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Solium Capital, a provider of software-as-a-service for equity administration, financial reporting and compliance, has entered into a preferred partnership with Nasdaq Private Market.
Under the terms of the related agreements, Solium will enable NPM customers to manage their cap tables and share plans through Solium’s Shareworks platform, as well as access Nasdaq Private Market’s secondary liquidity technology.
“With the proliferation of companies choosing to remain private longer, private company investors and employees are increasingly seeking a mechanism that enables them to have liquidity events,” says Marcos Lopez (pictured), Solium CEO. “Nasdaq Private Market is the thought leader when it comes to helping private companies execute liquidity-related functions. This partnership will provide our private market customers with access to both NPM’s secondary liquidity technology as well as an opportunity to explore the
Westbridge portfolio company ISG Technology has appointed Jonathan McKay as non-executive chairman.
McKay has a strong background in strategic development, sales, marketing and general management, gained in the technology sector.
He is currently chairman at JustGiving, the UK’s largest online fundraising platform; La Fosse Associates; Driftrock; Cambridge Broadband; and Forward Partners. He is also an advisory board member of Ventech China.
Prior to these appointments, McKay had a successful career in high growth software companies, including Sun Microsystems where he worked both in the UK and the US. He has accumulated a wealth of experience in the formulation
Alternatives have become a more mature option for institutional allocators, yet the reporting obligations fueled by the constantly evolving regulatory landscape has become a challenge for a large number of alternative fund managers.
Whereas a decade ago, alternative fund managers could get away with basic investor reporting, delivered almost as an afterthought, in today’s marketplace the frequency and level of reporting detail that investors expect has risen substantially. This applies to all alternative products, not just hedge funds, as institutions look to gain a clear handle on how their entire portfolio is performing.
In Ernst & Young’s 2016 Global Hedge
Hamilton Lane has appointed Lydia A Gavalis as general counsel and Frederick W Shaw as chief compliance officer, effective as 1 April.
Robert Cleveland, who served as general counsel at the firm for more than 16 years, will retire at the end of March.
Gavalis (pictured), who had previously served as deputy general counsel, will assume responsibility for all legal affairs globally.
“Bob has been an invaluable part of Hamilton Lane’s success and evolution, and it is with deep appreciation and gratitude that we thank him for his service and wish him well in his retirement,” says Mario
HIG Middle Market (HIG), the middle market investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has appointed Andrew Freeman, formerly a partner at Paine & Partners, as a managing director in the firm’s San Francisco middle market team.
Freeman will focus on making LBO investments in the food and agribusiness sectors and will be responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction structuring, financing, and post-investment strategy development and value-creation execution.
HIG Middle Market invests in a wide range of industries, with deep expertise in virtually all segments of the economy. Through recapitalisations and private sales, corporate divestitures, and
French private equity market participants raised EUR14.7 billion in global commitments during 2016, up 51 per cent relative to 2015, according to a report from the Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance (AFIC) and Grant Thornton.
These funds will be largely invested in French companies over the next five years.
Of the total raised, EUR4.1 billion came from just one Paris-based private equity firm, while 45 per cent came from abroad.
The share of foreign investors increased relative to the 10-year average. They accounted for 45 per cent of total fundraising in 2016 (compared with 37 per
In today’s unpredictable world, it’s more critical than ever that investment managers and advisers establish plans to keep their businesses from experiencing undue harm. Daily business operations can be impacted by a wide variety of scenarios– from the most threatening, large-scale disasters (like terrorism, natural disasters, etc.) to more common, user-provoked errors. But regardless of the size and scope of the disruption, today’s financial firms are often ill-prepared to restore operations in a timely manner – and with minimal impact to the firm.
In 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed Rule 206(4)-4, requiring registered investment advisors (RIA) to
Vantage Power, a London-based hybrid powertrain manufacturer for buses, has secured GBP2.5 million in funding with the former CEO of Barclays Corporate Banking, John Winter, leading the round.
The round also included investment from the Angel CoFund and Till Becker, ex-board member, president and CEO of Daimler Asia, Turkey, India.
Winter and Becker are joining the board of Vantage Power.
Vantage Power, founded by Alexander Schey and Toby Schulz in 2011, manufactures hybrid systems for both new buses and those already on the road – a retrofit solution which can convert four traditional diesel buses into fuel-efficient hybrids
Sealed Air Corporation is to sell its Diversey Care division and the food hygiene and cleaning business within its Food Care division (New Diversey) to Bain Capital Private Equity for approximately USD3.2 billion.
New Diversey will be a leading hygiene and cleaning solutions company that integrates chemicals, floor care machines, tools and equipment, with a wide range of technology based value-added services, food safety services and water and energy management.
It will continue to employ approximately 8,600 people globally.
Diversey Care and the related food hygiene businesses combined generated net sales of approximately USD2.6 billion in 2016.
Keli Network, a video publisher that builds vertical social channels and distributes content aimed at millennials, has raised USD2 million from investors including Partech Ventures, Broadway Video Ventures, OneRagTime (the venture platform co-founded by Jean-Marie Messier), and several angel investors.
This funding will help fund expansion and exposure of Keli Network’s videos on mobile and social platforms, which in one year has grown to more than 500 million monthly views, mostly in the US.
Leveraging its in-house proprietary trend detector technology “Keli Pulse,” Keli intents to reach over one billion monthly videos views in the coming months.
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