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Placement agent and advisory firm Eaton Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp, has appointed Bill McLeod (pictured), as a Managing Director.
He will continue to be based out of Stifel’s San Francisco office, establishing the eighth global office location for Eaton.
McLeod, an industry veteran with over 25 years of capital markets and investment banking experience, will focus on growing Eaton Partners’ direct private capital raising platform, advising clients on strategy and providing direct opportunities to investors across the globe. In addition, he will expand Eaton’s origination efforts in the acquisition of new fund clients across
UBS Financial Services has invested in iCapital Network, a financial technology platform providing access to alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals and their financial advisors, joining lead investor BlackRock as a strategic partner.
Founded in 2013, iCapital’s online platform offers the high-net-worth community access to a curated menu of alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity funds. As part of its offering, iCapital provides an end-to-end technology solution automating the unique subscription, administration and reporting processes of these investments, which have historically only been available to institutional investors. iCapital will use the infusion of capital to further develop the
FTI Consulting has appointed Adam Bradley as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Operational Transformation practice. He will be based in London.
Bradley will help accelerate the growth of FTI Consulting’s Operational Transformation capabilities in Europe and further expand its services to the private equity sector. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience and focuses on shaping and delivering large, complex and urgent business transformation and profit improvement programmes for private equity-backed businesses. He has extensive experience across multiple industries, in particular healthcare and life sciences, telecommunications, media and technology, infrastructure and business services.
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Atlantic-Pacific Capital has held the final closing of Growth Capital Partners Fund IV (Fund IV) with GBP205 million of capital commitments.
Fund IV received support from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public pension funds, corporate pension funds and investment management groups across the US and Europe.
“We are pleased to have partnered with Growth Capital Partners (GCP) on their fourth fundraise. Investors were very receptive to GCP’s distinct and differentiated strategy in the UK lower middle market, which has proven to generate strong results on a consistent basis. We congratulate the team on a successful fundraise,” says Richard
Hydrofarm, a leading wholesaler and manufacturer of hydroponics equipment and horticultural products, has secured a significant equity investment led by Serruya Private Equity Partners (SPE), a family managed private equity group.
Additional institutional investors included Hawthorn Equity Partners and affiliates of Broadband Capital Investments.
“We are very pleased to partner with Serruya Private Equity, which has a proven track record and a history of successfully investing in and building businesses. SPE has worked with both public and private companies to accelerate their growth,” says Chief Executive Officer of Hydrofarm, Peter Wardenburg. “It is the ideal time to add financial
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when they should be seen as the essential foundation.
The UK, rather than being a difficult place to do business for financial services firms, fosters growth with an active mix of regulators, investors and accelerators, and a government which is heavily involved in the economy. In fact, the UK’s regulator, the
Hamburg-based private equity firm CEE has expanded its wind power portfolio with teh acquisition of an additional German wind farm in Lüdersdorf, Brandenburg from Danish company European Energy A/S.
The wind farm consists of two turbines (type Vestas V112). The hub height is 140m, the rotor diameter is 112m, and the wind farm’s overall capacity is 6.6 megawatts (MW). The turbines, which were commissioned in May, will deliver environmentally friendly power for about 5,000 households each year. CEE Operations, which manages the CEE Group’s power plant portfolio, is responsible for the commercial side. The seller of the wind farm is
North West UK-based Mowgli Street Food, an Indian restaurant street food chain, has successfully secured GBP3.45m in expansion funding from Foresight Group, an independent infrastructure, private equity and investment manager.
The M&A and private equity team at audit, tax and consulting firm RSM advised Mowgli Street Food.
Founded by Nisha Katona in Liverpool in 2014, Mowgli Street Food is a chain of Indian street food restaurants with sites in Bold Street and Water Street in Liverpool and at the Corn Exchange in Manchester.
The funding secured from Foresight will support the business’s roll-out of restaurants across the UK,
Octopus Ventures has added Priscila Bala, former Director of the Mentor Network at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, to the team in the firm’s New York office.
Bala will work hand-in-hand with the firm’s London team and play a crucial role in supporting its existing portfolio scope, test and enter the US market as effectively as possible.
Bala has a wide variety of experience working in investment banking, consulting, fundraising and business development. Prior to joining Octopus Ventures she served as Director of the Mentor Network at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute where she was responsible for connecting ventures to experienced advisers as
In the face of costly regulation and a low margin environment, asset managers are increasingly recognising the need to overhaul the current industry model in order to stay profitable, according to a new survey by Multifonds.
The investment software and fund accounting firm’s Every Fund Survey 2017, conducted among more than 200 professionals in the global asset management industry, found that disruption in the industry may now be inevitable after almost two thirds (65 per cent) of asset managers believe profitability will decrease in the next 12 months. As a result, more than nine in 10 (92 per cent) respondents
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