The alternative assets industry is continuing its trajectory towards gender equality, according to a new report from Preqin which reveals that as of January 2024, 22% of professionals in the alternative assets space, encompassing investors and fund managers, are women.
HIG Capital, a $60bn global alternative investment firm, has agreed a carve out deal for the thermal commercial vehicles division from France-based global automotive parts supplier Valeo.
Mid-market private equity investor Alistair Armstrong has joined Palatine as a Partner in the firm’s impact fund. Armstrong has joined from Primary Capital, where he spent 16 years making B2B-focused investments.
Strategic Value Partners, a global alternative investment firm focused on opportunistic credit opportunities with over $18bn of AUM, has appointed Mike Ungari as Head of Real Estate.
Floww, a fintech platform providing end-to-end private markets infrastructure, has appointed Umerah Akram as Chief Operating Officer. Akram joins from the London Stock Exchange Group, where she was Head of Private Markets.
Blackstone has partnered with Finland’s S-Bank to broaden access to its European private credit fund, with the latter creating a feeder fund that will invest its clients’ capital into the Blackstone European Private Credit Fund SICAV, according to a report by Alternative Credit Investor.
Law firm Ogier has relocated Ridhiima Kapoor, a Senior Transactional Specialist in its investment funds and corporate teams in the Cayman Islands, to Dubai. She will continue to advise on the establishment, launch and maintenance of investment funds including hedge funds and private equity funds.
US middle market private equity firm Gemspring Capital has completed the sale of insurance services holding company Insurvia to an affiliate of private investment firm BharCap Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
French private investment firm Ardian has completed the acquisition of the entire share capital of Verne, a data centre platform headquartered in the UK and diversified across Northern Europe, from investment trust Digital 9 Infrastructure, in a deal worth up to £450m.
Global law firm Taylor Wessing has appointed Shervin Shameli as Partner within its London private equity and fund formation team. Shameli joins from Reed Smith, where he was Co-Head of its private funds formation group in London.
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