The SEC has suffered a major setback in its bid to increase oversight of the private equity and venture capital industry after a US appeals court threw out a new rule requiring managers to provide investors with fees and expenses each quarter.
Law firm Bracewell has added energy and infrastructure-focused private equity lawyer François Feuillat as a partner in its London office.
Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on enterprise software companies, has promoted Lucy Li to Partner. In her new role, Li will oversee portfolio performance.
Law firm Paul Hastings has added to its US team of restructuring, private credit and special situations lawyers, who will be based variously in New York, Chicago, Houston and Washington, DC.
BB Capital Investments has launched two new funds within the firm’s private markets fund-of-funds strategy – the BB Capital Private Credit Fund and the BB Capital NextGen Fund – both of which it says are unique to the Dutch market.
Private equity firms YFM Equity Partners and Par Equity, alongside an angel syndicate, have made an £8.7m growth capital investment into Fuuse, a UK provider of electric vehicle charging software.
Funds managed by private investment firm Apollo Global Management are to lead an investment of $11bn to acquire a 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related to Intel’s Fab 34 chip manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Ireland.
Seattle-based private equity firm Sound Growth Partners has closed its oversubscribed inaugural buyout fund at its hard cap after securing $275m in capital commitments, including anticipated leverage.
London-based private equity firm Corten Capital has held the final close of Corten Capital II at €680m. The fund will focus on investments in business software, services and data companies across Europe and North America.
JC Flowers & Co, the New York-based private equity firm founded by former Goldman Sachs partner James Christopher Flowers and focusing on the financial services industry, has sold First Bank (Romania) to Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo.
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