S&P Global Market Intelligence says bankruptcy court filings by private equity-owned portfolio companies have surged so far this year and are on track to more than double the number seen in 2021 and 2022, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Private equity deal value in Asia Pacific plunged 44% year-on-year to $198 billion in 2022, ending two years of record dealmaking, according to Bain & Company’s Asia Pacific Private Equity Report 2023.
A group of National Football League owners wants private equity firms and other institutional investors to be allowed to buy stakes in their clubs and is planning to lobby for a change to ownership rules, according to a report by Bloomberg.
JP Morgan has appointed Alex Bell as a partner on the sustainable investment team within the JP Morgan Private Capital group. Bell, who joins from Tikehau Capital, has nearly two decades of private equity experience. Bell spent about a year at Tikehau as head of the firm’s North American private
Riverwood Capital, an private investor that manages $5.6 billion and makes investments in high-growth technology businesses globally, has promoted three long-tenured executives – Joe De Pinho, Alex Porto, and Ramesh Venugopal – to partner.
Schroders Capital, the’ specialist private markets investment division of Schroders, has launched Schroders Capital Climate+ LTAF, a Long-Term Asset Fund, designed to help UK pension fund investors support the net zero transition.
IQ-EQ has established operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), giving the global investor services group its first physical presence in the Middle East. The new office, is located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and means IQ-EQ nos has a presence in 25 jurisdictions worldwide.
Clearlake Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in the technology, industrial and consumer sectors, has had a bid worth $3.78 billion to acquire cloud computing provider Blackbaud Inc rejected because it undervalues the company, according to a report by Reuters.
EQT Life Sciences has held the final close of its LSP Dementia Fund, raising approximately €260 million in fee-generating assets under management, meeting the hard cap and surpassing the target fund size of €100 million.
TOP STORY: British private equity firm Actis has paid around $500 million to acquire a portfolio of Latin American data centres from Nabiax, a Spanish data processing centre operator owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefonica.
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