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Last week US Treasury bond and German bund yields spiked, both hitting a new 2015 high. On Thursday, 10-year German rates reached 1.0% before losing ground later in the day. Intraday volatility reached record highs and according to hedge fund managers, the main driver behind the moves in the fixed income markets is the lack of liquidity. Brokers and dealers hold a small and shrinking percentage of the Treasury market.
Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) has made a significant investment in Spreemo, a company that is bringing cost transparency and quality metrics to the workers compensation specialty benefits management industry with an initial focus on radiology.
Spreemo, founded in 2010, has achieved enormous adoption and growth in its initial market of providing diagnostic radiology for workers’ compensation. Spreemo uses proprietary, predictive analytics to grade radiology providers. When, for example, an injured worker needs an MRI, Spreemo’s platform automatically routes the patient to the closest top-grade provider. In addition, through research sponsored by the Spreemo Quality Research Institute, the Company partners with
BlackFin Capital-backed NeoXam, a provider of front, middle and back office software solutions dedicated to asset managers, asset owners and securities servicing platforms, has acquired SmartCo, an Enterprise Data Management software provider.
The acquisition of SmartCo, which has offices in Paris, Zurich and Boston allows NeoXam to broaden its product offering, to strengthen its R&D capabilities, and to expand its footprint in the UK, Germany and North America. This acquisition follows NeoXam’s investments in Nexfi and Density. SmartCo’s DataHub enables asset management companies, investment banks, and security services providers to collect, verify, revise and deliver financial data from multiple sources
Pioneer Underwriting Limited has launched its Zero Capital AIFMD Investment Management Insurance Policy enabling full capital relief from the 'other funds' provision of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Current policies which meet the requirements of the directive, do not typically address the requirement that the policy excess be held as additional capital. Pioneer’s Zero Capital AIFMD Investment Management Insurance Policy, solves this problem by affording a nil excess for the first loss, requiring no additional capital to be held at the outset of the policy.
Richard Coello Head of Financial Institutions Underwriting at Pioneer, says: "I’m pleased
Brandtone has successfully raised EUR18.5 million in debt and equity financing.
US-based Ares Capital Corporation is providing approximately EUR12 million, with existing Brandtone shareholders Unilever, Syngenta, Verlinvest and Vision Private Equity providing a further EUR6.5 million collectively in equity.
The new funding will be used as working capital to support Brandtone’s immediate expansion into South East Asia and further expansion in Africa and Latin America.
It will also support the company’s entry in to new sectors, including the agri-food and healthcare, and enable it to invest in the leadership and innovation necessary to ensure its offering continues to
Tilney Bestinvest, the UK investment and financial planning group, has appointed Stuart Layzell as Chief Financial Officer.
Layzell brings to Tilney Bestinvest a wide range of experience in senior management, M&A and private equity roles in both the UK and US.
Layzell began his career with PwC where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked in their M&A advisory team before moving to the US, where he lived for nine years and held senior management roles at two technology companies. On his return to the UK he spent seven years with LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking
Noerr has advised Alteri Investors on the financing of the Basler Fashion Group.
Alteri, a joint venture funded by the private equity fund Apollo specialising in debt and equity financing in the retail industry, provided Basler Fashion GmbH with a working capital loan. Basler was previously taken over by the financial investor Tempus Capital.
Tempus Capital acquired the shares in Basler from a two-way trust into which the shares had been contributed at the prompting of a banking consortium led by Commerzbank. Prior to the acquisition, Tempus had taken over loan liabilities of the fashion group of ca. 80
Inverness Graham has held the final closing of Inverness Graham Investments III (IGI-III) with USD283 million of total capital commitments.
The new fund was oversubscribed, eclipsing its initial target of USD225 million by over USD50 million and completing the fundraise in just over six months. The firm did not use a placement agent.
IGI-III will continue the successful strategy employed by Inverness Graham's first two funds, investing in lower middle market buyouts of high growth, technology enabled businesses with a buy and build approach, and leveraging the 50-year operating history of the Graham Group. The firm typically invests
Clearwater International has advised Staffgroup, on their acquisition by top 10 UK recruitment giant Cordant Group, the parent company of Cordant Recruitment.
Founded in 2003 Staffgroup specialises in recruitment in technology, finance, engineering and energy. It has offices in eight countries in Europe and the USA. The company, under joint Managing Directors Mark Znowski and Paul Flynn, has enjoyed exponential growth; last year the business increased turnover by 40%, to over EUR70 million.
Cordant Recruitment is split into four divisions, one of which is Professional Staffing. The division focuses on recruiting professionally qualified employees, ranging from High-Level Executives to technical
Law firm Brown Rudnick has appointed Didier Bruère-Dawson and David Malamed as partners in the Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice in the firm’s Paris office.
With the addition of Bruère-Dawson and Malamed, Brown Rudnick continues to build and strengthen the firm's Paris presence and its international platform in one of the firm's core practice areas. Didier and David bring complementary skills and experience to the existing restructuring teams in the US and the U.K and have strong connections to key stakeholders in the French restructuring arena.
Didier and David also have considerable experience handling both international matters in the
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