Category: Independents

Ocorian, the C.I.-based administrator, has made three appointments in Luxembourg. Susana Carvalho joins as associate director, head of funds operations. She was previously head of operations at a Luxembourg-based alternative investment fund manager. Emmanuelle Poret joins as head of client onboarding. She previously led the client relationship management department for Arendt Services. Rachel Aguirre joins…

Ultimus Fund Solutions has agreed to acquire LeverPoint Management, a U.S.-based provider of fund administration and support services to private equity, venture capital and real estate managers. Ultimus’ private fund business will operate as Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions and will provide administration for approximately USD90bn of private fund assets across 230 clients. In total,…

Prologis, the U.S.-based industrial real estate investment manager, has selected Apex Group to provide depositary and transfer agency services to the Prologis European Logistics Fund. PELF is Europe’s largest open-ended logistics fund, with assets valued at EUR10.6bn. The fund, which is domiciled in Luxembourg, will be serviced by the Apex subsidiary, European Depositary Bank.

05AUG19: Oak and Fairway Group, both C.I.-based administrators, plan to merge. Fairway is an owner-managed fiduciary business with over 100 employees offering trust, corporate, fund administration and pension services in Jersey. Oak, a private client, corporate services and fund administration business, has its HQ in Guernsey, with offices in the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg,…

05AUG19: Lisa Crawley has been appointed chief operating officer of the Luxembourg-based Alter Domus Group. She will be responsible for Alter Domus’ operations globally, reporting directly to Aidan Connolly, CEO. Before joining Alter Domus, Crawley was director of business support at Worldpay in the UK.

31JUL19: Nickolaus Darsch has joined Ultimus Fund Solutions as senior vice president, business development. Prior to Ultimus, he held multiple roles within SS&C Technologies (including predecessor firms DST Systems, ALPS and Boston Financial Data Services) in sales, strategic relationship management, product and research groups.