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Z Capital Group, an alternative asset manager focused on opportunistic, value-oriented private equity and credit funds, has appointed of Alexander Apponyi as a Managing Director and European Head of Investor Development.
Apponyi will be based in London and will lead Z Capital’s European investor development efforts.
Apponyi joins Z Capital from Jefferies International, where he served as the European Head of the firm’s Private Capital Group. In this role, pponyi led origination efforts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and worked on more than USD14 billion in fund placements and private financings. Prior to his time at Jefferies,
Investors deployed USD21.78 billion to 1,958 US venture-backed companies during the second quarter, marking a significant uptick from the first quarter in capital invested while the number of companies receiving investment was stable, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
Through the first six months of the year, 3,876 companies received USD37.76 billion in financing, setting a pace to near or surpass the USD71 billion invested last year, and confirming that the industry has levelled off after peaking in 2015. Looking to the second half of the year, venture investors will continue to deploy capital to high-growth startups, having raised more than
Mergermarket Group, a provider of business intelligence and research for fixed income, transactions, infrastructure, compliance and equities, has re-launched under the brand name Acuris.
The Company is globally recognised through its unique portfolio of brands, with 700+ reporters, analysts and developers covering financial markets throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Acuris has 17 offices globally, including three headquarters in London, New York and Hong Kong.
The Acuris brand is designed to communicate the wide-ranging activities of the Company’s research and intelligence titles and the qualities that unite them. All output from the Company is informed by its ‘acumen’,
Drayson Technologies Limited has reached a Five-Year Strategic Research Agreement (SRA) with the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) in the field of digital health.
The Licensing deal could see millions of NHS patients benefit from the commercialisation of cutting edge technologies invented in Oxford. The University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals developed and trialled the technologies in the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Underpinned by the University’s academic research excellence, engineering expertise and the Trust’s clinical validation, the ground-breaking SRA will create
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired BIC Graphic North America and the affiliated Asia sourcing operations (BIC Graphic) from Société BIC.
Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, BIC Graphic, with sales over USD300 million, is one of the largest suppliers in the promotional products industry, specialising in customised writing instruments, hard goods and calendars. BIC Graphic’s quality, innovation, and service are highly regarded by tens of thousands of distributor customers. The Company operates three manufacturing facilities across the United States plus a highly strategic product sourcing operation in Hong Kong and mainland
Liberum Investment Banking has completed eight public market transactions during a busy five-week summer period, acting as financial adviser on two public offers, completing the IPO of a service provider to the film industry, and raising equity for five listed clients in the Real Estate, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors.
Steve Pearce, Co Head of Investing Banking Liberum Capital, says: “This is testament to Liberum’s exceptional capabilities in supporting their clients in achieving strategic goals across a wide range of sectors, using a broad range of funding mechanisms.”
Wholly-owned subsidiaries of Cosco Shipping Holdings and Shanghai International Port (Group) Co have made a voluntary cash offer to acquire Orient Overseas (International) Limited (Orient Overseas) in a deal worth up to USD6.3 billion.
Cosco ShippingHoldings, which was represented by law firm Paul Hastings in the acquisition, is the world’s fourth largest container shipping company and Orient Overseas is the world’s seventh largest container shipping company.
The proposed acquisition marks the latest consolidation in the global maritime industry and one of the largest M&A deals globally so far this year. The combined entity will become the world’s third largest container liner.
Yamibuy, an e-commerce site for Americans to purchase the best Asian snacks, beauty products, health supplements and home appliances, has closed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by GGV Capital, with participation from New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: EDU) and K2VC.
The investment, the company’s first round of institutional funding, was announced at a Jpress conference at Sofitel Wanda Beijing Hotel in Beijing, China. Yamibuy founder and CEO Alex Zhou was joined by GGV Capital managing partner Hans Tung, New Oriental general manager of investment business department Zheng Zhao and K2VC managing partner Shiyu Wang.
Efforts to improve gender diversity at UK hedge funds and private equity firms and other investment partnerships is slowly paying off, according to executive search specialists DHR International.
The firm reports that the number of female partners has increased faster than male partners in the last year.
DHR International’s analysis of data* provided by the FCA shows that the number of female partners at hedge funds and private equity firms increased by 8 per cent in the last year, whilst the number of male partners rose by just 2 per cent- indicating the efforts to improve diversity are paying
Ilany Labdaoui (pictured), has joined the Infrastructure Equity team of AXA IM – Real Assets as an Analyst, reporting to Mark Gilligan, Head of Infrastructure Equity.
Based in Paris, Labdaoui will draw upon his experience in both the fields of engineering and finance to originate and analyse prospective investments for the infrastructure equity business of the company. His qualification in engineering, specialising in energy, will be an important technical resource within the team.
Labdaoui’s appointment continues the strategic build out of the Infrastructure Equity team and follows the appointments of Jeff Woodard (Principal, London), Julien Gailleton (Principal, Paris) and
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