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The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is acquiring The Carlyle Group’s majority stake in Logoplaste, a Portugal-based rigid plastic packaging designer and manufacturer of items.
Logoplaste’s products are used by a wide range of global blue-chip clients and its business model centres on the development of strong and long-standing partnerships with customers through dedicated facilities, fully integrated within the customer’s premises, eliminating secondary packaging waste, just-in-time operations and significantly reducing transport needs.
“We see the company as a great fit for our private capital portfolio given their industry leadership, highly resilient business model and strong commitment to sustainability,” said Nick Jansa, senior managing director, of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the Ontario Teachers’, in a press release.
Hideki Yamagishi
FWD Fuji Life Insurance (FWD Japan) has appointed Hideki Yamagishi as representative director, president and chief executive, effective January 12.
Norio Tomono will step down as CEO and become FWD s country manager for Japan while still acting as representative director. The country manager role is a newly created one, a company spokeswoman said.
Yamagishi joins FWD from NFC Holdings, a Tokyo-based insurance brokerage, where he was most recently CEO for Japan. He will now report to Huynh Thanh Phong, FWD Group CEO.
ONTARIO TEACHERS NAMES TWO APPOINTMENTS
Ben Chan
Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has promoted Ben Chan to senior managing director from managing director for Asia Pacific.
Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has promoted Ben Chan, formerly of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, to senior managing director for Asia Pacific, saying he will play a “critical” role in driving the pension fund’s global ambitions.
Ben Chan
Mr. Chan left Khazanah in 2018 to join Ontario Teachers’ as regional managing director for Asia Pacific and has been “instrumental” in its growth in Asia, the pension fund says in a statement on December 17. He is based in Hong Kong.
The fund has also hired Nick Jansa from Deutsche Bank as the London-based senior managing director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
By Owen Sanderson
16 Dec 2020
Nick Jansa, former co-head of corporate finance EMEA and co-head of leveraged debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank, is joining Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as senior managing director in EMEA, running investment activities and portfolio management in the region. Ontario Teachers’ is one of Canada’s largest pension funds, and, along with peers including CPPIB and CPDQ, has an extensive programme of private equity-style direct investments. It teamed up with Warburg Pincus, Apax and CPPIB to take satellite firm Inmarsat private last year, and also owns
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Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board – The Canadian pension investor has appointed
Nick Jansa as senior managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, responsible for leading the investment activities and portfolio management in the region. Based in Ontario Teachers’ London office, he will report to CIO Ziad Hindo.
Ontario Teachers’ also announced that promoting
Ben Chan, who joined the investor in 2018, to the role of senior managing director, Asia Pacific (APAC). Ontario Teachers’ said Chan “has been instrumental in growing investment activities in Asia, attracting critical talent to the region, and most recently, overseeing the opening of our new Singapore office”.