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HarbourVest Partners has appointed Kevin Warn-Schindel as a Managing Director based in Boston to lead the Real Assets investment program.
This includes a focus on energy, infrastructure, natural resources, and real estate.
HarbourVest has expanded its capabilities and platform for investing in real assets to leverage its expertise, experience, and relationships in the market. The firm has expanded since early 2014 to include professionals focused on real assets who have integrated into our existing process and platform. HarbourVest currently manages nearly USD1 billion of capital focused on investing in real assets.
“HarbourVest has been reviewing opportunities in real
Maranon Capital has appointed Theresa D Mozzocci as a Principal and promoted Andrew C Eshelman to Vice President.
Mozzocci has over 20 years of experience in business development and alternative investment strategies. At Maranon, she will focus on fund raising and investor relations. Previously, Mozzocci was with Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Advisors, Crestline Investors, William Blair & Company, and Duff & Phelps Investment Management.
Mozzocci earned an MBA from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin. She is also a CFA charter holder.
Eshelman joined Maranon as an Associate in 2012 from
Venture capital and private equity activity posted strong results in 2014, according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association's (CVCA) 2014 VC and PE Market Activity report.
There was a total of 379 venture capital deals during the year with CAD1.9 billion invested, and 296 private equity deals with CAD41.2 billion invested last year.
"Venture capital and private equity investment remains robust and the feeling amongst our industry is that won't change in 2015," says Mike Woollatt, CEO, CVCA. "Despite the economic uncertainty in Canada, there are opportunities."
The strong results are expected to continue in 2015. Data
Private equity firm PAI Partners is to acquire AS Adventure Group a European retailer of outdoor equipment and clothing, from Lion Capital LLP.
The senior management team will continue to lead the Group and will reinvest alongside PAI.
Created in 1995 by Mr Emiel Lathouwers, AS Adventure has grown to become the leading specialty retailer of branded outdoor products in Europe, operating three brands across a network of 151 stores in Belgium, Luxembourg and France (AS Adventure), the United Kingdom (Cotswold Outdoor) and the Netherlands (Bever) as well as digital retail platforms in each market. The Group’s product offering
Over 70% of real estate firms surveyed by Preqin at the end of 2014 felt competition for both investment opportunities and sources of capital had increased over the past year. Preqin’s Head of Real Assets Products, Andrew Moylan, assesses the increasingly competitive landscape facing private real estate fund managers:
There are many challenges currently facing both fund managers and investors active in the private real estate space. The improving fortunes of the private real estate industry in recent years – the industry now manages an all-time high of USD742bn in assets and generated annualised returns of 16.7% over the last
Altium has advised Prezzo, a UK-based restaurant operator, on its GBP304m public-to-private buyout by TPG.
Established in 2001 by the Kaye family, Prezzo plc is a 251-unit restaurant operator in the UK casual dining sector. The group is most famous for its Italian restaurant chain of the same name, which opened its first restaurant on New Oxford Street, London in November 2000 and now offers contemporary Italian food across its 200 sites. As well as the household franchise, the company also operates the ChimiChanga and Cleaver brands.
TPG Capital is a leading global private investment firm with $65bn of
AlixPartners has appointed three new Managing Directors, with Shiv Shivaraman and Cosmo Takamatsu joining the firm’s Enterprise Improvement team in the US and Japan, and Jeff Howe heading up the firm’s coverage of private equity firms, based in New York.
Shivaraman has over 20 years of industry and consulting experience in engineering, product development, operations, and large-scale transformation programs in the automotive and process industries, most recently as a partner at A.T. Kearney. He brings a wealth of global experience having served clients across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and
Ogier has appointed David Cooney and Bradley Kruger as Partners in the Cayman office and Michael Killourhy (pictured) as a Partner in the BVI office.
In addition, Partner Simon Schilder has joined the Jersey Funds team and five Senior Associates have been promoted to Managing Associate across the BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Luxembourg offices.
David Cooney has been with Ogier since 2012 having moved from the UK, where he was previously a Partner at Gorvins. His practice focuses primarily on Private Clients and he also manages a number of key funds related clients and transactions.
David received his Bachelor of
Jim Dondero, Co-Founder and President of Highland Capital Management, has been named Senior Portfolio Manager of the firm's Energy MLP Fund, effective 1 February, 2015.
Dondero joins Jon Poglitsch, CFA and Matthew Gray, CFA as lead managers of the fund. Dondero, Poglitsch and Gray will be responsible for all of the investment decisions of the fund.
“Dislocation in the energy sector has caused unwarranted disruptions in the MLP space,” says Dondero. “Jon and Matthew have done a fantastic job managing the fund having achieved double digit returns since the fund's inception and I am excited to join them. We expect
Mooreland Partners has acted as the sole financial advisor to Bluegiga on its sale to Silicon Labs.
The acquisition of Bluegiga, which offers market-leading wireless solutions to a wide variety of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and markets, further strengthens Mooreland's position among the most active advisors to the electronics and industrial technologies sector.
"The Bluegiga transaction confirms that IoT continues to be a highly strategic area," says Peter Globokar, Managing Director in Mooreland's European office.
“This is also an important transaction that sees a leading semiconductor vendor invest in the IoT module arena," adds Charlie Bullock, Managing Director in
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