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Ufenau Capital Partners has held the final close of Ufenau VI German Asset Lights – plus parallel funds – at EUR560 million hard cap.
Ufenau Capital Partners is a small cap private equity firm investing in German-speaking Europe. It invests predominantly in succession situations of asset light businesses in the sectors business services, healthcare, education & lifestyle and financial services. Such profitable business models will be further augmented by both organic growth initiatives and a systematic buy and build approach which has led to strong investment results.
In the course of the past six years since its first institutional
Pulse Evolution Group, a developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for entertainment, mixed reality and artificial intelligence, has launched its Asia equity capital campaign with a USD1 million lead investment from Tsang’s Group of Hong Kong.
Tsang’s Group and its investors have acquired 88,636 shares of common shares of Pulse Evolution Group at a purchase price of USD11.28 per share. The Company has also granted Tsang’s Group and its investors warrants to acquire an additional 200,000 common shares, subject to exercise prices of between USD11.00 and USD13.50 per share, or USD11.31 on a weighted average basis, payable in cash at any time
Mid-market private equity firm Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the final closing of Nautic Partners IX (Nautic IX) at the fund’s hard cap of USD1.5 billion in limited partner commitments. The fund was oversubscribed due to strong support from both existing and new institutional investors.
“We are pleased by the level of support and confidence from our limited partners,” says Allan Petersen, Managing Director of Investor Relations at Nautic. “We believe the success of this fundraise is a strong endorsement of our history of delivering long-term results, as well as the strength of our team, our specialised sector expertise, and
BGF has appointed Grant Paul-Florence to lead its London investment team.
Paul-Florence joins from Octopus Investments, where he was Head of Intermediate Capital for five years, responsible for a GBP150 million fund focused on investing in smaller businesses. He brings extensive investment and multi-sector portfolio management experience to the role, as well as experience in building a successful team of investors and developing internal talent.
Prior to Octopus Investments, Paul-Florence held investment roles at Levine Leichtman Capital Partners and AAC Capital Partners.
Paul-Florence will lead a team of 18 investors in BGF’s growing London team, reporting to Gavin
HSBC Private Banking has closed the latest in a series of private equity offerings through which it offers suitable high and ultra-high net worth clients access to alternative investments.
Clients had the opportunity to invest in the Asian buyout market, with a focus on mid- and large-cap buyouts and corporate partnering transactions, through a feeder vehicle to The Baring Private Equity Fund VII offered by Baring Private Equity Asia, one of Asia’s largest alternative investment managers.
Working in partnership with HSBC Global Asset Management (AMG), HSBC Private Banking was the only global private bank offering access to this investment
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been selected by Altor to provide administration and depositary services to Altor Fund V, a fund domiciled in Sweden and whose Manager is regulated as an AIFM by the Swedish Financial Services Authority.
Focused on investing in and developing mid-market companies in Europe, with a particular focus on the Nordic and German-speaking DACH regions, Fund V was substantially oversubscribed, reaching its hard cap target of EUR2.5 billion in a single closing.
Fund V will have a 15-year investment term. Investments will generally be made in private companies with revenues
Novalpina Capital has held the final closing of its first fund, Novalpina Capital Partners I SCSp, with total commitments in excess of its target of EUR1 billion.
Novalpina Capital is an independent European private equity firm that invests in middle market companies. The firm was founded by Stephen Peel, Stefan Kowski and Bastian Lueken in 2017. The founding partners bring more than 50 years of combined experience in private equity investing, having held senior positions in the European operations of firms including TPG, Centerbridge and Platinum Equity, and worked together for nearly a decade at TPG.
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CEPRES, a provider of Private Equity, Private Debt and Real Asset analytics solutions, was recently honoured with two prestigious awards as Best Data Management Solutions Provider and Best Risk Management Software Provider by Private Equity Wire readers.
This follows on from last year’s win for Best Portfolio Management Solution for Private Markets.
The Private Equity Wire Global Awards are based on independent voting by Private Equity Wire readers. CEPRES won ‘Best Data Management Solution Provider’ for its PE.Analyzer Investment Decision Platform, and also won ‘Best Risk Management Software Provider’ for its PE.Forecast Risk Management Software.
CEPRES provides solutions to Institutional
Spanish lower mid-market firm GED Capital has reached a EUR100 million first close for its new private equity vehicle GED VI España. The fund, which was registered with the National Securities Commission (CNMV) earlier this month, has a target size of EUR175 million.
All of the LPs in GED’s latest fund invested in the predecessor vehicle, including insurance companies, mutual funds and family offices. GED VI España follows the same strategy than its predecessor, deploying equity tickets of between EUR15 million and EUR20 million in companies with EUR3 million to EUR7 million Ebitdas.
The fund expects to make between
China Synergy Fund, co-managed by CICC Capital and TPG, has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Impala to acquire Electropoli, a leading provider of surface treatment services in Europe, notably for the automotive industry.
Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, President of Silk Road Fund Wang Yanzhi, and CICC UK CEO Xia Xinhan attended the signing ceremony and gave speeches.
China Synergy Fund has co-led this investment with Trail Capital, a Paris-based European private equity firm.
Headquartered in France, Electropoli has successfully developed into a pan-European company, benefitting from a strong technology and industrial process know-how. The company
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