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Ernst & Young (EY) has appointed Mitch Berlin as Vice Chair-Americas Strategy and Transactions. Berlin succeeds William “Bill” Casey, who has led the business since 2016. Berlin had previously served as EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Leader.
The Americas Strategy and Transactions practice helps CEOs and other business leaders drive corporate strategy, capital allocation and transactions advisory through execution, including private equity transactions and value creation strategies.
As Vice Chair, Berlin, who previously served as EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Leader, will be based in New York City and oversee a team of nearly 8,500 EY professionals across the United States, Canada,
Eurazeo has acquired an 80 per cent equity interest in Ikaros Solar, a Belgian solar PV company, from its founders and Capenergie 2, a fund managed by Omnes Capital.
Ikaros Solar is the first investment of Eurazeo’s infrastructure team in line with its mandate to invest in the energy and digital transition and contribute to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. Eurazeo has committed to invest up to EUR45 million.
Ikaros Solar develops, builds, owns and operates rooftop and ground mounted solar PV power plants across Benelux, France, Portugal and the UK. Eurazeo will support the company by providing growth
JP Morgan Asset Management has released its fourth annual Global Alternatives Outlook, providing a 12-to-18 month outlook across every key alternative asset class and highlighting the views of the CEOs, CIOs and strategists from the firm’s USD200 billion-plus alternatives platform.
The report, which features views from the firm’s 18 investment engines across private credit, private equity, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, transportation and timber, encourages investors to consider opportunities presented by megatrends across alternative asset classes as it becomes increasingly difficult to generate stable income-driven returns and alpha through the public markets alone.
The 2022 Global Alternatives Outlook also provides
Alternative assets fund managers, who are currently holding more than USD13 trillion in assets under management (AUM) — continuing the year-on-year growth since 2010 — are expected to hold USD23.21 trillion by the end of 2026, according to Preqin’s 2022 Global Alternatives Reports.
Private equity & venture capital (PEVC) is by far the largest asset class, with AUM estimated to be in excess of USD11 trillion as of December 2026, accounting for almost half (49 per cent) of alternative assets AUM. Private debt is expected to be the fastest-growing alternative asset class over the next five years – with a
Private equity firm Nile Capital Group Holdings has acquired a minority stake in hedge fund manager Welton Investment Partners, according to a report in Pensions & Investments.
Terms of the transaction, which was completed on 15 December, have not been disclosed.
Nile Capital specialises in taking general partners stakes in boutique, niche and diverse money managers, while Welton runs multi-strategy global macro and ESG strategies, as well as systematic trend-following funds for an institutional client base.
ApeVue, a capital markets data company, has launched the first independent, daily pricing data service for pre-IPO stocks.
The service provides daily prices for around 100 non-public companies, including well known unicorns like SpaceX, Impossible Foods and Epic Games, as well as less visible, but significant companies like Addepar, Chime and Discord.
ApeVue uses observable market information, including transactions, bid and offer data and funding details, in its service. The pricing mechanism is objective, transparent, auditable and resembles methodologies standard in other markets such as syndicated loans, structured credit, bonds and derivatives.
Tandem Bank is acquiring fast-growing consumer lender, Oplo to create a ‘fairer, greener’ digital bank for UK consumers.
An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital), a private investment firm focused on defensible businesses in growing markets, has completed the acquisition of Total Transportation Services (TTSI or the Company), a provider of drayage transportation services.
TTSI is the second investment in the supply chain space by a Sun Capital affiliate in 2021 following the June 2021 closing of Century Distribution Systems, a Virginia-based global digital logistics provider offering supply chain management and freight forwarding services.
RElab, an international scale-up programme curated by Goldacre, the venture capital arm of the Noé Group, has selected nine start-ups selected for its 2022 cohort.
The programme is supported by leading industry partners, including Capreon, JCA Engineering,Kier, Knight Frank, Landsec, Lockton, Logifruit, Mace, RSBG, Sacyr and White & Case.
As part of the 14-week programme, start-ups will benefit from curated introductions to decision makers within RElab’s network of industry partners to explore commercial opportunities and receive feedback around scaling and commercialisation of their products. Start-ups also benefit from mentorship, expertise surgeries, investment introductions, as well as an initial GBP100,000
Entrepreneurial Equity Partners (e2p), a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on the food and consumer packaged goods industries, and the Private Equity business of Mubadala Capital, an Abu Dhabi-based asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, have completed an investment in Mercer Foods (Mercer) and Thrive Foods (Thrive).
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