Virginia Retirement System (VRS) has confirmed additional private equity investment vehicle commitments worth $850 million at its April investment advisory committee meeting, according to a report by Private Equity International. With the new commitments VRS has allocated $150 million to Ares Capital Europe VI, and $250 million to Ares Pathfinder
C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space, and advanced nuclear energy, has appointed Pete Cooper as managing partner and global head of partnerships. He will also head up C5 Capital’s London office. Cooper brings nearly 30 years of national defence experience to the new role.
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group has priced AlbaCore Euro CLO V, its fifth Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) fund, at €347.6 million. AlbaCore Euro CLO V increases AlbaCore’s total value of CLO issuance to date from €1.9 billion to ~€2.3 billion.
Gilde Healthcare has raised €600 million in capital commitments for Gilde Healthcare Venture&Growth VI, a new investment fund which will focuse on fast growing companies developing solutions for better care at lower cost.
Activant Capital, a growth-stage private equity firm with $1.5 billion in AUM and a focus on emerging commerce companies, has promoted head of finance and chief compliance officer Adam Geisler to chief financial officer. Since the firm’s inception in 2015, Activant has invested in more than 60 private and public
Private investment firm GI Partners is to take infrastructure and environmental solutions provider Atlas Technical Consultants private in an all-cash deal valued at around $1.05 billion, including debt, according to a report by Financier Worldwide. Under the terms of deal, GI Partners will pay Atlas shareholders $12.25 per share in
More than 70% of investors intend to increase their allocations to private equity this year, though it remains to be seen if recent upheavals have changed that outlook, according to BlackRock Alternatives’ inaugural Global Private Markets Survey.
Forbion, a European life sciences venture capital firm, has raised €1.35 billion ($1.5 billion) for its two newest funds, bringing the firm’s total funds under management to €3 billion. Both exceeded their original target sizes and represent Forbion’s largest fundraising to date. Both funds reached their hard caps of €750
Flexstone Partners has closed another vintage of its small- and middle-market private equity co-investment funds – Flexstone Partners’ Global Opportunities IV – with $790 million in capital commitments, despite “challenging global markets”. An affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers with over $10 billion assets under management (AUM), Flexstone Partners specialises in
Aquilius Investment Partners, a Singapore based investment manager focused on secondaries in the Asia Pacific region, has held the final closing of its maiden AIP Secondary Fund I, with over US$400 million in client commitments.Â
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