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Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Aneeqa Zamal as compliance executive in its Global Compliance Solutions business.
Apex Group’s expanding Global Compliance Solutions team offers a global network of compliance experts, supporting clients to meet their operational and regulatory obligations across international financial hubs. Clients include leading fund and asset managers, placement agents, FX brokers, fund distribution platforms and investment advisors.
Initially based in Apex Group’s London offices and supporting global clients, Zamal will report to Hari Bhambra, Global Head of Compliance Solutions. She will be responsible for advising and guiding clients through UK and cross-jurisdictional compliance matters, licensing and
CoVenture, an asset management firm investing across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies, has added to its team with the appointment of Naved Sheikh as general counsel.
Prior to CoVenture, Sheikh was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he served as lead counsel for the infrastructure, secondaries, Asia-focused private equity and growth capital teams and other private investing businesses within Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Sheikh also perviously served as in-house counsel at Blackstone and as an associate at the global law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Sheikh earned his law degree from Cornell Law School
Blackstone is to acquire a majority stake in CoreTrust, a bulk-buy specialist that controls how many businesses owned by private equity firms secure and pay for goods and services as varied as printers, pallets and postage, according to a report by PE Insights.
The world’s largest alternative asset manager agreed to buy the business, which began life as a supply arm for HCA Healthcare, from the hospital giant’s subsidiary HCA HealthTrust.
Financial terms of the deal, which will see HCA HealthTrust retain a minority stake in CoreTrust, have not been disclosed.
CoreTrust uses the buying power of its customers —
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with over $50 billion of capital under management, has appointed Carlos Soto as a managing director and head of US private equity business development.
Soto will be responsible for leading the business development and transaction origination efforts for all of HIG’s US private equity funds. With over 12 years of private equity origination experience, Soto joins HIG from MSD Partners, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development in the Private Capital Group.
Prior to MSD Partners, Soto was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Comvest
Huron Capital (Huron) has invested in ExperiGreen Lawn Care (ExperiGreen) alongside a group of executives with deep industry experience.
The partnership brings the middle-market private equity firm’s long history of scaling services businesses together with a leadership team and board of directors that has amassed decades of experience at the most successful companies in the industry including Scotts LawnService, Barefoot Grass Lawn Services, TruGreen, and Real Green Systems, among others.
The platform is being developed through Huron’s ExecFactor strategy.
Members of ExperiGreen’s executive leadership team will remain in their existing roles as part of Huron’s investment. In addition to President
InMotion Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover, has hired Sam Nasrolahi as principal. Nasrolahi will be responsible for sourcing and leading new deals, as well as supporting existing InMotion portfolio companies.
Her focus area is in consumer digital services and the consumerisation of B2B. The appointment comes as InMotion Ventures seeks to supercharge its strategic investments into startups building a sustainable future for the automotive industry.
Nasrolahi joins InMotion from mobility startup Via, where she managed the launch of the company’s ridesharing and on-demand delivery services in EMEA and the US – including deciding on go-to-market
One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, has added Diana Barr to its team of operating partners.
Working alongside One Rock operating partners Mike Anderson and AJ Skobel, Barr will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock’s portfolio companies primarily through recruiting and proactive executive network development.
Barr has more than 30 years of experience in talent acquisition, leadership development and strategy, as well as executive recruiting. Prior to joining One Rock, Barr led Boeing’s global executive staffing and created the company’s in-house executive recruiting function. In that capacity, she served
Patchwork Health, a healthcare workforce platform built by NHS doctors, has raised £20 million in a series B funding round led by Perwyn. Praetura Ventures and KHP Ventures also participated along with a number of prominent angel investors, including Monzo founder Tom Blomfield and Social Chain co-founder Dominic McGregor.
Founded in 2016 by NHS medics Dr Anas Nader and Dr Jing Ouyang, Patchwork partners with over 100 healthcare sites across the UK. Their technology and services aim to transform healthcare staffing.
This investment comes at an important time: nearly half of NHS staff have reported feeling unwell as a result of
Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm specialising in secondaries investing, has raised a combined total of $4 billion across its platform in the past two years.
The firm recently held a final close on its tenth secondaries flagship fund, Pomona Capital X (PC X) with commitments of $2.6 billion.
PC X was oversubscribed and capped, surpassing its target of $2 billion by 30% and is approximately 50% larger than its predecessor fund Pomona Capital IX, which collected nearly $1.8 billion. The fund combined with primaries, co-investment interests and its retail product offering has contributed to the firm’s growth momentum
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has made a growth investment in Silverchair, an independent content management, product enablement, and digital transformation platform for association, society, and independent publishers.
BrightTower, an investment banking and M&A advisory services firm, served as exclusive financial advisor to Silverchair. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1993, Silverchair provides a suite of software and services to leading global publishers of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content. Silverchair has leveraged its feature-rich and extensible content management system (CMS) to build new products—including software platforms for medical education and events—that help more than 400
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