Category: Independents

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.

29JUL19: IQ-EQ (formerly SGG Group), the Luxembourg-based administrator, has acquired Peru & Partners, a Paris-based consulting firm and fund administrator dedicated to the private equity market. The acquisition adds to IQ-EQ’s existing Paris-based business, Equitis. Established in 2009 by its principal, Sebastien Peru, the business will add fund administration, CFO services, GP and portfolio company…

22JUL19: Intertrust, the Netherlands-based provider of corporate and administration services, has appointed Lee Godfrey, former CEO of Kneip, as managing director Western Europe and a member of the executive committee, starting 1 October 2019. Douwe Terpstra, currently Intertrust Luxembourg COO and a member of the management team, has been appointed as managing director Luxembourg, effective…