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Aaro Capital, a DLT and cryptoassets investment specialist, has made three senior hires in its London office.
Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach — a European contact specialist backed by the independent investment group, Waterland Private Equity (Waterland), has appointed Iain Sinnott as Head of International Carrier Sales, Enreach for Service Providers.
Sinnott joins this part of Enreach to lead the growth and continued collaboration with the international carrier community, both fixed and mobile, including partners expanding beyond pure telephony into other contact services, such as integration with collaboration and other ICT tools.
Sinnot brings over thirty years of senior-level experience in the telecom industry and has also been a board member of the Cloud
A large majority (80%) of secondary fund managers expect 2022’s deal flow to exceed 2021’s as they observe a mature and robust market, on track to break more records, according to Investec’s fifth Secondaries Market Report.
Goodwin, a global law firm serving innovators and investors, has appointed regulatory partner Andrew Henderson to its Private Investment Funds’ practice in London.
Henderson has over 20 years’ experience advising financial institutions, including asset and investment managers, as well as family offices and technology providers on financial services regulation and risk management. He also works closely with dispute resolution and investigations on regulatory processes and has been seconded to the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England.
Henderson is the latest appointment to the practice, following the recent additions of Esther Chiang (New York), Andrew Roeder (Boston) and
Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, has published its annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report – ESG in Alternatives 2022: The Transparency Tipping Point – which reveals that 42% of AUM across private capital currently, is managed in funds that employ an active ESG policy.
The report provides the latest insights on developments in what is becoming a necessary competency for private markets managers that want to meet the growing expectations of investors toward evidencing ESG integration.
Investors are a key push factor in ESG uptake in private markets, as managers look to deliver against
LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Asia-Pacific Private Equity V (CAPE V), its fifth private equity investment programme investing in the Asia-Pacific region, at the hard cap of USD1.65 billion and above the target fund size of USD1 billion.
The fund’s investor base includes more than 50 institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and foundations in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and the Middle East.
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) specialty sealing supplier Marco Rubber & Plastics (Marco) has acquired Ipotec a provider of highly engineered rubber products serving a diverse set of end markets including industrial, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace and medical.
As an ISO 9001 certified supplier, Ipotec specializes in silicone rubber-based technologies because of its outstanding thermal stability, mechanical properties and biocompatibility making the products ideal for sealing, fluid transport, insulation and other applications.
Ipotec services over 2,600 global customers through direct domestic and international supplier relationships. Ipotec was founded and operated by Alan Randle who will remain involved to ensure a successful
Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally-driven businesses in the consumer, healthcare, and service sectors, has made a £3.5 million investment in fu3e., an adaptive management reporting software platform for the real estate sector.
The fu3e. platform combines two leading digital products aimed at managing development risks and digitising management processes and is designed to sit above and integrate with existing management reporting software solutions. The platform is designed for real estate funds, assets owners, developers and professional consultants providing users with real-time data enabling them to operate with insight, manage risk effectively and make
FIRSTavenue, a global private funds placement agent and investment advisory firm, has appointed Nick Chronias, Partner, as global head of the capital solutions group, which dedicated to servicing the growing private funds secondary market.
Based in London, Chronias was previously co-Head of Private Placements for FIRSTavenue.
The Capital Solutions Group builds on FIRSTavenue’s deep experience in private credit and private infrastructure by focusing specifically on the secondaries markets within these asset classes.
Downing has expanded its Development Capital team with five new hires since the start of 2022.
This takes the team up to 15 professionals and demonstrates the team’s growth and ambitions in supporting asset-backed operating businesses.
The Downing Development Capital team invests in management teams across a range of sectors including elderly care, specialist care, education, housing and hospitality & leisure, with initial investments between £5 million and £50 million.
Among the new hires were investment directors Jon Simon and Gautam Chhabra. Jon Simon has joined from BGF where he was a senior investment professional working across a broad range
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