Blackstone’s board of directors has approved a plan to spin off its financial and strategic advisory services, restructuring and reorganisation advisory services and its Park Hill fund placement businesses. The businesses will be combined with PJT Partners, an independent financial advisory firm founded by Paul J Taubman (pictured). The parties
The RAG-Stiftung foundation has acquired a majority holding in specialist engineering firm HAHN Automation via RAG-Stiftung Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. The transaction is currently awaiting approval from the merger control authorities. A CMS Hasche Sigle team led by Dr Richard Mayer-Uellner and Dr Malte Bruhns advised the foundation on all legal
Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Sage Automotive Interiors, the second largest automotive textile supplier in the world. Sage management invested alongside Clearlake in the transaction. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. “This acquisition underscores Sage’s success and vision, and provides a stable platform to help
New Mountain Capital has closed its fourth private equity fund, New Mountain Partners IV, with USD4.13 billion of equity capital commitments. This includes USD4.0 billion of third party limited partner commitments and over USD130 million from the general partner and affiliated investors. The fund, which had a target of
Private equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners has completed its tender offer for the common stock of Cobra Electronics at a price of USD4.30 per share. Immediately upon the closing of the tender offer, Monomoy completed a merger transaction to take Cobra private and add Cobra to the Monomoy portfolio of
Keensight Capital, a European growth private equity firm, has completed the sale of FircoSoft, a provider of watch list filtering solutions for bank transactions, to Reed Elsevier. Created in 1990 and based in Paris, FircoSoft provides software solutions which allow its clients to filter financial transactions against sanctions and watch
An investment fund that Adamas Finance Asia (ADAM) invested USD1 million in last September has exited from a credit-finance project with a gross IRR of 22 per cent. ADAM has also received a second semi-annual dividend distribution in the amount of USD75,301.98 from its investment in GCCF. Following an
Eos and Greenstone Equity Partners have joined forces in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region to meet rising investor demand for global investment opportunities in alternative assets. Greenstone Equity Partners, a Dubai-based fund placement firm, will bring an Eos sponsored credit fund to the region's sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors
Private equity firm Keensight Capital has completed the final closing of its new fund, Keensight IV, for EUR250 million. Jean-Michel Beghin, managing partner at Keensight Capital, says: “The fact that Keensight IV reached its hard cap in less than six months and was significantly oversubscribed, demonstrates the relevance and attractiveness
Quantum Capital Partners, founded by turnaround specialist Steffen Görig, has held a first and final close for its inaugural private equity fund after less than nine months of fundraising. The limited partners of the oversubscribed EUR55 million Quantum Opportunity Fund are a select group of US and European institutional investors.
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