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Sun European Partners has made two senior hires in Europe.
Andreas Bösenberg has joined as Managing Director of the Frankfurt office and Michael Palm as Managing Director of Sun’s new Swedish office in Stockholm, supporting the firm’s continued expansion in the region.
Bösenberg joins from VTB Capital where he spent nearly five years as Deputy Head of Private Equity and Special Situations. Prior to this, he was Co-founder and Managing Director of Brockhaus Private Equity in Frankfurt. At Sun, Bösenberg will be overseeing Sun’s German operations and working with the team on the existing portfolio and upcoming pipeline of
Mercia Fund Management (MFM) has appointed Dr Nicola Broughton (pictured), a Leeds-based consultant specialising in the commercialisation of Intellectual Property, as an Investment Director and Head of Technology Transfer.
Broughton will be growing a team to help support Mercia’s university partners in their areas of geographical focus – the Midlands, North and Scotland.
Broughton has already worked closely with several MFM investee companies within the Life Sciences sector, As well as Mercia’s university partners in the Midlands. She will be liaising with university technology spin-outs and University Technology Transfer Offices to offer them support and advice on developing their work
SFW Capital Partners (SFW), a private equity firm specialising in Analytical Tools and Related Services, has held the final close of SFW Capital Partners Fund II with total commitments of over USD345 million
The fund closed at its hard cap.
SFW focuses on making strategic investments in mid-size Analytical Tools and Related Services companies, including providers of instrumentation, information and software, and related business services, a sector that the SFW team has invested in for over 20 years. Analytical Tools and Related Services businesses provide information, data, and analytics that support research, product development, process control, quality assurance, compliance, diagnostics,
Nexxus Capita, through Nexxus VI Trust and Nexxus Capital Private Equity VI, has agreed to acquire, subject to certain closing conditions, a combined stake of 28.61 per cent in AGS NASOFT, a multiregional IT services company.
NASOFT has more than 1,500 employees and operates in eight countries, mainly Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, maintaining long term relationships with well positioned clients in the financial services sector and in the industrial and commercial sectors, as well as with government institutions. NASOFT has a proven operating model which is executed by a management team that has over 20 years of experience in the
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited (GIC) has adopted Omgeo ALERT, a web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs).
The firm adopted the solution to deliver further improvements in post-trade operational efficiency.
GIC wanted to enhance its enterprise trade lifecycle platform as part of a two-stage process. Phase one involved the importing of SSIs into ALERT, with a focus on fixed income instructions, in the third quarter of 2014. GIC is now embarking on the second phase of that project: loading SSIs for equity trades into ALERT. This is scheduled
Alternative investment and asset management firm Garrison Investment Group has selected iLEVEL to manage the firm’s portfolio data and streamline their reporting process.
Founded in 2007, Garrison Investment Group focuses on deploying capital in opportunities across corporate finance, financial assets, and real estate. Garrison will initially implement iLEVEL for their Business Development Company (BDC) and Corporate Lending funds.
“As our BDC and Corporate Lending businesses continue to grow, we recognise the need for a system to help us analyse portfolio data and report to our investors with greater efficiency and transparency,” says Michelle Rancic, Chief Accounting Officer, Garrison Investment
NeoXam has completed its carve-out from its former parent group Sungard Financial Systems, and acquires Nexfi with the support of BlackFin.
NeoXam is a provider of front, middle and back office software solutions dedicated to asset managers, asset owners and securities servicing platforms. It employs 300 highly skilled financial software developers and consultants in Europe, China, Africa, and the US. Neoxam’s clients include Tier 1 financial institutions such as Caceis Investor Services, BBVA Asset Management, UBS and Citic Securities. In January 2014, BlackFin acquired the GP3 and Decalog software programs from SunGard and constituted NeoXam together with buy-in manager Serge
Alternative investment manager Lexington Partners has renewed a three-year agreement, or "smartnership," with the Happy Hearts Fund to jointly rebuild three schools in Latin American countries.
This marks the second three-year pledge that Lexington Partners has made to Happy Hearts Fund. Lexington's initial pledge, in 2012, has resulted in the rebuilding of three schools for 1,086 children. In 2012, Lexington contributed toward the rebuilding of the Divino Nino Jesus School for 720 children in the region of Chincha, Peru. In 2013, Lexington contributed toward the rebuilding of the Jose Maria Pino Suarez School for 186 children in the region of
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has provided a USD50 million credit facility to The Credit Junction, an online provider of working capital financing to small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The facility will allow the company to provide comprehensive capital solutions to SMEs across the United States, with the long-term vision of transforming the way SMEs finance their working capital needs.
In addition to providing The Credit Junction with its first institutional credit facility, VPC has provided an investment to fund working capital needs in advance of the company’s
Aviva Investors is making an investment of EUR40 million in a financing package for the Milan underground providing debt to the project alongside banks and other institutional investors.
Aviva Investors is the largest institutional investor in the financing.
This represents the first issue of an Italian Project Bond – a product created by the Italian Government to allow international investments in Italian infrastructure.
The underground line, the fifth for Milan, will connect Bignami station, North of Milan, through the city centre to the San Siro stadium. Completion on construction is scheduled for October 2015.
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