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Altius Associates has appointed Joachim Suter as a partner in its EMEA investor relations team.
Suter will be based in the London office, joining the global IR team headed by Dr Eric Warner.
Suter joins Altius having been senior vice president private placement for Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA). He focussed on Switzerland, Italy and Luxembourg, responsible for all unlisted solutions (primary, secondary funds and direct investments) in the region. Prior to this he had a business development focus on German institutional clients.
Previously he held positions at Pimco Europe, UBS Asset Management and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Intervale Capital, an energy-focused private equity firm, has promoted David Nemeskal to principal.
Nemeskal (pictured) will be involved in deal sourcing and execution and portfolio company oversight.
Managing partner Charles Cherington says: "Dave’s promotion reflects the tremendous value he brings to Intervale in multiple areas, including deal origination, deal execution and portfolio company management."
Nemeskal joined Intervale in June 2011 as a vice president. In that position, he was involved in several transactions, and played a key role in Intervale’s recent investment in Aegis Chemical Solutions. Nemeskal currently serves on the board of directors of Aegis.
Nemeskal has more than
Brett Meili has joined US Bancorp Fund Services as legal counsel to provide support for the organisations’ growing alternative investment products and services.
Following the recent acquisition of AIS, a fund administrator based in New Jersey, US Bancorp Fund Services continues to expand consultative support and resources to serve the firm’s alternative investment clients and larger community.
“US Bancorp Fund Services knows that innovative services must be built and supported by industry-leading experts to ensure our clients’ success on every level,” says Christine Waldron, senior vice president of alternative investments for US Bancorp Fund Services. “We are excited to once
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, has launched Eze App Cloud, a private cloud application delivery platform developed exclusively for application providers.
Built on the company’s Eze Private Cloud, the hedge fund industry’s most broadly deployed and used private cloud, Eze App Cloud enables application providers to combine their software with a cloud infrastructure to give clients a complete, cost-effective package that speeds time to value.
There are already more than 60 applications delivered via the Eze Private Cloud, which features 24/7 system and security monitoring and professional management; N+1 infrastructure
International aircraft leasing group Avolon’s fleet reached 167 aircraft as at 31 December 2012 while total capital raised by the group has now exceeded USD5bn.
During 2012, Avolon raised USD300m of new equity from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and USD1.3bn of new debt finance bringing total capital raised to in excess of USD5.1bn.
The group also delivered 40 aircraft last year valued at over USD2bn – placing it in the top three lessors globally for new aircraft deliveries in 2012.
Avolon also placed forward orders for 20 Airbus 320neo and 20 Boeing 737MAX aircraft, becoming one
Monroe Capital has provided a USD27m unitranche facility to support the sale of Collaborative Neuroscience Network (CNS Network) to a 100 per cent Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) owned corporation.
This is the first transaction completed by Monroe Capital’s newly-formed national ESOP lending practice.
ESOPs offer corporate and individual level tax advantages that are not typically available in traditional third party sales. In today’s rising tax rate environment, Monroe Capital anticipates that demand will be robust for similarly structured ESOP transactions in 2013 and beyond.
Based in Garden Grove, California, CNS Network is a clinical trial research provider, assisting pharmaceutical
BuyBox, a social payment solution provider for e-merchants, has secured a EUR1.7m equity increase from Iris Capital and Midi Capital.
This financing will be used to develop the product portfolio and international commercial deployment.
Founded at then end of 2010, BuyBox is today a well used solution of social payment for e-commerce. The solutions from BuyBox allow e-commerce sites to natively collect and organise group payment, for example to buy a birthday present or an expensive item.
BuyBox, distributed on Saas mode, is now deployed via well known customers such as Celio, Wonderbox.fr or Micromania. BuyBox is also distributed by
Rothstein Kass has hired Lisa Donn Sergi as a principal and leader of the firm’s international tax practice on the West Coast.
Sergi brings nearly two decades of tax and legal experience on domestic and international tax matters. She will work out of the firm’s Beverly Hills office.
In overseeing the firm’s West Coast international tax practice, Sergi will advise US-based individuals, closely held businesses, entertainment companies and entertainers, private equity firms and venture capital funds on domestic and international tax matters across a broad range of transactions.
Prior to joining Rothstein Kass, Sergi served as a tax director
The UK National Audit Office (NAO) has expressed concerns that if the British government, in its desperation to attract pension funds to the infrastructure sector, gave large construction risk guarantees for new projects, substantial liabilities could arise for the British taxpayer.
This is an ongoing debate in the UK, but it highlights an issue of global relevance: numerous governments are now pushing for the growth of institutional financing of national infrastructure spending plans, while investors are increasingly looking at long-term assets like infrastructure.
Recent research by Edhec-Risk Institute in the context of the Natixis Research Chair on infrastructure debt investment
Nearly a third (31 per cent) of financial services industry chief executives believe that senior management should be spending more time on risk and compliance, according to a study by Kinetic Partners.
Nearly half of financial services CEOs (48 per cent) believe that senior managers should be spending between 20 per cent to 40 per cent of their time on risk management and compliance, but 31 per cent of this group admit that this standard is not being achieved.
This number climbs even higher for chief risk officers (CROs), 43 per cent of whom believe that senior management is
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