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Bridging Finance has launched its newest product, the Bridging Mid-Market Debt Fund, which will be available as of 20 October, 2017 through the IIROC dealer channel on FundSERV.
“Bridging Finance is currently experiencing significant growth and continues to establish itself as a leading provider of non-distressed private debt financing in Canada. Accordingly, the addition of the Bridging Mid-Market Debt Fund to the suite of products offered by Bridging Finance will allow us to better serve the financial advisor community with a product normally reserved for institutional investors, while assisting companies seeking alternative financing in North America,” says David Sharpe, Chief
Blueprint Capital Advisors, an investment firm focused on manager sourcing, due diligence and the structuring of opportunistic investments, has appointed John McAvoy as a Partner.
At Blueprint, McAvoy is involved in the execution of all investment activities and responsible for the Firm’s strategic investments. He is also a member of the Blueprint Investment Committee.
“John is a highly-accomplished industry executive with extensive alternative investment management, equity and debt capital markets experience,” says Jacob Walthour Jr, Chief Executive Officer of Blueprint. “At Blueprint, we are levelling the economic playing field by structuring investor participation more creatively to best align the
360ip Japan has launched the 360ip Japan Fund 1 which will focus on seed technologies developed in academic institutes and corporations in Japan.
The Fund completed its initial closing with commitments of JPY1.0 billion, with support from investors Shinsei Bank and UTokyo Innovation Platform (UTokyo IPC Tokyo, Japan), a strategic investment arm of the University of Tokyo.
360ip Japan provides academic institutes and corporates with technology commercialisation and investment management expertise across a variety of industries. The fund aims to invest mainly in seed-stage start-ups or spin-offs with cutting-edge technologies developed in universities, research institutes, and corporations in Japan.
BGF has appointed Andy Watts to its Talent Network team. Watts will provide support to BGF-backed companies by further expanding BGF’s network of non-executives, interim managers and experienced finance directors.
Watts has more than 13 years’ recruitment experience, including most recently as a partner with Boyden UK. He has worked with blue-chip and smaller, high-growth clients across the consumer, retail, hospitality, technology, support services and industrial sectors. Before Boyden, Andy worked at Whitehead Mann as part of the Industry team, covering London and the Midlands. His early career was as a fully qualified Solicitor.
In his new role, Watts
Steele Compliance Solutions has added extensive training and awareness content to its third-party compliance management software and due diligence services, through the acquisition of Compliance Wave.
Compliance Wave is a specialist in compliance micro-training content. With a client base of Fortune 500 companies, Compliance Wave provides a library of over 2,000 micro-learning & communication tools in more than 30 languages. The content provides short, engaging and retainable information that is not only fun for the end user to consume, but is highly effective in getting complex compliance concepts through in a meaningful way.
Compliance Wave adds to Steele’s already robust
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Ben Griffiths (pictured), as Managing Director, Global Head of Fund Financing. He will be based in London and will report to John Sergides, Global Head of Sales and Marketing.
Griffiths will lead the fund financing team globally to service clients, including funds of hedge funds, private equity lines of subscription, and FX lines for feeder funds of hedge funds. His expertise in the field will help the firm continue to enhance its capabilities and offer premier services to clients globally.
MUFG Investor Services has
The size of the global private credit market is on course to break the USD1 trillion mark by 2020, according to research by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
Dechert, the global law firm, contributed to and sponsored this year’s survey, titled “Financing the Economy 2017”.
The industry, which manages approximately USD600 billion in assets, has grown 14-fold since 2000. Based on its current growth rate, the sector will reach USD1 trillion in assets by the end of the decade, the ACC forecasts.
The “Financing the Economy” report highlighted that
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with USD30 billion of assets under management, has expanded its Private Credit team with the addition of Justin Lawrence as a Principal.
Lawrence joins a growing team led by Bill Sacher and Shahab Rashid, former Oaktree Capital executives, who co-founded Adams Street’s Private Credit strategy in January 2016.
Prior to joining Adams Street Partners, Lawrence was a Vice President in the Direct Lending Group at Ares Management, a global alternative asset manager. While at Ares, he was responsible for providing debt financing solutions to private equity backed middle-market companies and also played a lead
Alliance Etiquettes is actively pursuing its consolidation strategy in the wine, spirits and agri-food high-end labelling sector with the acquisition of Applic’Etains, its fourth build-up since Activa Capital’s investment in July 2015.
Applic’Etains is a French company based in Nontron (Dordogne) and specialises in the design and production of high-end pewter labels for the wine & spirits industry. The firm, which continues to grow strongly, is managed by its founder, Thierry Vandenbosch.
It is the 4th company to join the Alliance Etiquettes Group since its creation in July 2015; Alliance Etiquettes has tripled in size since Activa Capital invested.
Private equity investor, Ardenton Capital, has made a key appointment to its UK team with the appointment of Allan Dunn as Head of Strategic Development.
Dunn joins Directors Mike Bradbury and Iain Marlow and will be responsible for working closely with the management teams of Ardenton’s UK investments. He will help drive quality and performance, boost operational efficiency and overcome any obstacles to long-term sustainable growth. Dunn will also be responsible for building out Ardenton’s strategic and operational teams in the UK.
Dunn brings with him extensive knowledge and experience that will be of significant benefit to both the
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