Berkshire Partners has enlisted the help of Dimension Data as the private equity firm makes the move into new offices. Dimension has optimised the technology capabilities of Berkshire Partners’ new offices and accelerated the company’s communications systems, by implementing multiple network and communications solutions and integrating the company’s Microsoft Office

Morgan Stanley Private Equity (MSPE) and Denver-based Sterling Energy Company have formed a strategic partnership whereby MSPE has made a majority equity investment in a newly formed company called Sterling Investment Holdings, LLC (Sterling Energy) to support the growth of Sterling Energy’s midstream business in Colorado and North Dakota. Terms

High Street Partners (HSP) has closed a USD6.3m Series C round of financing led by institutional venture capital investor Baird Venture Partners. The funding round also included existing investor Sigma Partners and Gold Hill Capital.   HSP will use the proceeds to build-out its Shared Service Centers and accelerate the

Ares Management LLC has acquired the investment platform of Wrightwood Capital, a highly respected provider of debt capital to the US commercial real estate sector. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "This transaction represents a unique opportunity to further build out the Ares Private Debt Group by adding specific

The quarter ending 31 March, 2011, was the eighth in a row to yield positive returns for private equity and venture capital funds, according to Cambridge Associates LLC. Private equity continued to outperform venture capital over the five- and 10-year periods ending 31 March, while the situation remained reversed for

Vulcan Capital, the private investment group of Paul G Allen, and a group of investors led by LKCM Capital Group, LLC (LKCM), the alternative investment vehicle for Luther King Capital Management, have launched Ascentium Capital, a lender focused on the important but underserved market for small-balance commercial loans and leases

Innovative and creative digital businesses based in East London’s ‘Tech City’ are taking up the opportunity today (10 August 2011) to pitch for funding from leading venture capitalists, business angels and other potential investors.   The day long investor workshop, organised by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board as part of