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Andrew James Lom, an investment management lawyer, has joined the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office as a partner.
Lom (pictured) comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. He represents global asset managers, investors and private companies in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters.
In his asset and wealth management practice, Lom advises clients on fund formations, private equity transactions, SEC and related regulatory matters, corporate issues and tax matters. In addition, he assists family offices and other financial investors with investment due diligence, private equity transactions and holding company structuring and
Hedge fund and private equity firms are dominating office leasing in core areas of London among the financial services sector (excluding banks), with latest figures revealing strong demand, according to research out from Cushman & Wakefield.
In the first quarter of this year, take-up of office space from non-banking financial services firms was around 240,000 sq ft with hedge funds accounting for approximately a quarter (23 per cent) and private equity nearly a fifth (18 per cent). These figures are slightly down on overall comparisons to 2015, which was an extremely buoyant period for financial services companies according to the
London specialist consultancy firm, Compliance and Risk Consultancy (CRC), has formed strategic partnership with Berlin and Brussels-based company Idox Compliance.
Idox Compliance is a leading of compliance solutions in Europe, providing compliance training expertise to corporate and public sector customers across all sectors and sizes.
The collaboration will enable both partners to add complementary services to their existing offering, assisting clients to better meet their increasing compliance needs and regulatory requirements. CRC is the only UK company involved in this type of collaboration with Idox.
In addition to serving their existing clients, as part of the collaboration, CRC and Idox
Motion Equity Partners is to sell pet stores retailer Arcaplanet Group to the Permira Funds.
Arcaplanet Group was founded in 1995 by Michele Foppiani, who still runs the Company as CEO. The Group operates a chain of circa 150 stores which sell over 10,000 SKUs, ranging from pet food to accessories and to healthcare products. The Group has also developed its portfolio of four different owned brands: Start, Expecial, Next and HiFish. In 2014, Arcaplanet Group launched its online retail activity.
Over the recent years, Arcaplanet Group has built its successful growth story through the new stores opening (from
– a Polish market specialist in advertising and marketing technology. The growth round is a combination of a capital increase and acquisition of shares from Dirlango, a company controlled by Łukasz Wejchert and Maciej Żak. Innova Capital is continuing to increase its exposure to the fast growing tech market.
“As part of our investment strategy, we increasingly back innovative companies with a clear technological DNA, and high growth potential. Netsprint with its leading marketing position and scalable platform approach fits well into our investment criteria. We are hugely impressed by the Netsprint team and their fast product innovations. We believe that
HookLogic has secured an investment from LUMA Capital Partners, the recently formed venture capital fund of LUMA Partners, an investment bank known for its strategic industry maps known as LUMAscapes. HookLogic is one of the first investments for the fund.
In a recent blog post, LUMA explained the reasoning behind the investment, citing HookLogic as “leading the industry in three market trends that we are watching closely: e-commerce properties transitioning to media companies, results-driven advertising versus proxies, and mobile growth.” The post went on to note that HookLogic is “one of the few companies powering a true marketplace at scale
The Partners of Lonsdale Capital Partners, Alan Dargan, Ross Finegan and David Gasparro, have closed the firm’s first fund, Lonsdale Capital Partners LP, at its target and hard-cap amount of GBP110 million.
The fund reached its final close after nine months of fundraising.
Lonsdale’s fund will continue to invest at the smaller end of the mid-market, in UK and European companies with an enterprise value of between GBP10 million-GBP50 million. Lonsdale will invest GBP10-15 million of equity (including add-on acquisitions) per transaction, taking a majority stake in strong, proven businesses.
Between 2008 and late 2015, Lonsdale invested on
Schweiger Dermatology Group has closed USD35 million in private equity financing led by LLR Partners. The Company manages Schweiger Dermatology, PLLC and Schweiger Dermatology, PC (collectively, SDG), a provider of medical, cosmetic and surgical dermatology services in New York and New Jersey.
Schweiger Dermatology operates 20 locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester County, Rockland County, and New Jersey. Under the supervision of Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Eric Schweiger, SDG provides dermatology services to over 150,000 patients annually. The Company provides advanced treatments for all skin care needs and offers unique patient benefits including same-day scheduling. This investment
Infrastructure firms are unique and exhibit lower revenue volatility, higher payouts, with considerably less correlation with the business cycle, according to a new paper produced by EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra), in partnership with the Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA).
“Revenue and Dividend Payouts in Privately-Held Infrastructure Investments”, which is drawn from the EDHEC-Meridiam/Campbell Lutyens Research Chair on private infrastructure equity investments,
also reveals that the existence of “infrastructure business models” (contracted, regulated and merchant) each with its own unique cash flow dynamics, are more alike amongst themselves than compared with the rest of the corporate universe.
The paper uses
Investment into venture capital (VC)-backed companies in the United States has slowed in back-to-back quarters, according to Venture Pulse, the quarterly global report on VC trends published jointly by KPMG International and CB Insights.
The US saw only USD14.8 billion invested in Q1 2016, a slight increase (six percent) from Q4 2015, while the number of actual deals declined, slipping an additional two percent from last quarter to 1,035 deals. These two quarters are a major slowdown from an otherwise record year for VC investment in FY15.
“Though we feel there is a considerable amount of dry powder in the
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