EnCap Investments, a provider of capital to the independent sector of the US oil and gas industry with offices in Houston and Dallas, has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund XI with capital commitments of USD7.0 billion, exceeding its target. Fund XI provides growth capital to proven management teams focused on
Agilitas, a pan-European private equity firm, has completed the buyout of Danoffice IT, a global value-added reseller of Information Technology and Information Systems to international organisations and businesses operating worldwide. Consideration on the transaction is not being disclosed. Danoffice IT is headquartered in Svendborg, Denmark, with offices in several locations
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired workplace safety and training company Lewellyn Technology from Evolution Capital Partners (Evolution). This is ACP ’s first platform investment from the business-to-business training and certification thesis ACP launched earlier this year. Lewellyn is a market leader providing critical, high impact electrical safety training
Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm specialising in capital markets technology, has expanded its team with the appointment of former UBS and IHS Markit Managing Director, Roger Spooner as Head of Strategic Relationships. Andrew Patey, former Group Finance Manager at Octopus Investments has also joined as Head of Finance.
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has appointed Stefan Rose as a Portfolio Manager in its Infrastructure Debt team. Rose’s appointment further strengthens REPM’s USD4 billion infrastructure platform, which invests in both equity and debt, and it follows the announcement of three other senior hires
Blue Water Energy has held the final closing of Blue Water Energy Fund II (BWE Fund II), with total commitments over USD1.1 billion, surpassing its target of USD1 billion after securing further commitments from a number of new limited partners. Blue Water Energy, founded in 2011 by Jerker Johansson, Tom
Tikehau Capital is to sell its stake in the real-estate promoter Nafilyan & Partners in three stages to the Belgian property developer Immobel. Tikehau Capital invested a total of approximately EUR8.9 million (including EUR7.7 million in bonds and EUR1.2 million in capital) in Nafilyan & Partners between July 2014 and
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Bundesverband Alternative Investments (BAI) are to jointly engage with policymakers and regulators in the European Union and globally on issues of interest to their respective memberships. Included in the agreement is work relating to the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the AIMA affiliate body
The days of thinking about single jurisdictions are long gone. When structuring a large private equity fund, for example, it is likely going to contain international investors (the US, Europe, Asia) and is, in effect, a commercial deal between all interested parties to draw down the money. The reality is,
Chinese business accelerator COMB+ and the Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation (BICI) have launched a new Artificial Intelligence Fund with a target size of EUR65 million. The fund will focus on international technology startups entering the Chinese market. The fund is part of the COMB+ Sino Track accelerator program, which
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