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Private equity investment firm HIG Capital has appointed Simon Laker as Principal and Head of European Asset Management of HIG’s real estate portfolio.
Laker will be based in HIG ‘s London office and joins the firm from Evans Randall, where he actively managed real estate investments across several European jurisdictions.
HIG Capital’s real estate platform targets opportunistic real estate investments, with a focus on adding value, improving performance, and achieving attractive risk adjusted returns. The HIG European real estate team is active across a wide spectrum of real estate asset classes and has completed 11 transactions across multiple jurisdictions
SCORPEO has recruited Jack McNally as Managing Director of SCORPEO US, based in the firm’s newly opened US office in Boston and Chris Barrow as Head of Business Development, based in London.
Prior to joining SCORPEO, Jack McNally worked for Lehman Brothers and then Credit Suisse for 11 years in New York, Boston and Zurich, where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of the Managed Securities Lending Business and Head of Prime Services, Switzerland.
Chris Barrow recently joined SCORPEO from HSBC where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Sales and Marketing for Prime Finance.
ATADATA Solutions has reached an agreement has been made with its capital stakeholders to recapitalise the Company.
The Company will rebrand itself as ATADATA, which represents “Any to Any” for Enterprise-class application migration between any Data Centre, or Cloud Platform, for true Workload Portability. Furthermore, additional capital will be invested into the business for sustainable, long-term growth.
"This is an exciting moment for ATADATA," said Charles Wright, founder and CEO of ATADATA. "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with our partners that will provide the Company with the funding to aid in the execution of our business strategy.
A renewed focus on innovative research and development spending by major UK departments would create new export-oriented industries and help rebalance the economy.
That’s according to a new study published today at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
In past decades, many vibrant UK technology industries including semiconductors emerged from R&D spending at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and other departments, and future R&D spending should seek to recreate such a pipeline of innovation, says the 65-page report, entitled Creating Markets for Things that Don’t Exist.
Within the funding which is
Alcentra Limited has held the final closing of the Alcentra European Direct Lending Fund, LP (Fund) with investor commitments totalling EUR850,000,000.
The focus of the Fund is to provide debt financing to middle market companies in Europe. With the closing of the Fund, the firm’s committed capital for the strategy now exceeds EUR1,500,000,000.
“Direct lending is a large, attractive, long-term opportunity given the balance sheet constraints of European banks and the historical lack of non-bank lenders,” says Graeme Delaney-Smith, managing director and head of European direct lending for Alcentra. “Our size, experience and sourcing capabilities leave us well positioned,
Large banks continue to eschew lower middle-market loans because of heightened regulatory scrutiny and unattractive risk-adjusted spreads as they concentrate on larger, more fertile customers, says Old Hill Partners.
The result is large banks and large companies have benefitted most from the post-crisis recovery, while small banks and small companies have not.
This trend is borne out by hard data, the commentary notes. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 42% of all active loans held by US banks originated from the five largest banks. Moreover, these loans are heavily concentrated: the six largest banks held 67% of loan
Abacus Group, LLC, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has launched the Abacus Cloud Panel
This web-based portal enhances the visibility and management of AbacusFLEX Mail for chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs). The solution delivers on demand reporting and increased transparency, minimising infrastructure costs and enhancing control of deployment.
Abacus Cloud Panel is a hosted exchange control panel that allows business owners the freedom to provision resources directly from the web. It gives business owners the flexibility to create their own mailboxes, distribution groups and public folders
HIG Capital’s portfolio company Comverge is to merge with Constellation to form a new combined business, CPower, which will be headquartered in Baltimore, Md.
Power will operate as a new, standalone company independent from Comverge and Constellation, and deliver a full spectrum of demand response offerings to C&I customers across the United States. The combination creates one of the largest demand response companies in North America.
HIG holds a majority ownership interest in CPower, and Constellation holds a minority ownership interest and will remain an important business partner to CPower. Former Comverge Chief Financial Officer John Horton will serve as
IK Investment Partners (IK) via its IK VII Fund, has invested in Transnorm Beteiligungen, a provider of conveying modules and components are used in end markets such as the parcel, distribution/e-commerce and airports industries. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Founded in 1957, Transnorm manufactures high performance conveying components that are integral to many highly sophisticated automated systems and generates sales of EUR 62 million in 2014. Historically best known for its belt curves, Transnorm’s various products are now used in many high-speed distribution systems, parcel centers and in airport baggage handling systems across the globe. The Transnorm
Mercer, subject to regulatory approvals, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SCM Strategic Capital Management AG, a Swiss-based specialist private markets advisor and delegated solutions provider.
The acquisition will further strengthen Mercer’s capabilities in alternative investments, an area of growing importance in the global institutional marketplace.
“Mercer’s Investment business has achieved excellent revenue growth and SCM gives us an opportunity to build upon our outstanding global reputation,” says Julio A Portalatin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer. “We are prepared to invest in areas where we see an opportunity to anticipate client needs and to strengthen our
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