Private equity firm Permira has held the final close of its global private equity fund, Permira V, at the hard cap of EUR5.3 billion (USD7.2 billion).
The new fund will follow Permira's long-term investment strategy of identifying market-leading businesses that benefit from structural growth drivers and have significant potential to expand internationally.
Origination will continue to be led by the firm's five global sector teams – consumer, financial services, healthcare, industrials and TMT – with an emphasis on identifying proprietary opportunities.
Permira V has already committed capital to six growth companies. These investments include iconic footwear brand Dr. Martens, UK wealth management specialist BestInvest, Canadian nutrition specialist Atrium Innovations, American online legal services provider LegalZoom, German speciality chemicals business CABB and, most recently, remote access software company TeamViewer. Following the completion of these investments, Permira V is expected to have called 27 per cent of committed capital from its investors.
Permira V received strong backing from existing investors, representing 72 per cent of total committed capital, and also welcomed a number of new investors from across the globe. The fund has a well-balanced geographic composition with approximately 40 per cent of total commitments coming from North America, approximately 30 per cent coming from Europe and approximately 25 per cent from Asia.
Tom Lister, co-managing partner at Permira, says: "We are pleased with the support Permira V has received from a high quality base of both new and existing investors. We are confident that Permira V has the right strategy to enable us to continue investing wisely in the current environment."
Kurt Björklund, co-managing partner at Permira, says: "Permira V has had a strong start and we are excited by the growth prospects of the six companies the fund has already acquired. The recent pace of investment reflects the outstanding pipeline of attractive opportunities that our five global sector teams have been able to identify, largely on a proprietary basis."
