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SS&C Technologies Holdings has completed completion of Annex IV filing for over 50 Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) and 300 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs).
SS&C GlobeOp filed with multiple Nationally Competent Authorities (NCAs) across Europe, including the key jurisdictions of Luxembourg, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
“We use extensive regulatory reporting expertise and infrastructure to help customers overcome the immense challenges of data aggregation, jurisdictional differences, complex calculations and short time periods,” says Michael Megaw, Managing Director, Regulatory Solutions Group. “This approach has given our clients the ability to meet their Annex IV deadlines without significant drain on internal
MetLife invested, through MetLife Private Capital Investors (MPCI), USD8.4 billion in corporate private placements, infrastructure debt and other private transactions during 2014.
MetLife is a leader in the private placement marketplace, managing a portfolio of USD56 billion in private securities investments, including USD42 billion in corporate debt and USD9 billion in infrastructure debt transactions. Corporate private placements and infrastructure debt are an important part of MetLife’s asset-liability matching program.
MetLife’s third party investment management business had a strong year. MPCI invested USD1.9 billion, or 23 percent, of the USD8.4 billion on behalf of MPCI’s investment management clients. The balance, USD6.5
Clearlake Capital Group has completed the sale of PrimeSport Holdings Inc to The Carlyle Group (Carlyle), Moorad Sports Partners and RSE Ventures.
As part of the transaction, Clearlake and management rolled over a significant equity stake in the company. Sam Soni, PrimeSport’s founder, remains CEO and continues to lead the company.
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, PrimeSport is an event lifecycle management company and vertically-integrated eCommerce leader focused on monetizing the biggest sporting events in the world through premium ticket sales, travel packages and exclusive hospitality events for corporations, professional sports teams, universities and fans. For over 20 years, the PrimeSport
Private equity group ACE & Company has held the final closing of ACE Angel Partners with total equity commitments close to USD15 million.
The fund seeks to generate active returns by investing at an early stage in promising technology companies, targeting high growth markets. ACE Angel Partners invests in companies headed by visionary entrepreneurs with proven managerial skills, like Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, a company that has sold over one million smartwatches to date. These are predominantly technology companies that solve a problem, address large markets, have the potential to disrupt traditional industries and respond to immediate market needs.
Actis has launched a pan-African renewable energy generation platform, Lekela Power in partnership with wind and solar developer Mainstream Renewable Power which will own 40% of the platform.
Lekela Power is the eighth such energy platform Actis has created, following a proven replicable strategy of aggregating energy assets into scalable regional platforms. This focused approach was most recently demonstrated in the development of Ostro Energy, a renewable energy platform which Actis launched in India last week. Actis’s other energy platforms include Globeleq Mesoamerica in Central America, Aela Energía in Chile, Atlantic Energias Renováveis in Brazil and Mexico’s Zuma Energía. This
Rcapital, the owner of global travel retailer Rolling Luggage, has completed the sale of the business to Samsonite, the world’s largest luggage manufacturer and retailer.
Rcapital, the London-based private investor that specialises in the turnaround of distressed businesses, rescued the Rolling Luggage chain out of the global restructuring of the Tie Rack Retail Group in 2013. Rolling Luggage, with 36 stores in seven countries, had long suffered from both financial and operational under-investment until Rcapital bought the business and used its extensive turnaround skills to develop a thriving retail company, ultimately saving 350 jobs across the globe.
In October 2014,
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced a new investment of GBP60m by the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and the Strathclyde Pension Fund (SPF) in UK community-scale renewable energy projects, through Albion Community Power (ACP).
ACP is a power generation company that builds, controls and operates community-scale renewable energy projects across the UK. It has already identified a substantial project pipeline and will invest the capital on behalf of GIB and SPF.
GIB has committed to provide up to GBP50m with SPF investing a further GBP10m. ACP is working to attract a further GBP40m from additional co-investors to take
Kirkland & Ellis has advised EMR Capital, a specialist mining private equity manager, on the recent close of the EMR Capital Resources Fund 1.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed with aggregate capital commitments of USUSD450 million. The fund, which will make investments in global metals and mining companies and projects, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, family offices and fund of funds.
The Kirkland team acted as international legal counsel to EMR Capital and was led by London-based private funds partner Christopher Braunack and New York-based tax partner David Grenker.
Kirkland has
Recent research by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has highlighted growing discontent with the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) within the European Union (EU). Though the legislation set out to enhance oversight and standardise regulation across the EU, a significant majority of Europe-based investors feel they have been directly disadvantaged as a result, citing reduced international competitiveness as a key concern. In November 2014, Preqin conducted similar research, surveying 260 private equity and venture capital fund managers; 27% of respondents believed regulation to be the biggest challenge they face in 2015.
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Private equity and infrastructure firm First Reserve has appointed Alex T Krueger as Co-Chief Executive Officer and President. The move is part of the firm's long-term succession plan.
William E Macaulay, Chairman and now Co-CEO of First Reserve, remains fully dedicated to First Reserve's activities as he has since its founding in 1983. The move marks the next milestone in First Reserve's evolution after over three decades of exclusive energy industry investment.
Krueger has been with First Reserve for 16 years, most recently in a leadership role for the private equity portfolio which currently has nearly US$17 billion in
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