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Pan-European private capital manager Metric Capital Partners has partnered with growth investor Scope to invest in high-end Danish toy brand Maileg.
The deal – whose value is undisclosed – is Metric Capital’s third investment in the Nordics since 2013. The most recently published financials for Maileg last year were €35 million in revenues, and €12 million in EBITDA.
Established in 1999, and headquartered in Herning, Denmark, Maileg designs artisanal, hygge toys, reminiscent of older times. Its toy range includes mice in matchbox beds and small dollhouses. The investment in Maileg will help grow the business in the UK and internationally,
Blackstone has closed its latest global real estate fund, Blackstone Real Estate Partners X, with $30.4 billion of capital commitments — the largest real estate or private equity drawdown fund ever raised.
The private equity giant’s three opportunistic real estate strategies – Global, Asia, Europe – now have $50 billion of capital commitments.
Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative investment firm with $951 billion AUM – has delivered a 16% net IRR on over $100 billion of committed capital in the BREP global funds over more than 30 years.
As macro trends evolve, Blackstone Real Estate shifted its portfolio away
The Carlyle Group has dropped its long-planned investment in healthcare analytics company Cotiviti, despite having lined up $5.5 billion in debt and a $1 billion preferred stock investment for the deal, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Carlyle had reportedly sought to lower its purchase price late in the process, according to unnamed sources familiar with the matter. US private equity firm Veritas Capital – which owns Cotiviti – had hoped to sell half of the business for around $15 billion valuation.Â
The abandoned takeover is a set-back for the long-running private equity firm as it aims to
CVC Credit is supporting KKR’s acquisition of French insurance broker-distributor April Group with the commitment of senior credit facilities.
CVC’s Private Equity business, through CVC Capital Partners Fund VII, acquired April – which is France’s second largest insurance broker-distributor with €1.5bn premiums in 2022 – in June 2019 from its founders. Having generated strong performance, CVC announced the sale of April to KKR in November 2022.
April Group designs, distributes and manages branded insurance solutions on behalf of partner insurers, and benefits from a large network of independent retail brokers that handle customer contact and acquisitions.
CVC supported April Group’s
Growth equity firm General Atlantic has completed its acquisition of Iron Park Capital Partners, a global investment manager focused on public and private credit markets, to form General Atlantic Credit.Â
Buyout firm CVC Capital Partners and activist hedge fund Elliott Management are among the suitors to have tabled bids to acquire parts of struggling cinema chain Cineworld, according to a report by Sky News.
Kain Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on the technology enablement of healthcare services companies, has moved into new office space at One World Trade Center in New York City. This marks the firm’s return to a physical location after staff worked remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.
To date, Kain has invested in five healthcare subsectors including value-based primary care, hospice & palliative care, occupational medicine & worker’s compensation, specialised behavioural health services, and healthcare technology, and will consider other areas as opportunities arise.
The firm’s investment scope is national, and it currently has investments in 10 states. Its
Private equity investment manager Ares Management Corporation has partnered with Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi’s global sovereign investor, to form a joint venture that will invest around $1 billion in global credit secondaries opportunities.
Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that targets investments of $100 million to $500 million in high-growth companies across the software, digital commerce, financial technology, healthcare, and digital infrastructure sectors, has opened a London office to support its investment activity in the UK and Europe.
The London office will serve as Great Hill’s regional hub for the UK and Europe, providing the firm with a dedicated local presence, greater access to investment opportunities, and resources for portfolio companies. Longtime Great Hill Managing Director Drew Loucks will lead the new office and grow the London team.
Great Hill has added
Tiger Global Management slashed the value of its investments in venture funds by about 33% last year, which equates to around $23 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg citing an unnamed source.
Around $9 billion of that markdown by the firm’s venture unit, which is led by Scott Shleifer, came in the second half of 2022, according to the source.
Tiger Global, which also manages hedge and long-only funds, marked down the value of its private funds by almost a quarter in November last year according to an earlier Bloomberg report, while the firm’s hedge and long-only funds lost
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