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US-headquartered private equity group Bain Capital has joined KKR in temporarily closing down its London office due to the global coronavirus outbreak after an employee was confirmed to have contracted the virus.
The individual with a confirmed case of Covid-19 has not been in the office in the past 13 days and is recovering well, according to reports.
Bain Capital, which has USD105 billion in assets under management, did not want to comment on when it expects its London office to re-open.
Located in Mayfair, the branch houses 185 employees. Overall, Bain has 19 offices globally with more than 1,000 employees.
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JLL Partners (JLL) has entered into a partnership with Bart Doedens, a specialist in the biomedical industry, to form Renovo Health, which seeks to buy, build, and develop materials technologies to provide a platform for improved efficacy across a spectrum of medical and dental procedures while offering an opportunity for near-term expansion. Renovo Health will focus on partnering with existing best-in-class operators, leveraging its deep expertise and organisational capabilities to facilitate organic growth as well as through the development of complementary offerings, operational improvement initiatives, and strategic mergers and acquisitions. JLL Partners has initially committed USD100 million to capitalise Renovo Health
Low interest rates and favourable debt markets have made it easier for private equity firms to pick up market-leading IT businesses, according to the. latest IT & Business Services M&A market report from Hampleton Partners, an international technology mergers and acquisitions adviser.The report highlights how PE buyers have grown their share of the sector’s M&A activity to 15 per cent of all transactions in 2019, compared to just under five percent in 2014.
PE firms armed with record amounts of capital are making big investments in the nine – or ten-digit range pushing up median deal sizes.
In 2018, the
Astarte Capital Partners, a specialist co-investment platform focusing on the real assets space, has closed its current fundraise and is contributing a percentage of its profits to Beyond Capital’s impact investment efforts.Beyond Capital Fund is a nonprofit fund that invests in companies to help improve the lives of people living below the poverty line in East Africa and India,
“When we launched Beyond Capital 11 years ago, we envisioned this exact arrangement with an aligned stakeholder,” said Eva Yazhari, Co-Founder and CEO of Beyond Capital. “Astarte Capital Partners is that most ideal collaborator — an institutional donor that believes
FundRock Management Company will launch a new operation that helps international institutional investors getting access to alternative asset classes, including private equity.
Through a partnership with Jean Edouard Mazery, FundRock is set to drive expansion into the French private equity real estate sector.
While already managing French funds under the Freedom to Provide Services passport regime, FundRock has decided to bolster its presence in France by establishing a newly created French AIFM based in Paris, named “FundRock France AM”, subject to prior authorisation from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
“We are excited about our expansion into France, which underlines
UK private equity fund Elaghmore has appointed Jon Rawlings and Michael Rice as investment directors, expanding its team to nine.
Rawlings spent more than 15 years at KPMG, working across a number of divisions in both commercial director and COO roles, before joining Elaghmore. His background also includes identifying underlying performance drivers in businesses and implementing changes to drive productivity.
Rice previously spent close to ten years at private equity investor Leeds-based Endless LLP. He has worked on multiple mid-market UK private equity projects and helped to realise the strategic value in a range of investee companies. Most recently, he
Global investment firm KKR has appointed Chee-Wei Wong as Head of Global Impact for Asia.KKR Global Impact is focused on identifying and investing behind global opportunities where financial performance and societal impact are intrinsically aligned. The business specifically focuses on companies whose core business models provide commercial solutions that contribute measurable progress toward one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Chee-Wei brings a wealth of sustainability-related investment experience in Asia and globally, in line with KKR Global Impact’s own mission. This valuable expertise will be essential as we continue to build the firm’s Impact business across
DeepCrawl, a cloud-based technical SEO platform, has raised USD19 million in a Series B funding round with Five Elms Capital and Beringea. The round is being led by Five Elms, a growth equity and venture capital firm focused on B2B software companies. To date, DeepCrawl has raised USD25.8 million through angel investments from Beaumont Capital and Series A funding led by Beringea. This latest funding round will primarily be used for R&D and investing in sales and marketing to drive greater market penetration in the US.
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With the UK government on the cusp of asking even mildly sick employees to work from home, KKR has closed down its two London offices due to a confirmed case of Covid-19.
Universtone, a global private equity real estate investment and development firm has invested in Bondstone, a private equity real estate investment and asset management firm focused on the Portuguese market.
Bondstone was formed by Paulo Loureiro, a Portuguese real estate entrepreneur and a former executive director at Morgan Stanley in New York.
With offices in Lisbon and Porto, Bondstone plans to deploy a total investment of EUR400 million by the end of 2021, by co-investing with prominent investors in value-add and opportunistic strategies in the commercial and residential sectors. The strategies will include development, refurbishment and repositioning projects.
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