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Profile: Patrick Ghoche, Inovia Capital

The CFO shares what he has learnt from his versatile experiences in investment banking and working for a public manufacturing firm

Goodwin welcomes Lux-based partner

Virginie Leroy joins the firm’s private investment funds practice

Aztec creates AIFM service in Luxembourg

The fund administrator claims it can now act as single outsourcing partner for European GPs

SFDR complaints laid bare

The European Commission’s summary of feedback from its SFDR consultation reflects the PE industry’s ongoing perception of the disclosure regime

Apex opens Saudi Arabia office

Fund admin has five offices in the Middle East with new Riyadh location to have the largest headcount

Bitkraft appoints VP of finance

Lauren Wilhelm was previously at Aduro Advisors

ESMA publishes ESG fund name guidelines

The report states at least 80% of investments within a fund must satisfy sustainable investment criteria to use related terminology

Goodwin and Passthrough deepen partnership

Tech provider's e-subscriptions offering integrated into law firm’s services

Reframe launches debt advisory

The advisory has partnered with Sandeep Pradhan and his business Liverpool Street Capital Advisors

Quilvest appoints new COO

Eggleston is the second senior executive to join Quilvest from Pantheon in recent months

NetScientific’s EMV acquires Martlet

London-based deep tech VC EMV Capital will manage Cambridge seed stage investor Martlet Capital’s c.£23.3m portfolio of investments

Petra Funds appoints chief of staff

Steven Antonson previously worked in-house at US VC firm Zero Infinity Partners as CFO and COO

Linnovate receives $40m

Funding round was led by Singapore-based alternative investments firm SeaTown

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Our latest issue takes a look at three use cases for AI implementation in private equity operations, examining whether Microsoft Copilot, legaltech or valuations calculation tools are yet pulling their weight.

We also ask whether back office liftouts could become a trend in Europe, observe how collateralised fund obligations are becoming a part of the fund finance toolkit, and try to discover whatever happened to ESG-linked loans.

In addition, there are interviews with Dorothea Sztopko, COO of Golding Capital, and Kasun De Silva, COO of Bootstrap Europe, while Dörte Höppner of Riverside Company considers AI-related governance issues.

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Guernsey Finance opens London office

The base in Petty France, Westminster aims to enhance the initiative’s attempt to promote its reputation as a fund domicile

Ocorian adds FinCrim module to AML compliance tool

The addition is incorporated into the fund admin’s onboarding tool The Gateway

NAV facility volumes up 30% since 2019

Research from Citco suggests minority of facilities used for fund distributions

Partners Group launches first evergreen ELTIF

The fund offers gated monthly liquidity events to both retail and institutional investors

TDR appoints head of compliance

Jon Wedgbury was previously head of compliance at USS Investment Management

FCA gets ready to scrub

Financial watchdog’s anti-greenwashing rule is effective from 31 May 2024; The Drawdown checks it to make sure PE ticks all boxes

COO leaves Gen II

Perros joined the fund admin in October 2022 from Citco

Apex Invest appoints MD

John Papesh to head up the offering in Abu Dhabi

Daloopa closes on $18m in Series B

Total of $18m raised to go to product development and market expansion

Central Bank of Ireland approves two fund admin licences

Fund admins TMF Group and Vistra are now able to service alternative funds in Ireland

Corlytics snaps up Deloitte regtech platform

Following investment from Verdane, the company expands its geographic reach and augments service capabilities

Fundcraft raises €5m in Series A

Fresh funds to accelerate product development and international expansion while investors taking more active role in company’s strategy

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