Bridging Finance has launched its newest product, the Bridging Mid-Market Debt Fund, which will be available as of 20 October, 2017 through the IIROC dealer channel on FundSERV. “Bridging Finance is currently experiencing significant growth and continues to establish itself as a leading provider of non-distressed private debt financing in

360ip Japan has launched the 360ip Japan Fund 1 which will focus on seed technologies developed in academic institutes and corporations in Japan. The Fund completed its initial closing with commitments of JPY1.0 billion, with support from investors Shinsei Bank and UTokyo Innovation Platform (UTokyo IPC Tokyo, Japan), a strategic

Signal Capital Partners, a London-based private asset management firm, has raised EUR725m with an investment strategy targeting credit and real estate special situations.

 Signal closed its funds in July 2017 and has deployed over EUR450 million across 15 investments to date since September 2015. The private investment funds target transactions

Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has closed its eleventh private equity fund at its USD325 million hard cap. The fund raise was completed in six months based on strong support from existing limited partners of the USD250 million Frontenac X, and the addition of several new investors.    Frontenac

Oakley Capital has closed its third fund, Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III), raising EUR800 million with continued strong support from existing investors and a EUR326 million commitment from Oakley Capital Investments Limited, the AIM-listed Fund established to provide investors with access to the Oakley Funds. Oakley Capital has

Lexington Partners, an independent manager of secondary acquisition funds, has held the final close of Lexington Middle Market Investors IV and associated vehicles (LMMI IV) at USD2.66 billion. The fund, which commenced investing at the beginning of 2017, exceeded its initial USD2 billion target and accepted commitments up to its

Later stage VC and growth capital firm IVP has closed IVP XVI, a USD1.5 billion fund. This is the largest fund in the firm’s 37-year history and brings cumulative committed capital to USD7 billion. IVP XVI was significantly oversubscribed, with the firm’s existing Limited Partners contributing the vast majority of

The three Northern VCTs – Northern Venture Trust PLC, Northern 2 VCT PLC and Northern 3 VCT PLC – have launched a new joint share offer, to raise an aggregate of up to GBP60 million (GBP20 million per fund) in the 2017/18 tax year.   Applications under the offer will

Trivest Partners (Trivest) has held the first and final closing of Trivest Fund VI with USD600 million of total capital commitments. Fund VI is Trivest’s twelfth overall fund, seventh institutional fund and fifth fund focused on founder/family-owned investments. Significant support from Trivest’s existing investors contributed to a streamlined and efficient