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KKR-backed BrightSpring eyeing $1.36bn IPO

BrightSpring Health Services, a community-based healthcare services provider backed by private investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, is looking to raise as much as $1.36bn in a public offering and a sale of convertible securities, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Aramco boosts global VC programme by additional $4bn

Aramco, one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, has allocated an additional $4bn to its global venture capital arm, Aramco Ventures, more than doubling the capital allotted from $3bn to $7bn.

Aquiline Capital Partners invests in PharmaForce

Aquiline Capital Partners, a private investment firm with over $10bn in AUM, has made a majority investment in PharmaForce, a pharmacy solutions provider to hospitals and health clinics. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Godspeed Capital sells MOREgroup to Wind Point

Godspeed Capital Management, a lower middle-market defence & government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has sold MOREgroup, family of architecture, design, and engineering brands, to Wind Point Partners.

Victory Park Capital provides $225m credit facility to Zip 

Victory Park Capital, a global alternative investment firm specialising in private credit, has provided a $225m credit facility to Zip, a global ‘buy now pay later’ fintech operating in Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, as part of a refinancing agreement.

Bowmark closes seventh flagship fund at £900m

Bowmark Capital, a British mid-market private equity firm, has closed its seventh flagship fund, Bowmark Capital Partners VII, with commitments totalling over £900m and exceeding its predecessor fund by approximately 50%.

Goldman Sachs passes alts fundraising target ahead of schedule

Goldman Sachs has surpassed its fundraising target for alternative investments by over $25bn and, with a year to spare, raising over $251bn since year-end 2019 versus a target of $225bn, according to the company’s latest earnings release.

TMF Group appoints Head of Fund Sales for the Americas

TMF Group, a provider of compliance and administrative services to corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, has appointed Menno de Vreeze as Head of Fund Sales for the Americas.

Permira Credit appoints new Co-Heads

Permira Credit, a European alternative credit investor, has promoted David Hirschmann, who joined the business in 2015, and Ariadna Stefanescu, who has been with the firm since inception in 2007, to Co-Heads of the business, with immediate effect.

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