Managers
Reality television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is teaming up with Jay Sammons, a former partner at Carlyle Group Inc, to launch a SKKY Partners, new private equity firm which will focus on investments in consumer and media businesses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites a joint statement as revealing that the new firm will look to make both contril and minority investments in a range if sectors including consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, and plans to make both control and minority investments.
Kardashian and Sammons will serve as co-managing partners, with Sammons responsible
Foresight Group (Foresight), a leading listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced the opening of its new office in Dublin. This is Foresight’s first office in Ireland and will be located at Carmichael House, 60 Lower Baggot Street.
It is the first of three offices planned to be opened this year, the others being in the UK in Leeds and Newcastle.
The team based in the Dublin office will mainly source, execute and manage investments for the AIB Foresight SME Impact Fund (the fund) as well as support Foresight’s other activities in Ireland. With a cornerstone investment
21.co, the parent company of 21Shares, a global issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs), has raised $25 million in a funding round led by hedge fund Marshall Wace. The round values the business up to $2 billion, making 21.co Switzerland’s largest crypto unicorn.
With this round of financing, 21.co will continue to drive rapid, targeted growth through first-of-their-kind products, key market expansions and strategic talent acquisitions. Other investors in the round include Collab+Currency, Quiet Ventures, ETFS Capital and Valor Equity Partners.
This round was the company’s first raise in over two years. The company ended 2021 on a nine-figure revenue
Thoma Bravo is expanding its presence internationally with the opening of an office in London. The new office will complement the firm’s existing offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami, each of which have recently experienced significant growth.
As part of this expansion, Irina Hemmers will join Thoma Bravo as a Partner to lead and grow the London office and help deepen the firm’s presence across Europe. The London office will serve as the firm’s hub for UK and European deals and will allow Thoma Bravo to further access the region’s rich ecosystem of innovative and fast-growing software and technology
Pantheon, a global private markets investor, has led the launch of the new Asia-Pacific chapter of Initiative Climat International (iCI), a global initiative that seeks to harness the collective efforts of private market participants to address climate change and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon global economy.
Pantheon was the second private equity firm globally to sign up to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2007, while in 2021 we became signatories of both iCI and the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Jie Gong, Pantheon Partner and Co-Chair of its ESG Committee, will chair the
Arcmont Asset Management (Arcmont), a European private debt asset management firm, has strengthened its capabilities in Italy having received regulatory approval for its Milan branch from Consob and the Bank of Italy. This will serve to strengthen Arcmont’s presence in Italy.
COPE Private Equity is planning to launch its fifth fund next year following the full deployment of the current COPE IV Fund which is expected by Q1 2023, according to a report by Deal Street Asia.
The report cites the firm’s founder and managing director Azam Azman as revealing that the the next investment vehicle, COPE V, will be open to businesses in the wider Southeast Asia region with a Malaysian subsidiary or presence, rather than just Malaysian companies.
The target size of the fund has not been revealed but COPE’s current AUM reportedly stands at around $150 million.
Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has expanded its internship programme to provide new opportunities for rising college sophomores.
The new program, built in partnership with the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a network of college-preparatory public charter schools, and The Posse Foundation (Posse), a college success and youth leadership development organisation, advances Vista’s efforts to broaden its recruiting pipeline while also creating career pathways for young people from backgrounds not traditionally represented in asset management.
Vista identified KIPP and Posse as leaders in supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds
KKR has launched the Highways Infrastructure Trust (HIT), a roads infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) in India. The new vehicle is KKR’s third InvIT in India, following the launch of the Virescent Renewable Energy Trust, India’s first renewable energy InvIT, and India Grid Trust, a transmissions InvIT.
Together, these platforms operate and manage 33 assets valued at over $3.8 billion across 22 states or union territories across India.
HIT’s initial portfolio comprises of six roads assets with a total length of more than 450 kilometers across six states in India. The assets, which include a diversified mix of toll and annuity
Arcano Partners, an international alternative asset manager with offices in Europe and the US, has been ranked in the top 10 globally in the HEC Paris-Dow Jones ranking of private equity secondary funds. This list ranks the top PE secondary fund managers globally, in terms of cumulative performance and consistency of funds raised between 2008 and 2017.
The annual HEC Paris-Dow Jones ranking, created by HEC Paris professor Oliver Gottschalg, analyses the returns achieved by private equity managers and their consistency over a decade, both in absolute and relative terms across funds of those vintages.
The 2021 ranking was compiled
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