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Qiming Venture Partners has promoted Nisa Leung to managing partner effective immediately.
Leung (pictured) joined Qiming as a venture partner in 2006 to head the firm’s healthcare practice. She currently sits on the board of Gan & Lee Pharmaceutical, Novast Pharmaceuticals, Crown Bioscience, Sangon Biotech, Nurotron, Goodwill Information Technology, Origene Technologies and has represented Qiming on other healthcare investments including CITIC Pharmaceuticals and Aeonmed Medical among others.
Leung joins Duane Kuang, JP Gan, Hans Tung, and Gary Rieschel as managing partners of Qiming Venture Partners.
“Nisa has spent the last 13 years building, operating, and investing in
IPO activity surged in the second quarter of 2013, as the volume of new public listings far exceeded the previous quarter, as well as the second quarter of 2012, according to IPO Watch, a quarterly survey of IPOs listed on US stock exchanges by PwC US.
There were a total of 62 IPOs in the second quarter of 2013, representing an increase of 82 per cent compared to 34 listings in the first quarter of 2013, and an increase of 88 per cent compared to 33 listings in the second quarter of 2012.
Total proceeds raised during the second
The world may not get pneumonia when the US gets a cold, but it sure gets sick, says Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices…
June was anything but boring, as the month started with all eyes on Japan and ended with them watching the US. In Japan, prospects for growth via new stimulus created rapid gains in the market (and a declining yen), which eventually came into conflict with reality caused by too much expectation too fast. However, after some pullback, Japan managed to side with growth (and a weaker yen), posting the best result of any market
The UK’s Private Equity (PE) buyout market has seen a drop in both volume and value of deals at the half way point of 2013, but exit values have increased significantly boosted by the revival of PE-backed IPOs as an exit route for the industry.
There were 81 UK buyouts over the first six months of this year with a total value of GBP6.0bn, compared to 117 and GBP8.6bn over the same period in 2012. Encouragingly the value of exits totalled GBP8bn at the half way point of this year, an increase from GBP5.8bn in 2012, according to the latest
Marie-Claire Fudge has joined Mourant Ozannes as counsel and head of funds in the British Virgin Islands.
Fudge (pictured) has extensive experience in structuring, setting up and launching open and closed ended BVI investment funds and providing ongoing advice to investment funds and their managers.
She has a regulatory practice which compliments her investment funds practice and regularly advises broker dealers and other market participants on the BVI’s investment business laws.
Fudge also has significant industry knowledge in all aspects of BVI corporate law, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and listings and joint venture
Private equity and alternative asset manager Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP3.8m into Paisley based Lambert Contracts.
Maven’s investment will help to position the business for further growth and accelerate its strategy for expansion into new geographic markets.
The business, which was founded in 1986 and now employs over 100 staff, is a contractor in insurance reinstatement, property maintenance and fire protection, and has long standing relationships with many of the UK’s best known insurance companies, loss adjustors and property managers.
Core services range from restoring properties damaged by fire, flood, smoke, water and storms, to carrying
Vet Venture Capital (VVC) has launched the first venture capital fund focused exclusively on animal health. With its first closing anticipated in the third quarter of 2013, VVC will leverage sector expertise and strong relationships throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.
VVC’s initial fund size of USD100m will include leading strategic and financial investors.
As the first venture capital fund focused exclusively on animal health, VVC has the ability to take advantage of a proprietary pipeline and overlooked opportunities. Target investment areas will include products for the treatment and prevention of disease, and the optimisation of health and wellness
Key Capital Partners, the private equity firm focused on smaller buyouts, has led a GBP3m equity investment in WHP Projects, a provider of support services to the mobile phone industry.
As part of the transaction, Royal Bank of Scotland, led by Stuart Watson, director of the corporate transactions team, has in addition provided a term loan and a revolving credit facility to support future working capital requirements.
WHP supports mobile operators in their moves to strengthen coverage across the UK. The business provides end-to-end services for the deployment, upgrade and maintenance of mobile network masts, antennae and base
BNY Mellon has developed a reporting solution that enables its affected alternative investment clients to prepare and file Form PF, as required by recent rules introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
A joint effort of the SEC and CFTC, Form PF reporting complies with Section 404 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, aimed at protecting investors and the US financial system from future systemic risk.
BNY Mellon’s new service offers its fund administration clients who are SEC registered investment advisers to private funds – such as
Moore Group has strengthened its senior management team appointment of Jon Trigg as private equity director.
Trigg’s private equity expertise and knowledge spanning the whole client, technical and operational spectrum from over 13 years in the sector make him the ideal candidate for the new role at Moore.
A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Trigg has joined Moore from State Street (Jersey) where he held the position of director. In his previous role he was responsible for relationships with mid-cap private equity clients serviced by a large administration team. He has extensive experience developing and
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