Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has expanded its External Affairs team with the appointment of Emma Chandra as Director of External Affairs, Europe, reporting to Jon Selib, CD&R’s Head of Global External Affairs.
Kester Capital, a UK lower mid-market private equity specialist, has completed its sixth Life Sciences services deal with an investment in GXP Engaged, a provider of audit and related consulting services to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
The Citco group of companies (Citco), an asset servicer to the alternative investment industry, has made the Citco Collaboration Platform available to a wider range of Private Markets clients, and added additional functionality, as it continues to digitalise client interactions.
Growing demand for private credit has prompted Brookfield Asset Management and Societe General to team up to launch a new private debt fund which is expected to raise a total of €10bn ($10.7bn) over the next four years.
TOP STORY: Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has agreed to sell its majority stake in Danish design brand Georg Jensen, to Fiskars Group, the owner of luxury household brands including Wedgwood and Iittala, in a deal worth €151.5m.
Charger Investment Partners, a California-based middle market private equity firm focused the industrial, services, and consumer industries has further expanded its investment and operations teams with three new hires.
Karen Parks has joined the firm as a Managing Director with responsibility for sourcing, evaluating, and leading investments, as well as
Gen II Fund Services, an independent private capital fund administrator, has launched a Strategic & Digital Solutions Group, which will be led by Robert Caporale as Group President, effective immediately.
Altura Capital, a lower-middle market private investment investment firm, has teamed with Perio Health Professionals, a fee-for-service periodontics practice in the United States, to launch Rocket Health Partners, an integrated dental service organisation platform.
White Star Capital has held the first close of its Structured Growth Capital Fund I, a new hybrid investment strategy which combines credit and equity capabilities, with the support of existing and new limited partners.
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India has held the final close of its fifth fund, at $541m in capital commitments. The firm, backed by Temasek, says the latest fund is 80% larger than Fund IV, which it closed at $305m in 2019.
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