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Cinven, a UK buyout firm, has hired ex-Blackstone executive, Julia Kahr, as partner and head of North America.
Kahr previously worked as senior managing director at Blackstone for just under 20 years.
She holds degrees from both Yale and Harvard Business School.
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has agreed to sell Solenergi Power Private Limited, the flagship company for its Sprng Energy platforms (Sprng), one of India’s largest renewable energy companies, to Shell Overseas Investments (Shell) for $1.55 billion.
Sprng Energy supplies solar and wind power to electricity distribution companies in India.
Sprng is an Actis Energy 4 fund investment. In October 2021 Actis announced its latest fund, Actis Energy 5, had closed with US$6 billion of investable capital, which will be used to mobilise further capital towards the global energy transition.
The transaction is subject to regulatory clearance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Freshfields) has appointed Rebecca Ward, a private equity specialist, as a partner in the firm’s Financial Sponsors group.
Ward will further strengthen Freshfields’ world-class Financial Sponsor offering, which is one of the firm’s core growth areas and experiencing growing client demand. She brings significant experience advising some of the most sophisticated private equity firms on complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Ward will join Freshfields after seventeen years at Dickson Minto, a boutique law firm specialising in private equity, where she spent the last nine years as partner.
Developing World Markets (DWM), a US-based investment manager with more than two decades of experience deploying capital to address the social, environmental, and economic needs of the developing world, has promoted Suma Swaminathan to Director, Private Equity.
Swaminathan joined DWM’s PE team in 2017 and has overseen the Asia-Africa region, working with Aleem Remtula, partner, co-head of DWM’s private equity practice.
Prior to joining DWM, Swaminathan was a senior valuation consultant at Empire Valuation Consultants, a boutique consulting firm in NYC. She started her career in data analysis at Infosys Ltd, where she focused on financial services clients and their
Ten fund managers active in Africa’s tech space have been selected from across the continent for the LAUNCH Capital Provider Fellowship Program, facilitated by the Collaborative for Frontier Finance (CFF), with the main objective of further advancing the capacity of these local capital providers (LCPs) to raise institutional capital.
LCPs are first time fund managers based in market which can be a person or entity helping finance and allocate capital to businesses.
The LCPs are locally based fund managers or emerging capital allocators who are investing between $50k-$500k in tech or tech enabled, small and growing businesses. The majority of
DigitalBridge Investments, an affiliate of DigitalBridge Group, is to acquire AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity investment management business, part of its Collimate Capital subsidiary, in a transaction valued at $328 million, comprising upfront payments for the management platform, fund sponsor investments, and retained performance fees, plus potential contingent payments based on certain future performance thresholds.
AMP Capital’s international infrastructure equity platform comprises four investment funds with $5.5 billion in fee-earning assets under management, including the $3.4 billion Global Infrastructure Fund II (GIF II) and $1.4 billion Global Infrastructure Fund I (GIF I).
City law firm Bates Wells has appointed Nirav Patel as a partner in its Corporate practice, where he will strengthen the firm’s M&A advisory offering and bring a wealth of experience in advising ESG-focused companies.
Patel joins from the London office of law firm, Michelmores, where he was a senior associate. He has 10 years’ experience advising financial institutions such as private equity funds, UK and foreign government-backed funds and development finance organisations.
Patel specialises in M&A and private equity investments, including corporate real estate transactions, and acquisitions and disposals of corporate vehicles. He has also worked extensively in corporate
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) is looking to assuage LP frustrations through a guidance report, with proposed SEC regulations in the background, as the relationship between some GPs and their LPs grows increasingly strained…
Symmetrical.ai has raised $18.5 million in a Series A financing round led by Target Global.
ZEDRA, a global specialist in Global Expansion and Corporate Services, Active Wealth and Fund Solutions has acquired Atlas Fund Services, a privately held, fully licensed investment fund administrator.
The deal is subject to regulatory approval by the Centrale Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS).
Founded in 2006, Atlas Fund Services provides long-term, tailored, and reliable alternative investment fund services to US-based investment managers from its office in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as family offices and investment managers located in Europe, US, Brazil, and throughout Latin America from its office in Willemstad, Curaçao. Its client base includes emerging and
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