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Private, employee-owned investment firm Neuberger Berman has launched the NB Direct Private Equity Fund 2024 and the NB Global Private Equity Access Fund, both of which aim to make global private equity offerings more accessible to retail investors.
New York-based private credit investment firm Blue Torch Capital has held the final closing of Blue Torch Credit Opportunities Fund III and its affiliated entities with total investor commitments of $2.3bn, exceeding its $2bn target.
Alternative investment giant Brookfield Asset Management is in advanced talks with Castlelake over the acquisition of a majority stake in the $22bn private credit manager, a specialist in aircraft leasing, according to a report by the Financial Times.
New York-based private equity firm Behrman Capital has acquired Vista Apex, a US manufacturer of consumable dental products for preventative oral hygiene, endodontics and restorative dentistry, from Philadelphia-based private equity firm Inverness Graham. 
US private equity firm Compass Group Equity Partners has closed Compass Group Fund III and hit its hard cap of $408m, the firm’s second oversubscribed fundraising in two years.
US private investment firm Littlejohn & Co has hired Farrukh Bezar as an Operating Advisor. Bezar joins from his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at CSX Corporation, a US holding company focused on rail transportation and real estate. 
Triton Partners’s Triton Smaller Mid-Cap Fund I has agreed to sell European consumer data collection platform Nemas Holdco (Norstat) to Swedish private equity firm Nalka Invest, with Danish investment firm Kirk Kapital acting as a large minority shareholder. 
Lone View Capital, an LA-based private equity firm investing in the technology sector, has held final close of its inaugural fund, Lone View Capital Fund I with total committed capital of $850m, bringing the firm’s AUM to approximately $1.1bn.
Titanbay, a European private markets investment platform for private banks, wealth managers and investment advisors, has appointed Ossama Soliman as Chief Executive Officer. Thomas Eskebaek, Co-Founder and outgoing CEO, will join the platform’s board of directors. 
Alliance Bidco, a limited company indirectly owned by Symphony Technology Group, a $10bn US private equity firm focused on data, software and analytics, has agreed to an all-cash £146.7m take-private of Gresham Technologies, a UK fintech specialising in solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management. 

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