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Carlyle makes senior leadership changes as CEO steps down

The Carlyle Group Inc is making changes in its executive leadership team. Chief executive officer Kewsong Lee’s five-year employment agreement is coming to a close at the end of 2022 and both the company’s board of directors and Lee have mutually agreed that the time is right to initiate a

European impact fund Summa Equity opens a North America office

Europe’s largest impact fund, the Nordic-born Summa Equity (Summa), is opening an office in Palo Alto this summer, its  first outside of Europe. Th opening follows just a few months after Summa announced the launch of a USD2.4 billion impact fund. Summa partners Tommi Unkuri, Gustavo Salem and Nick Roelofs

New Warburg Pincus investment values MRL at $2.25bn

Warburg Pincus, has agreed to invest $250 million in Montana Renewables (MRL), a renewable fuels business and subsidiary of Calumet Specialty Products Partners (Calumet) in the form of a participating preferred equity security. The investment values MRL at a pre-commissioning enterprise value of $2.25 billion.  The preferred equity investment is not

OMERS Private Equity to acquire Pueblo Mechanical & Controls

OMERS Private Equity is to acquire Pueblo Mechanical & Controls (Pueblo), a mechanical services provider, from Huron Capital Partners. Financial details have not been disclosed. Founded in 2001, Pueblo provides HVAC and plumbing installation, retrofit and repair services to customers in education, municipal, and healthcare end markets. OMERS Private Equity

Omni-backed Fortes Partners acquires staffing specialist DMJ recruitment

Fortes Partners Limited, a multi-disciplinary staffing group backed by Omni Partners, a London based alternative investment management firm, has acquired legal and secretarial staffing specialist DMJ Recruitment. Founded in 2007, DMJ Recruitment is one of the largest London-based independent staffing businesses placing legal professionals and company secretaries in private practice

Queka Real Partners acquires Factory Colchón

Spanish private equity firm Queka Real Partners has acquired Valencian company Factory Colchón, a retailer specialised in mattresses and rest products. Founded in 2004, Factory Colchón is a leading Spanish company in the design and distribution of sleep products. The Company sells through its shops and its own e-commerce channels.

Xpansiv to acquire Evolution Markets

Xpansiv, a market-infrastructure platform for environmental commodities, is to acquire Evolution Markets, a brokerage firm in global carbon, renewable, and energy markets.

S3 Ventures leads $11m ZSuite Tech Series A round

Fintech ZSuite Technologies (ZSuite Tech) has completed an $11 million Series A funding round led by S3 Ventures with additional participation from multiple private banks and JAM FINTOP. This investment accelerates the ability of ZSuite Tech to scale its platform, grow the organisation, expand into new markets and support the

Milbank expands German equity capital markets business

Milbank LLP is expanding its Capital Markets practice with the addition of equity capital markets (ECM) expert Philipp Klöckner and his team, strengthening the firm’s transactional practice in equity capital markets/initial public offerings (IPOs) and public takeovers. Klöckner joins the firm as a partner and will be resident in the

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