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SKCG Group hired insurance industry veteran Wayne C Siebner (pictured) to enhance its global hedge fund and private equity fund practice. SKCG’s client roster already includes many of the industry’s largest and most recognised funds.
Siebner will serve as Senior Vice President and Manager of Executive and Professional Liability and will focus on Directors and Officers (D&O) and Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance. Hedge funds and asset management firms purchase this risk management tool to protect themselves from costs stemming from SEC investigations and investor lawsuits. Siebner will be joining SKCG Group at a time when lower costs and increased
Bandwidth.com has closed a USD22 million private equity financing from Carmichael Partners, a growth equity investment firm that was co-founded in 2010 by former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and veteran private equity investor Brian Bailey.
The funding enables Bandwidth.com to continue the company’s expansion into key strategic areas, such as the recent acquisition of 911 emergency services provider dash Carrier Services, and accelerate the already rapid growth of its small and medium business focused services, such as Phonebooth, Bandwidth.com’s popular cloud-based phone service which doubled its customer base in the last quarter alone.
"We’re extremely pleased to welcome Carmichael Partners
Maven Capital Partners, in partnership with Simmons Parallel Energy, has led the GBP8.5m funding package to acquire two complementary and profitable oil and gas businesses, Roberts Pipeline Machining and Wellclad.
Senior debt facilities have been provided by the Acquisition Finance Team at Clydesdale Bank PLC.
Maven has backed a highly experienced management team led by CEO Dave Sturrock who has over 25 years’ international oil and gas experience in senior executive roles, supported by Scott Martin who brings significant finance and M&A experience and a successful track record within PE backed oil services businesses.
The new group will be branded
PineBridge Investments’ PineBridge Gateway Partners private equity team has signed an investment agreement to partner with Ulusal Faktoring AS (Ulusal), a non-bank financial services company in Turkey. PineBridge Gateway Partners invests across Turkey, Middle East, Africa, and Russia/Former Soviet Union.
Ulusal is focused on providing financing for the fast growing small-and-medium-sized companies market in Turkey. The company is headquartered in Istanbul and led by Chairman Kurt K. Jolker and CEO Izak Koenka. Ulusal is one of the ten largest independent factoring companies in Turkey. At closing, the investment will make PineBridge a significant minority shareholder in the company.
“We are
BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services (AIS) has named Jim Whitaker head of Relationship Management for the Americas and Mark Mannion head of Relationship Management for EMEA.
Whitaker assumes a role held previously by Marina Lewin, who was recently named Global Head of Sales for AIS. Mannion assumes the new title having transitioned from his role as Managing Director of European Business for the former PNC Global Investment Servicing unit acquired by BNY Mellon last year.
Whitaker and Mannion will continue to be based in New York and Dublin, respectively, and report to Brian Ruane (pictured), BNY Mellon AIS chief
EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) and HM Capital Partners (HM) will form a new partnership to grow the Eagle Ford shale-focused BlackBrush Oil & Gas LP and TexStar Midstream Services LP.
EIG has committed USD420 million of capital (USD220 million equity and a USD200 million senior credit facility) for a controlling interest in the partnership with HM contributing its existing interest in San Antonio, TX-based BlackBrush and TexStar Midstream Services.
BlackBrush has 70,000 acres under lease in the Eagle Ford shale while TexStar Midstream Services has been expanding its 125 mile low pressure gathering system in Frio and LaSalle Counties
Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd (Elliott), the second largest shareholder in National Express Group plc (National Express), with approximately 17 per cent share ownership through funds managed by the firm, has announced its support for three new, experienced independent candidates to join the National Express Board of Directors.
Elliott believes that the new directors, Javier Alarco Canosa, Marc Meyohas and Chris Muntwyler – who are fully independent and have no financial arrangement with Elliottt – will provide a fresh perspective and strategic outlook, designed to capture exciting growth opportunities for the company.
In a statement, Elliott says: “We see exciting
Business management and accounting software provider, Access UK (Access), is set to execute a rapid expansion strategy after securing a GBP50 million deal with growth investor Lyceum Capital.
Access is a software, solutions and consultancy house that provides a full range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services, with a particular focus on financial management systems (FMS) and human capital management (HCM) solutions.
It serves a 5,000-strong mid-market client base spread across a broad range of sectors and includes BVCA, British Chambers of Commerce, Bank of England, Hill Dickinson and Sue Ryder Care.
Established in 1991, Access
Private equity firm GTCR has successfully completed the acquisition of Sterigenics International, Inc, a leading global provider of contract sterilisation and ionisation services for medical devices, food products, and advanced applications, from Silverfleet Capital and PPM America Capital Partners.
The transaction will drive the continued expansion of Sterigenics’ service offering globally. Sterigenics is the sole provider of contract sterilisation and ionisation services on a global basis, with a network of 38 service centres across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company provides its customers with comprehensive sterilisation solutions, offering technology in all leading sterilisation modalities and complementary value-added services. Sterigenics
CertiVox, a new information security company, has received GBP900,000 (USD1,460,000) in Series A funding from Pentech Ventures and Octopus Investments, both based in the UK.
The funds will be used to develop and bring to market CertiVox’s key management infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
“We are excited by this endorsement of our company and technologies by two such well regarded investors, and look forward to their support and expertise as we continue to develop our security technologies and services for the cloud,” says Brian Spector, CEO at CertiVox. “Our breakthrough security technology is so easy to implement it effectively
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