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Audax Group has partnered with management to acquire Katena Products, a provider of precision ophthalmic instruments and therapeutics to physician offices, hospitals, and surgical centres.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Denville, New Jersey, Katena’s product offering includes precision surgical instruments, single-use devices, and specialty biologics that are sold into over 100 countries through a network of direct salespeople and distributors. Audax acquired Katena from Cortec Group, a private equity firm based in New York.
Geoffrey Ss Rehnert, Co-CEO of Audax Group, says: “Katena is a recognised market leader in ophthalmology products, and is a trusted partner to physicians around
Idinvest Parners has held the final closing of Idinvest Private Debt III a fund dedicated to the financing of European SMEs through mezzanine or unitranche, at EUR400 million.
Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, the Fund will invest in business transfers, acquisitions and organic growth especially in exports.
The fund applies a flexible and original strategy based on a particularly focused approach, targeting:
• Investments of about EUR5m-EUR40m in the mezzanine and unitranche debt of European SMEs;
• Debt purchases on the secondary market.
Idinvest Private Debt III has already backed 11 European companies. It is the
Quadrille Capital has held an initial closing of its new fund Quadrille Technologies III at EUR65 million. The fund is aiming to raise EUR100 million, with a hard cap at EUR150 million.
It is the first innovation-focused fund (FPCI) for Quadrille Capital since becoming independent from Quilvest.
This initial closing includes several institutional investors, most of whom participated in the previous fund. The trust placed in the fund by BPIFRANCE, CNP, AG2R LA MONDIALE, ABN AMRO and PRÉVOIR Group, as well as European Family Offices, highlights the proven track record of a team with nearly 15 years of experience.
Preqin’s Real Estate Online features detailed profiles for more than 260 Switzerland-based institutional investors. Pension funds represent the majority (55%) of all Switzerland-based real estate investors; however due to Switzerland’s large private wealth industry, wealth managers and family offices make up over a quarter of investors.
Read the full factsheet here, containing more analysis alongside charts and tables featuring the latest Preqin data.
Private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire Masai Clothing Company ApS, a Danish womenswear clothing brand. This is the first investment Silverfleet has made from its new EUR850 million fund, Silverfleet Capital II, which closed last month.
Masai is headquartered in Copenhagen and wholesales and retails its own-designed clothing in over 25 countries around the world. Its core markets are the Nordic Region (where it has 18 retail outlets in Denmark, Sweden and Norway), UK and Germany and its clothing can be purchased at 1,340 points of sale as far away as Australia, USA and Canada. Masai has
UK regional lower middle market private equity firm, Palatine Private Equity, has held the first and final close of Palatine Private Equity Fund III at its hard-cap of GBP220 million, exceeding the size of the firm’s second fund, which raised GBP150 million in 2013.
Evercore Private Funds Group acted as the exclusive global placement agent for the fundraise.
Fund III launched and closed in just eleven weeks and was significantly oversubscribed, attracting commitments from a globally diverse group of investors including UK, European, N American and Asian public and private pension plans, insurance companies, funds of funds, family offices and
3M is to acquire Capital Safety from KKR for a total enterprise value of USD2.5 billion, including the assumption of approximately USD0.7 billion of debt, net of cash acquired.
Capital Safety is a leading global provider of fall protection equipment, one of the fastest-growing safety categories within the global personal protective equipment industry.
The personal protective equipment industry is a strategic priority for 3M. Demand for personal protective equipment is rapidly growing, driven by increasing regulatory focus on worker safety across both developed and developing countries.
Capital Safety’s industry-leading products and solutions include harnesses, lanyards, self-retracting lifelines and engineered systems
Union Group and China Communication Construction Company, one of the biggest engineering and construction companies in the world, have signed a deal to develop infrastructure projects across the Latin America region.
The two companies form a consortium that will first tender for a Uruguay Government contract to restore and maintain a 140km railway track, involving an initial investment of around USD150 million. The contract will run for 30 years.
Union Group and China Communication Construction Company plan to finance and develop ports, railways, highways and other infrastructure across Latin America.
Union Group is a privately-owned holding company with
Private equity firm Hamilton Lane has held the final closing of Hamilton Lane Co-Investment Fund III. The Fund received significant interest from the global institutional investor community and was oversubscribed relative to its target fundraising amount, closing at its hard cap of USD1.5 billion.
This pool of capital will rank Hamilton Lane among the largest managers of co-investment capital in the world.
The Fund consists of new and existing Hamilton Lane investors from around the globe, including public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, Taft-Hartley pension plans, endowments, foundations, high-net-worth individuals and other financial institutions. The Fund's strategy is to provide
According to a survey released by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, ‘From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two’, total assets managed by ’40 Act mutual funds reached a record high of USD257 billion by end-2013, representing over 60 per cent growth for the year. Through May 2014, that figure had grown a further 18 per cent to over USD300 billion.
There is no doubt that interest is building among European managers – traditional and alternative alike – to tap in to the massive USD17 trillion US regulated investment company market, but there are a number of considerations that need to be taken
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
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