Golding Capital Partners has held the final close of the Golding Buyout Co-Investment 2020 fund with commitments of €273 million, significantly in excess of its original €200 million target. In addition to traditional Golding clients including German pension funds, savings banks and insurance companies, new international clients, including several family offices, also committed to the new fund.  The fund’s investment programme will complement Golding’s dedicated co-investment strategy – the Golding Infrastructure Co-Investment 2020 fund, which closed in Q3 2022, and the Golding Private Debt Co-Investment 2021 fund, which is currently in fundraising. Since the buyout fund was launched in 2020,

Vector Capital, a private equity firm specialising in investments in established technology businesses, has closed a $100 million minority investment in Malwarebytes, a specialist in real-time cyber protection. In connection with the closing, Vector Capital Managing Directors Sandy Gill and Dave Fishman have joined the company’s Board of Directors. Paul Hastings LLP acted as legal counsel for Vector Capital. Fenwick & West LLP acted as legal counsel for Malwarebytes and Jefferies LLC acted as its exclusive financial advisor.

Fifth Wall, a venture capital firm focused on technology for the global real estate industry, has held the final close of its Real Estate Technology Fund III at $866 million. 

American Pacific Group (APG), a private equity firm focused on partnering with lower middle market companies across industries in North America, has closed its second fund, American Pacific Group Fund II at its hard cap of $700 million. The fund was oversubscribed. The fund attracted commitments from institutional investors based in the United States and Europe, including endowments, foundations, a healthcare system, insurance companies, family offices, pension systems, and asset managers.    American Pacific Group was founded in 2019 by Fraser Preston, a former managing director at HIG Capital. The company seeks to partner with companies at an inflection point

Belstar Management Company, a global credit investment firm, has launched a new flagship credit fund, Belstar Credit Opportunities Fund, to invest across liquid and private credit opportunities, including both corporate and structured credit assets, globally.

Sentinel Capital Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, has held the simultaneous closings of Sentinel Capital Partners VII, LP at $4.3 billion and Sentinel Junior Capital II, LP at $835 million. These twin closings cap a $5.2 billion fundraising. Through Sentinel’s seventh equity fund, the firm will continue the same investment strategy it has employed and refined in previous funds, partnering with talented management teams to acquire mid-market companies with up to $65 million of EBITDA that possess solid business fundamentals in select industries where Sentinel has extensive experience. In addition to platform acquisitions, Sentinel will continue to pursue tuck-in

400 Capital Management, an alternative credit asset manager specialising in structured credit with over $5.7 billion of capital under management, has held the final close of its Asset Based Term Fund III with $580 million of committed capital.