UBS Asset Management Real Estate & Private Markets has held the first close of its fifth private equity growth strategy, with investor commitments totaling €265.8 million, despite fundraising headwinds arising from the “challenging macroeconomic environment”.
Golding Capital Partners, an independent alternative asset manager with more than €13.5 billion in assets under management across infrastructure, private credit, private equity, secondaries and impact investments, has appointed HR specialist Barbara Phélippeau as its first Partner for People & Culture.
DD Group, a portfolio company of private investment firm Sun European Partners, which focuses on business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology sector investments, has acquired 100% of the shares in Dental Promotion & Innovation SA, a dental distribution platform in continental Europe.
US private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners has a made a AUD1.4 billion ($934.50 billion) bid to acquire the remaining shares it doesn’t already hold in Australian horticultural specialist Costa Group Holdings, according to a report by Reuters.
Private markets investment firm HarbourVest Partners has partnered with AP7, a Swedish government pension fund, as a $835 million founder investor in a new open-ended, evergreen private equity strategy designed for non-US institutional and High Net Worth investors.
US private equity firm SSW Partners, the owner of automative technology company Veoneer, is exploring the possible sale of the company’s passive safety business, which could attract as much as $500 million, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global investment firm Carlyle is in exclusive negotiations to acquire PR0PH3CY, a leading “one-stop-shop” cybersecurity services business in France, from IK Partners’ IK Small Cap III Fund (IKSC III). As part of the deal, PR0PH3CY will rebrand as NEVERHACK.
NextEnergy Capital, a global solar specialist in the renewables sector, has held the first close of its fifth investment vehicle NextPower V ESG, which is targeting capital commitments of $1.5 billion with a $2 billion hard cap, at $480 million.
Mercuri, (formerly GMG Ventures), an early stage media technology investor, has raised £50 million from institutional investors, including a cornerstone investment from the British Business Bank, through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme, for its second fund.
Global investment firm Carlyle has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Anthesis, a global pure-play sustainability advisory and solutions firm. Carlyle is investing alongside Anthesis’s employee shareholders, with existing shareholder, Palatine, reinvesting for a minority stake.
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