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M&A: Infiniti Group staff complete management buyout, Seligman`s $1bln technology hedge fund could change hands this year

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Opalesque Exclusive: Infiniti Group staff complete management buyout The Infiniti Group today announced that a consortium of senior staff and strategic investors has acquired the firm in a management buyout.

The MBO led by Co-Founder and Chairman, Kenji Steven and CEO, Ian Shearer will result in Infiniti Capital being re-capitalised and restructured to focus on its core growth business of serving clients in Japan and the Asia Pacific Region. Infiniti will be retaining a presence in Zurich and offices in Hong Kong, London and Christchurch.

The team will continue to be led by CEO Ian Shearer and Chairman Kenji Steven along with Global Head of Institutional Relationships Takeshi Shiratori, COO Adrian Whiteman and CFO Chris Wells. The investment team has been re-organised under co-CIOs Xavier Fanjaud (previously Head of Qualitative Research) and Peter Urbani (previously Head of Quantitative Analysis). In addition, Infiniti announced Debbie Birch is joining the firm as Global Macro Strategist. Debbie has formerly held roles as both Head of Capital Markets Trading at Wardley Ltd HK, the former merchant bank of HSBC HK, and also as Head Trader at Bank of America Asia.

Rachael Campbell (Head of Operations) also joins the Investment Committee as the Investment Compliance Officer. Chairman Kenji Steven said, “The core investment process and operational backbone developed by Infiniti over the years remains a key focus of the group. Our Investment team is bein......................

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