Anacapa Partners, a private equity firm focussed on acquisitions in the lower middle market, has held the closing of Anacapa Partners III (Fund III) with USD79 million in commitments. Anacapa Partners focuses exclusively on search fund investments, providing a vehicle for aspiring entrepreneurs to find, acquire, manage and grow businesses.

Pathway Capital Management has formed a USD250 million customised co-investment fund in partnership with Oregon Public Employees’ Retirement Fund (OPERF), which is managed by the Oregon State Treasury.   The new fund will make systematic investments alongside OPERF’s current portfolio of private equity managers.   The new venture expands on

Summa Equity has closed the Summa Equity Fund II at its hard cap with investor commitments of SEK6.5 billion (circa EUR610 million). With Fund I and II, Summa Equity now manages aggregated capital commitments of SEK11 billion (circa EUR1 billion). Summa Equity was amongst the first Private Equity firms to

Morgan Lewis has advised MPM Capital, a life-sciences venture capital firm investing in early-stage therapeutics companies based in Cambridge, MA, and Brisbane, CA, on the closing of its seventh venture fund, BioVentures 2018 (BV2018). MPM is currently investing out of BV2018 and its two oncology-only funds with a total of

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focussed on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, software, industrial technology, and healthcare industries, has held the final closing of Genstar Capital Partners IX with USD5.5 billion in limited partner commitments. In addition, Genstar has raised committed overage capacity of USD1.1 billion

SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focussed on the speciality materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has closed SK Capital Partners Fund V with total committed capital of approximately USD2.1 billion. Fund V includes a separate overage fund that will enable the firm to provide greater speed and certainty to

French asset management company Anaxago Capital has launched FCPR ANAXAGO SocietyOne, a private equity real estate (PERE) fund specialising in real estate development and renovation. The company aims to raise EUR30 million to invest in a portfolio of 20 to 40 real estate development, renovation and property trading operations. Its

Israeli VC firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), has closed its latest fund, JVP VIII, with USD220 million in commitments. This new fund aims to invest in early through mid-stage technologies that are transforming key global markets, such as computer vision meets wellness, cybersecurity meets fintech and insurtech, artificial intelligence meets

Energy investment firm Exergy Capita, and Dalma Capital Management, an alternative investment fund accelerator in the Dubai International Financial Centre, have established a Sharia-compliant investment strategy to develop the infrastructure and technology required to reshape the energy value chain. The investment strategy seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing

CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), an industrials-focussed private equity firm based in Chicago, has held the final close of CORE Industrial Partners Fund I with total commitments of USD230 million.  The Fund was significantly oversubscribed with demand in excess of an initial target of USD200 million and initial hard cap of