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Jean Châtillon has joined European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital in Paris as a principal, while Benjamin Hubner and Jennifer Regehr have joined the firm in Munich as associates.
Châtillon joins from Cobalt Capital, a Paris-based private equity firm, where he has been investing in mid-market French companies for the last seven years. Prior to joining Cobalt he worked for EY in Paris in the audit and transaction services business units.
Hubner joins from McKinsey & Company in Munich where he has worked on consulting projects across a wide range of sectors since 2010.
Regehr was previously at
Europe’s executives are more bullish about the European M&A outlook than they were a year ago, according to the second edition of the European M&A Outlook by Mergermarket in association with CMS.
Of the 225 Europe-based corporate executives surveyed, 76 per cent expect that dealmaking will increase or increase greatly, a 28 percentage point increase from last year’s study.
Attitudes about Europe’s economic recovery have improved significantly and the majority believe that the worst is behind us.
Thomas Meyding, head of CMS Corporate Group, says: “Our report echoes the sentiment of increasing market confidence as evidenced by the
Investment advisory firm bfinance has appointed Justin Preston as a senior associate for equities research with the firm’s public markets research team in London.
Preston previously worked for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) as an investment manager for four years.
He was most recently UK head of manager research & selection at Buck Global Investment Advisors.
Chris Jones, managing director, head of public markets & alternatives at bfinance, says: "Justin's background as a Head of Research within an investment consultancy is complemented by his experience of actually managing portfolios on a day-to-day basis for a major institutional
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has agreed to acquire Bridon Limited, a manufacturer of wire rope, from Melrose Industries.
The transaction, led by Teachers’ Private Capital (TPC), values UK-based Bridon at GBP365 million (approximately USD656 million), subject to customary adjustments, and is expected to close by the end of 2014 (subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals).
Headquartered in Doncaster, Bridon operates manufacturing units worldwide, along with technical and sales offices, supported by a global network of agents and distributors. The company’s mission-critical products provide solutions to technically demanding challenges in industrial, mining, oil and gas extraction, marine and
Blackstone’s board of directors has approved a plan to spin off its financial and strategic advisory services, restructuring and reorganisation advisory services and its Park Hill fund placement businesses.
The businesses will be combined with PJT Partners, an independent financial advisory firm founded by Paul J Taubman (pictured). The parties expect the transaction to close in 2015.
The new entity will be an independent, publicly traded company, which will be led by Taubman as chairman and chief executive officer. Prior to founding PJT Partners, Taubman spent 30 years at Morgan Stanley where he served as co-president of the institutional
In this special report, Preqin examines why investors are allocating their capital to hedge funds, what they seek from the funds they invest in and how they assess the success of their portfolio, based on interviews with over 100 institutional investors.
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Frost Brooks, the London-based boutique private equity firm, has completed its second deal with a significant capital investment for BizEquity, an online provider of business valuation services.
The new investment included commitments from Frost Brooks’ founders and also from the firm’s network of limited partners comprised of former leader of the world’s largest data company, Experian; captains of industry and executives from Lloyds Bank; Standard Chartered Bank; and other leading financial institution executives.
It will help US-based BizEquity, which already has a presence in London and Singapore, accelerate its expansion strategy, which includes a full UK launch in first
Ogier in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has advised DT Asia Investments Limited on its initial public offering of 6,000,000 units on Nasdaq, raising USD60 million.
DT Asia Investments Limited is a BVI incorporated special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed for the purposes of engaging in a business company with one or more businesses.
Whilst not limited to a particular industry or geographic region, the intention is that DT Asia Investments Limited will focus on businesses which have their primary operations located in Asia, with an emphasis on China.
Ogier acted with New York based firm Ellenoff Grossman
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By Holly H Miller, Managing Director of Middle Office Services, SEI’s Investment Manager Services division
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Virtually every investment management firm has the opportunity to take risk management to higher level, taking a fresh look at common areas of risk, identifying priorities for action, and then considering the variety of relatively straightforward risk-management measures that can be deployed
Different organizations have different exposures and tolerance levels to operational risk, depending, for instance, upon their investment strategies, the markets in which they operate and the instruments they employ; thus there is
Global law firm White & Case has advised Novator on its investment in MoDe, a technology company that provides mobile value added services to mobile network operators in emerging nations.
Novator, an international investment firm, has been established for more than ten years and has a particular emphasis on emerging markets and on special situations.
Novator made its investment by way of a convertible loan which will provide MoDe with the resources to expand its operations beyond the 13 African countries in which it currently operates.
Bruce McInroy, partner at Novator, says: “White & Case fielded an experienced
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