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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
Asset owners and managers are increasing their investment in Cashflow Driven Investment (CDI) assets, such as Infrastructure, according to data released by RiskFirst covering over GBP1 trillion of assets.
The average allocation to CDI eligible assets, such as infrastructure, private and multi-asset credit, has more than doubled since the beginning of 2018, concludes the study. This trend is driven by increasing allocations to infrastructure investments and a reduction in traditional return-seeking investments, such as equities.
The analysis is based on data drawn from RiskFirst’s risk management platform PFaroe, which has a client base of both asset owners and managers.
This week, Elizabeth Pfeuti looks at how private equity returns continue to meet investor expectations with a recent Preqin survey revealing a satisfaction rating of over 60 per cent. But as she also finds out, not all funds are created equal…
Also this week, we have news of the winners of the inaugural Private Equity Wire USA Awards, which were presented at a ceremony in New York on 25 September. And in the latest in our podcast series, Elias Korosis, Partner at Hermes GPE, discusses the origins of impact investing, how the present day spectrum of strategies has evolved, and
RWC Partners, a UK-based asset management business, has appointed Huan Ke as a new Head of Legal and Compliance.
Ke has over 19 years of experience and joins from Macquarie Asset Management where he spent eight years as Head of Legal (EMEA) for the Macquarie Investment Management and Macquarie Private Credit business divisions.
Ke will join RWC’s London office and have oversight and responsibility of tis global legal and compliance functions.
Wynnchurch Capital has made an investment in Eastern Metal Supply (EMS) a distributor of aluminium extrusions and related products.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Lake Worth, Florida, EMS started with just five employees and has grown to employ approximately 800 today. Their single Florida location has also grown into fourteen nationwide distribution centres and manufacturing facilities, totalling nearly 1.5 million square feet under roof.
“We have built and grown EMS by providing our customers with exceptional service, just-in-time delivery and a wide breadth of value-added products. Wynnchurch shares this commitment and we are excited to partner with them
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