Argand Partners, a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, has made a senior addition to its investment team with the appointment of Eric Korsten as Managing Director. Gerald Lizzo has also joined the firm as an Associate.
Actis, a UK-based private investment firm focused on sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Neda Vakilian as head of its Investor Solutions Group (ISG), which was previously known as the Investor Development Group. Vakilian is based in London and will be responsible for leading Actis’ capital raising initiatives and strategic investor programs.
HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm,.has added Bob Currier to the HCI Executive Partner group to advise on human capital management, including talent acquisition, organisational design, leadership development and succession throughout the entire HCI portfolio.Â
Accelex, a SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched an automated document acquisition solution for private market fund managers. Automated document acquisition provides a consolidated content feed to the Accelex data extraction platform using direct API connectivity to portals including SS&C Intralinks and FIS
Parthenon Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco and Austin, has held the first and final closing of Parthenon Investors VII with more than $4.5 billion in commitments, significantly in excess of its initial $3.5 billion target.
SR One, a transatlantic life sciences investment firm, has closed its second fund at over $600 million, substantially exceeding its target of $500 million. Fund II is the second fund since SR One spun out from GlaxoSmithKline in 2020 to form a fully independent investment firm.Â
Armen, an investment firm focused on acquiring stakes in private equity firms, has held the first close of Armen GP Stakes Fund I at €150 million in capital commitments, and secured a strategic minority investment from a group of French family offices
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London, and Milan, has launched a new investment strategy focused on digital medicine, which will be led by partners Edward Kliphuis and Simon Turner.
Brian Tierney, global head of portfolio operations and asset management at Blackstone, is leaving the firm to take up the role of president and chief executive officer at electricity supply, distribution and generation company FirstEnergy Corp. Tierney, who will join FirstEnergy on 1 June, is the company’s first permanent CEO
IDR a provider of onboarding client solutions for private markets funds, has expanded its management team with the appointment of Karen Bee as senior delivery manager for operations, Jason Green as chief technology officer and Dan Loughney as finance director. Bee, who has worked in investor onboarding in the financial
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