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Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, has hired two new executives.
S Scott Gregory has been appointed managing director, with responsibility for seeking new or expanded commitments to Darby’s family of emerging markets private equity funds by communicating Darby’s investment philosophy, process and strategy to current and prospective institutional investors. He reports to David Mathewson, senior managing director, and is based in Franklin Templeton’s New York office.
"Scott Gregory brings a wealth of global private equity and mezzanine finance experience to his new role. We are delighted to have Scott join the Darby team as
Harbottle & Lewis has advised social media monitoring company, Brandwatch, on its USD6 million investment round led by Nauta Capital.
The funding will fast track Brandwatch’s plans to bring innovative products to market, expand internationally and bolster its sales and marketing teams.
Founded in 2007 by Giles Palmer, Brandwatch is based in Brighton, UK, with offices in New York and Germany. Since its launch in August 2007, Brandwatch has acquired more than 300 clients and several thousand users, including global brands and agencies such as HSBC, DDB, Ipsos and Mediacom.
“We are extremely pleased to be part of Brandwatch and to
The Securities and Exchange Commission has established comprehensive arrangements with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as part of a long-term strategy to improve the oversight of regulated entities that operate across national borders.
The two memoranda of understanding (MOUs) reached this month follow on a similar supervisory arrangement that the SEC concluded with the Quebec Autorité des marchés financiers and the Ontario Securities Commission in 2010 and expanded to include the Alberta Securities Commission and the British Columbia Securities Commission last September.
The SEC’s latest supervisory cooperation arrangements will enhance SEC
The financial crisis has created significant opportunities for investors in private debt, according to James Witter (pictured), Head of Investment Advisory & Solutions at SVG Advisers…
One of the big investment opportunities to have emerged out of the current economic environment is the provision of private debt to the buyout community.
Banks are continuing to deleverage and retrench in response to increased regulatory capital and higher wholesale funding costs. At the same time, the majority of the outstanding universe of collateralised loan obligations will be coming to the end of their investment periods, and a refinancing wall of leveraged
The Swiss Funds Association (SFA) only agrees in part with the Federal Council’s dispatch with regard to a partial revision of the Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA).
In particular, the SFA is critical of the globally unique discrimination of the Swiss financial sector and the lack of measures to strengthen competitiveness. Improvements must be made to prevent the loss of jobs and the migration of entire product categories.
The Federal Council published its dispatch in respect of a partial revision of the CISA on 2 March 2012. Following a thorough analysis, the SFA has concluded that this only achieves certain
International law firm Eversheds has advised leading global private equity firm HIG European Capital Partners on its acquisition of Brand Addition Limited (together with its subsidiaries including those in Germany and Hong Kong) from 4imprint Group plc.
Brand Addition specialises in the design and manufacture of gift packaging and promotional health and beauty products, covering everything from design, product development, sourcing, supply-chain management, and co-packing.
4imprint Group are an international company providing promotional products, items and corporate gifts. The Eversheds team was led by partners Mark Spinner and Nigel Dale, assisted by senior associate Edward Waldron and solicitors Meghan
Bluewater Bio International has completed a GBP22.5 million financing round. The transaction was led by specialist Cleantech investors Ombu Group (Ombu) and Hermes GPE Environmental Innovation Fund LP (Hermes GPE), with GP Bullhound advising Bluewater Bio.
The board of Bluewater Bio believes that this transaction represents one of the largest growth capital finance rounds in the water sector over the last 12 months and reflects the Company’s recent commercial progress.
Stephen Brooke, CEO of Ombu Group, says: “Water technology is a core sector at Ombu and Bluewater Bio is the most exciting company we have seen in the field
Pinetree Capital Ltd has acquired ownership of 1,500,000 common shares and 750,000 common share purchase warrants of Mega Precious Metals Inc.
Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one additional common share at a price of USD0.85 until March 23, 2014. In the event that the Warrants are fully exercised, these holdings represent approximately 0.7% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of Mega as of 23 March, 2012, calculated on a partially diluted basis assuming the exercise of the Warrants only.
As a result of this transaction, Pinetree and its joint actors collectively held, as at 23
Enterome has had a first closing of a series A funding round, raising EUR 5 million. This funding follows a previous seed round that raised EUR 1.5 million from Seventure and INRA Transfert.
The series A round has brought in Seventure and Lundbeckfond Ventures, as new colead investors. Seventure is one of the most active European investors in venture capital investing in Life Sciences and Information and Communication Technologies. Lundbeckfond Ventures is a pure life science venture fund investing into companies in Europe and in the US.
Enetrome is a medicine company developing biomarkers for chronic and challenging medical conditions
HIG Europe, the European arm of private equity firm HIG Capital, has acquired Brand Addition, a European leader in the supply of promotional merchandising, from UK listed firm 4imprint, in a management buyout valued at GBP24 million.
Based in Manchester, Brand Addition is a market leader in the provision of promotional products to large corporates across Europe for use in their corporate marketing and consumer promotion campaigns. The business provides a full outsource service including product design, ethical sourcing, stock holding/management, international logistics and web creation/hosting. Customers include numerous Global Fortune 500 companies. The company employs 260 people across five offices in the
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