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Senior offshore banking lawyer Simon Felton has joined Ogier’s top tier Banking and Finance team as a partner.
Felton (pictured), who has held managing partner roles in offices in New York and London, is known for his experience in leading international teams working on complex and ground-breaking structured finance transactions.
With a background in Jersey banking and finance law spanning 20 years Felton’s focus is on advising major investment banks on a wide range of capital markets, structured finance and securitisation transactions.
Felton says: “With its enviable strength across all areas of banking and finance and a blue-chip,
Yukon Partners, a provider of mezzanine capital for middle market private equity transactions, has made an investment in Practice Insight.
Practice Insight, headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides revenue cycle management and electronic data interchange solutions that help healthcare providers manage the reimbursement cycle. The Company’s suite of products enables healthcare practitioners to digitise, automate, and manage every stage of the revenue cycle workflow, reducing bad debt, shortening the collection cycle, and minimising the administrative support required to manage the reimbursement process. Practice Insight serves over 56,000 physicians across 150+ specialties nationwide through a network of reseller relationships.
“The Practice
Investors based in Australia & New Zealand allocate to alternative assets at a lower rate than the global average: 61 per cent of investors based in these countries allocate to at least one alternative asset class, compared to 78 per cent of investors globally.
However, just 40 per cent of investors in Australia & New Zealand allocate to private equity, 16 percentage points below the rate for global investors. Conversely, the proportions of investors based here that allocate to infrastructure and natural resources funds are 16 and 18 percentage points respectively above the global average.
This trend is mirrored
VisionsConnected and Viju have been acquired by Avedon Capital Partners and are being merged to create a global visual collaboration company specializing in designing, installing, servicing and supporting physical and virtual meeting room environments for global customers with strategic need for videoconferencing, collaboration and audiovisual solutions.
The combined company today already serves corporate and public customers in over 120 countries. It will have its official headquarter in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and will continue to serve their customers from multiple locations throughout EMEA, USA &APAC. A new brand, that reflects the evolution of these two reputable businesses into an integrated global
New Heritage Capital’s (Heritage) portfolio company Continental Services (Continental) has acquired Satellite Vending Company (Satellite), a provider of vending, micro-market and office coffee services in the Detroit market.
Satellite represents the first add-on acquisition for Continental, further strengthening its position as Michigan’s largest food services company.
Continental provides a wide range of custom dining, refreshment, and event services for more than 700 small and medium-sized businesses, blue-chip corporations, colleges, universities, business and industrial sites, and hospitals and medical centres. The Company’s custom-tailored services range from on-site corporate cafés, grab-and-go markets and traditional vending, to off-premise catering and event services.
Omnes Capital has acquired a minority stake in the ANI group through a EUR11.7 million investment from its Omnes Croissance 4 mid cap fund.
The transaction enables the transmission of ANI from its founder, Claude Patin, to his step-daughter Nathalie Bianchini and her husband, Patrick Bianchini, ANI’s current chief executive.
Based in Béziers (Occitanie region in France) and created in 1993, the ANI group is a fasteners distributor dedicated to the aerospace industry. Its main customers are aircraft manufacturers (eg Airbus, Dassault) and their main suppliers (eg Zodiac, Safran). The group, which employs 25 staff, generated annual revenue of
By George Ralph, RFA – The use of Artificial Intelligence is becoming decidedly commonplace. Wikipedia describes AI research as “the study of intelligent agents: any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximise its chance of success at some goal.” AI is often used interchangeably with Machine Learning, which is described as the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel, gives “computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”
Machine Learning more accurately describes the technology that we are seeing more and more often in the IT industry, with machines programmed to have neural networks,
Alternative asset manager Highland Capital Management has appointed Trey Parker as co-chief investment officer. Parker will join Highland co-founder Mark Okada in the CIO role overseeing the USD13 billion investment platform.
“This is a well-earned promotion for Trey,” says Okada. “For over a decade Trey has been a driver of operational alpha in numerous areas across the firm, from streamlining research and risk management processes to enhancing collaboration across disciplines – all motivated by improving client outcomes. He enters this role not only with the full support and respect from Jim and me, but also with that of the entire
The number of alternative fund managers marketing into Europe through Jersey’s national private placement regimes (NPPRs) continued to rise during the first half of 2017 whilst there has been a strong uptake in the latest addition to Jersey’s regulatory regime, according to mid-year figures from Jersey’s regulator the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).
As at 30 June 2017, 131 alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) had been authorised in Jersey to market into Europe through NPPRs under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), up 14 per cent compared to the same time last year.
In addition, the total number
AsusTek Computer, better known as ASUS, one of the world’s largest producers of desktops, laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronics, is partnering with Silicon Valley-based Fenox Venture Capital to launch a USUSD50 million venture fund.
This partnership with Fenox Venture Capital will serve as a gateway for ASUS to access top technology startups through Fenox VC’s global network. In turn, ASUS will collaborate with these startups and provide the startups with access to the greater Asian and global markets.
“Finding the right global partner was a key step in our search for cutting-edge technologies that will enhance the experience
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