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The profile: Allan Dowie, CFO of N4 Partners

The Drawdown caught up with partner and CFO of new firm N4 Partners, Allan Dowie, who discusses setting up the firm during lockdown, implementing a new valuation process and information flows.

27 January 2021

Domicile watch: January 2021

Key takeaways from the major PE domiciles: including Jersey's new definition for AML legislation, changes to Guernsey's private fund regime and Ireland's prep for SFDR

26 January 2021

Allvue partners with TrustServe

Allvue will integrate its platform into TrustServe, enabling it to service all closed-ended funds across PE, VC, FoF, RE and family offices

25 January 2021

SimCorp and Colmore partner on data service

The partnership integrates Colmore’s INSIGHT (data management) and FAIR (fees) services with SimCorp’s alternatives investment manager offering

22 January 2021

iCapital buys AI Insight

AI Insight provides financial advisors investment research, training, qualification and compliance support for a variety of alternative investments

22 January 2021

Colmore launches Stride

Stride automates and enhances the collection, extraction and analysis of unstructured data

22 January 2021

Grafton Capital appoints CFO

Tom Morrell will lead on financing, reporting and accounting for Grafton Capital and its investments

21 January 2021

Private Equity Service Provider Awards: Winners announced

Winners of the Private Equity Service Provider Awards revealed

21 January 2021

KPMG’s Wall joins BDO as partner

In her new role, Jennifer Wall will focus on working with private equity funds, providing tax advice and reporting services

21 January 2021

Comment: The future of ESG

Cliodhna Murphy and Mike Dickey of MUFG Investor Services explore the importance of tech to meet ESG goals

20 January 2021

ACA launches ESG advisory practice

Dan Mistler and Crista DesRochers will head up the new division, while Dani Williams joins the team to focus on ESG in financial regulation

20 January 2021

Schroder COO joins ScalingFunds

Patrick Stampfli has joined the firm as managing director of business development, continental Europe

19 January 2021

Sanne promotes Nagle to CCO

In his new role, Nagle will be responsible for client service delivery in all jurisdictions and Sanne’s continued commercial development

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19 January 2021

Saltgate names chief people officer

Alison French will sit on the group strategic committee to oversee recruitment, diversity, culture and communications

19 January 2021

Dawn Capital hires talent head

Avalon Lee-Bacon will build out the firm’s talent platform and support its portfolio companies with senior hires, sharing best practices and developing top talent

18 January 2021

Cobalt adds cap tables to portfolio monitoring platform

The function allows custom metrics to be edited in-application, downloaded, pulled into various reports and exported

18 January 2021

Apex launches tool for ESG regs

Invest Check is a tool to help financial services firms collect data to report and comply with upcoming ESG rules

18 January 2021

Comment: NAV facilities: Talk turns to action

While there has been lots of discussion around NAV facilities from buyout private equity managers, transaction numbers are lower than expected, writes Sarah Lobbardi of Avardi Partners

17 January 2021

ILPA publishes model NDA

The template aims to streamline due diligence access for LPs and GPs

17 January 2021

Citco opens Abu Dhabi HQ

The firm has also partnered with ADGM to create a sustainable, fully-integrated ecosystem for the investment management industry

15 January 2021

LemonTree partners with Lionpoint Group

The partnership aims to deliver complex data and accounting solutions to the private markets sector

15 January 2021

iLevel’s Yiannakis joins Holland Mountain

Yiannakis will oversee the firm’s commercial activity and expand the reach of its private capital data platform

15 January 2021

Allvue launches LP solution

Allvue’s LP solution claims to support investors’ ability to manage and analyse their alternative investments more efficiently

15 January 2021

Palatine promotes Wall to ESG director

As part of her new role, Stephanie Wall joins the firm's senior management team

14 January 2021

Crestbridge makes three Jersey appointments

Alex Di Santo is group head of PE, Michael Johnson is now group head of institutional services, while Tim Ridgway Is a director in the governance services team

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