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Varagon Capital Partners targets middle market borrowers

Varagon Capital Partners, a new asset manager focused on direct lending to middle market companies, is aiming to provide tailored investment services that meet the needs of sophisticated institutions. Varagon is an independent firm, backed by American International Group and by certain partners and affiliates of Oak Hill Capital Management,

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King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin advises Antin on formation of second fund

King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin advised Antin Infrastructure Partners on the structuring of its second fund, Antin Infrastructure Partners II. The fundraising was completed in less than a year and exceeded the initial target of EUR1.5 billion, reaching its hard cap of EUR2 billion.   The fund, Antin Infrastructure Partners

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Sycamore Partners closes second fund at USD2.5bn

Sycamore Partners has closed its second fund, Sycamore Partners II, with limited partner commitments of USD2.5 billion. Sycamore Partners' first fund, Sycamore Partners LP, closed in 2012 with limited partner commitments of USD1 billion.   With the closing of its second fund, Sycamore Partners now has in excess of USD3.5

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Romulus Capital closes USD50m early-stage VC seed fund

Romulus Capital has raised USD50 million from a group of individual investors from the US, Western Europe, Russia, South Asia, the Middle East and Hong Kong. The fundraising of Romulus’ second fund makes it one of the largest seed funds in the world.   “By design, few things about us

ILPA, SunGard, PwC and AlpInvest join AltExchange Alliance

The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), SunGard, AlpInvest and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have all joined The AltExchange Alliance, the global private equity group looking to implement a common data standard. As the Alliance’s focus shifts from formulating the standards to promoting widespread adoption, the participation of ILPA is important given the

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The CapStreet Group closes fourth fund at USD340m

Private equity firm The CapStreet Group has held the final closing of CapStreet IV. CapStreet launched fundraising for CapStreet IV on 5 November 2013, with the opening of an electronic data room, held a first close in December 2013 with commitments of USD249.5 million and a second close in February

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Australian PE and VC funds post 22 per cent returns in 2013

Private equity and venture capital funds in Australia posted returns of 22 per cent in the 12 months to 31 December 2013, outperforming the ASX 300 Index by over 200 basis points. That’s according to new data released by the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL).  

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