Solutions
Eurazeo has signed the gender diversity charter drawn up by the association France Invest by which private equity firms commit to achieving gender-balanced representation within their firms and portfolio companies.
London-founded tech company JUMO, focusing on next-generation financial services for emerging market entrepreneurs, has raised USD55 million in debt and equity funding from new and existing investors.
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has published an online Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Roadmap for the global private equity (PE) industry. The Roadmap is comprised of best practices that both general and limited partners can adopt to advance D&I at their own organisations and throughout the PE ecosystem. Each best practice is accompanied by a list of resources that supports the practice’s implementation. As the Roadmap is intended to be an ongoing source of up-to-date, actionable information, outside submissions of additional best practices and resources are encouraged.
“Over the last several years, we have seen many organisations take substantive steps to improve
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has launched a new payment and fraud risk assessment (PFRA) offering, which is designed to help firms identify and remediate vulnerabilities within payment flows in order to reduce the risk of costly fraud issues. The service is overseen by the ACA Aponix division’s senior principal consultant Kamlesh Harry.
Before joining ACA, Kamlesh was an Executive Director at JP Morgan, where he led various teams across the firm’s technology, client support services, cybersecurity, and payment fraud functions for over 13 years. Amongst other key contributions, he was instrumental in developing controls for the EMEA Wholesale Banking payment platforms
Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US provider of outsourced solutions to alternative asset managers including fund administration for private equity funds, is to be acquired by IQ-EQ.
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ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm, has launched ICR ESG Diagnostics, a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis offering to help private equity and venture capital firms identify and assess corporate ESG issues during the investment due diligence process.
“As limited partners focus on responsible, long-term investments, they are increasingly focused on ESG issues,” says Don Duffy, President of ICR. “With comprehensive ESG due diligence now a core part of the investment process, our Governance Solutions team developed a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis to help financial sponsors identify risks and opportunities in potential investments.”
ICR ESG Diagnostics
ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm, has launched ICR ESG Diagnostics, a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis offering to help private equity and venture capital firms identify and assess corporate ESG issues during the investment due diligence process.“As limited partners focus on responsible, long-term investments, they are increasingly focused on ESG issues,” says Don Duffy, President of ICR. “With comprehensive ESG due diligence now a core part of the investment process, our Governance Solutions team developed a comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance analysis to help financial sponsors identify risks and opportunities in potential investments.”
ICR ESG Diagnostics analyses
PEF Services (PEF), a fund administrator for alternative investment managers, has been selected to provide fund administration services to Parliament Capital Management (PCM). “PEF’s reputation for providing exceptional service to its clients, together with innovative technology solutions that will allow us to scale, were key drivers in our decision,” says José R Otero-Freiría, Managing Partner of Parliament Capital Management. “PEF Services’ extensive experience in working with debt funds will help us focus on expanding strategic, high-value initiatives like deal sourcing and asset management, among other areas.”
PEF Services is a private capital fund administrators supporting multiple fund types and investments including Buyout,
Avignon Capital, a European property investment firm and asset manager has completed the sale of the Ampere asset in Berlin to RFR Holding for a purchase price in excess of EUR80 million.The Ampere building is a unique listed property built in 1926 and is a former electricity transformer station (Umspannwerk), which was converted into offices in 2010. The 11,678 sqm building is located in Prenzlauer Berg, an area widely regarded as a ‘tech-cluster’ in Berlin, and increasingly popular with young creative companies.
Avignon acquired the building on behalf of a private client in Q3 2016 and this sale marks the
Centaur Fund Services, a provider of fund administration and regulatory services for the alternative investment fund industry, has secured a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm. Centuar says the capital will position the company for continued expansion into new geographies and further investment into talent, product development and technology. As fund managers increasingly look to outsource their regulatory and back- and middle-office functions, Centaur has experienced rising demand for solutions as a tech-enabled independent fund administrator.
Ronan Daly, Karen Malone and Eric Bertrand, Centaur’s co-founders, will continue their leadership roles and remain significant shareholders
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