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Carlyle has appointed Ryan Selwood, former Head of Direct Private Equity at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), as Managing Director and Chief Development Officer.
In this newly created position, Selwood will be involved in a range of investment and management activities across Carlyle, working alongside many in leadership to drive major priorities including growth initiatives and corporate M&A. He also will serve on Investment Committees across all segments of the firm, including our Corporate Capital Commitments Committee. Ryan will join Carlyle on 1 January, 2022, reporting to CEO Kewsong Lee.
“We are thrilled to welcome Ryan to the
London-based conversational media platform Octaive has raised GBP500k in an angel investment round. Backed by high profile industry leaders, the funding round is the first external investment by the two year old creative technology startup, which has seen revenues more than double in the past year.
Octaive’s ‘conversational media’ technology generates ‘active attention’ through conversations between consumers and brands within standard display and video inventory. This means users are highly engaged in two-way conversations without having to click through to the brand’s site, whilst providing agencies and brands with vital consumer data and insights.
The privacy-first solution has been in
Axonic Capital, a New York-based structured credit, commercial real estate and systematic fixed income specialist with USD4.6 billion in assets under management, has appointed Vlad Kotov as a Portfolio Manager for the Axonic Systematic Arbitrage Strategy.
Kotov will report to Deniz Cicek, Head Portfolio Manager for the Systematic Strategy.
Kotov has over a decade of experience as a quantitative portfolio manager. Prior to joining Axonic, Kotov was a Macro Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management, where he managed a portfolio with a focus on quantitative relative value strategies in FX and interest rates volatility.
“We are very pleased to welcome
Riata Capital Group (RCG) (Riata), a Dallas-based private equity investment firm, has closed a GP-led secondary transaction (the Transaction) for its portfolio company AEG Vision (AEG), an owner and operator of over 235 eyecare practices throughout North America.
The Transaction allows RCG to return capital to certain existing investors while providing AEG with substantial growth capital to execute its long-term strategy. Investment funds, managed by Morgan Stanley’s secondaries group, led the Transaction.
Since RCG formed AEG in 2017 through the simultaneous acquisition of three regional eyecare groups, AEG has scaled to become one of the largest buy-and-build optometry platforms
Vista Credit Partners (VCP), a strategic credit investor and financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data and technology markets within Vista Equity Partners (Vista), has completed the final close of Vista Credit Partners Fund III (VCPF III), the latest iteration of its Flagship Credit Fund family.
VCPF III closed at USD2.3 billion, USD800 million in excess of its original USD1.5 billion target, with capital commitments from a diverse group of limited partners including US public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporations, insurance companies, funds of funds, endowments, foundations, family offices and other investors.
VCP seeks to capitalise
Construction Partners, a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company specialising in the construction and maintenance of roadways across five southeastern states, has acquired King Asphalt (King), a full-service hot-mix asphalt and paving company headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina.
With three hot-mix asphalt plants in the Greenville, South Carolina metro area, King provides asphalt contracting services for a variety of public, commercial and residential projects.
Fred J (Jule) Smith, III, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, says: “We are pleased to welcome King Asphalt to the Construction Partners family of companies. Under the continuing leadership of Mike Crenshaw and his talented
BGF has successfully exited Yorkshire-headquartered bakery business, Cooplands.
BGF backed the 135-year-old family business with a GBP8.5 million investment in December 2017, supplemented with GBP7.7 million follow-on funding in November 2020. Working with Paul Coopland, BGF has supported the business’ succession planning, helping to identify and recruit Belinda Youngs as CEO.
Youngs joined in 2019 with more than two decades’ experience in the grocery retail sector in the UK and Canada, including senior roles at Sobeys, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. Belinda has been supported by David Salkeld who was introduced by BGF’s Talent Network as non-executive chair in 2018. Ciara
ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments Limited, a Mauritius-regulated infrastructure fund manager and parent company of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited Nigeria, has launched the ARM-Harith Cities and Climate Transition Fund (The ACT Fund), endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab).
The USD250 million-target fund has been designed in collaboration with the Lab, a public-private partnership initiative funded by the Dutch, German, Swedish and UK governments, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation.
The ACT Fund represents a pillar of ARM-Harith’s sustainable infrastructure investment platform and will invest in urban climate infrastructure solutions with an initial focus on renewable energy, urban
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a Washington, DC-area private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions.
The Company will now operate independently as Stellant Systems (Stellant), a standalone platform for Arlington in the mission-critical defence electronics market. The transaction is occurring in partnership with current business unit leadership.
The Company is a market-leading provider of RF amplification products for the space, electronic warfare, radar, medical, scientific and industrial end markets. With a multi-generational legacy supporting the most important military and intelligence programs, as well as addressing some of the most complicated technical
By Sushma Kaushik, Partner at Aavishkaar Capital – Globally, Gender Lens Investing (or GLI) is gaining interest as more investors and financial institutions are adopting this as part of their investment strategy. Gender Lens Investing is very simply, an investment strategy that factors in gender analysis to advance equality and redress the gender imbalance within businesses.
Of 7.87 billion people in the world, ~50 per cent are women, yet their contribution to the economy is low, especially in emerging economies. In India women form 24 per cent of the work force and contribute a mere 18 per cent to the
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