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Jul 06, 2020
Singapore-based asset manager Indies Capital Partners has hit a $100m first close for its third private equity and structured credit fundraise.
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Jul 06, 2020
Bain Capital's agreed buyout of coronavirus-stricken airline Virgin Australia could be under threat by bondholders attempting to make their own offer to creditors.
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Jul 06, 2020
Infrastructure investment demand has skyrocketed in response to the Covid-19 crisis as investors look to defend their returns amid a volatile market, new research suggests.
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Jul 06, 2020
Bridgepoint Development Capital has agreed the SEK2.6bn ($280m) sale of European trade and customs management business KGH to industry major AP Moller - Maersk.
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Jul 06, 2020
The real estate arm of global investment management and insurance group Principal has brought in veteran investor John Kropke as managing director of its US and European business.
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Jul 06, 2020
Amber Infrastructure Group has boosted its European presence with a trio of new investment team hires.
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Jul 06, 2020
Cloud management and governance platform HyperGrid and agentless discovery and application mapping company iQuate have joined together to create CloudSphere.
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Jul 03, 2020
Private equity specialist Raymond McKeeve is among a pair of new senior hires at Avonhurst, a political strategy and legal advisory firm dedicated to representing sophisticated capital.
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Jul 03, 2020
B Capital, a venture capital firm launched by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, has hauled in $820m for the final close of its second fundraise.
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Jul 03, 2020
Stafford Capital Partners has hit a $532m interim close for its ninth fund targeting secondaries stakes in timberland funds.
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Jul 03, 2020
Global private equity dealmaking slumped 14.5% in the last week of June as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to weigh on transactions across the world's markets.
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Jul 03, 2020
EQT has set a mammoth €12.5bn goal for its latest flagship infrastructure fundraise - just a year after it closed its €9bn predecessor fund.
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Jul 03, 2020
Special situations-focused private equity investor Intriva Capital has backed UK consumer credit and peer-to-peer lending business Lending Works.
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Jul 03, 2020
Global private equity giant KKR has agreed to buy a 54% stake in Indian pharmaceutical business JB Chemicals, in a deal which could ultimately see it commit $500m to the company.
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Jul 03, 2020
Paceline Equity Partners has picked up railroad maintenance equipment leasing specialist RELAM and its affiliated business.
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Jul 03, 2020
Warren Equity Partners has bought tree and vegetation management businesses Gunnison Tree Services and New Urban Forestry.
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Jul 03, 2020
Mosaic Ventures and Y Combinator have helped regtech platform Veriff close its latest funding round on $15.5m.
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Jul 02, 2020
Dominus Capital is looking to raise $525m for its third investment fund, despite earlier reports claiming it was looking to raise $750m.
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Jul 02, 2020
Dominus Capital has pulled in more than $350m towards its third investment fund, putting it well on the way to a lowered fund goal of $525m, SEC documents show.
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Jul 02, 2020
European private equity investor Priveq has hit a SEK2.5bn ($270m) final close for its sixth flagship fund, raised entirely during the worst of the coronavirus crisis.
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Jul 02, 2020
Angelo Gordon & Co has hauled in more than $1.5bn for the hard cap close of its latest European real estate fund.
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Jul 02, 2020
Tech-focused European growth equity investor Kennet Partners has raised $250m for the final close of its fifth flagship fund.
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Jul 02, 2020
Debt and equity investor Backcast Partners Management has closed its debut private credit fund to bring its assets under management to more than $775m.
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Jul 02, 2020
More realism, longer holding periods and an advantage for investors with long-term focus are all structural changes expected to impact the private equity industry in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, a new survey suggests.
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Jul 02, 2020
Most institutional investors expect higher long-term returns on real estate if ESG criteria are taken into account when making investment decisions, new research from Warburg-HIH shows.
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Jul 02, 2020
CDC Group and Finnfund have anchored the $202m first close of Africinvest's latest pan-Africa private equity fundraise.
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Jul 02, 2020
Czech private equity firm Jet Investment is set to take complete ownership of electricity, heat and cooling production efficiency equipment exporter Tedom.
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Jul 02, 2020
Industrial-focused private equity house Sole Source Capital has hired former Crescent Capital senior exec Sumil Menon as its new head of investor relations.
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Jul 02, 2020
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has led a further investment in Bright Network, a media technology recruitment platform aiming to connect employers with graduate workers.
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Jul 01, 2020
Hamilton Lane, a private markets asset management firm, has held the final close of its new Impact Fund, pulling in over $95m.
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Jul 01, 2020
San Francisco private equity house Gryphon Investors has completed a majority investment in Microsoft Azure cloud platform advisory and technical services provider 3Cloud.
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Jul 01, 2020
Asset managers have been given a massive vote of confidence from insurers, with the vast majority confident their investment managers can navigate the current financial crisis caused by COVID-19, new research reveals.
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Jul 01, 2020
Carlyle has agreed a $235m investment in the data centre unit of India's largest integrated telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel.
