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Eden L Rohrer has joined the New York office of K&L Gates as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice.
She joins K&L Gates from Crowell & Moring.
Rohrer (pictured) concentrates her practice on broker-dealer regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters, including Self Regulatory Organisation (SRO) membership, employment, research, soft dollar arrangements, chaperoning of foreign broker-dealers, social media, anti-money laundering rules, securities offerings, and market making and trading issues.
She assists clients with responses to examinations and inquiries in a range of enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FINRA, NYSE, and state
EisnerAmper is to hold its second annual Alternative Investment Summit at the New-York Historical Society on 12 June, followed by an evening reception.
Anthony Scaramucci, founder and former co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker.
EisnerAmper’s summit is an invitation-only event exclusively for financial services executives, investors and key personnel within the alternative investment industry including analysts and portfolio managers. The event will feature highly interactive panel discussions on the latest issues and opportunities in the hedge fund and private equity markets and provide the opportunity for peer-to-peer networking.
Attendees will include chief
Winton Group has invested GBP750,000 as part of a GBP1.25 million investment round into Exonar, a specialist in compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR).
Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology investor, has joined Winton and existing angels in providing investment for Exonar.
The investment will be used to expand the availability of Exonar’s next generation Information Intelligence platform in Europe.
The GDPR is intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the EU and affects any organisation that holds data on European citizens.
Compliance with the regulation requires new
eQ Asset Management has established its first private credit fund, raising EUR90 million in a first and final closing on 31 March 2017.
eQ Private Credit Fund has 38 limited partners.
The fund invests in debt capital instruments issued by private equity sponsored European unlisted companies.
A minimum of 75 per cent of investments will consist of senior loans with best priority on collateral alongside bank loans. In addition, a maximum 25 per cent can be invested in junior loans. The portfolio will consist of 25-40 floating rate loans with a net target return of 6-7 per cent
Congenica, a specialist in clinical genomics software for inherited diseases, has completed a Series B funding round with additional investments from BGI Genomics, Healthlink Capital and Future Planet Capital.
Alongside investing, BGI Genomics and UniteGen, Healthlink’s associated clinical diagnostic lab, have signed commercial contracts to use Congenica’s proprietary enterprise software, Sapientia to support their operations in China.
These contracts represent Congenica’s first commercialisation in the territory.
Tom Weaver, CEO at Congenica, says: “This additional investment enhances our ability and commitment to deploy our software platform to international markets. Particularly China, where we have established a scalable partnering model
Global trends to increase allocations to alternative assets should give managers confidence in the future of Jersey’s funds industry, according to the chairman of the Jersey Funds Association (JFA).
Speaking at this year’s annual JFA Dinner (21 April) held at the Royal Jersey Showground, Mike Byrne (pictured) told an audience of over 400 funds professionals, senior politicians and regulatory representatives that moves amongst institutional investors were having a positive impact on the performance of Jersey’s funds industry.
Figures for the end of 2016 indicate that the total net asset value of funds under administration in Jersey stood at GBP260
David Sheasby, head of governance and sustainability at Martin Currie, has been appointed to the PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) ESG Engagements advisory committee.
Martin Currie’s experience in engagement with investee companies, as well as the considerable work Sheasby has done in this area, prompted the PRI’s appointment.
Sheasby says: “This is a great endorsement and reflection of the significant importance that Martin Currie has placed on active ownership and engagement over the years. We have worked increasingly closely with the PRI for some time and I am delighted to be joining its ESG Engagements advisory committee.
“The
MJ Hudson’s annual Private Equity Fund Terms Research for 2017 finds that there has been improved GP/LP alignment through stronger fund governance in the private equity world.
Noerr has advised listed venture capital company Aurelius Equity Opportunities on the largest exit in the company’s history to date – the sale of The Secop Group, which has production facilities and branches worldwide, to Japanese group Nidec at a valuation of EUR185 million.
At the same time, Aurelius has proposed that the dividends to be announced in the upcoming general meeting be doubled.
Secop is a global supplier of specialised compressors for refrigerators and freezers in the “household” and “light commercial” segments. Secop’s Household division is a leading supplier of compressors for refrigerators and freezers in Europe. Its
Energy Hunter Resources has closed a new GBP3 million funding round.
Total private capital raised since the formation of the company last year is approximately USD7 million, all of which has been raised from a combination of insiders and certain private individual investors.
This new capital commitment will allow the company to spud its first Eagle Ford Shale horizontal well, the Gap Band No2, located in Karnes County, Texas, the most prolific oil and gas producing county in the State of Texas, sometime later this month. The drilling pad has been constructed and is complete. Patterson UTI Drilling Rig
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