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By Kristina West – There is no doubt that the fallout from last year’s pandemic-related volatility is continuing to impact the markets – but that does not always result in a negative outlook. Indeed, for private equity markets, it is looking likely to be a record year.
By Kristina West – There is no doubt that the fallout from last year’s pandemic-related volatility is continuing to impact the markets – but that does not always result in a negative outlook. Indeed, for private equity markets, it is looking likely to be a record year.
Mubadala Capital, a wholly owned asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), the Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor, has commenced operations.
Established in 2011, Mubadala Capital has grown significantly in scale over the past decade, and today manages over USD15 billion of assets, including over USD9 billion in third-party capital vehicles on behalf of over 50 institutional investors.
Mubadala Capital, which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and has offices in New York, London, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro, comprises four integrated businesses – private equity, public equities, venture capital, and a Brazil focused business.
While Mubadala Capital is now
Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan, described as “Wall Street’s best-kept secret”, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a legal adviser to investment funds and entrepreneurs, including many pioneers in the funds industry.
Founded by Fred Kleinberg, Myron Kaplan and Norris Wolff in November 1971, with Jim Cohen joining a few months later, Kleinberg Kaplan has grown into a multi-disciplinary firm with more than 100 lawyers and staff. With an international practice, the firm serves the global interests of its clients from an office in New York City, the financial capital of the world.
Since its inception, Kleinberg Kaplan has maintained
Yukon Partners has held the successful final closing of Yukon Capital Partners IV and its associated parallel funds (collectively Fund IV) at USD625,945,000.
Fund IV will provide mezzanine capital to middle market businesses and is a continuation of the strategy from prior funds, most recently Yukon Capital Partners III, a 2017 vintage, USD558,740,000 fund.
Investors in Fund IV include domestic and international pension funds, international banking conglomerates, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, consultants, and family offices. Dorsey & Whitney LLP served as legal counsel and Credit Suisse’s Private Fund Group acted as advisor and exclusive placement agent for Fund IV.
“We
WSO2, a specialist in digital transformation technology, has closed USD90 million in financing from client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit (Goldman Sachs).
The flexible capital solution will be used to accelerate WSO2’s worldwide business expansion, drive growth of the company’s global partner network, and support rollout of its next-generation, cloud-native solutions for securely delivering APIs, applications, and digital services. The new solutions, powered by Ballerina, will offer a seamless blend of low code and pro code experience for enterprises and deliver the power of DevOps and modern SDLC practices including integrated reuse within the organisation and
Trilantic North America, a leading, growth-focused private equity firm, announced today the promotion of Dan Siegman to Managing Director.
Siegman has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s business services practice, most recently leading an investment in digital marketing firm WebFX and launching Tercera, an IT services platform. He is currently a director of Asset Living, Outdoor Living Supply, Tercera and WebFX.
“Dan has contributed tremendous value to our business services team over the years, helping to lead recent investments this year in WebFx and Tercera,” says Charlie Ayres, Chairman and Managing Partner of Trilantic North America. “Beyond
OTA Insight, a specialist in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, has raised USD80 million from Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm focused on internet-enabled software and transformational data companies.
Spectrum Equity joins existing OTA Insight investors Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures. This latest investment will support the company in furthering its mission to enable smarter commercial decisions and outputs across the industry as it expands its global footprint.
OTA Insight delivers powerful data and analytics to optimise commercial decision-making across the hospitality industry. As the industry rebounds in the wake of the global pandemic, many hospitality operators are
Sound Point Capital Management (Sound Point) has acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Lindsay Precast (Lindsay) a North American concrete manufacturer specialising in precast concrete products.
Funding provided by Sound Point was used to support MiddleGround Capital’s (MiddleGround) acquisition of the Company.
Headquartered in Ohio and operating for 50-plus years, Lindsay Precast is a designer and manufacturer of engineered precast concrete structures for water/wastewater, utility, solar, transportation, and government end markets. Lindsay produces sanitary and storm sewer products, electrical and telecom utility products, solar inverter skids and ballast bases, box culverts and bridge
Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, has invested in Sepion, a California-based start-up that specialises in developing batteries with Li-metal anodes and liquid electrolytes.
The USD16 million round was led by Fine Structure Ventures, and also includes other climate tech investors. The company raised funds to accelerate commercialisation of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles.
Li-metal batteries enable high energy density and are strongly sought-after solutions for the electric vehicles market. However, the growth of dendrites can cause the batteries to fail and prevents them from having long life cycles. Sepion’s technology, which is based
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