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Tullett Prebon Alternative Investments (TPAI) has developed and launched a screen-based matching engine called TP-AIME (Tullett Prebon Alternative Investments Matching Engine) to better facilitate transactions in alternative investments.
In addition to functioning as a price discovery and matching engine, the screen also facilitates auctions in hedge fund, private equity and real estate fund interests.
Secondary transactions in fund interests tend to be opaque. However, TPAI believes technological innovation will, in time, lead to a more robust marketplace. With thatgoal in mind, TP-AIME has been developed to increase transparency, simplify the arranging of transactions and make trade-settlement more efficient.
International Capital Flows, a report commissioned by the States of Guernsey and supported by Guernsey Finance, has analysed the economic benefits provided to the UK and Europe by the Guernsey funds market.
The majority of the inward investment is deployed into long-term tangible assets, including private equity, infrastructure and commercial property. All of these asset classes can provide economic and social benefits to the UK.
The report estimates that European investment managers earn GBP1.8bn of fees from managing Guernsey funds, of which GBP1.1bn is earned by those in the UK. UK investors, such as pension funds, also benefit from using
Raphael Weiner has joined Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners as an associate. Weiner will support the team in handling all tasks related to startup investments, from deal flow to the investment process right through to portfolio management.
In 2009, Weiner became one of the first employees at Scoreloop, a mobile social gaming platform funded by Target Partners. As product marketing manager, he helped drive the growth of the Munich-based startup until its successful exit in 2011, when the company was acquired by Blackberry. “I’m really excited about making the switch from being employed at a startup to working at
Dadi Perlmutter, Rami Hadar and Eldad Tamir has formed a late stage investment firm Eucalyptus and plan to raise USD300m to invest in Israeli companies.
Investment focus will be on companies with experienced management teams that have developed disruptive technologies and can become world leaders in the new Digital Revolution. The founding partners plan on taking proactive board seats, leveraging their personal experience to help the companies grow and maximise shareholder value. An important part of Eucalyptus strategy is the assembly of an advisory board with world class industry leaders to help portfolio companies scale and penetrate international markets.
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JTC has assisted Digby Wells Environmental (Jersey) Limited to set up in the Channel Islands by providing company and relocation services.
Digby Wells made the decision to move to Jersey following a visit to the 2014 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa which is held annually in February.
JTC has a dedicated Africa team that has been working with clients and their advisors in East, West and Southern Africa for over 25 years. The team makes regular visits to the continent and during one visit met with Graham Trusler, CEO of Digby Wells Environmental and his senior management team to
Mission Bay Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing in life science companies emerging from the University of California and the San Francisco Bay Area ecosystem, has closed MBC Fund II at USD25 million.
MBC was created in August 2009 by QB3, a University of California research institute and accelerator.
"We help early-stage entrepreneurial scientists change the world," says Douglas Crawford, associate director of QB3 and managing partner of MBC. "Closing Fund II will enable us to continue providing the capital and support that our companies need to bring their innovative technologies to market."
Three MBC Fund I companies – Calithera,
Akina and Professor Oliver Gottschalg, HEC Paris and PERACS, have jointly release a research study analysing the fundamental drivers of risk and return in portfolios of private equity fund investments.
The report’s findings reveal the superiority of an optimally diversified small/mid-cap portfolio strategy both in terms of return and risk. Additionally, our results demonstrate the outperformance of the small/mid-cap segment over the large-cap segment in private equity fund investments.
In the current low interest environment private equity has become an increasingly popular component of investors’ portfolios. Yet many investors still struggle with how to best implement their allocation to
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Luna Innovations Incorporated (LUNA) on its merger with Advanced Photonix, Inc (API).
The combined company will keep the Luna name and be headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, and will have a strong product foundation with Luna Innovations' ("Luna") core test & measurement products and Advanced Photonix's ("API") High Speed Optical Receiver (HSOR) and Optosolutions product lines. Stockholders from both companies approved the transaction on 8 May, 2015.
"The merger of API and Luna will result in a much larger, yet more cost efficient company. The combined new company will have the resources
CIT Group has served as Sole Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in a USD90 million senior secured credit facility to support vXchnge Holdings’ (vXchnge) acquisition of eight datacenters.
vXchnge is a portfolio company of The Stephens Group, a private equity firm located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, the U.S. commercial bank subsidiary of CIT.
“We are pleased to provide this acquisition financing to vXchnge to help position the company to meet the increasing demand for secure and scalable datacenters”
Based in Tampa, Florida, vXchnge is a provider of colocation services and was formed in 2013
BTIG has made a number of senior hires in its Investment Banking and Capital Markets division.
In New York, Charles Mather has joined the firm as a Managing Director within the firm’s Capital Markets Group while Brett Fodero has joined as a Director within the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Investment Banking Group. In San Francisco, Gene Ramirez, Managing Director, Steven Marder, Director, and Matthew McLeod, Vice President, have joined the firm within its TMT Investment Banking Group, and Gregory Wade, Managing Director, has joined within the firm’s Healthcare Investment Banking Group.
"The new additions to our Investment Banking and
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