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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.
Alternative asset and corporate business services provider SANE, has appointed Catherine Law as Head of Business Development for the Asia Region. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Downing Ventures has appointed Warren Rogers as a Partner. Prior to joining Downing Ventures, Rogers was a Ventures Partner at Airbus, where he led investments in various sectors related to aerospace, defence, and space technology. Rogers brings much of this experience to the Downing Ventures team, with his new role focusing on early-stage deep tech companies in quantum, cyber, enterprise, and materials.
In addition to his experience working with entrepreneurs, Rogers has also been an entrepreneur himself, having founded and successfully exited trading tech business, RHI Group, and also founding DeepWell Ventures, an early stage deep technology investor based in Austin, Texas,
Andera Partners has completed the single closing of its ActoMezz IV sponsorless mezzanine fund, exceeding its initial hard cap of EUR500 million. This new fund, raised in record time despite the Covid-19 crisis, is the largest completed to date by Andera Partners and 60 per cent bigger than the previous ActoMezz vehicle, which also saw a single closing above its initial hard cap in July 2017, at EUR315 million.
Investors in ActoMezz III showed strong support for the team and its strategy through a re-up of more than 110 per cent. Ten or so new leading French and international institutional investors
Forge Global has expanded it’s presence on Hong Kong to provide regional professional investors with access to shares of high-growth private technology companies, a large market comprising more than 473 unicorns worldwide with a combined market value of USD1.4 trillion. The global expansion follows the company’s announcement that it signed an agreement to join forces with SharesPost – creating one of the largest global private securities marketplaces. The combined company under the Forge brand has recorded over $6 billion in global transaction volume.
“As the number of global unicorns continues to increase and as high-growth companies are staying private longer, the
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