AVP has appointed Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan as a new General Partner in New York and head of the firm’s €1.5 billion Late Growth Fund for North America. De Saint-Aignan brings more than 20 years of growth equity experience with a focus on the technology sector. De Saint-Aignan joins AVP from
Silver Lake, a private investment firm focused on technology sector deals, in partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), has completed the $12.5 billion acquisition of experience management (XM) software specialist Qualtrics.
Private equity firm THL Partners is working with investment bank William Blair over a potential sale of healthcare software provider Nextech Systems that could value the company at around $1.5 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
An affiliate of $56 billion alternative investment firm HIG Capital (HIG), has acquired CLC Group Limited (CLC), a UK provider of property and asset refurbishment, from its owner, the Armitage Family Trust.
Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners’s portfolio company BCM One has acquired Pure IP, a global provider of cloud-based voice services via Microsoft Teams, Cisco, Webex and Zoom, the platform’s ninth add-on deal.
AXA IM Alts, a specialist in alternative investments with €185 billion of assets under management, has appointed Laurent Lavergne to the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, effective 1 October 2023.
G2 Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on investment in technology companies, has promoted Neel Mehta to partner. Metha joined the firm in August 2021 as an investor and helped drive G2’s investment in Locus Robotics.
Recent hikes in interest rates as central banks look to tackle soaring inflation have impacted a plan by Assicurazioni Generali to offload up to €20 billion ($21.87bn) of insurance liabilities through a sale to private equity-backed companies, according to a report by Reuters.
Private equity-backed “take-private” deals for UK listed companies have beaten last year’s total, from 12 deals in 2021/22 to 13 in 2022/23, as funds continue to be attracted by the lower valuations on UK companies, according to data from International law firm Mayer Brown.
HSBC Asset Management has held the final closing of its third directly-managed secondaries fund, Private Equity Opportunities III, which launched in December 2022, with total commitments of around $738 million, bringing total commitments across HSBC AM’s secondaries program to a combined $3.2 billion.
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