Sverica Capital Management (Sverica) has sold its portfolio company iWave to private equity firm Incline Equity Partners (Incline), ending a five-year partnership during which the fundraising intelligence specialist tripled in size. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Charlottetown, PE, Canada, iWave provides education, healthcare, and nonprofit organisations with an intuitive
Unigestion, an independent, specialist asset manager, has held the first close of the Unigestion Direct III (UD III) Fund, its third direct private equity fund at €200 million. The fund targets a portfolio of global, innovative mid-market companies whose growth is underpinned by long-term trends, providing investors with exposure to
Ridgemont Equity Partners (Ridgemont), a private investment firm specialising in buyout and growth investments in industry-leading middle market companies, has closed Ridgemont Equity Partners IV (REP IV) at its hard cap with $2.35 billion in capital commitments. The fund significantly exceeded its initial target of $2.0 billion and brings the
Sienna Private Credit (formerly ACOFI Gestion) has reached €85 million in commitments for its F2E fund with backing from MAIF and the European Investment Fund. The F2E fund has a target of €250 million and will offer tailor-made financing solutions to support SMEs and industrial players in the Energy Transition.
Eric Requenez has joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice, based in the 500-lawyer New York office. Requenez advises market-leading real estate and other private fund clients in the formation, structuring and capitalisation of their funds, offering first-rate counsel to GPs, LPs, and distributors. His
Martin Longchamps has been appointed as the new head of private equity at Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. Longchamps joins from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board where he was managing director of private equity. Longchamps, who will be based in Caisse’s head office in
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated technology and consumer investor, has sold Pixomondo (PXO), an Oscar and Emmy award-winning virtual production, visualisation and VFX company, to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. PXO, which is
Balderton Capital has appointed Danny Bloom as Head of Legal, and Andrew Wigfall as Executive In Residence (EIR) as part of its commitment to further building out its EIR programme and portfolio support team. The appointments follow other recent senior hires including Rachel Bremer (Chief Marketing & Communications Officer) and
TPG, a global alternative asset management firm, has appointed Pamela Pavkov has a Partner and Head of TPG NEXT, a strategy designed to back the next generation of diverse alternative asset managers. In her role, Pavkov will be responsible for driving TPG NEXT’s investment strategy, sourcing, execution, and portfolio management.
ConnexPay, a payments technology company that integrates payments acceptance and issuance inside a single platform, has secured a $110 million growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor. Previous ConnexPay investors also participated in the round. The funding will enable ConnexPay to drive international expansion in
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