Family offices are trimming private equity allocations in favour of public equities, according to a report by Bloomberg citing Goldman Sachs’ latest global family office survey, which highlights shifting portfolio strategies among the world’s wealthiest investors.
Pollen Street Capital has provided a $100m senior secured lending facility to CredibleX, a United Arab Emirates-based SME lender, marking the private equity firm’s first investment in the Gulf state, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Percheron Capital has appointed Manish Goyal as Managing Director and Head of its Portfolio Support Group to oversee operational value creation initiatives across the firm’s portfolio of essential services businesses.
Robert W Baird & Co has acquired a minority stake in Canadian alternative asset manager Sagard Holdings Inc, becoming the firm’s first US institutional investor in the process, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Advent International has agreed to sell Czech generic drugmaker Zentiva to Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR in a €4.1bn deal, marking one of Europe’s largest healthcare transactions this year, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Veritas Capital has held the final close of its ninth flagship fund, The Veritas Capital Fund IX, securing $14.4bn in capital commitments. The raise was significantly oversubscribed, and exceeded the original $13bn target.
Apollo Global Management president Jim Zelter has warned that the private equity industry faces an inevitable shakeout, with some firms unlikely to survive the prolonged fundraising slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Middle-market private equity firm One Equity Partners, has completed fundraising for its ninth and largest fund to date, One Equity Partners IX, which together with its affiliated parallel funds reached $3.25bn in capital commitments.
MiddleGround Capital, a Kentucky-based PE firm managing over $4.1bn, has appointed Tim Curley as Managing Director, Exits & Realizations, joining the firm’s New York office to oversee exit strategies and portfolio monetisation initiatives.
Blackstone Inc has increased its private credit facility for Dropbox Inc to $2.7bn, adding $700m to the original $2bn loan arranged last December to support the file-sharing company’s stock repurchase program, according to a repot by Bloomberg.
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