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Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firms focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has appointed Dr Teh Kok Peng to its Advisory Board.
Peng, was President of GIC Special Investments from April 1999 to June 2011, and remained an Adviser to GIC’s Group Executive Committee for two years after that. Prior to that, he was concurrently a deputy managing director of GIC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Peng obtained a first class honours economics degree at La Trobe University in Australia, a PhD at Nuffield College, Oxford University and attended the AMP course at Harvard Business School
Koger has added fundraising and deal flow modules to its Pentas platform for private equity firms. Pentas streamlines and automates the administration of PE funds and works with all fund structures, including pure private equity funds, master feeder and fund of funds.
“With these modules, we provide private equity firms with a comprehensive platform that automates both the back and front office. The fundraising and deal flow modules are optional add-ons to our Pentas software that we can easily turn on as clients want them,” says Ras Sipko, Koger Chief Operating Officer.
Pentas provides PE fund managers with increased
Nexxus Capital is exit its investment in Moda Holding, a holding company with the primary purpose of acting as a diversified platform of brands in the apparel retail industry in Mexico, such as Dorothy Gaynor (dress and casual footwear) and Zingara (swimwear & beachwear).
Nexxus Capital first invested in Moda Holding in August, 2011.
The divestment will be made through Nexxus IV&V, once certain closing conditions are met, including the approval from Mexico’s Antitrust Authority. Once the closing conditions are met, Moda Holding will be acquired by Acritus, a Mexican company dedicated to the design, distribution and sale of fashion
JP Morgan Asset Management has hired two seasoned private credit investors, Brad Demong and Leander Christofides, to join its Alternatives business as co-CIOs of a new Global Special Situations group.
Demong and Christofides previously held senior roles in JP Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank, most recently managing Leverage & Distressed Private Side Research and Trading for the EMEA region. They left the firm in 2016, and will now re-join effective today. Demong and Christofides will be based in New York and London, respectively.
The team managed by Demong and Christofides will operate globally and will report into Co-Managing Partners of JP
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of services and solutions to alternative asset managers, has launched a new regulatory filing service for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II).
The new service forms part of the overall regulatory reporting platform known as IVP RAPTOR.
MiFID II will be taking effect on 3 January, 2018 and will have ramifications across asset classes, systems, data and processes for any financial institution that trades in European financial markets. By using IVP RAPTOR Managed Services for MiFID II, asset managers can achieve a seamless and efficient transition to MiFID II compliant
Global private equity investor Advent International (Advent) has agreed to acquire IPH, a European industrial supplies distributor, from European private equity firm PAI Partners.
IPH distributes industrial supplies for maintenance and production applications in Europe. It offers power transmission products, machining solutions, industrial supply solutions and product-related services. IPH serves a range of industries, including heavy industry, chemical and pharmaceutical, food-processing, energy, transport, automotive, petrochemicals, and mechanical engineering industries. In 2016, IPH generated revenues of EUR1.3 billion.
Advent, which took private Brammer Limited (Brammer) from the London Stock Exchange earlier this year, intends to combine IPH with Brammer, to
The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates has added David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins K&L Gates from international private equity firm Quantum Global Group, and previously practiced with international law firms in London, New York, and Chicago.
Dueno concentrates his practice on mergers, acquisitions, private equity, and finance in domestic and cross-border transactions in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa. He represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, venture capital funds, and public and private companies across a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, financial services,
Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has closed its first secondary market trading window having delivered impressive 10x returns for some investors.
Until Seedrs announced the launch of its secondary market, the long-term nature of the early stage equity asset class meant that the vast majority of shares would remain illiquid for some time and investors would need to wait for an exit event such as an IPO or a sale of the business.
The Seedrs secondary market is already changing that. The first trading window opened on Tuesday 6 June and has given investors the opportunity to sell shares in
Yorkshire-headquartered digital agency Ingenuity Digital Holdings Limited (IDHL) has completed a management buyout (MBO) of the business supported by a funding package from HSBC and Frontier Development Capital (FDC).
The investments from HSBC and FDC follow a period of consistent growth for IDHL and a record financial performance in 2016, with revenues exceeding GBP10.5 million. The MBO, which values the business at GBP30 million, has provided an excellent return for exiting investors and enables the senior management team to become majority shareholders.
Founded in 2000, IDHL’s 17-year track record has seen it become one of the UK’s largest full-service
The Borletti Group has selected Societe Generale Securities Services’ (SGSS) external dealing desk I-DEAL to provide outsourced trader oirder routing and execution services.
With I-DEAL, the Borletti Group’s asset management activities will benefit throughout the entire trading value chain from order placement, routing and execution, to dedicated reporting services (operational, regulatory, client …) and market middle office services. These activities are carried out in strict compliance with the regulatory requirements in effect, notably best execution applicable under the MiFID II directive, and help reduce operational risk with straight-through-processing.
Outsourcing the trade order execution process enables the Borletti Group
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