Goodwin’s Private Investment Funds team has advised Advent International on the successful completion of its fundraising for Advent International GPE IX Limited Partnership (GPE IX).  The fund reached its hard cap of USD17.5 billion (EUR15.6 billion) and surpassed the USD16 billion (EUR14.3 billion) target after six months in the market.

Estera has provided fund services support to Greensphere Capital’s launch of its second private fund and will also be providing ongoing fund administration services.  Greensphere Capital manage a diversified portfolio of sustainable growth companies. It is a leading sustainability investor backing companies and projects that help to mitigate the biggest

Westbridge Capital has held the final close of WestBridge II (the Fund) having raised GBP140 million in fund commitments and associated earmarked co-investment monies.  The fund, which had a GBP100 million hard cap, was oversubscribed. Commitments were made by existing and new institutional investors and WestBridge’s industrialist Strategic Investor Group.  

Northleaf Capital Partners’ (Northleaf) has held the final closing of the Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund II (NVCF II) at its hard cap of USD300 million.  NVCF II is Northleaf’s third Canadian venture capital fund and forms part of the Government of Canada’s Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative.  In addition to initial capital commitments received

Glennmont Partners has successfully raised EUR850 million at the final close of its Third Fund investing in clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe significantly in excess of the fund’s original EUR600 million target. Based in London, Glennmont focuses exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure with assets of over EUR2

Foresight Group (Foresight) has launched the FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF), which has now received FCA regulatory approval. The actively managed fund will invest directly into publicly listed companies that own and operate real infrastructure or renewable energy assets globally.  The fund is targeting a total return of

MMC Ventures has launched the GBP52 million MMC Greater London Fund as part of the Mayor of London’s new initiative – the Greater London Investment Fund.  The MMC Greater London Fund (GLF) will enable investment into the most innovative, high-potential digital companies in London; to unleash their potential with the

Pilot Growth Management, a technology-focused growth equity firm, has announced the full deployment and final closing of Pilot Growth Equity Fund II (PGE II).  The total amount of new capital in PGE II is USD45 million. Pilot Growth received repeat commitments from institutional anchor limited partners in the first fund

Fountain Healthcare Partners (Fountain) has held the initial closing of its third fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners Fund III (Fund III) with EUR118 million of committed capital, exceeding its initial target raise of EUR100 million. Fund III is a dedicated life science venture capital (VC) fund and brings Fountain’s total capital