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UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM), in separate transactions undertaken on behalf of clients, has disposed of two properties for a combined total of GBP77 million.
The properties are at 21 Wilson Street, EC2M, and 158-164 Bishopsgate, EC2M, in the City of London.
21 Wilson Street, which was purchased by a private investor, was acquired by REPM in 2013 as part of a sale and leaseback transaction. The single-let office building comprises a total of 38,565 sq ft of space over basement, ground and five office floors leased to Arbuthnot Latham & Co Ltd.
Log Fire Pizza Co, a popular Italian street food brand, and Delaney’s Donkey, a new Irish Bar and Restaurant concept, are both set to open at The Riverwalk, the GBP30 million redevelopment on the banks of the River Wear in Durham.
This news comes as Odeon’s fit out works progress for the new multi-screen cinema. The Riverwalk is owned by Clearbell Property Partners II LP (Clearbell), a fund managed by Clearbell Capital.
Log Fire Pizza Co and Delaney’s Donkey are due to open this summer, joining Cosy Club and Turtle Bay on The Riverwalk’s striking new promenade. Winner of the
DealCloud, a specialist in CRM and deal management technology for the capital markets, has partnered with alternative assets data provider Preqin to integrate Preqin’s data with DealCloud’s DataCortex product.
“We believe that modern-day dealmakers, fund managers, and investor relations professionals deserve to have all of their outsourced data accessible in the same hub as their proprietary data. They simply need a unified deal management, fundraising, and data management platform in order to be competitive in today’s market,” says Amit Lalwani, SVP of Global Business Development at DealCloud. “This integration comes in response to our clients’ reliance on Preqin’s market-leading data,
Equitivo is partnering with Ablrate, a specialist asset backed lending marketplace, to accelerate its growth, launch a new integrated broker platform, expand its marketing and develop new products.
The consultancy work will also assist in Ablrate’s progress of ASMX, a blockchain enabled secondary market which connects multiple platforms and investors in one portal, to integrate Ablrate and its white label partner Huddle Capital. This will create the worlds’ first blockchain based platform for trading private debt globally.
Equitivo is a specialist fintech consultancy with international capabilities and a broad range of consultancy services. Already working with more than ten
Intertrust has repositioned its two specialist fund service offering in the Channel Islands with a new unified team now servicing both private equity and real estate.
Michael Johnson, Head of Funds in the Channel Islands, now oversees both Intertrust’s private equity and real estate businesses. He will lead a team of more than 150 fund service specialists across Jersey and Guernsey, making Intertrust one of the largest fund administration businesses in the islands.
Alex Di Santo, as Head of Private Equity, will continue to lead a team of 65 industry specialists and grow Intertrust’s private equity business in Jersey.
The Maples Group has appointed Hugo Lodge as a partner in its Regulatory & Compliance legal practice.
Lodge joins the Group’s Cayman Islands office from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, where he led the new team responsible for the oversight of AML supervision in the UK legal sector, prior to which he worked in the Retail Banking, Enforcement and Market Oversight division. Lodge was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1998 and practised as a barrister at 7BR in London where he specialised in financial crime and regulation.
Global Managing Partner, Alasdair Robertson, says: “We
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data collection and reporting solution for private equity (PE) firms, venture capital (VC) firms, their portfolio companies and investors.
The solution is part of iLEVEL, a sophisticated platform connecting participants in private capital markets.
A recent study by Private Equity International found that 85 per cent of limited partners (LPs) consider ESG factors during due diligence. However, there is no single standard for general partners (GPs) to follow and it can be difficult for LPs to collect the ESG data
CityBlock Capital is to conduct its initial digital security token sale on the SharesPost platform. CityBlock has also selected the platform to provide secondary liquidity for its tokens.
CityBlock’s NYCQ Blockchain Infrastructure Fund is a venture capital fund exclusively devoted to investing in companies building blockchain based capital markets infrastructure. Portfolio companies are using blockchain technology to instantly settle trades, eliminate intermediaries, and reduce fraud. The fund’s portfolio companies will include clearing houses, exchanges, depositories, makers of market aggregation tools, securities services firms, data analytics, smart contract auditors, and issuance platforms. The NYCQ Fund will not invest in cryptocurrencies or
Small to mid-sized investment firms continue to face significant challenges in operating compliance programs that are needed to meet intense regulatory scrutiny, according to Optima Partners, a leading global financial regulatory compliance firm.
In an ever-changing regulatory environment, investment firms are forced to commit more resources, in order to keep pace with a growing and evolving set of complex regulations. But unlike their larger counterparts, smaller firms can be put at a distinct disadvantage as they often lack the capital, experience, expertise and technology required to meet those demands.
Faced with budgetary constraints and less personnel to handle the
According to new research from Intertrust, private equity firms are acutely aware of the impact digital innovation will have on their sector, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.
Over 90 per cent believe AI is likely to have the biggest transformational impact on the sector. This is almost a fifth higher than the industry average of 77 per cent. Over a third (37 per cent) of respondents to the survey said that blockchain, AI and robotics are already being adopted in the industry and will become more widespread in the near future.
Some 56 per
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