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AMP Capital has made a number of changes to its leadership team, designed to better support clients and the firm’s future growth in key asset classes and regions.
Craig Keary, currently AMP Capital director of Australia and New Zealand, will become AMP Capital director, Asia Pacific. Keary will retain responsibility for Australia and New Zealand and assume leadership of AMP Capital’s operations in Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Currently based in Sydney, Keary will relocate to Asia in the coming months.
Anthony Fasso, currently AMP Capital director, Asia, and global head of portfolio strategy based in Hong Kong, has expressed
Elvie, the female-led British company dedicated to developing smarter technology for women’s health and lifestyle, has raised GBP5 million in a series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures with participation from female focused VC AllBright.
Previous investors include Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen, iCAP founder Michael Spencer, Nicole Junkermann, founder of NJF Capital, and Lulu founder Alexandra Chong.
Elvie will use the funds to roll out into 25 additional countries across America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, as well as launch a second device, all before the end of 2017.
Elvie's first product, which went to market in October
Marwyn Value Investors has launched a new management platform, Wilmcote Holdings, in partnership with Adrian Whitfield, who has been appointed as its chief executive officer.
Whitfield recently spent nine years implementing a turnaround and growth strategy at Synthomer, the UK listed specialty polymer operator.
Over his nine year tenure, he more than doubled operating profits and increased Synthomer's market capitalisation from circa GBP300 million to over GBP800 million. Synthomer (formerly known as Yule Catto & Co.) is a global manufacturer of specialty polymers for the coatings, construction, textiles, paper and healthcare industries.
Prior to Whitfield's role at Synthomer,
Law firm Reed Smith has appointed Parik Dasgupta as a partner in the firm’s global corporate group in New York.
Dasgupta was most recently a partner in the New York office of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).
The addition of Dasgupta complements Reed Smith’s addition of 50 former KWM attorneys who joined its London, Munich, Frankfurt and Paris offices in January.
“Parik’s practice is a great fit for our corporate group and, in particular, our strong and growing funds practice. His high-end fund formation experience in connection with private equity and venture capital funds is a perfect addition to
McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Ian Schwartz as a partner in the firm’s corporate and transactional practice group in the New York office.
Schwartz will be head of the firm’s investment funds practice with a focus on fund formation and a particular emphasis on the formation of private equity funds.
Schwartz comes from an AmLaw 100 firm where he counselled private fund clients in the structuring, establishment, and operation of their funds. He also has experience advising funds and their investment advisers on the legal and regulatory compliance aspects of fund formation.
"Ian's focus on private equity investment
HIG Bayside Capital, a special situations affiliate of private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG), has sold its portfolio company Ready Pac Foods to Bonduelle SA.
Based in Irwindale, California, Ready Pac is the market leader in the rapidly growing single-serve salad market through its Bistro Bowl line of products, as well as a supplier of other vegetable, fruit and snack products.
The company services its national network of blue-chip retail and foodservice customers through its four production facilities in the US.
Bayside recapitalised the company in 2007, and over the last decade has supported the company’s investments in
RavenPack, a big data analytics provider for financial services, has launched a self-service data and visualisation platform that enables financial professionals to analyse unstructured data for investing and trading and to support risk management and compliance.
The platform allows users to monitor market-moving events, and quickly surface insights by combining a wide variety of data sets, including stock prices, geopolitical events, newsflow, social media activity, payments data, weather, apps, and data from the internet of things.
By using RavenPack’s proprietary sentiment analysis technology, investors can generate predictive insights and evaluate investment opportunities in real time.
The new platform
Malta will benefit more than any other financial centre in Europe from Brexit, according to international asset management firm Managing Partners Group (MPG).
While Malta offers financial firms wishing to operate in the European Union several benefits, the alternatives all have serious flaws that make them comparatively less attractive, MPG says.
MPG’s capital markets team will be expanding on the company’s views at The Malta Solution – Ahead of the Curve seminar in London on 30 March.
Jeremy Leach (pictured), chief executive officer at MPG, says: “Malta will be the biggest beneficiary following Brexit. After London, it should
Aurelius Equity Opportunities, a pan-European mid-market investor, has made four appointments in its London office.
Karun Dhir and Thomas Pinks have joined the group’s London-based investment team and will assist in the sourcing and execution of Aurelius’ UK investments.
Timothy (Tim) Spillane and Amar Gulati have both joined Aurelius’ UK operational taskforce.
Dhir has over 12 years’ of M&A and Investment experience and specialises in distressed and turnaround situations. Dhir joins Aurelius from Gordon Brothers, where he was responsible for originating and executing investments from across the UK and Europe. Dhir has previously held positions at Lloyds Banking
ZEDRA, an independent fund specialist in trust, corporate and fund services, has placed an order with Sovos – the tax compliance software experts – for its AEOI Reporting solution.
Once implemented, the solution will help ZEDRA meet the demands of its tax, compliance and reporting obligations.
More than 100 tax jurisdictions have committed to the OECD’s global standard on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) with 54 early adopters undertaking their first exchanges this year. The remaining 47 jurisdictions will exchange in 2018.
The OECD’s AEOI initiative lifts the burden associated with tax compliance with a solution that enables
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