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Following the realisation of Avantia in September, ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has announced the close of its ninth fund, generating a three-times return and 36 per cent IRR.
KKR, together with its co-invest partner, Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, has purchased the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio (Fund II) from KCL for approximately USD1.1 billion.
Genstar Capital and existing investor GI Partners have recapitalised Daxko, a health, fitness, and wellness industry software and integrated payments provider.
The investment supports Daxko’s accelerated innovation in product development, customer support, sales and marketing, and strategic acquisitions.
Daxko provides mission-critical membership management software and integrated payment solutions to member-based health and wellness organisations. The company serves large health clubs, boutique fitness studios, YMCAs, and JCCs with products to help its customers with daily operations and member management. During GI Partners’ ownership, Daxko has invested in growing the business, offerings, and employee base in service of delivering a quality
Building on three decades of future-proofing companies, EQT is launching EQT Future fund, an impact-driven longer-hold fund with a EUR4 billion target size, which will apply EQT’s active ownership model to accelerate sustainable transformation of companies alongside creating attractive risk adjusted returns.
The launch of EQT Future comes just days after the announcement of EQT as the first private markets firm globally to formalise science based targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). EQT will address climate change by defining ambitious greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction targets, for both its own and the portfolio companies’ operations.
The EQT Future
DiRx, an online pharmacy platform that delivers savings on commonly prescribed, FDA-approved generic medicines without the need for insurance, has raised USD5.75 million in Series A funding.
Additional funding interest is under advanced contract negotiations and will conclude in the coming weeks. Coinciding with the anniversary of its initial USD5 million Seed Round in September 2020, this Series A round was also a private placement with healthcare-specialised investors including new as well as returning participants.
With over 40 million uninsured and 80 million underinsured Americans struggling with unaffordable out-of-pocket medicine costs, the DiRx model reduces the number of supply chain
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has acquired CommonLook by T-Base Communications, a TSCP portfolio company.
CommonLook is a provider of software and services, enabling electronic document accessibility and remediates more than one million pages annually for more than 600 customers. T-Base simplifies the fast, secure delivery of accessible communications in a wide range of print, web, and digital formats for financial, education, healthcare, telecommunications, and government entities.
Through the combination, T-Base Communications and CommonLook will broaden their accessibility portfolio of offerings to accessible print, PDF and website auditing designed to help
Preqin has updated its ESG Solutions, a product that provides private market participants with a 360-degree view of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk, impact and opportunity – across LPs and GPs, down to portfolio and private company levels. 
ESG has transitioned from a nice-to-have to a must-have, as USD35 trillion of assets under management (AUM) are committed to ESG-aligned investments. Up until now, only limited ESG data has existed in private markets. However, relevant data is crucial for both fund managers and investors to action ESG strategies by integrating it through the investment decision making process, from screening,
MSCI Inc (MSCI), a provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, and The Burgiss Group, LLC, a provider of data, analytics and technology solutions for investors of private capital, have launched a new analytical tool that enables institutional asset owners and managers to better understand the impact of climate change on private asset portfolios.
Launched ahead of COP26, the Carbon Footprinting of Private Equity and Debt Funds measures the carbon intensity of private equity and debt funds. The analytical tool is designed to address a serious transparency gap in the private assets market, spanning
JP Morgan and Rothschild & Co were the top mergers and acquisition (M&A) financial advisers in the Middle East & Africa region for Q1-Q3 2021 by value and volume, respectively.
JP Morgan advised on ten deals worth USD21.5 billion, which was the highest value among all the advisers. Meanwhile, Rothschild & Co led in volume terms having advised on 19 deals worth USD3.8 billion. A total of 787 M&A deals were announced in the region during H1 2021, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company.
According to GlobalData’s report, ‘Global & Middle East Africa M&A Review & Financial Adviser
Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York, has reached a definitive agreement to sell its portfolio company Pelican Products, Inc.(the Company), including the Peli BioThermal division, to Platinum Equity.
Headquartered in Torrance, California, Pelican Products is a global manufacturer of highly engineered protective cases and lighting products for a wide variety of consumer, commercial, industrial, bio-pharmaceutical, and government end markets. Its Peli BioThermal division offers the widest range of temperature-controlled, thermally-protected packaging and service solutions to the global life sciences industry. Over its 45-year history, the Company has established its market leadership with a comprehensive portfolio
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