Latest News
Harvest Partners has appointed Marc Unger as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Previously Unger was the CFO/COO of CCMP Capital Advisors. Prior to that, he was CFO of UBS Capital Americas. Unger started his career with Ernst & Young. He received his BS, Accounting from Lehigh University and his MBA, Finance from Columbia Business School. He is a resident of Livingston, NJ.
Ira Kleinman (pictured), Senior Managing Director of Harvest Partners, says: “We believe a strong financial team is crucial to our success. Marc is an accomplished financial executive and a proven leader. We are very pleased that he is joining
Law firm Ogier has announced the appointment of Kate Hodson and Anthony Oakes as partners in its Hong Kong team.
Hodson is part of Ogier’s highly successful Hong Kong Funds practice. In her new role she will put particular focus on strengthening Ogier's private equity capabilities in Asia as well as specialising in advising on unit trust structures in the Japanese market. In addition to funds work, Hodson supports clients in respect of their corporate and commercial transactions, advising on both Cayman Islands and BVI law. As well as advising fund managers, sponsors and other service providers, she also acts
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a growth equity investment in CCRM, a leading provider network of fertility treatment services with locations in Colorado, California, Minnesota, Texas and Toronto, Canada. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
With a reputation for world-class physicians, facilities and laboratories, CCRM operates a network of fertility clinics providing a wide variety of treatments from basic infertility care to advanced in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Founded by Dr William Schoolcraft, the CCRM network includes the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, considered one of the nation’s premier fertility centres. As a result of CCRM’s
Law firm Shoosmiths has advised venture capital firm, MMC Ventures, on the firm’s GBP2.5m investment in online floristry business, Bloom & Wild, in a Series A funding round.
Venture capital firm MMC, which has been backing early-stage, high-growth companies since 2000, joins existing angel investors including Catamaran Ventures and Samos who also participated in the round.
Launched in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild has developed a floral brand centred on unique letterbox packaging to enable a bouquet of flowers to be delivered through any standard letterbox.
Based in South-West London, the business delivers flowers across
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central Europe and Turkey, is to acquire Centrul Medical Unirea S.R.L. (“Regina Maria” or the “Company”). The transaction is subject to anti-trust clearance and is expected to close in Q4 2015.
With approximately 300,000 corporate subscribers, the Company is the leading premium integrated private healthcare services operator in Romania with a national presence through 22 polyclinics, 4 hospitals, 11 labs and 5 imaging facilities.
Matthew Strassberg (pictured), Senior Partner of Mid Europa who founded and leads Mid Europa's healthcare sector practice, says: “The acquisition of Regina Maria underscores the firm’s
EQT’s seventh fund for private equity investments focused primarily on Northern Europe, EQT VII, has been closed at the hard cap of EUR6.75 billion on 31 July, 2015.
Interest from both existing and prospective investors was strong and the fund was significantly oversubscribed. More than 70 per cent of the commitments to EQT VII were made by investors in prior EQT funds, confirming the strength of being an integrated alternative investment firm with a broad offering of investment strategies.
Despite the strong demand, EQT has remained committed to raising an appropriately sized fund to be deployed in line with EQT
Dentons has appointed Maria Oleinik and Richard Cowie as partners in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions practices in the firm’s Moscow office.
Oleinik has joined from White & Case together with associates Victoria Gorbunova and Antonina Zhigalova. Cowie has joined from Hogan Lovells.
Oleinik’s corporate experience spans a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, mining and heavy industry. She is qualified in Russia, the UK and the US and focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals, and financings. Oleinik has represented financial institutions, media companies and state corporations such as Independent Petroleum Company, EuroChem, Chelyabinsk
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Sean Ruff (pictured) as of counsel and co-head of the firm’s FinTech Practice Group.
Ruff’s practice focuses on advising clients in the rapidly growing FinTech sector, including emerging and established FinTech organisations encompassing both non-bank and traditional banking institutions, with respect to complex regulatory and transactional matters. Ruff will lead the FinTech Practice Group, along with Obrea Poindexter and Eric McCrath.
Ruff is rejoining the firm from Square, a leading FinTech payments company, where he served as Director, Lead Payments and Regulatory Counsel. He has particular experience with funds transmission and related compliance matters, Bank Secrecy
Bermuda remains fully committed to the process of qualifying under rules set out by the European Union for third-country rights for Island-based alternative fund managers.
The European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) last week cleared the way for Guernsey, Jersey and Switzerland (pending passage of legislation by the latter) to be approved for extension of "passport" rights that would allow non-European Union fund managers to market their Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in EU member states on a cross-border basis. The recommendation would extend the same rights to approved non-EU entities that are currently available only to EU-based AIF managers (AIFMs).
In
Private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has made a majority equity investment in Veritas Collaborative (Veritas), a premiere specialty hospital system for the treatment of eating disorders, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
“There is a large, unmet demand for the services and treatments offered by Veritas,” says Andrew J Cavanna (pictured), Managing Director and Co-Head of Vestar’s Healthcare Group. “We are looking forward to working with Veritas to expand its operations and bring its highly successful approach to more patients and more geographies. We are excited to be backing the seasoned and
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
