Monument Group, one of the world’s most renowned placement agents, completed two high profile fund closures last week: Charlesbank Credit Opportunity Fund II closed at its hard cap of USD700 million, and Manila-based private equity firm Navegar‘s final close of Navegar II at USD197 million.
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Join leading practitioners and colleagues at the PEWlive Europe Digital Summit (2-3 Sep) as we uncover and resolve the operational issues facing GPs in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
NPIF - Mercia Equity Finance and XTX Ventures has invested GBP2.5 million in Logically, a tech startup using AI to detect misinformation and to provide a fact-checking service to combat fake news ahead of the US election.
Nordic life science venture fund Eir Ventures has held a first close of its new fund, that will be focusing on healthcare innovation, on EUR76 million.
ESG investing continues to gain momentum and prominence among global institutional investors as they increasingly look to benchmark not only the performance of funds in their portfolios but the impact they have on the world.
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA) has held the final close of Monte Rosa V, the fifth fund in a series of diversified, multi-manager private equity funds, at at USD 1.164 billion.
BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Neuberger Berman, Investment Corporation of Dubai and RSIC are becoming minority shareholders in Nordic Capital-owned Trustly, an online account-to-account payments provider.
As investors embrace private market investments, the desire to build closer, more meaningful relationships with a network of trusted GPs continues to grow. Within private equity, especially, one way to deepen those relationships has been for LPs to actively seek out co-investment opportunities.
As anti-racism protests are spreading with force across the US and Europe, the business world has begun responding. Private Equity Wire sat down with Anand Prasanna, managing partner of Indian VC firm Iron Pillar, which recently partnered with Nitya Capital to invest in large outcome tech companies from India, to discuss if tech can have an effect on politics, the role of impact investing, and why VCs have been slower than the big private equity groups in adopting ESG policies…
Some of the most active professionals in the private equity industry shared their views on current market conditions, the deal making climate, and the operational challenges and possibilities brought on by the Covid-19 crisis, during the recent Private Equity Wire digital summit, PEWlive North America, which took place from 2-4 June. Here we share some of the findings from the live polls that were held throughout the three-day event…
FPE Capital’s portfolio company TNP, a UK Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central service provider, has acquired UK NAV focused assets from the administration of K3 Business Technology Groups' Microsoft Dynamics business unit.
