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Everest Re Group has launched the Alternative Solution Group at Everest Specialty Underwriters, offering transactional risk insurance as well as professional and management liability insurance on both a primary and excess basis to private equity firms and hedge funds.
Robert Clark has been appointed to the position of Vice President to head up this new unit. Robert joined Everest in late 2015 from Axis Insurance Company, where he was Vice President of the Private Equity Group. Prior to that, Robert worked for Moody’s Investor Service as an analyst for the P&C Insurance Team, which included responsibility for a portfolio of
Bryan, Garnier & Co, a pan-European Investment Bank focusing on growth companies, has appointed Pierre Kiecolt-Wahl as Managing Director, ECM, where he will lead Bryan, Garnier & Co’s equity capital markets efforts throughout Europe.
“Over the past 15 years, Pierre has gained significant experience in advising innovative growth companies and investors in our core sectors of expertise, dealing with a wide variety of situations in more than twenty different markets across Europe, Asia and the US,” says Greg Revenu, Managing Partner and co-founder of the group. “He adds critical insight and equity capital market expertise to our firm, so we
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Colin Stirling as a senior business advisor in the Global Corporate Practice. Stirling was previously a partner at private equity fund manager Spirit Capital in Leeds.
Stirling has over 20 years’ experience in private equity investment. Having qualified as an accountant with KPMG, he moved into corporate finance, specialising in providing buy and sell side advice to private equity investors. Stirling then worked for NatWest Ventures and Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity, before participating in two management buy-outs to create private equity fund managers Bridgepoint and Spirit Capital.
Leeds private equity partner, Jonathan Jones,
Despite the significant changes made to European pension business models since the financial crisis, a more fundamental behavioural shift is needed to address the yawning gap that exists between the rhetoric of governance improvements in recent years and their reality on the ground.
That’s according to Sally Bridgeland and Professor Amin Rajan in their 300 Club paper entitled Governance practices: Bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality.
European pensions have made some notable improvements in governance practices, asset allocation and execution capabilities as the last decade demonstrated that the assumptions about risk and return underpinning the traditional asset allocation strategy
Invest Europe’s 2015 European Private Equity Activity report finds that private equity investment into European companies increased by 14 per cent to EUR47.4 billion in 2015, along with high fundraising and exit activity.
The trade association’s report provides verified data gathered directly from more than 1,200 European private equity firms, covering 91 per cent of the EUR564 billion in capital under management in Europe.
Almost 5,000 companies across Europe benefited from private equity and venture capital investment last year. Of these, 86 per cent were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and nearly half of the total attracted private equity
iCapital Network, an online platform that provides high-net-worth investors and their advisors with streamlined access to a curated selection of private investments, has added three senior members to the firm’s distribution team.
Eileen Duff joins the firm as Head of Distribution from Credit Suisse, where she was Head of Alternative Investments, North America. Peter Montgomery, most recently with the Alternative Investments group at Credit Suisse, and Ryan Van Geons, most recently Vice President with Fidelity Investments, both join as senior members of the Distribution team.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Eileen, Peter and Ryan, each of whom brings a
Bijal N Vira has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a corporate finance partner, based in the firm's New York office. Vira joins from Winston & Strawn.
Vira's practice is focused on representing investors and committed funds in their equity investment and/or lending activities, and his experience is comprehensive and covers all major investment classes. He advises leveraged buyout (LBO) funds and family wealth offices in platform and add-on acquisitions, senior and subordinate financing, and the subsequent harvesting of such investments; private credit funds, business development companies and small business investment company funds in secured and unsecured debt and
E8 Storage, an early-stage enterprise storage company based in Israel, today announces a USD12 million Series B financing round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures.
The investment will help the company to launch its next-generation flash storage with a rack-scale architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud.
As new generations of high-performance enterprise applications come to market, businesses are trying to find ways to improve the performance and latency of their data centres. This has led to the introduction of NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), a new standard of flash storage which
The UK-based White Car, which is set to disrupt the self-drive car hire sector, will launch a new service in August 2016 allowing customers from around the world to hire a Tesla Model S 90D for a simple all-inclusive fee of GBP149 including VAT, via the White Car app.
The company, whose initial fleet will be based at Heathrow Airport, has launched a GBP250,000 fundraise on Crowdcube with a company valuation of GBP750,000 post funding.
White Car, which is already taking pre-bookings at www.whitecar.eu ahead of its launch in August, will redefine the often cumbersome and inefficient self-drive car
DiscountRamps.com, a n online retailer of hauling and transportation products and a Rotunda Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired Heavy Duty Ramps LLC, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of aluminium ramps.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Utilising its patented designs, Kewaskum, Wisconsin-based Heavy Duty Ramps creates and distributes ramps, loading systems and other products for use with trucks, trailers, airplanes and many other applications. Discount Ramps offers more than 11,000 products, primarily servicing the powersports, mobility, recreational, commercial, transportation, military and industrial markets.
Discount Ramps and Heavy Duty Ramps have had a longstanding strategic partnership,
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