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Structured finance and derivatives lawyer Jeffrey H Chen has joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Hong Kong office as partner. Chen, formerly with Mayer Brown JSM in Hong Kong, will be a part of the Capital Markets team.
"Jeff is a highly regarded capital markets lawyer. He brings to Cadwalader extensive knowledge of and experience with complex structured finance products," says Christopher White, Chairman of Cadwalader. "With great talent like Jeff, we continue to develop our full suite of debt, equity and hybrid capital markets services to clients throughout Asia. We look forward to his contributions to the Firm and to
Innovative and creative digital businesses based in East London’s ‘Tech City’ are taking up the opportunity today (10 August 2011) to pitch for funding from leading venture capitalists, business angels and other potential investors.
The day long investor workshop, organised by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board as part of their Tech City Launchpad competition, will give forty digital and creative businesses the chance to pitch and network with the cream of London’s investment community.
Eighteen of the companies have already been offered up to GBP100,000 funding for their ideas for new digital products from the Technology Strategy Board
Irving Place Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Michelle Pearlman as Senior Advisor. Pearlman has more than 20 years of experience in senior operational and management consulting roles for leading retail and consumer companies.
Prior to joining Irving Place Capital, Pearlman was with Sears Holding Corporation, where she was a Senior Vice President and President of the jewelry business unit. Previously, Pearlman was an Executive Vice President with Ann Taylor, Inc. At Ann Taylor, Pearlman was responsible for the company’s e-commerce and direct marketing businesses. Prior to Ann Taylor, she was an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company.
MK Capital announces it has led a USD7M Series B Round in MOVIECLIPS.com, which has the largest library of licensed movie clips on the web. MOVIECLIPS offers more than 20,000 clips from six major Hollywood studios, as well as curated lists of clips, games, and a discovery engine to guide viewers to new clips.
“We are especially pumped to have a new funding partner in MK Capital. MK has great experience and knowledge in building a premium video experience on YouTube,” says Zach James, Co-Founder of MOVIECLIPS.com.
MK Capital, which has offices in Santa Monica and Chicago, is also the
International law firm Stephenson Harwood has appointed James Tinworth as a corporate partner to the firm’s funds practice in London. Tinworth joins from Simmons & Simmons LLP in a further boost to the corporate funds practice, following the appointment of Patrick Mousset in Paris from Mayer Brown in July.
He joins a team of five partners with specialist skills in investment trusts, property funds, open-ended investment companies (OEICs), hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, renewable energy funds and other investment vehicles in the UK and offshore jurisdictions.
Tinworth specialises in investment management and investment funds work, with a
Halyard Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, has made a growth investment in Practice Insight, a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based revenue cycle management solutions to healthcare providers.
The company’s solutions automate every stage of a physician practice’s reimbursement workflow, providing a high ROI by helping practices reduce bad debt, shorten the collection cycle and reduce the administrative staff needed to manage the reimbursement process. Practice Insight’s solutions are sold to physician practices nationwide through a network of reseller relationships.
Practice Insight was founded in 2003 and is led by Michael Reeves, Houston Johnson, David Reeves, Denise Perry
GMT Communications Partners (GMT), the European TMT-focused private equity group, has acquired Sverige Bygger AB and Norge Bygges AS through its portfolio company, DOCUgroup, for a total consideration of EUR15.2 million. This acquisition is DOCU’s thirteenth bolt-on since GMT acquired the platform in 2004. The combined business is expected to generate revenue of approximately EUR121 million.
Sverige Bygger and Norge Bygges are two market-leading providers of high quality and user-friendly information and marketing services for the construction industry in Scandinavia. Sverige Bygger and Norge Bygges are expected to generate consolidated annual revenue of EUR8.4 million in 2011. The companies
Rockefeller Financial has appointed Jeffery Moy as Head of Private Equity with effect from 1 August, 2011. Moy will be responsible for oversight of Rockefeller Financial’s private equity and venture capital program, including the selection and review of third-party managers, the review of client private equity portfolios and new business development.
Reuben Jeffery, Chief Executive Officer, says: "We are pleased to welcome Jeff Moy, a seasoned private equity professional, to Rockefeller Financial. With more than 20-years of investment management experience, Jeff brings extensive knowledge and key relationships to our long-established private equity and venture capital business. We look forward
Golden Gate Capital has acquired EP Management Corporation and its sole operating subsidiary, EP Minerals, a producer of diatomaceous earth (DE) filter aids, functional additives and absorbents.
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to EP Minerals on the sale with the transaction being led by John Neuner, Patrick McNulty and Luke Semple from the firm’s Richmond office.
"As the world’s second-largest producer of DE and a leading supplier of perlite with a leading suite filtration, functional additive, and absorbent products, EP Minerals is a great fit with the strong practice we have
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Dan Haxby as Head of Realisations within RBS’s Strategic Investment Group (SIG). SIG is responsible for all aspects of the equity positions that the bank takes through debt for equity swaps and new money investments in restructuring situations. It sits within RBS’s Global Restructuring Group.
Haxby used to work as the Head of Financial Sponsors Coverage at JP Morgan, before moving to the same role at RBS’s Global Banking and Markets business (GBM). In the new role Haxby will work the lifecycle of a SIG investment from the identification of equity opportunities through to their
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