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PwC Legal has appointed dual qualified banking partner Laetitia Costa as Head of the Banking and Finance Team in London.
Costa previously worked for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in London, where she was a partner in that firm’s Leveraged Finance Group. She will be responsible for driving further development of the PwC Legal banking and finance offering and overseeing its continued growth. Costa has over 15 years' experiences in leveraged finance, real estate and debt restructuring transactions advising arrangers, funds, private equity firms and corporations.
She advises on all type of senior and subordinated financings for domestic
Laven Legal Services to continue alternative funds expansion
Clients of Laven Legal Services, the law firm linked to Laven Partners, are to move to London-based law firm GRM Law’s expanding alternative funds and financial services team, led by partners Alper Deniz and David Egan.
In Luxembourg, GRM Law will partner with MMS Legal Services to provide a package of English law and Luxembourg Law advice within a single offering.
Since its foundation in 2005, Laven Partners has expanded into providing a range of services including compliance consulting (amongst which UK regulatory hosting), and due diligence on compliance and operational risks.
BGF has invested GBP5 million in Pinnacle Technology Group plc, (PINN) an AIM-listed provider of ‘IT as a Service’. The funding will support the acquisition of Cheshire-headquartered adept4 and Pinnacle’s longer term growth strategy.
Pinnacle provides ‘IT as a Service’ predominantly to small and mid-sized businesses. In the past four months, the company has acquired The Weston Group, a provider of business telecoms services and Ancar-B, an IT services company. Both businesses are headquartered in Yorkshire.
The acquisition of adept4, along with the integration of The Weston Group and Ancar-B, will add significant scale to the Group’s platform and
Fiera Capital Corporation’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Fiera US Holding Inc, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Apex Capital Management, a US growth equity manager with approximately USD7 billion in assets under management.
Apex becomes part of Fiera Capital's US division.
This transaction more than doubles Fiera Capital's presence in the US institutional and sub-advisory retail markets and increases total AUM to over CAD107 billion. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive, adding a 10-15 per cent accretion to adjusted earnings per share ("EPS") within the first full year post closing.
"We are pleased to have officially completed this
App-X, a provider of flexible, web-based software solutions for alternative asset fund managers, institutional investors, and impact investors, has launched AIM Inbox powered by ZynBit, a new feature designed to integrate the AIM solution on the Salesforce platform into Microsoft Outlook.
App-X partnered with ZynBit to develop an inbox solution that fits the needs of Private Equity clients. This partnership integrates ZynBit’s Outlook software with AIM making it possible for users to view, edit, and create data without ever leaving Outlook.
“Many of our Private Equity clients utilise Microsoft Outlook, and despite the options that exist, we felt it was
Private equity firm Angeles Equity Partners has acquired, through an affiliated entity, a controlling interest in ERP Power, an LED driver business based in Moorpark, CA. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Angeles Equity Partners is partnering with ERP management to realise the company’s full growth potential and drive consolidation in the sector. The deal leverages the Angeles Equity Partners team’s previous power electronics sector investment experience and operational transformation expertise.
“ERP is recognised by the market as a leading provider of LED drivers that are enabling the evolution from analog to digital in the lighting industry.
NewAlpha Asset Management’s French venture capital fund dedicated to Fintech companies has made it’s second investment in ITrust, allowing the cyber security software solutions specialist to raise EUR2 million.
Boosted by the growing confidence of users and regulatory authorities, the development of digital technology in financial services is accelerating with the proliferation of innovations introduced by Fintech start-ups. As such, cyber security has become one of the prerequisites for the development of these new financial services and, moreover, for the sustainability of all players in the financial industry: banks, insurance companies, and payment or electronic banking players.
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Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to EZLegacy Ltd on its sale to IBM.
The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016. The acquisition of EZSource further strengthens Mooreland Partners' position as a leading global M&A advisor on transatlantic, strategic transactions in the Enterprise Software segment.
Headquartered in Israel, EZSource is an application discovery company that helps software developers quickly and easily understand and change mainframe code based on data displayed on a
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK VII Fund, together with existing management, is to acquire NeTel Group AB, a Nordic infranet service provider to telecom operators, utilities and municipalities, from Axcel.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is subject to legal and regulatory approvals, have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of PEAB, a Swedish construction and civil engineering company, Netel has grown to become a leading Nordic service provider for communication and electrical networks, offering services ranging from planning and project management to design and maintenance. With its turnkey solutions, project management expertise and strong focus on
UK BBQ chain Porky’s BBQ has already raised over GBP100k via Crowdcube.com after launching on 1 June. With five restaurants in London and another two openings planned this year, investors have given the raise an initial boost as they look to reach a total of GBP650k before 30 June.
The largest investment on the first day, giving the restaurant over 13.5 per cent of the final goal, came in at GBP88k. Other backers have been boosting figures with smaller pledges, and all of those involved are set to benefit from equity and prize incentives if the campaign succeeds.
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