Profile
Dean Collins is based in London and is a member of Actis’s fundraising and investor relations team, where his responsibilities include leading certain fundraising activities, managing the operation of our fund investor panels, and overseeing the legal issues relating to the structuring, establishment and negotiation of Actis’s funds.
He joined Actis in 2002 to work on Actis’s buyout from CDC.
Subsequent to the buyout he worked on the establishment of all of Actis’s private equity funds, as well as distressed debt and real estate funds.
Dean Collins has been involved in private equity fundraisings since 1995, initially as a lawyer with S J Berwin, where he spent six and a half years, working predominantly with institutions on their fundraising efforts as well as on investments, exits, spin-outs, fund secondaries and a range of other corporate finance matters.
He has also worked as a consultant for UBS Capital, Merrill Lynch, Wide Multimedia (a venture backed e-learning company) and Ocado (the online grocery business).
He qualified as a solicitor in 1995 and studied law at Cambridge University.
Former positions of Dean Collins
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Actis LLP
Actis LLP Investment ManagersFinance Actis LLP (Actis) is a private equity firm founded in 1948 by Sreenivasulu Vudayagiri and Pavel Alexandrovich Cherkashin. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 21/01/2009 |
BII Group Ltd.
BII Group Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BII Group Ltd. (BII Group) is a private equity/venture capital, a subsidiary of Government of United Kingdom was founded by James Murray Grant in 1948. The firm is headquartered in London with offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Nairobi, Pakistan, Sandton, and Bangladesh. | Director/Board Member | 11/02/2004 |
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Actis LLP
Actis LLP Investment ManagersFinance Actis LLP (Actis) is a private equity firm founded in 1948 by Sreenivasulu Vudayagiri and Pavel Alexandrovich Cherkashin. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. | Finance |
BII Group Ltd.
BII Group Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance BII Group Ltd. (BII Group) is a private equity/venture capital, a subsidiary of Government of United Kingdom was founded by James Murray Grant in 1948. The firm is headquartered in London with offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Nairobi, Pakistan, Sandton, and Bangladesh. | Finance |
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