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Duane Morris has appointed Susan A Laws (pictured) to the firm’s five-member Executive Committee.
Laws, the co-managing partner of the firm’s London office, focuses her corporate practice on business law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, and computer law. She is the first Duane Morris Executive Committee member from an office outside of the United States.
Laws replaces Sheila Hollis, partner and chair of the firm’s Washington, DC office. Hollis, a leading energy lawyer, served on the Executive Committee for more than 10 years.
“Susan is a superb lawyer and a natural leader, and her appointment
DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company, Career Step Holdings, (Career Step) to private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Career Step, based in Provo, Utah, is a leading provider of online, career-focused training programs in the high-growth healthcare sector. Career Step offers high quality, cost effective, job-specific training solutions that help learners and corporate employees quickly gain career skills and prepare to sit for nationally recognised certifications. The Company has proprietary course content developed by industry experts and distributed through a robust online learning management
Ogier has advised the lenders on the GBP122.6 million acquisition of LSE-listed Waterlogic plc by Castik Capital.
The lenders include GE Capital, HSBC, ING, Santander and Societe Generale and together they provided GBP113 million of senior debt facilities supporting the take-private by private equity fund Castik Capital of the UK based provider of mains-fed drinking water purification and dispensing systems.
Edward Scott, Managing Associate, led on the transaction with Sara Johns, Managing Associate advising on the listed acquisition elements.
Scott says: “The transaction was unusual because the practicalities of taking Jersey law security over the shares in Waterlogic
Peak Reinsurance Company has appointed Jackie Wong (pictured) as Senior Vice President Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A).
Wong will be working closely with Peak Re’s senior management team to explore strategic opportunities and new business areas for the group.
Wong, with a track record in investment banking, brings to Peak Re a wealth of experience and knowledge of the insurance and reinsurance industry, having led on several notable insurance M&A transactions in the region. She also regularly advised multinational and regional insurance companies on M&A and capital markets transactions.
Franz Hahn, CEO of Peak Re, says: “With her experience and expertise
Nordic Capital has expanded its healthcare team with the addition of Dr Raj Shah who joins as Partner in the London office.
Prior to joining, Dr Shah was Co-Head of EMEA Healthcare Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs International and he joins as Nordic Capital continues to expand its world-leading healthcare investment practice.
Dr Shah, a former cardiac surgeon, joined Goldman Sachs over a decade ago and has in recent years co-led the team that has been involved in several pivotal transactions that have helped shape the healthcare landscape, including Nordic Capital’s successful exit of specialty pharmaceutical firm Nycomed through a
Preqin has analyzed the performance of over 5,200 hedge funds worldwide throughout 2014 to identify the top performing funds. In an excerpt from the 2015 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, league tables reveal the 10 top performing hedge fund vehicles by various strategies and regions, and looks at the characteristics of these successful funds.
The data reveals that three-quarters of the 20 top performing hedge funds employed equity strategies. Other interesting findings include:
• Fifty-seven percent of all top performing funds in 2014 have been active for more than five years.
• Twenty-seven percent of all top performing funds in
Independent investment bank Mooreland Partners has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Endomondo on its sale to Under Armour (NYSE: UA).
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Endomondo is a leading connected digital fitness platform that boasts a global social fitness network of 20 million registered users. The company's software tracks users' fitness activities, and motivates its community with world-leading social networking features as well as personalised training programs. Endomondo has built one of the largest, most active and engaged online fitness communities in the world.
"We are pleased to have played a role in this groundbreaking transaction in the digital
Pioneer Underwriters (Pioneer) has launched a new EU regulatory compliant product for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs).
This specialist product is aimed at AIFMs domiciled outside of the EU, which in addition to providing traditional financial lines cover, also ensures policyholders are compliant with the insurance provision requirement of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) which came into force in July 2013.
Pioneer believes that this is the market’s first solution addressing the needs of non EU domiciled fund managers and forms part of a suite of products covering the specialist risks faced by a wide range
Crosslink Capital has closed its seventh venture capital fund (Ventures Fund VII), with USD170 million of capital commitments.
The new fund, which includes support from both new and existing investors, will enable the Crosslink team to continue to successfully invest in early stage software, mobile, consumer startups that are pioneering innovation in cloud computing, infrastructure, security, and Software-as-a-Service technologies.
Ventures Fund VII will have a strong focus on seed and Series A opportunities, as the Crosslink team continues to collaborate with the leading micro-VC funds to identify emerging investment areas and opportunities. The fund is an equal partnership of four
HourlyNerd, an online marketplace for freelance business talent, has raised USD7.8 million in Series B funding, led by Highland Capital Partners.
Other participants include GE Ventures, Greylock Partners, Intuit founder Scott Cook, the Kraft Group, angel investor Semil Shah, former Etsy CEO Maria Thomas, Rent the Runway Founder/CEO Jennifer Hyman and Boston VC Suffolk Equity Partners.
This new round of funding comes just 11 months after HourlyNerd announced its Series A financing round, led by Highland Capital Partners and Greylock Partners, and just 15 months after announcing a seed funding round led by billionaire angel investor, Mark Cuban. HourlyNerd will
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