
New Mountain closes Fund VII at $15.4bn
New York-headquartered alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital has held the final close of its seventh control-oriented fund, New Mountain Partners VII, with $15.4bn in capital commitments.

New York-headquartered alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital has held the final close of its seventh control-oriented fund, New Mountain Partners VII, with $15.4bn in capital commitments.
The HgCapital Trust has agreed the sale of European software-as-a-service provider F24 to Altor, a Stockholm-based private equity firm investing across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the DACH region.
French private equity firm PAI Partners and Spanish investment firm Inveready have collaborated on a bid for Avatel, Spain’s fifth-largest telecoms company, according to a report by Expansion, citing unidentified market sources.
Private investment house Ardian has raised $3.2bn for the sixth generation of its global co-investment platform, Ardian Co-Investment Fund VI, including fund commitments and mandates from Ardian Customized Solutions.
Current Söderberg & Partners minority shareholders KKR and TA Associates are making an additional €265m (SEK3bn) growth investment in the Nordic financial advisory and insurance and financial products brokerage business via a new share issue.
Financial services group GSB has launched GSB Capital, a new division focussing on debt and equity capital markets for individual and corporate clients, which will be headed by Grant Bergman.
Alternative investment fund manager Cheyne Capital Management has appointed Dan Magee as Managing Director, Head of Origination and Trading for Cheyne Strategic Value Credit.
Swiss private equity firm Partners Group has acquired a majority stake in FairJourney Biologics, a biotech known for its work on antibody treatments for major drugmakers such as Johnson & Johnson, in a deal that values the business at €900m, according to a report by the Financial Times.
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin, a UK-based independent provider of private markets data for £2.55bn ($3.2bn) in cash, combining Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s workflow functions into a single platform.
New York-based credit-focused investment firm ACME Credit Partners has appointed Liz Veilleux as Head of Capital Formation and Investor Relations.
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