NextPower UK ESG a solar infrastructure fund, which is backed by the UK government’s new national infrastructure bank, has held its third close with £595 million (€675m) in capital commitments, according to a report by Investment & Pensions Europe.
International Mexican restaurant group Zambrero has secured an investment from pan-European private capital manager Metric Capital Partners, with the firm taking a minority stake in the business alongside one other investor for a cumulative investment of approximately £143 million. The transaction represents the first ever external capital taken by Zambrero.
Thomas H Lee Partners, a private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies, has appointed former Willis Towers Watson CEO John Haley as an executive partner in the firm’s Financial Technology and Services investment group.
AIFs and UCITS saw net outflows of €278 billion in 2022, compared to net inflows of €888 billion in 2021, according to the latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet Net from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). Assets of European investment funds meanwhile, declined by 12.4%, to drop
Fund and corporate services provider ZEDRA, has completed the integration and rebrand of Atlas Fund Services, which it acquired in November 2022, to ZEDRA. The new ZEDRA team in Charlotte, North Carolina and Curaçao will service both seasoned and emerging managers of hedge and private equity funds based in the
Finastra, a London-based fintech owned by technology focused private investment firm Vista Equity Partners, is exploring a possible sale of its banking unit in a deal that could be worth as much as $7 billion, according to a report by Reuters. The report cites several unnamed sources as confirming that
The asset management arm of Spanish banking group Banco Santander is one of a small number of parties said to be interested in striking a deal to acquire the private equity unit of abrdn, according to a report by Sky News.
BMC Software, a specialist in tech support software backed by private investment major KKR, has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, according to a report by Bloomberg, with the company expected to be values at between $14 billion and $15 billion.
PCF Insurance Services, a top 20 US insurance brokerage firm, has secured a $500 million preferred equity investment in a transaction co-led by Carlyle’s Global Credit platform and private equity firm HGGC, an existing minority investor, which values the business at $4.7 billion.Â
Bain Capital is expecting China’s struggling $539 billion private equity market to stage a recovery as early as this year, although deal activity may be hard pressed to reach previous levels, according to a report by Bloomberg. In an interview with Bloomberg, Jonathan Zhu, partner and co-head of Asia for
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