Stafford Capital Partners has appointed Victoria Sherliker as its new Chief Compliance Officer. Sherliker joins from gunnercooke where she was a Partner in the firm’s private equity and regulatory division.Â
Canadian private investment firm Brookfield has agreed to acquire the 80% stake it doesn’t already own in annuities provider American Equity Investment Life Holding (AEL) in a deal that values the business at $4.3bn.
The proportion of private equity managers assessing and measuring climate-related risks has risen sharply over the last twelve months, supported primarily by a significant increase among Asian managers, according to a report by LGT Capital Partners.
Increased regulation and financial market volatility are fuelling M&A disputes in an uncertain deal market, with dealmakers identifying the digital assets and services sector, and ESG factors as dispute hotspots, according to Berkeley Research Group’s Midyear M&A Disputes Report 2023.
Notion Capital, a European early-stage venture capital investor focused on the business software and fintech sectors, has held the final close of its new oversubscribed Notion Capital V fund at its €300m hard cap.Â
Thayer Street Partners Management, a private investment firm that provides flexible growth capital to tech-enabled financial, real estate, and business services companies, has held the final closing of the Thayer Street Partners Opportunity Fund II with total capital commitments in excess of $275 million.Â
Professional services company JTC has appointed private equity specialist Ashley Vardon as Senior Director in the firm’s fund services team in Jersey. Varcom, who joins from Sanne, where he held the position of head of private equity, has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry.
Private equity firm GTCR is closing in on the acquisition of a majority stake in the merchant business of payment processing company Fidelity National Information Services Inc in a leveraged deal valuing the division at between $15bn and $20bn, according to a report by Reuters.
CVC Credit, the $41bn global credit management business of CVC, has held the final close of CVC CLO Equity III at its hard cap with $800 million of commitments, which will support over $10 billion of global CLO issuance for CVC Credit’s Performing Credit platform.
Saudi Arabia is hoping to attract private equity investment as part of a push to enhance the status and global profile of its top domestic football competition, The Saudi Pro League, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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