Eaton Partners has served as the placement agent for MCH Private Equity’s fourth middle market private equity fund – MCH Iberian Capital Fund IV – which has held a final close at its hard cap of EUR350 million. MCH Private Equity, founded in 1998 by José María Muñoz and
Blackstone and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia are planning to launch an investment vehicle dedicated to infrastructure with an anchor USD20 billion contribution by PIF. Blackstone anticipates that the programme will have USD40 billion in total equity commitments in a permanent capital vehicle, including USD20 billion to
UK peer-to-peer lending platform Assetz Capital has now lent over a quarter of a billion pounds since its launch in 2013. The alternative finance platform helps small and medium-sized British businesses and house builders acquire funding. It is now providing secured loans totalling GBP25 million per month and
Deal sizes are returning to their pre-2008 levels owing to the “dry powder” accumulated by private equity firms, according to Joseph Cohen, a panellist at the 2017 Guernsey Funds Forum in London. Cohen says this is resulting in a greater number of club deals in the buyout arena as
Fundamental Advisors, an alternative asset manager focused on special situations in municipal market and public purpose assets, has held the final close of its third private equity fund, Fundamental Partners III, with USD993 million in capital commitments. Fundamental exceeded its target for Fund III. A majority of Fundamental’s
Nautic Partners is to acquire, in partnership with the existing management team, Endries International and certain Endries related affiliates, from Ferguson Enterprises and its affiliates. The transaction is expected to close within the next 45 days. Endries is a distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Aavid Thermalloy to Boyd Corporation, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital Management. Aavid, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Laconia, New Hampshire, provides a broad range of technologically advanced thermal management solutions for aerospace and defence, telecommunications, LED lighting, server, data
The demand for infrastructure funds remains evidently strong. Last year, these vehicles raised USD62.9 billion in aggregate based on figures provided by Preqin*. In Q1 2017, that number had already reached USD29.5 billion; nearly twice the amount raised in Q1 2016 (USD16 billion). “We’ve seen increasing interest in infrastructure deals,
Infrastructure has become a key area of focus for institutional investors as they look to diversify their fixed income portfolios to access longer term, resilient credit opportunities for income-like returns. Within this asset class, infrastructure debt is on the rise as investment managers look to construct new debt vehicles: either
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, an investment manager specialising in lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure assets, has acquired Scout Clean Energy, a Colorado-based developer and operator of US wind power projects. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Scout is developing a 1,600-megawatt (MW) pipeline of US wind
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