YFM Equity Partners has closed its latest fund, British Smaller Companies Venture Capital Trusts, with £90m of committed funds in place, fulfilling its original £65m offer plus an overallotment facility of £25m.
Swiss private equity investment firm Partners Group is weighing up the options for its portfolio company VSB Group including a sale of the Germany based renewable energy company, according to a report by Reuters.
Quilvest Capital Partners, a $7bn global alternatives investment manager, has invested in Acuiti Labs, a consultancy specialising in optimisation of the quote-to-cash process.
Renewable energy producer Encavis, which runs wind and solar parks across Europe, is in discussions to be acquired by global buyout firm KKR & Co in a deal that could value the German company at more than €2bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global private equity firm Permira has appointed a dedicated team to identify investment opportunities across the climate transition value chain, which will be led by Partner Kush Patel in New York and another London-based Partner who is set to join the business in 2024.
Equistone Partners Europe, a European mid-market private equity investor, has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative with over 24,000 participants across more than 160 countries.
CVC Credit, the €40bn global credit management business of CVC, has closed Cordatus XXX, its third new collateralised loan obligation of 2024. The new vehicle totals €400m and brings CVC’s aggregate value of newly priced CLOs in 2024 to €1.4bn.
Maheshwar Nataraj has been appointed as the new head of BlackRock’s private credit business in India, succeeding Dhruva Agarwal, who is leaving the business after four years for family reasons, according to a report by Bloomberg.
For International Women’s Day this year, Private Equity Wire spoke to Meryem Bensaid (pictured), a Principal at Blackstone, and Private Equity Wire’s sister title Hedgeweek spoke to Trudi Usher Boardman, Head of Hedge Funds at Pictet Alternative Advisors.
A number of big-name buyout firms including Carlyle Group, CVC Capital Partners and KKR have all shown preliminary interest in striking a take-private deal to acquire Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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