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Kirkland & Ellis has advised Starwood Capital Group on the acquisition of a 29.42 per cent stake in London-listed RDI Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) from South African investor Redefine. The shares will be bought from Redefine for an aggregate sale consideration of GBP106.3 million, representing GBP0.95 per share.
The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Mark Thompson and Matthew Elliott; real estate finance partner Jonathan Birks; tax partner Jonathan Kandel and antitrust and competition partner Mark Gardner.
Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, today announced the first and final closings of two funds with combined capital commitments of USD2.2 billion. Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund III closed at its hard cap with EUR1.1 billion in total commitments and will target equity investments between EUR20 and EUR70 million in Europe-based companies. Summit Partners Venture Capital Fund V also closed at its hard cap with USD1.0 billion in commitments and will target equity investments of USD10 to USD60 million in growth stage companies based primarily in North America. Both funds were significantly oversubscribed.
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Inflexion has supported the expansion of its portfolio company Alcumus via two acquisitions in the UK and North America.
MVI Advisors (MVI) has held the first closing of its second private equity fund, MVI Fund II AB (Fund II) with commitments of SEK688 million. The Fund has a target of SEK1 billion.The Fund will continue to execute the successful strategy implemented by MVI since 2011, through buyout investments in high-quality, small companies in the Nordic region.
Fund II will target control investments in companies that have solid fundamentals, show potential for strong organic growth, lend themselves to buy-and-build strategies and are positioned to take advantage of sustainable industry trends.
MVI has recently completed the investment period of
Mourant has advised private investment house and longstanding client, Ardian, on its eighth-generation secondaries fund. The platform has attracted USD19 billion of commitments from investors globally. The programme, which includes USD5 billion of co-investment interests, significantly exceeds the USD14 billion raised for Ardian’s seventh generation platform in 2016.
The fundraise highlights how the secondaries market has matured to become an important source of liquidity for investors, including insurance companies, pension funds and family offices, as they look to re-balance private equity portfolios and seek yield opportunities for savers.
The fund attracted 275 investors from nearly 40 countries across the Americas, Europe,
Unigestion, an independent specialist asset manager, has completed the third closing of its direct investment vehicle, Unigestion Direct II, taking the total size of the programme to EUR375 million (EUR600 million final target size). The fund has also finalised its second investment.
In addition, the firm the firm completed the first closing of its secondary investment vehicle, Unigestion Secondary V, with total commitments of EUR 228m (EUR700 million final target size).
The success of these closings reflects the investor appetite for exposure to direct and secondary deals at the small end of the private equity market in the current economic
WilliamsMarston, an accounting advisory and management consulting firm focused on serving public, private equity-backed and pre-IPO companies, has added Mark LaMonte to the firm’s New York leadership team as a Managing Director. “We are thrilled to welcome Mark to our leadership team in New York. We are absolutely confident that Mark’s extensive accounting, finance and capital markets experience will be a valuable resource to our clients and our teams as we further expand our capabilities and geographic footprint,” says Landen Williams, Partner at WilliamsMarston. “Mark’s experience at both Moody’s and KPMG, will provide invaluable expertise to our clients on a
Unison, a provider of procurement, supply chain, and contract management software to Federal government agencies and government contractors, has been acquired by global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), and Unison management. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Carlyle previously owned the business from 2005 to 2010.
Unison’s solutions help government agencies and contractors navigate the complex rules and compliance requirements of procurement and grants, program management and contract lifecycle management. All of Unison’s solutions are available via the cloud, allowing clients to implement solutions quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively.
“We are pleased to re-join the Carlyle
CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), a Dallas-based private equity firm, has made six promotions, including two additional Managing Partners, effective 1 July, 2020.Lucas Cutler and Jason Sutherland have joined CenterOak’s CEO and Founder, Randall Fojtasek, as Managing Partners. Eric Holter, Blake Richardson and Carrie Hamilton have all been promoted to Principal, and Mark Izlar has been elevated to Senior Associate.
Fojtasek says: “CenterOak has a large team of talented and dedicated professionals who work tirelessly and productively for our investors and portfolio companies. In particular, Lucas Cutler and Jason Sutherland have worked alongside me for almost 20 years. During that time, they
BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growth businesses, has invested in Juriba, an migration software provider, to accelerate product development and drive international scale.
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