2016, has been keenly welcomed by industry participants. Aimed at circumstances where a special relationship exists between managers and investors, the new regime dispenses with any formal requirements for information
Beehive, a MENA peer to peer lending (P2P) platform, has secured USD5 million investment as part of a Series A round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund and supported by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Fund (MBRF), the financial arm of Dubai SME, as well as several other regional investors.
This latest fundraise brings the total raised by Beehive to USD10.5 million since its launch.
Craig Moore, Beehive Founder and CEO, says: “We’re delighted to have the support of our strategic investors in this latest round which demonstrates the appetite for investment into fintech businesses in the region and will enable
M&A specialists from Carey Olsen’s Guernsey corporate team have acted as lead legal counsel on a significant acquisition of a Guernsey financial services business.
TMF Group, a global financial and business services provider, has purchased Gentoo, an independent provider of administration services to regulated and unregulated funds and family office structures, as well as depositary and corporate and domiciliation services. Gentoo has offices in Guernsey and Luxembourg.
Gentoo will come under the umbrella of TMF Group’s private equity and real estate business offering and it is seen as a strategic purchase for the group which gives TMF Group a
Shareholders of Saxo Bank Group (Saxo), a leading multi-asset trading and financial-technology firm, have received an offer from Sampo Group, a leading Nordic financial services group, to take up a stake of 19.9 per cent of the bank.
In May 2017, it was announced that Geely Financials Denmark A/S, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, Ltd (“Geely Group”), had made an offer to buy 30 per cent of the shares of Saxo. Geely Group has offered to buy more shares and will thus become majority shareholder with a total of 51.5 per cent.
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YFM Equity Partners (YFM), a specialist private equity fund manager, has backed a GBP1.5 million investment into e2E Engineering Limited (e2E), a technical consultancy operating in the telecommunications market, with particular expertise in satellite communications.
YFM’s funding comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies and British Smaller Companies 2.
Based in offices in Welwyn Garden City and Gateshead, e2E has been at the forefront of evolving technologies and service innovations since 1999. With support from the European Space Agency and Innovate UK, e2E has used its wealth of experience to develop its own suite of products and
German-based fund administrator optegra has rebranded as Vistra following its acquisition earlier in the year.
Specialising in auditing, tax consultancy, legal advisory, and management consultancy services, optegra has a staff of 120 professionals based in offices in Cologne, Hamburg and Munich serving clients from a range of industries, including automotive, information technology, telecommunications, health care, private equity, real estate, renewable energy, and engineering.
The scope of services provided by optegra span two of Vistra’s operating divisions, Alternative Investments and International Expansion, and will see significant growth for Vistra in Germany. Both divisions will focus on leveraging optegra’s existing network
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