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Venture capital investor Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, has invested GBP2.7 million in waterproof outdoor accessories specialist Sealskinz Ltd.
Sealskinz has over thirty years' experience in developing and manufacturing endurance accessories. The company’s patented processes create clothing that is waterproof, breathable and, uniquely, stretchable. It works in partnership with some of the world’s greatest athletes including mountaineers, explorers, cyclists, skiers, runners, sailors and horse riders to ensure its products deliver the very best in comfort and performance.
The funding from the ProVen VCTs will be used to support the company’s further growth into international markets and strengthen product development
The Quoted Companies Alliance, an independent membership organisation for small to mid-size quoted companies, has appointed Judith MacKenzie to its Board.
MacKenzie is a Partner of Downing LLP and is responsible for the Public Equity Division which predominantly focuses on Micro-Cap investments of under GBP150 million market capitalisation. In this role she is known for her selective approach, researching companies thoroughly before investing and holding them for long periods.
Prior to joining Downing in October 2009, MacKenzie was a partner at Acuity Capital, managing AIM-quoted VCT and IHT investments and a small-cap activist fund. Previously Ju MacKenzie dith was for
Alternative investments firm QIC has formed a USD764 million (AUD1 billion) Asia-Pacific infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
The partnership represents CalPERS' first Asia-Pacific infrastructure commitment and adds another of the world's largest pension funds to QIC's infrastructure client base. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific infrastructure assets for the partnership.
Ross Israel, Head of QIC's Global Infrastructure says: "We are very pleased to have entered into this partnership with a pension fund of CalPERS' stature and for an investment mandate of this scale. CalPERS has
Noerr has advised on the sale of Kunze Folien GmbH to a strategic investor. The company which is based in Oberhaching near Munich is taken over by the US Aavid Group.
A Noerr team led by the Frankfurt corporate partner Dr Thorsten Reinhard acted on the side of the sole shareholder and company founder Burkhard Kunze.
Kunze Folien specialises in heat-conducting interface materials and films used in the dissipation of heat of electronic components. The takeover by Aavid, one of the world’s leading providers of heat management solutions and heat sinks in the electronics industry, is intended to develop new
The latest version of Taliance’s front office platform, GlobalAsset, enables asset and fund management businesses to automatically calculate the ratios and deliver reporting that complies with the requirements enshrined in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive (AIFMD).
Leading real estate asset management business, PERIAL, is one of the first business broadening its use of the GlobalAsset platform to ensure compliance with the AIFMD legislation. Underlining the capability of GlobalAsset, PERIAL has already achieved success with the latest version by getting its AIFMD Q4 2014 reporting validated by the regulator.
“Making innovative use of technology is increasingly becoming the key differentiator
Some fund managers are passing up European investment opportunities in a bid to steer clear of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), according to a panel of experts at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015.
The event was held in London last week and attracted more than 500 attendees to listen to keynote speaker Guy Hands and two panel sessions. The first of those was titled ‘meeting the needs of European private equity’, including a focus on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Tim Hames (pictured), Director General of the British Private
Glilot Capital Partners, an Israel-based venture capital fund investing in early-stage enterprise software start-ups, has held the closing of a USD77 million fund, Glilot II.
The firm’s second fund was raised on the successful track record of the firm's first fund, Glilot I, which has had three exits to date and distributed significant profits to its investors since its inception less than four years ago.
Glilot I, was founded in 2011 by Kobi Samboursky and Arik Kleinstein, was a $30 million fund that invested in eight companies. Among its investments are Aorato (acquired by Microsoft), Insightera (acquired by Marketo) and
CIT Corporate Finance served as Administrative Agent on a USD40 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility for TowerBrook Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
The financing was used to facilitate the acquisition of a majority stake in J.Jill, a vertically integrated, multi-channel retailer of women’s apparel, accessories and footwear, from an affiliate of Arcapita Bank BSC, an international investment firm. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, the U.S. commercial bank subsidiary of CIT.
The J.Jill brand and focused product is designed for women who lead rich, full lives and is recognised for style, comfort and quality. With a strong
By James Williams – Global law firms need to work closely with hedge funds to improve their cybersecurity risk management by identifying at-risk assets and coming up with a legal risk mitigation response.
Cybersecurity threats and data protection have become a top-line issue among managers. Whilst the latter is more of an internal threat, due to staff negligence or devious intent (i.e. taking sensitive fund investor information before leaving the firm), protecting a fund’s assets is vital.
One industry specialist I was speaking to last week informed me that one of their larger hedge fund clients had suffered 30,000 intrusion attempts
Sidley Austin has appointed Charlie Wilson as a partner in the firm’s M&A and private equity practices based in Singapore.
Wilson has practiced law in Asia for 17 years and regularly advises clients on transactions throughout Southeast Asia. For example, Wilson has acted as international counsel for Indonesia’s national oil company in its proposed acquisition of a US-based oil company’s Venezuelan oil assets. He has also advised a number of sovereign wealth and global private equity funds in connection with their investments and dispositions in Southeast Asia.
“Charlie’s experience handling prominent M&A deals in Southeast Asia makes him a strong
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