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Ultimus Fund Solutions, an independent provider of mutual fund, pooled investment and middle office services, has appointed Bill Tomko as an executive vice president, director of fund servicing.
Tomko has nearly 30 years of third party fund administration experience, including time spent servicing mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds.
His varied executive experience includes operations, relationship management, strategic planning and sales.
In this new role at Ultimus, Tomko will be responsible for fund accounting, financial administration, transfer agency, new client implementations and relationship management.
Gary Tenkman (pictured), COO and managing director of Ultimus, says: “I
Ivalua, a spend management software company headquartered in Redwood City, California and Paris, has raised USD70 million in growth equity minority funding from KKR.
KKR will become a new shareholder alongside the founders and Ardian, which invested in Ivalua in 2011.
Spend management software is increasingly becoming a strategic tool for businesses as it boosts profitability by streamlining procurement processes, putting an end to rogue spending and managing all vendors and contracts through a centralised platform. The USD24.5 billion spend management market is developing rapidly and emerging as a highly dynamic segment of the broader software-as-a-service (SaaS) market.
Elliott Management, led by its Menlo Park affiliate Evergreen Coast Capital, has completed an investment in ASG Technologies, a Florida-based enterprise IT software company with products in content management, systems management, workspaces and enterprise data intelligence.
Elliott intends to invest additional capital in ASG going forward to support the company’s ongoing organic growth strategy and to bolster growth through acquisitions.
Enterprises are facing a complicated set of challenges when it comes to both understanding and optimising the information that flows throughout their organisations. ASG Technologies provides the software solutions businesses need to overcome these challenges by enabling streamlined information
KL Outdoor, maker of Sun Dolphin kayaks, and GSC Technologies, maker of Future Beach kayaks, are to combine to form a single company.
“The merger will create the largest kayak company in the world,” says Mark Becker, partner at Boca Raton-based private equity firm New Water Capital.
Affiliates of New Water Capital completed significant investments in KL Outdoor in December 2016 and GSC Technologies on 7 April 2017.
The merger is expected to result in a company with increased capacity to accommodate fast growing customer demands, a broader product offering and brand portfolio, strengthened financial standing and multiple
GK Strategy and sister digital agency onefourzero have appointed Justin Ash as chairman.
Ash takes up his new part-time position this week.
He was previously chief executive officer of Oasis Dental Care, where he grew the business to become the largest private dental provider in the UK, culminating in its sale in November 2016 from European private equity house Bridgepoint to Bupa for GBP835 million.
Prior to Oasis Dental Group, Ash was UK managing director of Lloyds Pharmacy.
The appointment comes after a strong financial year for GK and onefourzero, which saw the businesses grow in excess
Stephen Delaney has been made a partner of Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm.
At the same time, Antonia Cheong and Guy Yarrow have been promoted to investment director.
Delaney leads Bowmark’s technology practice and, most recently, led the firm’s investment in Node4, the fast-growing IT solutions provider. He joined Bowmark in 2014 from Darwin Private Equity.
Cheong joined Bowmark from DC Advisory in 2014 and is a member of the firm’s business services and healthcare teams. She has been involved in a number of Bowmark’s investments, and she sits on the board of PSH, one of the
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) have signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nord Anglia Education.
Funds affiliated with BPEA are the majority shareholders of Nord Anglia and BPEA controls 67 per cent of Nord Anglia's issued and outstanding share capital.
The transaction values Nord Anglia at USD 4.3 billion, including repayment of debt.
The transaction is subject to shareholder approval and customary closing conditions.
Nord Anglia is a premium schools organisation. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nord Anglia was founded in 1972.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is continuing the expansion of its finance and private equity practices with the addition of Joshua Samis, who joins as partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
Samis, previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has represented many of the country’s leading and most sophisticated private equity sponsors, private and public companies and commercial lending institutions.
He has broad experience in structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts, secured and unsecured financing transactions, recapitalisations and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings.
“Josh is a highly respected finance lawyer with extensive
After reaching 10,000 participants with its crowd sale raising USD4 million, Humaniq is launching a new innovation centre in Cambridge.
This expansion will enhance the capabilities of Humaniq to solve critical and chronic issues of the world by repurposing Artificial Intelligence and DeepTech for social good and enabling scientists and entrepreneurs to solve the problems facing humanity.
“This new innovation centre will provide an opportunity to be part of a lasting and growing ecosystem which has found success in many areas of innovation and which Humaniq will be able to contribute to and learn from as we grow,” says
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Paula Drake as managing director and general counsel.
Drake will oversee all aspects of HarbourVest’s legal and compliance functions across the globe.
“As HarbourVest continues to grow and expand our solutions and investment capabilities, our primary focus remains on delivering high-quality service to our clients and partners, and this includes staying ahead of changing regulatory dynamics in the global private markets,” says John Toomey, managing director, HarbourVest. “We already have robust legal and compliance functions in place, as well as a strong control environment, and with the addition of
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