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Palatine Private Equity has appointed Charlotte Ashton as business development director.
Ashton joins Palatine from Grant Thornton Corporate Finance where she worked for three years, initially in Manchester and then later in London focusing on specialist sectors.
She worked on a wide range of transactions including Edward Billingtons acquisition of Bar Foods, the sale of Electricity Network Solutions to the French group SPIE and the sale of The Mansfield Group to South African logistics group Bidvest.
Ashton joins the team in a national role focused on developing relationships with high growth, entrepreneurial businesses as well as the corporate
Major institutional investors are poised to increase their allocations to alternative investments, with a bias towards real estate and real assets, during 2014, according to a survey by BlackRock.
Approximately half of institutions surveyed – 49 per cent – expect to increase their real estate allocation and over 40 per cent indicated they will increase their investment in real assets this year.
At the same time, about one-third of the institutional investors surveyed intend to reduce their cash holdings in 2014.
“Institutional investors are seeking to build portfolios better suited for an investment landscape characterised by low yields,
Portfolio Advisors (PA) has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity secondary fund, Portfolio Advisors Secondary Fund II (PASF II), with total commitments of USD910m.
Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Approximately 80 per cent of the total limited partner commitments to the fund came from investors who had previously invested in one or more PA-sponsored funds.
Since 2003, PA has completed over USD2bn of private equity secondary transactions.
PASF II has been purchasing direct secondary fund interests since
Small and mid-cap fund managers are looking to invest in under-valued companies with good fundamentals, recurring revenues, a good management team and a sustainable competitive position in 2014.
That is according to research carried out by Baker Tilly and the Quoted Companies Alliance.
The Small and Mid-Cap Investors Survey was carried out by YouGov, and included in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s top senior fund managers from organisations including Artemis Investment Management, Aviva Investors and Legal & General.
The report gives insights into how fund managers make investment decisions and investment trends in the small and mid-cap
British bank Aldermore has made three key appointments to its asset finance team.
Emma Irving joins Aldermore from BNP Paribas to become the new head of materials handling. She has over 15 years’ experience in the materials handling industry.
Nova Everidge joins the operational team from Close Asset Finance. She brings over 20 years of experience to the team, having previously worked at ING Lease and GE Capital. As head of new business origination, Everidge will lead the business’ pay out and sales support processes.
Hayley Pearson will become head of servicing and support, following an internal promotion.
Law firm K&L Gates has appointed Siew Kam Boon as a partner in its M&A and private equity practices.
Boon, who will work out of both K&L Gates’ Singapore and Shanghai offices, joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers.
Boon focuses her practice on cross border mergers and acquisitions, both public and private, as well as private equity transactions across Asia. She represents private equity/venture capital funds, special situations groups, sovereign wealth funds, and corporate clients on transactions across various sectors – including natural resources, technology, media, and consumer – and has been involved in some of the region’s largest high-profile M&A and
Intercontinental Trust Ltd (ITL), a Mauritius-based fund administrator, has gone live with an eFront solution for the administration of its private equity funds.
ITL offers a wide range of financial and fiduciary services to global businesses, and has assets under administration in excess of USD66bn.
ITL was looking for a single solution to handle everything from the maintenance of statutory records to the release of financial statements. The firm also needed a solution that would support its strategy of continued expansion into PE investing, especially in Africa.
The implementation, which was tailored to accommodate PE fund requirements specific
CCBR-SYNARC and BioClinica have signed an agreement to merge their companies to create a global provider of specialised outsourced clinical services.
The combined company will offer a portfolio of services uniquely tailored to conducting and managing global clinical trials on behalf of the world’s premier pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Jeffrey McMullen, vice chairman of inVentiv Health, will serve as chairman of the combined company. Mark Weinstein, president and CEO of BioClinica, will serve as CEO.
McMullen, who has more than 40 years of experience in the drug development industry, says: “This is a ground-breaking merger that will bring
Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners has acquired Mill City TEC, a provider of civil and electrical construction and maintenance services to the wireless industry in the Upper Midwestern US, via a newly-formed company, Mill City Communications.
Mill City Communications is Resilience Capital Partners' second add-on acquisition by its Aero Communications investment platform, which it acquired in October 2012.
Aero Communications is a provider of customer-focused technology solutions to broadband and wireless providers, businesses, public venues, government facilities and residential subscribers.
Steven Rosen, co-CEO of Resilience Capital Partners, says: "We welcome the entire Mill City organisation to
Rob Smith, Manager of the German Growth Trust at Barings, comments on the latest GDP figures from Germany…
When it comes to Germany, given the huge trade flows that influence the GDP numbers, it would not be advisable to extrapolate a trend from just a couple of quarters.
All other things being equal, GDP will be negatively influenced by an increase in imports exceeding the movement in exports, which is what we have seen in the last two quarters. This has resulted in an overall negative drag effect for the year as a whole.
Given that Germany imports many raw
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