Värde Partners and Agam Capital are forming a joint venture pursue the acquisition, reinsurance and management of life and retirement businesses globally. The joint venture combines the investment management expertise of Värde Partners with the proprietary insurance solutions platform developed by Agam, and will have the capability to price and
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed fundraising for One Equity Partners VII, LP (Fund VII) with USD1.75 billion in total capital commitments, bringing the firm’s total AUM to USD6.5 billion. Fund VII attracted commitments from a range of premier global institutional LPs, including pensions
Voyager Capital, a West Coast venture capital firm focused on first-round venture technology investments, thas raised USD100 million to fuel innovation in the underserved Cascadia market, which includes Washington, Oregon, and Western Canada. The fund, Voyager’s fifth, will power first-round investments in B2B startups across cloud infrastructure, software as a
AVALT, a family office that makes direct private equity investments, has purchased Ned Stevens, a provider of residential gutter cleaning and essential exterior home services. Ned Stevens was founded in 1965 and provides gutter cleaning, soft wash and other related, non-discretionary residential services in 15 states. The company has grown
Anath Capital Group, the parent company of Garraway Capital LLP, has acquired London-based fixed income specialist, Stratton Street LLP. Stratton Street is a fund management and advisory company, specialising in fixed income markets. The transaction will double Anath’s assets under management from around USD500 million to over USD1 billion.
Par Equity, an owner-managed venture capital firm specialising in identifying and supporting rapid-growth businesses, has invested GBP800,000 in Kibosh Ltd, the designer of a leaking-pipe repair kit. Ross Dickinson, a plumbing and heating engineer invented Kibosh in 2009. The kit allows professional plumbers and trades people to mend leaking pipes
Thoma Bravo, a software-focused private equity investment firm, has acquired majority ownership in IDS, a provider of asset finance software solutions, from its current owner, SV Investment Partners. Nicholas E Somers, Chairman of SV Investment Partners, says: “Having partnered with IDS since 2003 we are immensely proud of its achievements
Sverica Capital Management (Sverica), a growth-oriented lower middle market private equity firm, has held the first and final close of its fifth private equity fund, Sverica Capital Partners V (Fund V). After three months in the market, Fund V exceeded its target, was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap
The latest CEPRES Private Equity Buyout analysis shows the IRR spread between top performing funds and the market median has significantly increased since the GFC. The analysis, based on primary sourced cash flow data from over 7,000 funds on the CEPRES platform, shows that between Vintage Year 2009 and 2018,
Natixis and EDHECinfra have launched a new three-year research chair, directed by the same team that created an unlisted infrastructure indexing platform, to create useable, comparable documented measures of the impact and risk profile of social and environmental factors on infrastructure investments. ESG refers to the central factors in measuring
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