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Asset management, private equity and hedge fund executives expect growth over the next year to come from smaller Asian economies such as Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, according to a study commissioned by RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Asset management, private equity and hedge fund executives expect growth over the next year to come from smaller Asian economies such as Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, according to a study commissioned by RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm
RJD Partners (RJD), a middle market private equity firm, has announced four promotions within in its investment team. Alex Hay (pictured) and Frank Bulman are both promoted to Partner, Jill Williams is promoted to Investment Director, and Richard Court to Investment Manager.
The promotions follow a busy second half of 2010, which saw RJD complete two new investments and achieve the first realisation from its second fund, RJD Private Equity Fund II, with the sale of Teaching Personnel in July.
Hay joined RJD from Close Brothers Corporate Finance in January 2007. He completed the management buyout of Chemigraphic Limited, one
Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners LLP have acquired AIRCOM International Group – the world’s largest independent provider of network planning and optimisation services to the mobile telecoms industry – from Advent International.
AIRCOM estimates that every day, the 20 top global operators depend upon its tools and consultants to improve network coverage and service quality for more than 1.1 billion subscribers worldwide.
Founded in 1995, AIRCOM is headquartered in the UK, and employs over 900 professionals spread across 14 offices worldwide servicing customers in 135 countries. Today’s mobile market is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by the
The vast majority (84%) of respondents to a straw poll conducted by mergermarket and CMS feel that the deals they have done in Russia have lived up to their expectations and fulfilled their objectives. Despite Russia’s reputation as a difficult venue for M&A, participants in the new CMS Deal Drivers Russia 2011 survey state that it is no more difficult to do a deal in Russia than it is elsewhere.
To get a better understanding of the current state of the M&A market in Russia as well as the current deal drivers and deal obstacles, CMS commissioned mergermarket to garner
Irving Place Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Michael Feiner as Senior Advisor of Human Capital. Feiner has extensive experience helping some of the world’s leading corporations develop and optimise their leadership and talent as a corporate executive, management consultant, author and professor.
Feiner’s corporate experience includes 20 years at PepsiCo, where he served as Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer for beverage operations worldwide. In that role, Feiner built a global human resources organisation that has been recognised as one of the most innovative in the world. He also has taught at Columbia Business School, where
Longbow Capital LLP, the British innovation investor, has launched a tax-efficient fund which supports tomorrow’s technology today.
The Longbow Growth and Income VCT offers the possibility for investment in the UK’s growing healthcare technology sector. The VCT has a unique link to Boots stores. Products are already available on the shelf, while others are being developed in its innovation centre in Swansea. This makes the investment a very accessible opportunity with real benefits for investors and their families – and the wider UK R&D industry.
Products developed at the Boots Centre for Innovation that the fund may invest in
GF Data’s 2010 Year End Report reveals deal volume in the middle market surged ahead in 4Q 2010, marking the most deals done since the onset of the economic crisis, and reflecting continued improvement in the overall M&A market.
The 155 private equity firms currently contributing to GF Data reported 58 completed transactions in the fourth quarter of 2010, closing out the year with a total of 147 completed deals.
For the third quarter in a row, completed deal volume was about double the rate of activity in the same period in 2009. PE firms in the GF Data universe
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with over USD2 billion of committed capital, has promoted John Vrionis (pictured) to managing director.
“John has been a valuable member of our team, driving key investments with some of the most promising enterprise infrastructure startups over the past five years,” says Chris Schaepe, Lightspeed co-founder and managing director. “In this senior role, he will continue to build our strong portfolio in disruptive growth segments relevant to the datacenter, including cloud computing, virtualization, data management, and next generation networking.”
Vrionis joined Lightspeed in 2006 as a senior associate and was later promoted
Eurazeo’s performance in 2010 was marked by a return to growth in the first half of the year, which strengthened in the second half, according to the company’s latest quarterly financial information.
Growth was particularly sustained during the 3rd Quarter, resulting mainly from Europcar’s strong contribution to Eurazeo’s revenues reflecting the seasonal effect on its business.
2010 consolidated revenues for Industry and Services was 3,835.5 million euros, an increase of 3.5% on a reported basis and 4.0% on a comparable basis. Despite the exit of B&B Hotels from the scope as of July 1, 2010, the pace of growth accelerated
Aureos Capital, the private equity fund management company, has expanded its Asia operations with the opening of a regional head office in Singapore.
The Singapore office will be a regional hub for Aureos’ existing offices across South and South East Asia. Aureos has 13 offices across Asia, including India, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
Aureos plans to more than double the number of employees within its Singapore office by the end of 2011. Aureos currently has 74 staff working across Asia.
Sev Vettivetpillai (pictured), CEO of Aureos Advisers Ltd, says: “Asia currently accounts
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