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GreySpark Partners, the capital markets consultancy with offices in London and Hong Kong, has appointed Jon Batty as managing consultant, with responsibility for running the Trading Architecture, Infrastructure and Support practice. He will report to Bradley Wood, partner.
Batty joins GreySpark after over seven years at Macquarie Securities Group (MSG) in Hong Kong, working in various senior roles. His most recent position was Division Director, Head of IT for MSG Asia within the Information Technology Group, where he managed a team across Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Manila and India. In this role, he was responsible for the reorganisation and
Atlante Private Equity, a private equity fund managed by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, has acquired an interest in Svas Biosana, a company based in Somma Vesuviana (Naples) that has been operating for over 40 years in the medical devices and infusion solutions sector.
Atlante has invested EUR6 million to acquire a minority interest in the company.
“We are delighted to welcome the Atlante Private Equity Fund as one of our shareholders,” says Umberto Perillo, managing director of the Svas Biosana Group. “In such an unsettled economic environment, tackling the challenges posed by the market with the daily support of a
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the former CEO of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and his close personal friend with scheming to defraud an investment firm into paying USD20 million in fees to the friend’s placement agent firms.
The SEC alleges that former CalPERS CEO Federico R Buenrostro and his friend Alfred JR Villalobos fabricated documents given to New York-based private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Those documents gave Apollo the false impression that CalPERS had reviewed and signed placement agent fee disclosure letters in accordance with its established procedures. In fact, Buenrostro and Villalobos intentionally
Voyage Care (Voyage), the UK specialist care provider for people with learning disabilities, brain injuries and other complex needs, has acquired Solor Care.
Solor Care was previously owned by Barclays Ventures, Royal Bank of Scotland and Management. The acquisition makes Voyage the UK’s clear leader in the provision of learning disability services with 363 care homes and 2,369 beds.
The transaction is being funded with existing cash and a further injection of equity from Voyage’s majority shareholders, HgCapital and SL Capital Partners.
Like Voyage, Solor Care provides high quality personalised support and care for people with complex needs.
Health Safety and Engineering Consultants (HSEC), the engineering risk management consultancy, has undergone a GBP2.7m management buy-out backed by venture capitalist EV.
Debt facilities were provided by The Co-operative Bank and included funding to support the company’s future growth.
EV has secured a substantial minority stake in the business, which is based in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and provides health and safety and risk management advice to clients across the UK. Under its RHMA brand it provides forensic investigation and expert witness services dealing with personal injury, commercial liability and health and safety regulatory work to an increasing number of law and
Irish law firm Dillon Eustace has opened an office in the Cayman Islands. The new office makes Dillon Eustace first European Union legal firm to establish a fully-serviced practice on the islands.
The office opening reflects the firm’s view that while the impact of the introduction of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive may restrict access to European markets – there remains a huge volume of business focussed outside Europe on which the Directive will have little or no impact. This will ensure that the Caymans will continue to be a major domicile of choice.
Mark Thorne, Managing Partner
In March 2012, the volume of assets placed in the investment funds covered by the Swiss Funds Assiciation (SFA) climbed to around CHF648 billion, an increase of CHF1.4 billion month-on-month.
There were inflows of assets for bond funds (+CHF2 billion), products in the “other funds” category (+CHF0.5 billion) and equity funds (+ CHF0.4 billion).
As of the end of March 2012, the total volume of assets in the investment funds covered by the statistics compiled by Swiss Fund Data AG and Lipper stood at CHF647.1 billion, an increase of CHF1.4 billion month-on-month. Funds for institutional investors accounted for CHF241.0 billion
All private, professional and public funds in the British Virgin Islands are required to submit a Mutual Fund Annual Return (MFAR) to the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) no later than 30 June 2012 in respect of the calendar year ending 31 December 2011.
Funds and their service providers must make use of the Commission’s e-filing system when preparing and submitting their annual returns. The e-filing system can be accessed here.
As law firm Harneys points out, failure to complete and file the MFAR on or prior to 30 June exposes a fund to the risk of enforcement action by
The Riverside Company has recruited Erick Bronner (pictured) to lead the firm’s Investor Relations department. Bronner brings 20 years of private equity fundraising and investment banking experience, most recently as a Founding Partner at Mercury Capital Advisors, a global private equity fundraising and investment advisory firm.
Prior to Mercury, Bronner was a Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity Funds Group. As Global Head, Fundraising and Investor Relations, Bronner assumes the reins from Christine Croissant, who is moving into a part-time role with the Investor Relations team.
Bronner will spearhead Riverside’s efforts to meet the needs of a growing base of international investors as head of a department that numbers seven individuals today and
AIRCOM International, a portfolio company of HIG Europe, the European arm of global private equity investment firm HIG Capital, announces the acquisition of Symena Software & Consulting GmbH (Symena).
AIRCOM is the world’s largest independent provider of network planning management and optimisation tools and services to the mobile telecoms industry; its products are in use across more than 135 countries by over half the world’s mobile operators.
Symena develops market-leading software that helps to automate mobile networks. The company was founded in 2002 as a spin-off from Vienna University. It has enjoyed significant market traction with leading international operators,
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