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Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, has launched IVP for Private Equity, an end-to-end solution designed to manage portfolio companies, deals, cash flows, water falls and expenses under one platform.
IVP for PE integrates the front, middle and back office across a single deal management platform, while combining in-built in deal analytics, centralised portfolio company data collection, predictive analytics, scenario analysis capabilities coupled with core data management functions to ensure accuracy, consistency and audit trails across data sources.
"PE firms are feeling the inherent limitations of reliance on excel,” says Gurvinder Singh (pictured),
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has named Jeremy Berry as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice.
Berry (pictured) will be based in New York.
Berry has experience in advising large private equity and hedge fund managers on matters involving private investment funds and complex corporate transactions, with a focus on private equity and hedge fund formation and other alternative investment matters.
"Jeremy brings a wealth of experience representing some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investment banks, as well as a broad range of other investment management clients," says David Greenwald, chairman of
Private equity firm TA Associates has promoted four investment staff members in the firm’s Boston, London and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January 2017.
“These talented individuals earned their promotions through the quality of their character and, consistent with their roles, demonstrated investment judgment, creativity and work ethic to generate positive investment performance for TA’s investors, as well as other meaningful contributions to the firm,” says Brian J Conway, chairman and managing partner at TA Associates. “We are pleased to recognise their accomplishments thus far and look forward to their continued contributions to TA Associates.”
Birker B Bahnsen has been promoted
Apex Fund Services has appointed Daniel Strachman as head of US business development.
Strachman (pictured) brings more than 20 years of financial services experience having held positions at Cantor Fitzgerald and Morgan Stanley.
He led A&C Advisors for 16 years delivering strategic guidance, counsel and support to investment management companies and institutional investors.
Strachman is the author of nine investment strategy books including “The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management and Getting Started in Hedge Funds”. In his new role at Apex he will drive US growth initiatives and deliver fund management clients with proactive fund administration solutions.
GFM has further strengthened its team with the appointment of Christine Gill (pictured) as Head of Content and Commercial for Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World.
Gill will be responsible for the evolution of client content across Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World and the development of client digital portfolios. She will be leading on the content and production of Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World global events (breakfast briefings, global private equity awards, forums and investor networking events) which are due to be launched later this year.
Gill joins from Aspermont Media where she was instrumental in
Hong Kong-headquartered Chateau Segonzac International Group has launched an international Winery mergers and acquisition fund in the United States.
Chateau Segonzac International owns Bordeaux-based Chateau Segonzac, a 40-hectare vineyard, which produces Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec. The company is jointly funded by Austchi Dragon and a number of other Hong Kong and Mainland China enterprises, and is looking to purchase more high-quality wineries worldwide, including the United States and Italy, in 2017.
"Our goal is to create added value for capital venture and investment fund, by building a bridge among investors, wine producers and consumers," says Kelvin Li, executive president of Chateau Segonzac International Group. Li says all wineries his company
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, has partnered with Altima Dental Centres, one of the largest dental services organisation in Canada. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Toronto, Altima’s clinic network includes offices across six provinces in Canada. Altima-affiliated practices have an excellent reputation for providing high-quality dental services and always putting patients first. Altima's strategy is to continue growing through affiliation with other dental offices throughout Canada.
“Altima is well known throughout the Canadian market for second-to-none care, top notch providers
Man Group has completed its previously announced acquisition of Aalto Invest Holding (Aalto).
Luke Ellis (pictured), CEO of Man Group, says: “We are delighted to have completed the acquisition of Aalto, which is a key step in the development of Man Global Private Markets, our new investment engine for private asset classes, and in the ongoing diversification of Man Group. The acquisition of Aalto represents an attractive opportunity for clients, who will have access to longer term investment strategies offering a complementary risk reward profile to our current products.”
Aalto will be a central component of the newly formed
Israeli high-tech companies closed 104 deals, totalling USD10 billion in exits, during 2016, according to the latest IVC-Meitar Exits Report. The figure includes 93 M&A deals with a total value of nearly USD8.8 billion including the USD4.4 billion Playtika acquisition.
Eight additional buyouts generated USD1.22 billion while three small IPOs garnered USD15.1 million.
The acquisition of Playtika by Chinese online gaming company Giant Interactive Group, for USD4.4 billion, was the largest deal of the year. According to the report’s editors, since it accounted for about 50 per cent of total M&A, and skews the data, it has been omitted from
French onshore wind specialist ENGIE has strengthened its partnership with Crédit Agricole Assurances by absorbing the onshore wind portfolio of MAÏA EOLIS, acquired in May 2016, into the two groups’ joint venture FEIH.
Under the agreement, the wind farms operated by MAÏA EOLIS – representing total installed capacity of 267 MW – will be transferred to FEIH, the joint venture established by ENGIE and Crédit Agricole Assurances. Since its creation in 2013, the partnership has allowed ENGIE, which had installed wind power capacity of over 1,700 MW at the end of 2016, to reduce its net debt by around EUR400
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