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BlackRock has held the final close of Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (GEPIF III) at USD5.1 billion, making it the largest alternative investment fundraise in BlackRock history. The final close value also exceeded both the original Fund target of USD3.5 billion and the original hard cap of USD4.5 billion.
“This milestone is a testament to BlackRock’s focus on helping clients achieve better investment outcomes,” says Edwin Conway, Global Head of BlackRock Alternative Investors. “Investors are looking to build resilience into their portfolios and ballast against equity market shocks by increasing their allocations to less correlated exposures in private markets.
Arbour Lane Capital Management, a private registered investment adviser focused primarily on opportunistic credit and special situation investments, has held the final closing of Arbour Lane Credit Opportunity Fund II at its hard cap of USD1.2 billion in capital commitments, exceeding its initial target of USD750 million.The Fund focuses on secured bank loans in mid-size structures and out of favor investments at the top of the capital structure, primarily senior secured debt and/or other first lien securities.
Arbour Lane’s management team has experience of credit investing and managing risk for over 20 years.
Cathay Capital has appointed Ricky Roman as a Vice President in the firm’s North American Private Equity team in New York.Reporting to Mark Woods, Partner and Head of North American Private Equity, Roman will be an integral part of the New York team, helping North American companies grow in their home markets and globalise by expanding their reach into China and Europe.
Prior to his masters, Roman was a Senior Associate at Wexford Capital LP, an opportunistic fund manager focused on direct middle-market private equity and public equity investments. While at Wexford, he closed a number of platform and growth equity
Growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners has completed the sale of Clearpool Group, a New York-based electronic trading provider and independent agency broker-dealer, to BMO Financial Group. The deal is Edison’s third institutional fintech exit to a strategic buyer this year, which also includes the sale of Scivantage to Refinitiv and Solovis to Nasdaq, and is the second portfolio company exit between Edison and Clearpool CEO Joe Wald.
The acquisition of Clearpool is set to deliver new capabilities to BMO’s electronic trading platform, as the nature of equity trading continues to move online. Clearpool will remain a separate brand under BMO and
Financial advisory firm Lazard has hired Christopher Mallon as a senior adviser, effective immediately. Mallon has more than 30 years of restructuring advisory experience, serving in senior roles advising a number of companies. Mallon worked most recently as a senior restructuring partner at the global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
As a senior adviser, Mallon will provide strategic counsel to Lazard’s global restructuring practice and its clients across industry groups. Based in London, he will work closely with Cyrus Kapadia, UK CEO of financial advisory, and Richard Stables and David Burlison, restructuring managing directors, as well as Lazard’s
Perwyn, BGF, MMC Ventures and Joe Wicks have led a GBP 33 million funding round into recipe box company Gousto. The additional funding takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP130 million in the last eight years. The company aims to have put over 400 million meals on tables by 2025.
Crypto Finance has completed a Series B investment round, raising CHF14 million in new funding from a consortium of investors.
GP Bullhound has acted as exclusive financial advisor to EDITED on a USD29 million growth investment from Wavecrest Growth and Beringea.
Maven Capital Partners and Guinness AM have led a GBP10 million funding round for Push Technology, a real-time data streaming and messaging provider.
Axcel has acquired a controlling stake in Norwegian SaaS CRM provider SuperOffice.
SuperOffice is Axcel VI’s first investment, and the firm will control the majority of SuperOffice’s shares. The company is being acquired from the founder’s family, Visma, and key employees. The current management team will reinvest in the business alongside Axcel.
“As a business majority-owned by the founding family, SuperOffice has maintained its unique down-to-earth culture and has enjoyed continued success for over 30 years,” said Gisle Jentoft, CEO of SuperOffice.
“By always having the customer at the heart of the development process, SuperOffice has successfully transitioned to a
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