Macfarlanes has advised healthcare-focused private equity firm Apposite Capital on the closing of its second fund Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles at GBP144.5 million.    The fund attracted commitments from both new and existing investors including fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices and corporates from Europe, Asia and

LLR Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm, has held he final closing of LLR Equity Partners V at USD1.2 billion. The fund builds on LLR’s 19-year history of investing in and partnering with lower middle market growth companies. LLR 5 began investing in 2017 and has closed investments

Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) of Abu Dhabi is to create a USD400 million fund to invest in leading European technology companies. The fund will be managed by Mubadala Ventures, the venture capital arm of Mubadala. SoftBank Group will participate as a strategic investor via its SIMI US Holdings I, investment

Blackstone has held its final close on its first Asian private equity fund, Blackstone Capital Partners Asia (BCP Asia), reaching its hard cap. Together with commitments from Blackstone and its affiliates, BCP Asia has approximately USD2.3 billion of capital commitments. This, coupled with associated commitments from Blackstone’s global buyout fund,

Alta Partners, a specialist in healthcare venture capital, has closed a new USD130 million fund – Alta Partners NextGen Fund I. This is the ninth fund in Alta Partners’ history and it will focus on the development of novel biotherapeutics and technology-enabled healthcare services. With the new fund’s closing, Alta

Luge Capital, a new venture capital fund specifically focused on early-stage FinTech companies and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions applied to financial services, has completed a CAD75 million round of financing to begin operations. Initially, CAD50 million of the raised capital was announced in October 2017 by the Caisse de dépôt et

Apposite Capital, a private equity firm with an exclusive focus on healthcare, has successfully raised GBP144.5 million of capital for Apposite Healthcare Fund II and associated vehicles. Apposite received strong support from existing investors and a well-diversified group of new investors comprising fund of funds, financial institutions, family offices, endowments,

UK-based Aestimo Technologies Limited has launched the Aestimo Technologies Luxembourg Fund SA SICAV-RAIF. MJ Hudson acted as legal counsel to Aestimo on the launch of the fund, which aims to harness quantitative techniques to extract profits from conditional inefficiencies in the European main equity markets through short-term directional positions.  

SIS Ventures is launching its first GBP5 million fund to back Scotland’s high impact enterprises. Benefiting from both Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) relief and Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR), Impact First will offer investors a portfolio of between six and twelve high-growth potential, high-impact enterprises which aim to tackle a

Fondo Agroalimentare Italiano (FAI) has held its first closing with commitments of nearly EUR40 million. The Fund is expected to reach its EUR50 million target and maintains its EUR70 million hard cap. Sponsored by Unigrains, the Fund’s subscribers include French, Italian and Swiss institutional investors and family offices as well