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Stephen Hickey has joined CVC Credit Partners (CCP) as member of the Management Committee, Partner and Chief Risk Officer. He will be based in New York where he will have global responsibilities including chairing the newly formed Global Portfolio Committee, overseeing investments and the development of the firm’s business and products.
Hickey joins from Goldman Sachs where he spent 20 years in various senior roles including Global Head of Leverage Finance, Co-Head of Global Loans, Member of the Firmwide Risk and Firmwide Capital Committees and Head of Loan Sales and Secondary Trading (Proprietary Investing and Flow Trading). Steve had
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has completed its deal with Resource America Inc to combine CVC Cordatus Group and Apidos Capital Management to form CVC Credit Partners.
Led by a team comprising Marc Boughton (CEO), Stephen Hickey (Chief Risk Officer) and Chairman Jonathan Cohen, the business comprises USD7.7bn of credit assets across 23 vehicles in the US and Europe. Gretchen Bergstresser and Jonathan Bowers will be Senior Portfolio Managers alongside Group COO, Chris Allen.
Boughton says: "both teams appreciate the significant benefits of being able to offer sponsors and companies access to a broader range of debt capital to
Quantenna Communications, Inc, a specialist Wi-Fi video networking for whole-home entertainment, has closed a USD79 million funding round led by new lead investor RUSNANO, with participation by a second new investor Bright Capital.
All existing major investors, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Grazia Equity, Sigma Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners and Venrock Associates have also participated in the financing. RUSNANO will invest up to USD40 million and Sequoia Capital Growth Fund will contribute USD20 million.
Quantenna is experiencing insatiable demand for its disruptive Wi-Fi chipsets that offer the industry’s highest performance and coverage while providing wire-like reliability for wireless video content
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has published detailed analysis of the European Commission’s draft implementing rules for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which shows substantial policy differences between the Commission text and the advice provided by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
Key areas where the Commission text diverges substantially from the ESMA advice include third country provisions, depositaries, delegation, leverage, own funds, professional indemnity insurance, appointment of prime brokers and calculation of assets under management.
Andrew Baker (pictured), AIMA CEO, says: “This is an exercise attempting to shed more light on the process. We
Schoology, developer of a cloud-based collaborative learning platform for K-20 classrooms, has closed a new USD6 million round of financing led by FirstMark Capital, a leading NYC-based venture capital firm. Schoology has raised USD9.3 million in funding to date.
Schoology’s mission is to improve communication and collaboration inside and outside of the classroom by socially connecting educators, students and parents to a single platform with the resources they need to drive a better learning experience. Schoology bundles online learning, classroom management and social networking into one, easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy platform that is free to teachers and students. Districts can easily upgrade
Silver Mountain Group is offering operational due diligence to investors in hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative investments.
Silver Mountain combines subject matter expertise with a blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis to create reports that add value to its clients’ investment processes. Silver Mountain delivers unbiased opinions and genuine analysis as part of its services.
Silver Mountain Group’s Founder, says: "Silver Mountain has a robust, institutional methodology for conducting operational due diligence. Our comprehensive approach has been continuously refined and enhanced over the course of several years and is ideal for investors in hedge funds, private equity
Bunge Limited, a global agribusiness and food company, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Climate Change Capital Group Limited (CCCG), the parent company of Climate Change Capital Limited (CCC), a UK-regulated sustainable asset manager and advisor.
James Cameron (pictured), CCC’s Vice Chairman, will replace Vivienne Cox as Chairman. Mark Macleod, CCC’s Chief Financial Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer, will continue as CFO and Director. Alfred Evans will become CEO. Since 2005, Evans has advised Bunge on its internal emission reduction initiatives, overseen emission reduction services provided by Bunge’s Ecoinvest Carbon subsidiary and served as Chief Investment Officer for
Cordea Savills, the international property investment manager, has appointed John Claxon as a Director of Investment to lead the company’s expansion of its UK segregated mandate business.
Claxon, who will report to George Tindley (pictured), Executive Director and Head of Investment, UK, has 25 years’ experience of managing and advising real estate portfolios. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, where he was Head of the UK Investment Management Business. At BNP, he focused on segregated mandates and was discretionary manager for some major UK pension fund mandates, for which he delivered robust performance returns.
Tindley says: “I
Evercore Partners has appointed Steve Wellington as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s investment banking business based in London, focusing on financial restructuring, distressed M&A and debt advisory.
Randolph Sesson has also agreed to join the firm’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director, also based in London, where he will be Head of European Transportation.
Wellington has specialised in financial restructuring advisory and leveraged finance underwriting for the past 16 years. He worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 1999 to 2012, most recently as Head of Restructuring Advisory EMEA where he advised a wide range
Ancor Capital Partners has sold Tritrax Healthcare Services, a home health-care services provider to Dallas/Fort Worth area geriatric patients, to Jordan Health Services, a statewide provider of adult home health services.
"The focus of our growth plan in the home care sector at Ancor is in paediatric care, and we were pleased to find a strategic buyer such as Jordan who valued the Tritrax employees and its reputation in the industry," says Timothy J McKibben, managing director at Ancor. "We are excited about the opportunities that are in front of us in the paediatric sector and look forward to building
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