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MultiConcept Fund Management SA ("MultiConcept") is an AIFM and UCITS IV fund Management Company. Established in Luxembourg in 2004, MultiConcept has approximately CHF10.7 billion in assets under administration. It currently has 20 umbrella structures with 89 sub-funds.
With the AIFM Directive now in full swing, the demand for management company services as well as the ability to get to market quickly with a new fund offering is growing exponentially among alternative fund managers of all shapes and sizes. Cindyrella Amistadi is the CEO of MultiConcept. In her view, the potential growth is particularly strong in the more illiquid market (i.e.
Ogier has acted as BVI legal counsel on the USD50 million IPO on the NASDAQ Capital Market of Pacific Special Acquisition Corp.
Pacific is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual arrangements, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
The company is not obliged to limit its efforts to identify a target business to a particular industry or geographic region, although it is understood
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Viewfinity on its sale to CyberArk.
Based in Massachusetts with R&D operations in Israel, Viewfinity provides privilege management and application control software. Through automated, policy-based monitoring, elevation, threat detection, and incident remediation, Viewfinity aims to eliminate the bottlenecks of operating without administrative rights, while bringing end-point level visibility and actionable data to security.
Headquartered in Petach Tikvah, Israel, CyberArk offers a solution that proactively protects privileged accounts, monitors privileged activities, and detects malicious privileged behaviour. A vital security partner to 1,900 global businesses, including 40 per cent of Fortune 100
Middle marker private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has sold Wolverine Advanced Materials to ITT Corporation for approximately USD300 million. Wynnchurch generated a return of approximately 4.0x multiple of invested capital on its investment in Wolverine.
Headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, Wolverine is a global leader in developing and manufacturing proprietary products for automotive braking systems and highly engineered sealing solutions for harsh operating environments across a range of industries. Over the past 80 years, Wolverine has built a reputation for quality, innovation and thought leadership in material sciences. Through customer-focused innovation, Wolverine developed the largest portfolio of specialty elastomer material constructions
A fund managed by Impax Asset Management is selling a portfolio of wind assets in France and Germany to ERG Renew, the renewable energy subsidiary of the Italian multi-energy company ERG Group.
The sale of the portfolio, which portfolio consists of 11 French and six German wind farms, is part of Impax’s planned realisation of the operating assets in accordance with its fund’s strategy. Impax has grown the portfolio by acquisitions from 2010 to 2014. The majority of the projects were constructed under the ownership of the fund. The fund continues to own a wind project development business in France
Altium has advised AIM-listed independent power generator Alkane Energy on its GBP80.7m sale to infrastructure investment firm Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners (BBIP).
This is the third time that Altium has advised Alkane in the last three years, having led the company on its acquisition of power response assets from Welsh Power in 2014, as well as its acquisition of Maltby Colliery Limited from Hargreaves Services plc in 2013.
Based in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, Alkane is a fast growing, independent UK power generator, operating mid-sized gas-to-power electricity plants. The business, which last year achieved turnover of GBP16.0m and adjusted EBITDA of
Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam and Dragon Capital have jointly hosted the inaugural meeting of the Vietnam FinTech Club in Ho Chi Minh City.
The roundtable featured 20 start-up entrepreneurs and investors in the FinTech sector, including FPT Ventures, IDG Ventures, M_Service, Fundstart, 1Pay, Pasoto.com, Loanvi.com and MyMoney.vn. They agreed to take the network to the next level by setting up a FinTech club in Vietnam to act as links and advocates in pulling together ideas to develop a relevant FinTech ecosystem in the country.
The idea to establish a FinTech association in Vietnam was agreed during the visit to
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Etraveli Holding AB, a portfolio company of Segulah IV, on its sale to ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG for EUR235 million.
For ProSiebenSat.1, Etraveli represents its largest international investment in eCommerce to date and it complements its travel portfolio brand 7Travel.
Etraveli is one of Europe’s largest Online Travel Agents, combining leading flight booking and metasearch capabilities.
The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, and operates in 40 countries and four continents. In 2014, Etraveli generated EUR900 million in Total Transaction Value and EUR69 million in Net Revenue. In the first
The saying goes that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ but when it comes to staying cyber secure, nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is, investment managers should be integrating cybersecurity issues, be they regulatory updates, software updates from their IT vendors, into their weekly meetings.
Even if it takes up just a few minutes of the agenda, getting into the habit of keeping staff aware of cybersecurity developments will allow it to become part of a firm’s broader risk management program and potentially mitigate human error; often the cause of so many internal data breaches.
In other words, cybersecurity should
Funds advised by Change Capital Partners have today sold their circa 50 per cent interest in Macduff Shellfish Group (Macduff) to Canadian-based Clearwater Seafoods in a transaction valuing the company at GBP98.4 million.
The sale will result in total investment returns for Change Capital of 2.7 times invested capital.
Macduff was founded in 1985 by the fifth generation of the Beaton family which has been actively involved in the seafood industry for more than 120 years. Based in Mintlaw, near Peterhead in Scotland, Macduff has factories in Mintlaw, Stornoway and Exeter.
Change Capital invested in Macduff in 2011
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