We are pleased to announce that Cornerstone Private Equity, the UK and European mid-market fund of funds manager completed the first close of its Fund 4 and has re-appointed Mainspring as fund administrator for the new fund, which will take its total funds under management up towards its near-term target of £100m. Cornerstone is a…
Hutton Collins’ funds sold Wagamama to The Restaurant Group in December 2018, with a cash return distributed to the funds’ investors earlier this year. The story behind the facts is that Hutton Collins supported the journey of Wagamama through an association of 12 years and provided a profitable return for fund investors that beats the…
Milton Keynes is more than just roundabouts and concrete cows, we are pleased to announce that we have opened Mainspring’s second office and it’s in Milton Keynes. It’s a notable milestone in any company’s growth and we’ve chosen Milton Keynes as a hub commuter location to expand the company’s fund accounting service. We have a…
Venture capital firm Hambro Perks, run by City grandee Rupert Hambro and former investment banker Dominic Perks, has opened its doors to retail investors for the first time. An innovative and interesting market development comes from Hambro Perks, which is now launching an EIS fund, administered by Mainspring, which will allow retail investors to make…
True Founders, Matt Truman and Paul Cocker, have built a retail and consumer focused buy-out and growth investing fund manager. True is Europe’s only retail and consumer sector specialist that operates across the entire investment vertical, investing out of its private equity buyout fund alongside running a sector specific innovation Hub. True has total funds…
Mainspring has recently been featured as a recommended fund administrator in MJ Hudson’s Guide to Launching a Private Equity / Venture Capital Fund. The guide, which provides fund managers with comprehensive, commercial advice on how to launch a fund and which advisers they need to engage, describes Mainspring as providing ‘a highly tailored service reflecting…
Mainspring is pleased to announce the expansion of its executive team, welcoming Neil Clark as Chief Operating Officer. Neil joins from Easynet, an Equistone and LDC backed private equity business where he was Managing Director of the UK Business Markets division. During Neil’s time, the business grew revenues from £85m to more than £200m per…