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Latham & Watkins has advised PAI Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) in connection with the sale of a majority stake in Refresco, one of the world’s largest independent beverage contract manufacturers, to KKR.
juli, an AI-powered digital health platform focused on managing complex chronic conditions, has secured USD3.8 million in a seed funding round.
The round was led by Speedinvest, one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital firms, and Norrsken VC, a fund investing in start-ups solving the world’s biggest problems while building massive businesses.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Emerge Program and Dieter Von Holtzbrinck Ventures also joined the financing round.
With a vision rooted in improving care for chronic conditions, the financing will enable juli to scale its commercial team across the US, conduct clinical trials of the app, and acquire additional
Longpoint Partners (Longpoint), a Boston-based real estate investment company, has closed its joint venture with Brookfield through its Real Estate Secondaries business.
The joint venture has recapitalised a USD700-million, 3.8 million sq ft national logistics portfolio that was held in one of Longpoint’s closed-end funds. Longpoint will maintain an interest in the portfolio and continue to manage the day-to-day operations.
The portfolio comprises 31 high quality logistics assets located in supply-constrained infill locations in high-growth markets including New Jersey, DC, Dallas, South Florida, and Boston. The assets are approximately 97 per cent leased to a diversified roster of over
Kirkland & Ellis has advised Australian private equity firm BGH Capital on the successful closing of its second vintage flagship private equity fund, BGH Capital Fund II, at approximately AUSD3.6 billion, making it the largest-ever private equity vehicle raised for deployment in Australia and New Zealand.
The fund was oversubscribed with a broad mix of global institutional investors, including sovereigns, pensions, endowments and fund of funds.
Kirkland also represented BGH Capital in raising its debut fund, BGH Capital Fund I, which was the largest first-time fund raised for Australia and New Zealand at AUD2.6 billion in 2018.
Atlas Venture, an early stage venture capital firm investing in biotech innovation, has closed its thirteenth fund, raising USD450 million in an oversubscribed fundraise.
With Fund XIII, Atlas Venture will continue working alongside talented entrepreneurs to create and invest in a new set of biotech companies aimed at delivering impactful medicines to patients.
Atlas Venture has been building and investing in innovative biotech startups for more than two decades. Since 2015, Atlas Venture has raised over USD2 billion and has created and/or invested in over 50 biotech companies. In addition to Fund XIII, Atlas is also investing from Opportunity Fund
Aruwa Capital Management (Aruwa), an early-stage growth equity and gender lens fund investing in Nigeria and Ghana has invested in Koolboks, a technology-enabled renewable energy refrigeration company that provides cost-effective cooling to business owners, particularly women, in off-grid areas in Nigeria and globally.
The Company makes eco-friendly refrigeration affordable and accessible to everyone.
Established in 2018, the Company’s founders created a product to provide affordable and energy efficient refrigerators to customers. This solution is critical for the African continent where refrigeration penetration rate is currently only at 17 per cent and 770 million people are without access to electricity. In
InvestX Capital Ltd (InvestX), a private equity marketplace that allows broker-dealers to invest in pre-IPO companies through its GEM (Growth Equity Marketplace) platform, has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointments of Jonathan A Clark, as President, USA, and Dan Sanders, as Executive Vice President, Private Markets.
Together, these leaders will support the company’s growth and further enhance its ability to provide sell-side broker-dealers access to the growing private markets space.
Clark, is the former Co-Head of the Equity Trading desk of BlackRock’s Americas business. He then went on to lead Luminex where he served most recently as
Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, has promoted two of its lawyers in Asia, Andrew Wood and Josie Ainley, to Partners in the firm’s Asia Funds & Investment management practice.
Andrew’s practice focuses on investment funds for Asian clients and includes advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds.
Ainley meanwhile, focuses on investment funds for international clients advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds, including extensive regulatory advice.
Notably, the firm’s Asia Funds & Investment Management practice led
Private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has completed the sale of Alpaca Audiology (Alpaca), a US-based independent audiology clinic group, to Sonova Holding AG.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Alpaca comprises 13 regional brands, operating in more than 220 clinics across the country.
Stellus Capital Management has reported significant year-over-year increases in capital deployed and capital committed, as well as a considerable increase in the firm’s total number of investments.
In 2021, Stellus deployed USD761 million of new capital, a year-over-year increase of 122 per cent, and committed USD870 million of new capital, a 155 per cent year-over-year increase.
Stella’s also I=increased its number of new portfolio investments by 39 per cent year-over-year, and reached USD2.4 billion in assets under management, as of 1 February, 2022.
Stellus was founded in 2012 when it was spun out of the Direct Capital Unit of
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