Blackstone Group has moved to reflect a sharp decline in global equity prices caused by rising interest rates and a slowing economy, by marking down the value of its sprawling investment portfolio, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Advent International (Advent) has appointed Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg as Operating Partners. Dubey and Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies. Dubey and Ginsberg
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a growth-focused private equity firm, has held the final closing of the Bregal Sagemount Fund IV (Fund IV) at its hard cap of $2.5 billion, 66% larger than its prior fund. Fund IV will continue the investment strategy Sagemount has pursued since inception in 2012, providing flexible,
CEPRES has launched CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology. CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables investors to analyse existing, or plan complex new, private markets portfolios by running stochastic forecasts on cash flows and stress testing portfolio compositions to optimise asset
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Industrials team has advised Switzerland-based Cavotec SA (Cavotec) on the carve out and disposal of its Airports Division to US-based investment group Fernweh Group. Cavotec Airports Division will now be known as Dabico Airports Solutions (Dabico). Cavotec is a global engineering group, headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland, and listed
Lithium startup EnergyX, which completed two rounds of financing from 2020 to 2021 through the Netcapital Funding Portal, has received a $450 million investment commitment from private equity firm Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM) in conjunction with its plans to go public by 2024. Founded in 2017, EnergyX is a
NovaQuest Private Equity has rebranded as QHP Capital in a move designed to more closely identify with its management company. QHP partners with tech-enabled life sciences and pharmaceutical services companies that help to reduce total cost of care, fulfil unmet medical needs, diminish unnecessary procedures, improve efficiency, and/or elevate patient
SWEN Capital Partners (SWEN CP), a specialist in responsible private equity, has held the the final close of SWEN Infra Multi-Select 4 (SIMS 4), which is classified as an Article 8 fund under the EU’s SFDR, at €470 million. SWEN CP has now raised more than €1 billion over the
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), a global representative for the alternative investment industry, and its private credit affiliate, the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), has welcomed the political agreement on the European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) Regulation confirmed earlier this week. The modernisation of the ELTIF framework will lead to
Stout, a global investment bank and advisory firm backed by Audax Private Equity (Audax), has acquired The Claro Group (Claro), a US-based, privately owned financial, economic, and management consulting firm. Since 2005, Claro has helped executives and management teams analyse, control, and resolve difficult business challenges related to high-stakes litigation,
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