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Jul 01, 2020
Emerging markets private equity industry association EMPEA has named General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford and CPPIB head of Asia Pacific Suyi Kim to its board of directors.
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Jul 01, 2020
A rash of big-money private equity investments in Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio have seen India's PE and VC deal figures in H1 outdo results from the same period last year despite the crushing impact of coronavirus.
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Jul 01, 2020
Former IBM and Microsoft veteran Adam Warby has joined KKR as its latest senior advisor.
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Jul 01, 2020
Asset management major Schroders has bought a majority stake in $1.1bn-managing Asian real estate investor Pamfleet.
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Jul 01, 2020
Carlyle has reinvested in government procurement and supply chain software provider Unison, a decade after last exiting the business.
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Jul 01, 2020
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company Hunters has bagged $15m in a Series A funding round from Microsoft's M12 and US Venture Partners.
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Jul 01, 2020
EQT Ventures has led a $3m funding round for Willa, which looks to make it easier for freelancers to arrange for payments and to get control of their finances.
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Jun 30, 2020
Elysian Capital has held the first close for its third fund, nearing its target, despite it only being in the fundraising market for three months.
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Jun 30, 2020
Elysian Capital is within touching distance of the £300m target for its latest fundraise through a first close after just three months in the market.
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Jun 30, 2020
Summit Partners, a global private equity firm, has closed a pair of funds which have a combined capital pool of $2.2bn.
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Jun 30, 2020
Global private equity house Summit Partners has brought its fundraising since the start of last year to more than $7bn through the final close of two more oversubscribed vehicles.
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Jun 30, 2020
Advent International's former head of the Benelux is the latest high-profile hire from new private equity house bd-capital.
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Jun 30, 2020
Southfield Capital is back in the market for its third flagship fundraise three years after closing its sophomore fund, and confirming its recovery from its torrid time in the wake of the 2008 global financial crash.
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Jun 30, 2020
645 Ventures is eyeing a hefty fund size hike after launching a new fundraise targeting up to $100m.
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Jun 30, 2020
Cinven has emerged as the latest private equity player interested in taking a slice of Italy's top football league, Serie A, in the wake of a reported CVC investment valuing the business at €10bn fell through.
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Jun 30, 2020
The coronavirus crisis has pushed the world-famous Cirque du Soleil into bankruptcy protection, with the private equity-backed business set to slash 3,500 jobs.
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Jun 30, 2020
LBC Credit Partners has passed the halfway point for its $1bn-targeting fifth flagship fundraise.
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Jun 30, 2020
Rothschild & Co-backed private equity investor Auster Capital has passed the $500m mark in a first close of its debut fundraise.
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Jun 30, 2020
UK growth investor BGF has backed IT migration software provider Juriba, to accelerate its product development and drive its international scale.
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Jun 30, 2020
INVL has tapped the biggest private equity fund in the Baltic region to buy a controlling stake in plastic recycling and waste collection major Eco Baltia.
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Jun 30, 2020
Blackstone has agreed to pick up a 49% stake in a trio of Hollywood film studios and five on-lot or adjacent offices at a gross portfolio valuation of $1.65bn.
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Jun 30, 2020
A pair of former EQT execs are more than halfway to their SEK1bn ($106m) target for their second private equity fundraise through their firm MVI Advisors.
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Jun 30, 2020
CIVC Partners has sold a majority stake in subsurface infrastructure scanning services business GPRS Holdings to fellow private equity house Kohlberg & Company.
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Jun 29, 2020
San Francisco-based private equity firm Main Post Partners has made a strategic growth investment into skincare product supplier Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare.
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Jun 29, 2020
Asset manager Unigestion has picked up more than €600m of new capital across interim closes for a pair of private equity fundraises.
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Jun 29, 2020
CenterOak Partners has named a pair of new managing partners amid a string of promotions.
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Jun 29, 2020
Warburg Pincus has made a $400m investment in New York-listed payments provider Wex as the company looks to bolster its balance sheet amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jun 29, 2020
L Catterton-backed swimsuit maker Seafolly has fallen into administration due to the "crippling financial impact" of the coronavirus crisis.
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Jun 29, 2020
Global private equity major heavyweight KKR has invested in royalty-free licensed music provider Artlist.
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Jun 29, 2020
French investment house Andera Partners has beaten its €500m hard cap for the final close of its fourth mezzanine fundraise.
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Jun 29, 2020
Veteran Missouri state pension investment specialist Seth Kelly has joined the $31.1bn-managing Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System as its new CIO.
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Jun 29, 2020
Former CVC Credit partners investor relations director Martin Munte has joined private equity house 17Capital in London to bolster the firm's own IR operations.
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Jun 29, 2020
Online health insurance platform Oscar has closed a new funding round on $225m as it looks to continue its growth.
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Jun 29, 2020
Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform Intigriti has closed its Series A round on €4.14m.
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Jun 28, 2020
Consumer brands-focused private equity house VMG Partners has made a trio of promotions, a year after raising $250m for its first early-stage fund.
