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Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) has promoted William H Bohnsack, Jr (pictured) to President. Bohnsack has served as the investment management firm’s Chief Operating Officer since 2001 and one of its four senior partners since 2005.
As President, Bohnsack will have expanded oversight of several activities at OHA, including firm management, business development and strategic initiatives. In executing these and other responsibilities, he will continue to work alongside the firm’s other senior partners, including Mr. August, Scott D. Krase and Robert Okun.
Glenn R August, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OHA, says: “Bill has been an outstanding partner and
Appleby (Cayman) has formed a dedicated Regulatory and Financial Services Team to provide advice to local and international clients on regulatory matters in the Cayman Islands.
The Regulatory and Financial Services Team will build on the wealth of the firm’s current expertise in this growing field. The focus of the team will include licensing and regulatory approvals, regulatory reporting, compliance, corporate governance, and risk management.
The team is led by corporate partner, Sherice Arman (pictured), and comprises leading practitioners from across various Appleby practice groups and teams, including banking and finance, insurance, local business, litigation, and private client and trusts.
Private equity investment firm HIG Capital’s real estate investment affiliate HIG Realty Partners has appointed Ira Weidhorn as co-head and Managing Director. HIG Realty Partners will make opportunistic investments in real estate across all property types, with a specific focus on special situations. Weidhorn has fifteen years of experience in real estate investing and will be located in HIG’s New York office.
“I am delighted to welcome Ira to the firm. Ira brings a wealth of real estate knowledge and experience to HIG Under his leadership, we are committed to expanding our real estate business focused on opportunistic and value
WTP Advisors has expanded its services to include a comprehensive Form PF Diagnostic. Form PF, a reporting obligation adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission is a challenging and lengthy undertaking for many hedge funds that are confronting quickly-approaching filing deadlines.
“With all the confusion surrounding Form PF it really comes down to ‘data’. Firms need to take stock of what they have, what they need and how it all comes together,“ says Lou Sala, CEO of WTP’s Capital Markets division.
Leveraging its middle and back office expertise, the Capital Markets team at WTP Advisors provides full data discovery
Peakside Capital, a specialist European real estate private equity firm, is to acquire Allied Irish Banks, plc’s (AIB) Polish property fund management subsidiary and its interests in two Polonia Property Funds.
This represents both Peakside’s first direct investment into Poland through its Peakside Real Estate Fund I (PREF) and its strategic acquisition of a fund and asset management business in a core market.
As a result of this agreement, Peakside will acquire AIB’s Polish property fund management subsidiary, AIB PPM sp zoo. In addition, separate agreements have also been signed by PREF and Partners Group to acquire AIB’s
The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has welcome the announcement that HM Treasury will postpone the UK’s introduction of new provisions for Venture Capital Trusts. These rules will cap at GBP2 million the amount which can be invested in a small business by schemes such as VCTs, EIS and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme in any 12 month period.
The decision removes the threat that VCTs making investments in the next few months might automatically lose their tax status if they fall foul of this provision.
Details of the new rules were confirmed last Thursday with the publication of the Finance
Mobile video marketing company Mogreet has raised USD4.1 million in strategic capital, bringing its total funding raised to USD14.1 million. The round is being led by Black Diamond Ventures with participation from a number of other prominent investors, including DFJ Frontier, Ascend Ventures, Bryant Park Ventures and Draper Associates.
The new financing will be invested in launching moShare, the industry’s first mobile sharing service, and expanding Mogreet’s global presence in the mobile marketing and mobile advertising markets.
“We’re excited by this latest round of strategic capital, which will help Mogreet get even closer to the goal of enabling any business
Shoosmiths’ Birmingham corporate team has advised MML Capital Partners on the sale of Virginia-based Cableform Inc to Hubbell Inc.
This is the fourth consecutive deal completed by Shoosmiths on behalf of MML within the last ten months, having simultaneously advised on the sale of Rotary Precision Instruments to German manufacturer, Huber Diffraktionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG.
Shoosmiths advised on the sales of subsidiaries ZEAG and Zodion in 2011, bringing present total deal value to around £35m.
The latest deal involved the disposal of Cableform – a manufacturer of large DC motor controls for mining, steel, and transportation industry customers worldwide
Marc Ingla (pictured), a seasoned Internet business angel and the former Vice Chairman of FC Barcelona, has joined Mangrove Capital Partners as a partner to bolster the investment firm’s growth strategy.
At Barça, Ingla was notably managing all sponsorship, media and football affairs and played a key role in making the club the rich and successful brand it is today.
Ingla is also a well-respected investor and advisor to start-ups in both the Internet and the Mobile industries. In the last 10 years, he has acted as a business angel and has worked with several venture capital firms, getting
Les Laboratoires Nutrition & Cardiometabolisme have successfully completed their second funding round totaling EUR3.5 million. This round was led by Seventure Partners accompanied by a group of investors from South-Western France (IRDI, GSO Capital, Aqui-Invest) and LNC’s historical shareholder EPI.
LNC designs and develops Medical Nutrition products, tailored to meet the specific needs of patients suffering from metabolic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular disease).
"Coming from the pharmaceutical industry, LNC managers are convinced that patients with these chronic condition benefit from a comprehensive health care offering. This offer comprises the assembly of drugs, disease-specific nutrition products and services. What are the objectives
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