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Coller Capital has created a new global Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions business led by Jake Elmhirst, who joined the firm in 2022 as a partner in the investor relations team, to provide high-net-worth individuals with access to private capital markets.
Nick Hatch has rejoined Probitas Partners, an independent, global placement advisory firm, as managing director and global head of secondaries. The firm’s secondaries platform advises across the full range of LP and GP-led secondaries transactions globally.
Sidley has appointed Germaine Nicole Gurr as an M&A and private equity partner in the firm’s New York office. Gurr, who comes to Sidley from White & Case’s M&A practice in New York, has past experience as both a global corporate lawyer and a former executive at Schneider Electric, a global Fortune 500 company.
Gurr, whose corporate practice serves clients across the world in diverse industries, has represented clients in a wide array of matters, primarily focused on M&A, private equity, securities offerings, capital raising, joint venture and commercial transactions, and general corporate.
Gurr also regularly serves as an advisor
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, is to sell its portfolio company GL Education to Renaissance, a portfolio company of Blackstone Group and Francisco Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
ArcLight Capital Partners, a middle market infrastructure investor, has sold Great River Hydro, a US renewable energy infrastructure platform and the largest conventional hydroelectric portfolio in New England, to affiliates of Hydro-Québec for a value of approximately $2 billion.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is one of several investors considering making a bid to acquire a 34% stake in the UK’s largest port operator, Associated British Ports (ABP), from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Dubai-based Cypher Capital is looking to raise over $100 million for a new venture capital fund that will look to invest in startups focused on web3 and blockchain technology businesses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Petra Funds Group has appointed Adam Weiss as managing director and head of credit in the firm’s private credit fund administration business, which has doubled in size over the last 12 months. Weiss previously worked for Riverstone Holdings as the firm’s COO of credit.
IQ-EQ has appointed Matthew Abbott to the newly created role of global head of sales operations as the investor services group expands its commercial leadership team. Abbot has over 20 years’ industry experience spanning investor and asset servicing and wealth management.
Prior to joining IQ-EQ, Abbott was Director and Global Head of Sales & Client Enablement for HSBC Securities Services, where he was tasked with delivering executive management support and sales optimisation initiatives. He has also held director-level positions with RBC Wealth Management International and RBC Investor & Treasury Services.
In his new role, Abbott will be based in
The Riverside Company has added to its SaaS portfolio through an investment in Gastromatic, a Germany-based provider of workforce management software solutions for small and medium sized businesses operating in shift-based industries.
Gastromatic’s software platform acts as the single source for all employee related data and enables customers and their staff to benefit from modern and digital workflows, resulting in more efficient operations and increased employee satisfaction.
Already more than 2,600 customers in shift-based industries rely on Gastromatic’s software platform to manage their workforce and to automate business processes, from staff scheduling to time recording to payroll across 12,000
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