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Jun 26, 2020
Chicago-based buyout house Periscope Equity is back in the market with its sophomore fundraise, eyeing up to $200m.
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Jun 26, 2020
LPs have been warned by the US SEC to beware of private equity firms mismanaging fees, failing to disclose conflicts of interest and violating its Code of Ethics in a wide-ranging Risk Alert.
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Jun 26, 2020
The battle to buy coroanvirus-stricken airline Virgin Australia is over after Bain Capital won the bidding war to buy the business.
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Jun 26, 2020
Life sciences-focused private equity house Aisling Capital has raised more than $144m towards its latest flagship fundraise.
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Jun 26, 2020
Carlyle has reportedly made a 7x return selling digital test automation and monitoring software business Eggplant to trade buyer Keysight.
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Jun 26, 2020
Deal sourcing intelligence business Sutton Place Strategies explains how private equity firms can get strategic, efficient, and creative with their deal sourcing in the teeth of the coronavirus crisis.
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Jun 26, 2020
Financial market, energy and commodities enterprise risk management business CubeLogic has picked up a minority investment from Growth Capital Partners.
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Jun 26, 2020
Private equity house Great Hill Partners has agreed to buy subscription-based stock media company Storyblocks.
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Jun 26, 2020
Pritzker Private Capital has brought in healthcare services industry expert David King as an operating partner.
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Jun 26, 2020
Former Google and Morgan Stanley veteran Ruth Porat has joined private equity giant Blackstone's board of directors.
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Jun 26, 2020
Capital Markets Gateway, a FinTech business specialising in equity capital markets, has secured a strategic investment of $25m from a string of big-name financial firms.
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Jun 26, 2020
Data analytics platform SQream has closed its Series B round on $39.4m, with Mangrove Capital Partners and Schusterman Family Investments leading the round.
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Jun 26, 2020
FinTech startup Memo Bank has raised €20m in a Series A round led by BlackFin Capital.
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Jun 25, 2020
Oaktree Capital appears to be back in the fundraising market and has pulled in up to $500m for a new fund.
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Jun 25, 2020
The shock death of Invest Europe chair elect Roderick Macmillan will see current chair Thierry Baudon continue in the role as the association navigates the current volatile investment environment.
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Jun 25, 2020
Private equity dealmaking volume has continued its slump as the coronavirus pandemic weighs heavily on activity, with figures falling to a new 12-month low, data from Moody's subsidiary BvD shows.
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Jun 25, 2020
The alternative assets industry is set for a swathe of staff continuing to work from home after the coronavirus lockdown ends, a new survey of managers within the industry reveals.
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Jun 25, 2020
Apollo Global-backed CEC Entertainment, the parent company of novelty restaurant chain Chuck E Cheese, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of the coronavirus crippling its operations.
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Jun 25, 2020
BNP Paribas Asset Management has raised more than €570m for the final close of its second Euro SME Debt Fund, following its first fund completing its investment period earlier this year.
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Jun 25, 2020
Central Europe-focused private equity house Genesis Capital has launched a €150m fundraise for its sixth flagship buyout vehicle.
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Jun 25, 2020
Consumer brands-focused private equity investor Yellow Wood Partners has named veteran beauty and cosmetics CEO James Stammer as an operating partner.
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Jun 25, 2020
London-based investment house Connect Ventures has sealed a £65m fundraise targeting seed-stage tech deals across Europe.
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Jun 25, 2020
Professional services firm Grant Thornton LLP has picked Carlos Ferreira as its US managing partner for private equity ahead of the impending retirement of Doug Gawrych.
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Jun 25, 2020
7bridges, an AI-powered automation engine for businesses logistics and supply chains, has launched with a $3.4m seed round led by Crane Venture Partners and LocalGlobe.
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Jun 25, 2020
Cedar, a FinTech company hoping to simplify the financial experience for patients, has netted $102m in a Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Jun 25, 2020
AI-automated sports production business Pixellot has picked up a $16m investment round led by current backed Shamrock Capital Advisors.
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Jun 25, 2020
Hot on the heels of raising $1.2bn for its biggest ever fundraise, FTV Capital has bought into capital markets financial technology and services company Derivative Path through a $35m growth equity funding.
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Jun 24, 2020
Clearlake Capital Group has acquired a majority stake in investment management firm WhiteStar Asset Management from Pine Brook Capital Partners.
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Jun 24, 2020
Chicago-based private firm Linden Capital Partners has named Katie Kornel as partner of investor relations.
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Jun 24, 2020
KKR has hauled in more than $10bn for its fourth pan-Asian private equity fund, putting it within a whisker of becoming the biggest-ever PE vehicle raised targeting the region.
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Jun 24, 2020
A string of private equity giants are reportedly circling Unilever's tea business for a buyout which could see it valued at more than £5bn.
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Jun 24, 2020
UK-based private equity house Tenzing has raced to a £400m final close for its sophomore fund in what is believed to be the first buyout fund raised entirely virtually.
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