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Ares Management Corporation (Ares) and Fidante Partners (Fidante) have established a strategic joint venture to coordinate the marketing and investment management of retail and institutional investor capital from Australia and New Zealand for Ares’ various Credit, Private Equity and Real Estate strategies.
To support the joint venture, the two companies have formed Ares Australia Management (AAM), which will act as the investment manager for new investment vehicles specifically structured for investors in Australia and New Zealand.
AAM will be well positioned to benefit from the long-term trends and structural advantages driving increased demand for alternative investment products in the
Are LPs looking to move tactically out of certain PE investments to free up liquidity ahead of concerns over a market slowdown? And if so, is this creating a good opportunity for Secondary investors to pick up LP interests at a healthy discount?
Both General Partners and Limited Partners in private equity funds increasingly see the merits to using the secondaries market, which continues to deepen and provide various liquidity solutions. Last year, market volume grew to USD79.7 billion and is “on track to reach USD100 billion this year”, according to Cari Lodge (pictured), Head of Secondaries at Commonfund Capital.
PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, has entered into an agreement with Liquidnet’s RSRCHXchange a marketplace and aggregator of institutional research, to offer PitchBook clients access to RSRCHXchange’s extensive marketplace of institutional broker research in 2020.
RSRCHXchange’s virtual library will be accessible through PitchBook’s Research Center, which includes PitchBook’s best-in-class research on private asset classes and emerging technology sectors as well as Morningstar equity research. Together, PitchBook and RSRCHXchange will create one of the most comprehensive online research marketplaces covering both the private and public financial markets. Additionally, this integration enables RSRCHXchange providers to easily extend
Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services, has expanded its senior team in London with appointment of a Business Development Director and Head of Client Services.
Kristina Rowe brings over 20 years of financial services experience to Ocorian, joining from State Street where she worked in the private equity and real estate fund administration business, as well as the EMEA Strategy Chief Administrative Office. As Director, Head of Client Services (UK) she is responsible for delivering services to corporate and institutional clients, alternative investment funds, corporate trustee clients and private clients.
Rowe says: “I’m delighted to have
Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Luxembourg. Together with Goodwin’s existing London-based Luxembourg desk, the new office will serve as a single solution for the firm’s global clients raising and deploying capital in Europe.
“With a market-leading funds practice in the United States and Europe, and now an on-the-ground presence in Luxembourg to augment our well-established, London-based Luxembourg desk, Goodwin is uniquely positioned to serve multi-national financial institutions, fund sponsors and asset managers looking to do business in this favoured international jurisdiction,” says Rob Insolia, Chairman of Goodwin. “As the firm at the confluence of capital
RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) and Reverence Capital Partners (Reverence) have closed on their acquisition of Vida Capital (Vida), an alternative asset management platform specialising in non-correlated investment strategies.
Vida’s President and CEO, Jeff Serra, along with members of the management team, invested alongside RedBird and Reverence in the transaction. The proposed transaction obtained the necessary regulatory approvals and received overwhelming support from the investors in Vida’s various funds.
Serra says: “Our management team and employees are extremely pleased to have reached the closing of this transaction. We have been looking forward to this day and to working with our
Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, an private equity firm focused on making direct investments in unconventional oil and gas assets in the US, has held the final closing of Kimmeridge Energy Fund V at its USD800 million hard cap.
Fund V was twice the size of Fund IV and oversubscribed. Inclusive of prior fundraises and co-investments, Kimmeridge has raised approximately USD2.8 billion of limited partner commitments since the firm’s founding in 2012.
Fund V is focused on continuing Kimmeridge’s strategy of directly acquiring and developing unconventional assets in top-tier basins. The fund received support from institutional investors including endowments, foundations,
HKW, a middle-market private equity firm focused on growth-oriented companies, has held the final closing of HKW Capital Partners V (HKW V) with total commitments of USD365 million. Launched in September 2017, HKW V exceeded its original USD350 million target.
Commitments to HKW V came from a diverse group of both existing and new investors, including institutional investors, insurance companies, state pension plans, family offices, high net worth individuals, and foundations and endowments. As with its predecessor funds, HKW V will focus on investments in middle-market growth companies with a target EBITDA of USD5-USD30 million. HKW will seek to invest
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over USD34 billion of equity capital under management, has made a significant growth investment in Circle Graphics Holdings, a provider of made-to-order wall décor and branded out-of-home visual solutions.
Headquartered near Denver, CO, Circle Graphics produces best-in-class digital graphics for consumers, professionals, and businesses through two distinct divisions: Online Wall Décor and Out-of-Home Visual Solutions. The Company’s Online Wall Décor segment enables consumers and professional photographers to procure customised photos and pre-designed art images via wholly-owned direct-to-consumer websites and market-leading reseller relationships. Circle Graphics’ Out-of-Home Visual Solutions
HC Private Investments (HCPI), a Chicago-based private investment firm, and Landon Capital Partners (LCP), a Boston-based family office, have launched Evolution Managers Capital (Evolution), a platform for emerging private equity managers to launch their own investment efforts.
Evolution will provide emerging managers with committed capital to fund operating expenses and investments.
HCPI Managing Partners, John Kelly and Matthew Moran, and LCP Managing Partner, Chris Sullivan, will lead the platform. Evolution will provide financial backing and support to private equity managers, who like HCPI and LCP, are focused on lower-middle market transactions with targeted deal sizes ranging from USD20 to
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