Category: Independents

Alter Domus has supported Cinven on the final closing of their Strategic Fund 2, which raised c. EUR2.3bn (USD2.6bn). Alter Domus served as Cinven’s operational partner throughout, providing services across fund accounting and administration, investor reporting, transfer agency and structuring support.

Langham Hall has supported Ryse on the launch of its independent sponsor platform. Ryse invests on a deal-by-deal basis in established companies aligned with Europe’s structural growth themes. Langham Hall is providing administration services for each of the deal-by-deal structures from its Luxembourg office.

Apex has appointed Olivier Portenseigne as global head of transfer agency products. Based in Luxembourg, he will lead Apex’s global transfer agency product strategy and innovation agenda. He joins from FundsDLT, Clearstream’s blockchain-based fund distribution and transfer agency platform, where he was CEO.

In Australia, EQT Holdings Limited has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire, for nominal consideration, all of the issued shares in Platinum Investment Management Limited (PIML) from Platinum Asset Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of L1 Group Limited. PIML is the responsible entity (trustee) for a range of listed and unlisted managed investment…

NAV Fund Services has been selected as fund administrator for the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), a tokenised private liquidity fund launched in May by State Street Investment Management and Galaxy. SWEEP includes Anchorage as digital custodian for stablecoin investments, Galaxy providing tokenisation technology and digital infrastructure, Chainlink providing onchain NAV publication…

Pirum, the UK-based fintech focused on securities finance, has hired Stephan Sanner as a senior sales executive, based in London. He joins from DXB Pump & Power, and has also worked at EquiLend, TMX Group, and NYSE Euronext/SecFinex.