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Greenstone Equity Partners, a fund placement firm based in the Middle East, has hired Sean Kearney as chief operating officer and Khalid Alkelabi as managing director, investor relationships.
Kearney (pictured) is an emerging markets banking professional with a 23-year career devoted to identifying and managing risk. His key responsibilities will include operations team leadership, lead-managing the implementation of internal control framework enhancements, running regulatory processes and overseeing strategic change management.
Prior to joining Greenstone, Kearney worked for a decade at UBS in London and Dubai. In his last position with the firm as group COO, Middle East and North
Altus Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on middle market manufacturing companies in the US, has sold Rocla Concrete Tie, based in Denver, Colorado, to German-based rail infrastructure supplier Vossloh Group.
Altus Capital realised an estimated 4.5x return on its equity, made through Altus Capital Partners II in May 2013.
Founded in 1986, Rocla manufactures pre-stressed concrete railroad ties and turnout ties for Class I railroads, commuter passenger operations, transit authorities and industrial operations.
Altus Capital acquired Rocla to participate in the expected need of superior and durable concrete ties that reduce maintenance and prolong rail life.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has completed the equity investment by CD&R-managed funds and existing management in Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The new partnership with CD&R will enable Drive to continue its organic growth strategy, as well as provide Drive with additional capital to pursue future acquisitions, which is expected to result in continued growth in the years ahead.
Formed in 2000, Drive has become a leading manufacturer of durable medical equipment with a strong and consistent track record of growth achieved both organically and through acquisitions.
The company’s product portfolio,
Peter Brown has been appointed head of funds at RBS International to drive the expansion of the bank’s offering to the alternative funds sector.
Brown (pictured) has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate and institutional banking, and most recently headed up the RBS Financial Institutions Group in the UK, which included the RBS funds banking business in London.
Prior to that, he was one of the founding members of the RBS mid-market leveraged finance business, delivering multi-million-pound buyout transactions alongside key private equity sponsors.
Brown now leads a funds banking team that supports more than 1,000 fund
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, and Five Arrows Principal Investments, the private equity business of Rothschild Merchant Banking, are to sell Autodata, a European provider of technical information to the automotive aftermarket.
Autodata is being sold to Solera Holdings for GBP340 million.
Solera is a provider of risk and asset management software and services to the automotive and property marketplace. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to complete in February 2017.
Established in 1975, Autodata publishes technical information on approximately 40,000 vehicle models from 136 manufacturers. ts products provide over 90,000 professional workshops
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ portfolio company, The WW Williams Company, has acquired Desert Fleet-Serv (DFS), a mobile provider of onsite maintenance and repair services for diesel trucks and trailers.
Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Phoenix, DFS's ASE-certified technicians provide a range of commercial vehicle maintenance and repair services, including diesel engine diagnostic, lubrication and other related services. Founded in 1995, the company has more than 200 customers in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
"DFS has been a driving force in the onsite fleet maintenance and mechanical repair service of
Dash Financial is to merge with LiquidPoint to create a new trading technology solutions provider focused on the options and equities markets.
Dash Financial is an institutional trading technology, execution and analytics provider, while LiquidPoint is a provider of options technology and routing services to the sell-side and exchange communities.
Private equity firm GTCR will be contributing LiquidPoint from portfolio company Convergex to merge it with Dash.
The combined entity will operate as Dash Financial Technologies and be majority owned by GTCR. It will have a 13 per cent market share in the US options agency execution space. The independent
The pace of technological change is unrelenting. The Internet of Things and the rise of the gig economy are changing the way that businesses and consumers interact with each other. It is therefore incumbent upon the asset management industry to embrace technological change and reimagine what is a tried and tested business model. More than ever, fund managers are having to innovate to operate more efficiently, more transparently, and in closer harmony with their end investors.
As this report will show, there are five disruptive technological trends (as defined by five key companies) today that have, over recent years, prompted global
TMF Group has appointed Matthias Pelzer to its alternative investments senior leadership team.
Based in Luxembourg and most recently a commercial director at a local trust and corporate service provider, Pelzer joins TMF Group as senior director, alternative investments.
In his new position, Pelzer is responsible for developing TMF Group’s alternative investments service offering for funds and corporate entities both locally, and at a global level.
Pelzer says: “Having been in the alternative investments industry for years across the entire spectrum of asset management, TMF Group is uniquely positioned to partner with funds on their growth journey. I
NVM has completed a significant investment to support the management buy-out of Cheshire based Thyson Technology from a private investor group.
Thyson is a specialist analytical and instrumentation business, which designs and constructs engineering solutions used in the analysis and sampling of gases and liquids for process industries engaged in activities such as fossil fuel extraction, processing and distribution, green energy production, water treatment, petrochemicals and nuclear.
Thyson has designed, built and commissioned analyser systems for a large number of blue chip companies across a variety of sectors with facilities around the globe. Current customers include the National Grid, BP,
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