Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has expanded its private credit business in Asia with the hire of Yew Chuan Sima former Nomura executive. He will join SMBC’s loan capital markets department as head of private credit distribution, Asia Pacific, according to a statement.
Blackstone is leading a loan package to back Permira’s buyout of Gossler, Gobert & Wolters, a German insurance firm, according to a report by Bloomberg. The package is valued at €950m ($1bn).
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has raised around $1.2bn across two new funds, the North Haven Expansion Equity IX fund and North Haven Expansion Credit II fund, which will make later stage growth equity and credit investments.
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, one of the biggest US public pension schemes, has lost most of its private equity team after the fund made changes that hindered the group’s ability to make allocations to the asset class, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Taurus Private Markets has held the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, which initially targeted $150m, with over $211m in capital commitments.
Key decision-makers at Europe’s largest private equity managers are to meet in London next year at The Private Equity Wire European Leadership Summit 2024. Taking place on Wednesday, 28 February, the highly anticipated event – now in its fourth year – will bring together senior executives from established PE firms
Global private investment firm KKR & Co is planning to launch its first global climate fund and is targeting a fundraise of up to $7bn to invest in energy transition opportunities, according to a report by Reuters.
Arctos Partners has agreed an investment deal that sees the private equity firm acquire a minority common equity stake in Paris Saint-Germain, one of France’s leading football clubs, from Qatar Sports Investments.
BioStar Capital, a strategic healthtech venture capital firm focused on cardiovascular disease, orthopaedics, and robotics, has closed its fifth fund at $130.3m, more than the combined amount raised by the firm’s three previous funds.
Private equity firm Growthdeck has successfully sold its investment in electric vehicle charge point specialist BMM Energy Solutions to Drax Energy Solutions, part of Drax Group, the FTSE 250 energy generation business.
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