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For hedge funds, the timing has never been better. There are several developments in place currently to exploit the investment opportunities that are abound in the Middle East.
From an economic and investment viewpoint, the Middle East has long been a part of the emerging markets strategy of major global funds, and, over the years, it has provided significant returns as t
With institutional investors yet to fully recover from the downturn and with banks struggling to cope with liquidity issues, a different breed of investor is making its presence felt.
The Gulf One Buchanan Industrial Technologies Fund, managed by private equity corporation MIT Munich Industrial Technologies, has acquired a 25.7 per cent share of the aluminium refiner Belte based in Delbrück.
Belte needs this fresh capital for a further expansion of the company which has grown considerably in the past few years.
“In 2009, we will probably not reach the extremely good results from 2008 due to the worldwide financial crisis but we will be ahead of our turnover from 2007. And in 2010 we will continue to grow,” says founder and chairman of the board Markus Belte.
“With the
US venture capitalists and the chief executive officers of venture-backed companies are spending more time on board activities and do not expect the pressure to lessen in the foreseeable future, according to the second study on venture capital-backed boards from the National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones VentureSource.
The “A Seat at the Table” study also found a strong agreement between VCs and chief executives regarding the key challenges and strategies for venture-backed boards, but highlighted continued disparity regarding the number of boards on which VCs should sit.
First conducted in 2006, this survey was completed in late
TLG Capital has expanded its team by hiring Jamel Larbi from Merrill Lynch and Shaheryar Mian from Hewitt Associates.
TLG Capital is a frontier markets entity aiming to deploy intelligent capital with ethical considerations.
Both Larbi and Mian will report directly to Zain Latif, principal of TLG Capital.
Prior to joining TLG Capital, Larbi was part of the emerging markets capital markets team at Merrill Lynch in London. Larbi worked on transactions across corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns clients in Emerging Markets, notably Mena, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe.
Mian joins from Hewitt Associates where he worked in
Venture capital firms Index Ventures and Accel Partners have sold their portfolio company Playfish to Electronic Arts.
Playfish, a social gaming company, was acquired for a consideration of up to USD400m including an earnout of up to USD100m and excluding cash balances.
Kevin Comolli, board member from Accel Partners, says: "As the original institutional seed investor in Playfish it has been a pleasure to work with the founders and management team and to see them achieve such extraordinary growth. Playfish has been recognised in the industry for its innovation and creativity and continues to change the way people play games
Michael Cant (pictured), partner at Nabarro LLP, outlines the implications of the recent tax residency case, Laerstate BV v HMRC.
It comes as no surprise that, as UK tax revenues fall, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") seek to take a tougher line on those claiming to fall outside the UK tax net. The rising number of corporate migrations is making residency a hot topic, with a significant percentage of UK commercial property being held in offshore vehicles (for example, in non-UK resident companies and unit trusts). One of the key benefits of such vehicles is that they fall outside the
Quoin Partners has appointed Nathan Dean as senior partner.
Dean has deep experience in the alternative asset and investment management industries as well as being an experienced entrepreneur.
He joins Quoin from The Druker Company, where he was a project director in charge of commercial real estate investment, managing large networks of providers in the firm’s acquisition and development initiatives.
Prior to Druker, Dean worked for Davidson Kempner Capital Management and JPMorgan Investment Management where he sourced new opportunities, provided detailed financial and strategic analysis, and managed the entire investment process for both funds.
Dean started his career at Banc
Tailwind Capital, a private equity firm focused on growing companies in the healthcare, business services and media/communications sectors, has completed an investment in SDI Health.
SDI is a healthcare analytics provider based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
Tailwind joins SDI founder Andrew Kress and Philadelphia-based LLR Partners as investors in the company.
“We look forward to working with Tailwind and LLR to build the foremost healthcare information and services company,” says Kress. “Tailwind’s expertise and experience in working with growth businesses in the healthcare and business services industries will be invaluable as we continue to broaden our industry coverage and expand
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