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Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has expanded its Global Compliance Solutions offering designed for the Singapore market, which is led by newly appointed Stefan Ho, head of compliance solutions, Singapore.
Apex Group’s expanded Global Compliance Solutions team provides clients with tech-enabled compliance and AML solutions to meet their operational and regulatory obligations across international financial hubs. This single-source solution delivers efficiency, simplifies compliance and enables business opportunities from regulatory licensing support through to ongoing compliance advisory for existing and future regulatory requirements.
The launch of Compliance Solutions in the Singapore market will help to address clients’ risks
Business development and investor relations professionals at private funds are spending one quarter of their working weeks on unplanned interactions with limited partners (LPs), according to new research by Backstop Solutions.
The cloud-based productivity suite provider’s 2022 Alternative Investment Manager Productivity Survey of Investor Relations and Business Development Professionals highlights how unpredictable days and non-core tasks are impacting BD and IR professionals who are already strapped for time.
The study surveyed 103 BD/IR professionals from alternative asset management firms conducted from May 29 to June 29, 2022, with respondents coming from key segments such as private equity, hedge funds, venture
Liberty Street Advisors’ Private Shares Fund has increased assets under management to more than $1 billion. The Fund seeks capital appreciation by investing in the equity securities of private, operating, late-stage, growth companies.
Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, has acquired a controlling stake in Foundation Risk Partners (FRP), a specialist insurance broker in the US, from Warburg Pincus.
FRP’s management will maintain a substantial stake in the business while Warburg Pincus will retain a meaningful minority position.
Partners Group will work with management to drive further growth at FRP and expand its presence across the US. Key value creation initiatives will include refining the acquisition strategyand expanding M&A, introducing the product suite in new geographies, investing in technology, and further leveraging the operating model.
Partners Group was advised by Morgan
Cairngorm Capital Partners LLP (Cairngorm Capital) has expressed its support of its portfolio company, Sentry Doors Limited’s (Sentry) acquisition of E & S W Knowles & Company Limited (Knowles).
This acquisition accelerates Sentry’s growth and confirms its position as the UK’s leader in the timber fire safety and security doorset market.
This acquisition adds new products that complement Sentry Doors’ well-established product range, focused on the specialist fire doorset requirements of the social housing, public sector, commercial and residential markets.
Paul Hastings LLP, a global law firm, has promoted private equity lawyer Jamie Holdoway to partner in its London office.
Holdoway will continue to work with Private Equity practice lead Anu Balasubramanian and recent lateral Partner Tom Cartwright, in leading the market with their specialist focus on complex cross-border M&A, co-investments, liquidity solutions and strategic bolt-ons for portfolio companies across a variety of sectors including technology, software, business services and digital infrastructure.
Following a strong financial year in 2021/22 that saw the London office’s revenue grow by 41% and the total number of legal professionals rise to more than 150,
Connection Capital, the private client investment business, has hired James Greenwood into its SME Investment team as appetite from private investors for access to UK private equity and debt transactions continues to grow.
Greenwood joins from Liberum Capital where he worked on a wide range of transactions across both public and private markets. Prior to that he worked for Panmure Gordon. At Connection Capital, James will be responsible for sourcing and executing prospective transactions and managing portfolio companies.
Greenwood began his career at a tech start-up before making the leap into Corporate Finance and M&A with Strata Partners. He holds
Bevi, a smart water coolers company, has partnered in a $70 million Series D investment with Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), an environmental sustainability-focused growth investment platform.
Bevi machines offer a more affordable and environmentally sustainable alternative to bottled water and flavored seltzer and has helped customers save over 300 million single-use bottles and cans to date.
The $70 million in equity funding will support Bevi’s rapid growth and expansion into new verticals and products.
hh2 Cloud Services (hh2) a provider of software for the construction industry backed by lower middle-market private equity firm Capstreet, has appointed Jamie Clymer as chief executive officer and Patrick Sadler as chief financial officer.
Previous CEO Devon Dorrity will assume the position of CTO at the Company.
Clymer has extensive experience achieving revenue, profit and overall business growth objectives within rapidly changing SaaS and internet-media environments. Most recently, he was CEO of FRONTSTEPS, a leading SaaS and mobile platform for Association Management Companies and Association Boards. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President at RealPage, a leading SaaS
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private capital fund administrator, has appointed Michael Abatemarco as head of credit, effective 9 August.
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