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...Additional reporting by Robert Smith in London and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo...
...Clipway has hired executives from Coller Capital and appointed David Enriquez, a managing director at Rothschild’s merchant bank in New York, as a partner....
...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Nick Turner has been appointed managing partner for growth while Duncan Farrow-Smith was installed as chief strategy officer....
...And DS Smith isn’t alone....
...TPG has invested in partnerships such as talent agency Creative Artists Agency and registered investment adviser LPL Financial in recent years, and last year it made an unsuccessful pitch to buy into in...
...Such insurers tend to hold a higher proportion of illiquid assets, and the fund has urged national regulators to consider the risks to the wider financial sector....
...Voya Financial’s asset management arm named Matt Toms as its new chief executive, replacing Christine Hurtsellers, who is retiring....
...wealth fund GIC, one of the world’s most influential investors, sold its investment in Vista Equity Partners after the software- focused buyout firm’s billionaire founder Robert Smith was embroiled in a...
...“At a time when many investors are struggling to create realisation opportunities for their portfolio and limited partners, Vista has delivered consistent returns,” Smith noted, according to someone who...
...Ryan Sweeney, a partner at Accel, which backed Qualtrics as a start-up, called the deal “as close to a no-brainer as can be”....
..., in an interview with the Financial Times....
...DD’s Rob Smith and Sujeet Indap explain why two US hedge funds are betting on this slightly ridiculous scenario playing out at Credit Suisse....
...“There are no domestic equity investors here — everything else is a symptom,” says Michael Tory, founder of advisory firm Ondra Partners....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...Bernstein allegedly shot his business partner with as many as five rounds, according to a police report. He died while awaiting trial. That isn’t the point, though....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Stephanie Biggs as a partner in London, where she will co-lead the firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She joins from Travers Smith....
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...In a meeting with limited partners on Wednesday, Smith said the opportunity ahead for lenders was the best he’s seen since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a source who attended....
...Ultimately, he sold Mindbody to Robert Smith’s Vista Equity Partners for $1.9bn in 2018....
...Invenfin among the investors, reports Oliver Smith at AltFi....
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...One partner at Reed Smith, an international law firm, wrote in June 2020 to congratulate Vladislav Zabrodin, CLS’s managing partner, on the joint work by their respective firms in fighting the US Department...
...A potential model of the single-engine hypersonic concept vehicle, Concept V, which might be as large as a Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled by the partners at the Farnborough air show in July....
...and records obtained by the Financial Times....
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