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Akram & Associates, a boutique Public Accounting Firm specialising in accounting, audit and tax services to alternative investment entities, had another successful year in 2019, growing 40 per cent, and is targeting double-digit growth again in 2020.
According to a joint study by the search firm Jeff Christian Partners and PE firm Talent Equity Capital, CEO compensation of private equity and venture capital firms will rise over 20 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019.
BGF – the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses – has appointed James Marshall to its Manchester investment team, covering the North West.Marshall joins from Clearwater International and brings more than five years of working on deal origination, having joined the business with an economics degree in 2014.
Marshall’s role at BGF will see his continued focus on deal origination as he works alongside the investment team to identify ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams looking to secure investment to support their growth ambitions.
Commenting on his appointment, Marshall says: “BGF’s team in the North West has
Professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Asia restructuring team with the senior appointments of Tiffany Wong and Kitty Yeung as Managing Director and Senior Director respectively in Hong Kong.Individually, Wong and Yeung bring two decades of expertise in corporate restructuring and insolvency, demonstrating A&M’s commitment to enhancing its capability in these lines of service in Asia and maximising value for clients across the region.
Wong has extensive experience in corporate insolvency and dispute resolution in Mainland China and the Hong Kong SAR. Prior to joining A&M, she was a Partner & Head of Insolvency at KPMG
Fintech company RiskFirst (a Moody’s Analytics Company) has appointed Tarik Ben-Saud in an advisory capacity to support and accelerate the development of RiskFirst’s front office investment management capabilities, with an initial focus on rolling out its fixed income and LDI attribution application, PFaroeAttribution. RiskFirst, a market leader in liability analytics to DB pensions, is applying its experience to develop a comprehensive suite of front office decision support tools, of which PFaroeAttribution is a core component.
Tarik, who has 30 years’ investment management experience spanning Head of Liability Driven Investing at BlackRock and Head of Integrated Solutions at Insight Investment, has extensive
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market healthcare businesses, has appointed Dave Prendergast as Vice President – Business Development, effective immediately.Prendergast joins EHP to lead the firm’s business development efforts, where he will focus on identifying investment opportunities in founder and entrepreneur-led lower middle-market healthcare businesses in North America, targeting platforms between $50 and $250 million in enterprise value in the healthcare services sector including provider-based services, pharma services, payor services and technology-enabled services.
Prendergast brings more than seven years of private equity experience in healthcare services, healthcare information technology (HCIT) and
Clessidra SGR, a management company in the Italian private equity market, has appointed Andrea Ottaviano as Head of Private Equity activities.
BGF has appointed James Marshall to its Manchester investment team, covering the North West.
Marshall joins from Clearwater International and brings more than five years of working on deal origination, having joined the business with an economics degree in 2014.
Marshall’s role at BGF will see his continued focus on deal origination as he works alongside the investment team to identify ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams looking to secure investment to support their growth ambitions.
Marshall says: “BGF’s team in the North West has been consistently active in identifying and backing quality, high-growth businesses across all sectors and all corners of
Octopus Investments’ Development Capital team has led a GBP3.6 million funding round, alongside Calculus Capital, into FISCAL Technologies, a world leading provider of forensic solutions and services headquartered in Reading.
FISCAL Technologies’ solutions empower purchase-to-pay teams across the globe to protect their organisational spend. Its NXG Forensics® enterprise solution provides continuous protection through transactional risk analysis, supplier risk profiling, anti-fraud controls and ongoing reporting.
NXG Forensics has specifically been designed for modern procure-to-pay, accounts payable teams, identifying the areas of risk and fraud within supplier spend, utilising unique forensics technology with advanced algorithms and machine learning, and building up
Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, has added Daniel L McAvoy to its team in New York as a Shareholder in the firm’s Securities & Corporate Finance practice.
McAvoy’s practice focuses on private closed-end investment funds, corporate finance, securities regulation and M&A with a particular specialisation in private investment fund transactions, including complex GP-led restructurings and secondary transactions. His experience also includes guiding overseas fund managers in entering US markets. In addition to his practice involving investment advisers, fund sponsors and investors, McAvoy has extensive experience counselling clients in M&A and securities transactions with a US or regulatory component.
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