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Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity investor, has promoted Adiba Anyaoku Ighodaro to partner.
Ighodaro is a member of the investor development group, responsible for leading fundraising activities and investor relations in North America.
Paul Fletcher, senior partner at Actis, says: “Adiba exemplifies the best of Actis’s values. During her time at Actis, she has demonstrated exceptional levels of commitment, energy and professionalism in a number of different roles. Adiba has a rare ability to combine managing complex business relationships with great sensitivity and clear commercial acumen.”
Ighodaro joined CDC in 1991 after beginning her career in commercial and
Advise Technologies’ Consensus RMS suite of regulatory reporting tools is now available on the AbacusFLEX private cloud.
Consensus RMS customers are able to host or locally deploy the software, providing them with the flexibility to choose which best suits their needs and structure.
“New regulatory reporting requirements are weighing heavily on today’s fund advisers, and hosting our software suite on the cloud eliminates the added burden of managing the required technology infrastructure,” says Sean Sullivan, president of Advise. “Abacus’ deeply rooted understanding of hedge fund infrastructure and applications enables them to seamlessly integrate our products with the rest of
Valores Capital Partners (VCP), a new boutique merchant bank with offices and senior personnel in New York and Mumbai, has launched with the intention of focusing on "high growth/high margin" businesses within the global financial services sector.
Within the financial services sector, Valores has a dual focus. One is the global investment management industry and affiliated sectors such as brokerage, financial technology and service providers to the investment community including administrators/custodians, index providers and analytics companies. The second is a broader financial institutions focus in India and ultimately, developing Asia.
Valores provides M&A and corporate finance advisory services including private
Austin Ventures-backed Silverback Enterprise Group, which acquires and builds software businesses, has acquired EPM Live, a provider of cloud-based project portfolio and work management software built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform.
EPM Live will become part of Silverback’s PowerSteering Software business.
Adding EPM Live’s more than 270 active enterprise clients and over 100,000 users strengthens PowerSteering’s position as a vendor of cloud project and portfolio management (PPM) software. The combined organisation will have over 800 active enterprise clients and more than a quarter of a million users in 50 countries worldwide, making it the largest pure-play cloud provider in the
Middle market private equity firm American Industrial Partners has acquired the US operating subsidiaries (AIP Aerospace) of Hampson Industries.
The transaction marks the fund’s fifth investment in 2012 and will be made out of American Industrial Partners Capital Fund V, AIP’s USD717.5m fund that closed in December 2011.
AIP Aerospace, with approximately 1,140 employees and 10 manufacturing facilities located in California, Michigan and Texas, has developed unique product offerings and capabilities to serve the global aerospace market.
The investment is comprised of five operating divisions with a total of approximately USD210m in sales: three developers of complex metallic and composite
For the period ending 30 June 2012, European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons and moved in a positive trajectory in the one-year, three-year and ten-year time horizons, compared to December 2011, according to Thomson Reuters.
Venture capital fund returns in the one-year time horizon moved in a negative direction, registering a 4.7 percentage point decrease from December 2011 to 0.6 per cent. Venture capital funds in the longer-term time horizons moved in a positive direction, with slight increases (all under one per cent) from December last year.
Buyout funds saw returns across all investment
Hogan Lovells has advised the management of Xafinity Consulting on the firm’s acquisition by CBPE Capital from the Equiniti Group, announced on 16 November 2012.
CBPE is a private equity firm which invests in companies seeking growth or development capital.
Xafinity has over 350 employees operating from six regional UK offices and provides a range of actuarial, pensions, healthcare and other employee benefits consulting and administration services predominantly to the trustees and sponsors of corporate pension schemes.
The Hogan Lovells team advising the management was led by co-head of private equity Alan Greenough (pictured), supported by of counsel Keith Woodhouse
Sleep Innovations, a specialist in designing and manufacturing sleep solutions and comfort products, has been acquired by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners.
The private investment firm specialises in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies. Terms of the private transaction, which was announced on 18 October 2012, have not been disclosed.
“Sleep Innovations is pleased to join the Sun Capital portfolio,” says Michael C Thompson, president and chief executive of Sleep Innovations. “This partnership will fuel our continued investment in research and development, expand our operations, drive new product and category innovation and accelerate our strategic growth plan.”
“Sun
Jones Day’s Düsseldorf office, opened in March 2012, has added a banking and finance team led by Claudia Leyendecker.
Leyendecker and her team join a number of other lawyers who have moved to Jones Day’s Düsseldorf office in the past few months, including the transactional team of Dr Ulrich Brauer, Dr Kerstin Mast, and Dr Ralf Recknagel; an employment law team led by Dr Markus Kappenhagen; and an IP practice led by Kai Rüting.
The team led by Leyendecker includes three additional attorneys with experience in regulatory and capital investment law: Mathias Raabe and Marc von Ammon, joining the firm
More than half (58 per cent) of UK private equity and venture capitalists expect the level of PE investment in the technology sector to increase over the next two years, with cloud and managed services viewed as the top two most attractive sub sectors, according to a report from business and financial adviser Grant Thornton UK.
Whilst deal volumes are around 60 to 70 per cent of the 2008 peak, the technology sector has fared much better than most and 2012 has seen the return of PE hunger for the best UK technology deals.
Over the next 12 months, two
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