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SVG Investment Managers Adds Global Equities Analyst
Stephen Little
19 November 2013
, the UK boutique, is expanding
its investment team with the appointment of James Law as
global equities analyst. In this newly created role, Law will primarily assist SVGIM
in providing specific investment advice to SVGIM’s new majority owner Hansa
Aktiengesellschaft, a Swiss based investor and holding company, in relation to
its global public equities portfolio. Prior to joining SVGIM, Law spent two years at HgCapital
as a senior associate focusing on mid-market buyouts across the global TMT
sector. He includes three years at Atlantic Bridge Capital, as well
as previous roles at Circle Partnership, Banc of America Securities and NM
Rothschild. In other recent news, earlier this month SVGIM announced
that the company will be changing its name to GVO Investment Management before
the end of the year following its acquisition from old parent SVG Capital by Switzerland’s
Hansa Aktiengesellschaft, or Hansa. Hansa, which bought the
business in September, has more than $1.8 billion of assets under management.
SVGIM oversees client AuM of around £250 million ($402.8 billion).