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Ipes supports Hg in final closing of HgCapital 8 and Mercury 2

Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity firms in Europe, is providing administration services to HgCapital and has supported its recent close of the HgCapital 8 Fund and, separately, a first and final close on The Mercury 2 Fund. Both closing are at their respective hard capitalisations raising

83North closes USD250m venture fund

83North has closed an oversubscribed new venture capital fund at USD250 million. The fourth raised in 11 years, 83North IV brings total capital under management to USD800 million.   The new fund will be deployed in the best consumer and enterprise technology companies led by aspiring European and Israeli entrepreneurs.

Calculus closes EIS fundraising early after hitting GBP20m target

Private equity fund manager Calculus Capital has closed its Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fundraising after reaching its GBP20 million target three months earlier than anticipated. John Glencross, Calculus Capital chief executive, says: “Appetite for investing in unlisted UK smaller companies through the EIS has been growing year-on-year. And it’s not surprising,

Shore Capital Partners closes Fund II at USD190m

Shore Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has held the first and final close of its second institutional private equity fund, Shore Capital Partners Fund II, at the hard cap of USD190 million. Fund II, raised in less than three months, surpassed its original

Golding private debt fund secures EUR331m at first closing

Golding Capital Partners (GCP) has received commitments of EUR331 million for its private debt investment programme, Golding Private Debt 2016. After five months of fundraising this means 55 per cent of the EUR600 million target volume has already been secured at first closing.   "With interest rates at their current

Israel Secondary Fund closes USD100m fund

Israel Secondary Fund (ISF) has completed the closing of ISF II, a USD100 million secondary fund. The investors in ISF II include Israeli and global institutional investors, family offices, and high net worth investors.   Institutional investors in the fund include Halman Aldubi, Altshuler Shaham, Bank Hapoalim, IBI and Union

LongueVue Capital closes USD252m private investment fund

LongueVue Capital (LVC), a New Orleans-based private equity firm, has held the final closing of LongueVue Capital Partners III (LVC III). Building on LVC's predecessor funds, LVC III will focus on private equity investments in lower middle market companies across a variety of industries.   LongueVue Capital welcomed new institutional

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Softbank Vision launch a coup for Jersey’s private fund sector

Softbank’s decision to choose a Jersey-based financial services company to administer its USD100 billion technology fund is expected to lead to more funds domiciling in the island. The Softbank Vision Fund was launched in October 2016 with the aim of becoming the biggest investor in the technology industry over the

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FS Investments launches FS Energy Total Return Interval Fund

Alternative investment manager FS Investments has launched its first closed-end interval fund, FS Energy Total Return Fund, which seeks to generate an attractive total return by investing in the equity and debt securities of public and private energy and energy infrastructure companies. FS Investments already manages more than USD5 billion

Progressio raising EUR225m for fourth fund

Progressio SGR, the Italian private equity firm, is raising a new fund, Progressio Investimenti III, in response to LP demand and a doubling of proprietary deal flow over the past five years. Progressio will raise EUR225 million for a final close at the end of 2017, after a summer first

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