Portfolio Advisors has held the final closing of its globally diversified private equity fund-of-funds, Portfolio Advisors Private Equity Fund VIII (PAPEF VIII) with total commitments of USD1.22 billion. Limited partners include private and public pension plans, university endowments, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals. Approximately
Livingstone’s Business Services team has advised Panther Logistics, the UK’s largest independent two-man next day home delivery provider, on a GBP17m management buy-out backed by LDC. Headquartered in Northampton, Panther specialises in providing two-man and one-man assisted home delivery services, supplying household furniture, white goods and other high value items
LeverPoint Management has partnered with Hamilton Lane, a global private markets asset management firm, and the New York Credit SBIC Fund (the Fund). The Fund, in collaboration with company management, is providing a debt and equity investment in LeverPoint that will serve as a catalyst for continued growth and enhanced
AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has closed its first fund – AE Industrials Partners Fund I – with USD680 million in equity commitments. The fund is one of the largest dedicated to investments in aerospace and related industry segments,
SAS has launched the SAS FinTech Incubator programme, which will give UK FinTech organisations free access to big data technology assets and industry expertise to achieve their innovation goals, and can slash the time to develop solutions by up to 50 per cent. FinTech is becoming the fastest growing area
A division of Z Capital Partners, the private equity management arm of Z Capital Group, is to acquire the “original Rock ‘n Roll Mexican” restaurant brand Pink Taco. Z Capital Partners, the largest shareholder of Real Mex Restaurants (Real Mex), plans to leverage the Real Mex expertise across restaurant operations,
Altarius Asset Management (Altarius) and Portcullis Asset Management Limited (Portcullis), both licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a full suite of evolutionary AIFM services to alternative investment funds regardless of their AUM. This evolutionary strategic alliance allows early stage managers to
The Valence Group has advised Eurazeo on its acquisition of Novacap for an enterprise value of EUR654 million (USD746m1), plus up to a EUR30m (USD34m) earn-out. Following the acquisition, Eurazeo will become the majority shareholder of Novacap with 67 per cent of the equity capital, alongside Mérieux Développement (9 per
Innova Capital Partners and a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group have formed a joint venture to support the development of telecommunication assets throughout the Republic of Colombia. The joint venture will provide financing to Golden Comunicaciones, SAS (Golden), a Colombian mobile infrastructure designer and developer, for the construction of
Venture capital fund Accel has launched Accel London V, a USD500 million fund which will focus on investment opportunities in Europe and Israel. The UK has been and will remain a priority market for investment. Accel opened its London office in 2000 with the strategy to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs,
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