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Crestbridge has been granted AIFM licensing by Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) to become a provider of management company services to alternative investment funds.
Crestbridge is already authorised to provide services to UCITS funds under Chapter 15 of the law of 17 December 2010, but the process of gaining the additional authorisation "was a challenge requiring significant work," says Daniela Klasén-Martin, managing director and country head of Crestbridge (Luxembourg).
"Clients have been requesting this service for a number of months and we are delighted to be one of the first ‘Super ManCos’ able to provide services
Ipes Jersey has been appointed as the new administrator of Quadriga Capital’s German private equity funds.
Quadriga Capital is a German fund manager founded in 1995 focusing on mid-market companies in Germany and neighbouring countries, in particular Switzerland and Austria. It invests primarily in management buy-outs and buy-ins and its objective is to produce substantial capital gains over the medium term.
Quadriga Capital has chosen to migrate all its German private equity funds to Ipes Jersey, including its most recent flagship fund, Quadriga Capital Private Equity Fund IV, which closed with total committed funds of approximately EUR511m.
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Bridge Growth Partners, a growth-oriented private equity investment firm launched late last year, has appointed Phil Scanlan to the firm’s strategic advisory board.
Scanlan, an Australian businessman, stepped down as Australian consul-general in New York last year.
He is a former managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Phil to our advisory board,” says Alok Singh, co-founder and managing principal of Bridge Growth Partners. “He is deeply familiar with the dynamics and opportunities that have created what amounts to a USD1trn two-way investment freeway between the US and Australia. Phil is a true globalist
Private equity manager Maven Capital Partners has led a GBP4.6m investment in IT support and services business ISN Solutions.
Established as a start-up in 1999, the business now generates sales close to GBP6m through the provision of consultancy, project management and outsourced IT services to a niche client base operating in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) oil and gas sector.
Headquartered in London and employing around 50 people, ISN offers a range of IT services to its clients, from the day to day administration of outsourced systems, including remote monitoring and a service desk function, to much higher
CDC Group has appointed David Osborne as investment director.
Osborne joins CDC’s equity investments team, which provides capital directly to businesses across Africa and South Asia, focusing on sectors that have good potential for job creation.
Osborne has over 25 years of experience of private equity investing in both European and Asian markets.
Most recently, he was managing director of the investment firm CapAsia, which focuses on infrastructure investment in Central and South-East Asia. He led the firm’s Islamic Infrastructure Fund, making investments in the Islamic countries of emerging Asia including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of its first dedicated fund in Brazil, HL Brazil FIQFIP.
Closing on BRL150m, the fund represents a major milestone for both Hamilton Lane and Brazil, as it is the country's first fully-integrated private equity fund-of-funds including primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
The fund is comprised of a diverse group of Brazilian institutional investors, including pension funds, multi-family offices and financial institutions. At the time of closing, the fund had already committed nearly BRL55.8m through six deals, which are diversified across vintage year, strategy and maturity. The fund will target investment opportunities throughout Brazil
Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners have merged their portfolio companies CCBR-SYNARC and BioClinica.
The combination creates a global provider of specialty outsourced clinical services.
JLL Partners and Water Street invested in BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC in 2013 and reached an agreement earlier this year to combine the two companies.
The firms recruited Jeffrey McMullen, an executive with 40 years of experience in the drug development industry, to serve as chairman.
Together, BioClinica and CCBR-SYNARC offer a suite of services that support the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with reducing the cost and time of global
Alceda Asset Management has been granted a licence to act as Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
The licence will enable Alceda to work with initiators of alternative investment funds (AIFs) covering both traditional open-end equity and bond funds as well as closed-end real asset funds.
AIFs, which market and distribute in Europe, will now have the option to outsource the AIFM responsibilities of their fund to Alceda.
Michael Sanders (pictured), managing director of Alceda Asset Management and chairman of the board of Alceda Fund Management, says: “This capability allows us
Houlihan Lokey, the international investment bank, has acquired ArchPoint Partners, an independent investment banking firm that provides M&A and private capital raising advisory services to clients in the technology sector.
The transaction, which closed on 7 March, enhances Houlihan Lokey’s global coverage and capabilities for clients across the technology sector.
Founded in 2009, ArchPoint focuses exclusively on the technology sector. The firm advises numerous companies on financings and business combinations with key sector private equity firms as well as large-cap infrastructure and application software vendors including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Google, Yahoo! and Symantec.
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SEI has launched The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (AIC) III with an eye towards helping managers of private funds enter the retail space.
AIC III is the third series trust in the AIC platform that SEI first introduced over 20 years ago and was developed to provide managers with a turnkey solution for the operations of retail mutual funds.
This solution included an independent board of trustees, compliance programme, fund administration, accounting, investor servicing, and distribution services.
AIC III combines the size of SEI’s series trust platform and SEI’s background in alternative services with a new fund board experienced in the alternative investment market.
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