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International corporate finance firm Clearwater International has appointed Dan Salt as a Director in its Birmingham office.
Salt (pictured), joins Clearwater International with over 10 years’ experience in finance, having previously worked for RBS and CYBG. He has worked with public and private companies as well as private equity across a range of sectors.
Clearwater International has recently published news of its record figures for the last financial year and its continued ascent of the M&A rankings table. Dan’s appointment follows a series of new recruits across the UK team and internationally – highlighting Clearwater’s ongoing commitment to invest
Law firm Ropes & Gray has advised Pulsant on its acquisition of LayerV, a specialist public cloud solution integration company, with a strong focus on compliance, security and cloud automation.
The acquisition gives Pulsant, a UK provider of hybrid cloud solutions, exclusive intellectual property around regulatory and cloud insight, strengthening its multi-cloud capabilities, particularly around continuous compliance and security, as well as its AWS offering. The new compliance solutions will be most beneficial to customers in the public sector, retail, legal and financial services where statutory compliance and data governance are critical, and where regulations such as PCI, ISO, GDPR and
MPOWER Financing, a fintech company and provider of educational loans to high-potential, international students, has launched a USD100 million debt financing round to meet its growing pipeline of loan applications.
According to Manu Smadja, MPOWER Financing CEO and co-founder: “We are seeing tremendous demand for our unique lending product which removes financial barriers to higher education for top international students. The company’s loan book has been growing at a rate of more than 30 perc ent on a month-over-month basis.”
MPOWER Financing also announced that Mike Davis, the company’s co-founder, has assumed the position of chief investment officer, replacing
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has completed the first domestic fixed income new issue deal in Japan on IssueNet, the company’s fixed income syndicate connectivity software.
The transaction was done for hybrid bonds issued by Sekisui House, Ltd. The deal’s bookrunner was Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co, Ltd. (MUMSS), with co-lead managers Mizuho Securities Co, Ltd. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. IssueNet enabled the banks involved in the deal to work simultaneously in one orderbook, and for the issuer to have a real-time view into the book during the
Quaero Capital’s recently re-named Infrastructure strategy, refocused from a wider Real Assets mandate, is now entirely concentrated on infrastructure stocks, with just a 3 per cent cash provision.
The largest exposures are toll roads and tunnels (17 per cent), diversified infrastructure companies (16 per cent), and rail & bus (16 per cent). Rail & bus, agricultural infrastructure and communications towers stocks were largely unchanged over the last month, while waste recycling (the smallest allocation), communications and social infrastructure (also a small allocation), performed poorly.
The strategy is structured so that all holdings can be liquidated in one day and
O’Melveny has advised Access Technology Ventures as lead investor in the USD300 million funding of smartphone maker Essential Products Inc.
The funding brings Essential’s total capital raised to USD330 million. Other investors in the round included Redpoint Ventures, Tencent Holdings Ltd., Altimeter Capital, Vy Capital, and Amazon Inc.’s Alexa Fund.
The O’Melveny team was led by partners Warren Lazarow, David Makarechian, and Heather Meeker, and associates Chris Dombkowski and Snehal Desai.
Funds managed by EMK Capital are to acquire a majority shareholding in Luminati, the enterprise proxy network division of Hola Networks, for an enterprise value of USD200 million.
The founders of Hola Networks will retain a significant stake in the company and Ofer Vilenski, Co-Founder, will continue as CEO of Luminati. EMK and the Luminati team will work together to grow Luminati and will continue to invest heavily in enhancing the customer experience and developing additional technologies and services.
Luminati is tan enterprise IP proxy network, and helps make the Web more transparent by allowing businesses to see the
Law firm Goodwin has added Ian O’Donnell – venture capital fund formation specialist – as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice San Francisco.
Concentrating on the formation and representation of venture capital, growth equity and private equity funds, O’Donnell’s practice also includes the representation of issuers and funds in public and private financing transactions. He focuses on all aspects of the formation and operation of domestic and international investment funds, including venture capital, private equity, fund of funds, secondary market, debt and a variety of other types of funds ranging from multibillion-dollar venture capital and leveraged buy-out
Global investment firm KKR has opened a new office in Shanghai, the firm’s third office in Greater China following Beijing and Hong Kong, and its eighth in Asia Pacific.
KKR has built its investment platform in Asia Pacific with a focus on developing strong country, industry and sector expertise, supported by a global network of investment professionals, operational experts and advisers. Today KKR manages the largest private equity fund dedicated to investing in the region, having most recently closed its USD9.3 billion Asian Fund III in May 2017. China is a core focus within KKR’s Asia Pacific strategy, and the
If your firm hasn’t fallen prey to a security breach, you’re probably one of the lucky ones. But you also probably won’t be safe for long, as most firms, at some point in time, will encounter a cybersecurity incident. Cyber incidents today come in many forms, but whether a system compromise at the hands of an attacker or an access control breach resulting from a phishing scam, firms must have documented incident response policies in place to handle the aftermath.
With the threat of security incidents at all all-time high, we want to ensure our clients and partners have plans and
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