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Metropolitan Partners Group Management (Metropolitan), a direct-lending fund manager that provides senior-secured, transitional capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, has closed an investment in US Home Aggregation (US Home), an acquirer and manager of single-family rental homes across targeted markets in the US.
US Home will use the committed capital from Metropolitan to expand its existing portfolio of homes.
US Home acquires foreclosed single-family homes at a significant discount to both market and replacement costs in tertiary markets across the country that possess positive demographic and employment trends. The company uses a proprietary mapping tool that
Blank Rome has appointed Robert L Kahan as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group in Los Angeles.
Kahan focuses his practice counselling middle-market companies in the lifestyle industries, including restaurants, entertainers, marketers, and merchandisers, across a variety of corporate transactions. Bob joins Blank Rome from a leading Am Law 100 firm in Los Angeles.
“We’re thrilled to have a veteran attorney like Bob join our growing corporate team,” says Grant S Palmer, Blank Rome’s Managing Partner and CEO. “Bob is well known for his negotiation skills, having represented both buyers, sellers, and investors over the
Refinitiv has launched BRI Connect, part of a suite of tools enabling the global investment community to identify investment opportunities around China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) through access to trusted, holistic information including macroeconomic, project, market, financing, geopolitical and operational risk data.
The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on building significant infrastructure projects across Asia, Europe, and Africa. Officially launched by China’s President Xi in 2013, it is already considered the largest investment program in history, accounting for more than USD500 billion of spend in infrastructure projects across more than 70 countries.
The initiative encompasses a vast range
Gabriel Urwitz, founder and Chairman of Segulah, will step down from the role of Chairman. Having founded the business in 1994 and served as Managing Partner as well as Chairman for 25 years, Urwitz will remain a member of the Investment Committee for the duration of the Segulah V investment period, as well as board member in several portfolio companies.
Sebastian Ehrnrooth, currently Managing Partner, will take on the role of Chairman.
Ehrnrooth, who joined Segulah in 2000 as a deal partner, has led and participated in a large number of transactions in Segulah II, III, IV and V.
Israeli VC firm Magenta Venture Partners has held the first closing of a new venture capital fund targeting USD100 million.
Magenta Venture Partners is an equal partnership between Mitsui & Co Ltd, one of the largest trading and investment companies in Japan, Ori Israely, and Ran Levitzky, two seasoned Israeli professionals from its venture capital industry
The fund specialises in early-stage investments in Israeli and Israeli-related technology start-ups in multiple domains including Automotive, Mobility, AI, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, Enterprise Software and Fintech.
The four partners of the fund include Ori Israely, formerly of Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focussed private equity firm, has promoted Jay Desai to Partner.
Desai was previously a Managing Director of Kainos and has over 15 years of principal investing, investment banking and strategy experience in the food and consumer products sectors.
Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner of Kainos, says: “We are very proud to recognise Jay’s accomplishments with this well-deserved promotion. Since re-joining the Kainos team three years ago, Jay has significantly improved our business development efforts and is a valued voice within our organization. We continue to invest in our human capital at Kainos and
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, has signed a secondary transaction in relation to a number of assets from its European private equity portfolio, under a new fund arrangement, subject to receipt of relevant regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
The fund will be capitalised with approximately USD1 billion of aggregate commitments.
Coller Capital’s current fund, Coller International Partners VII, will underwrite the new fund, with Investcorp retaining a continued interest in the portfolio through a meaningful GP commitment to the fund. The transaction also includes fresh capital for any follow-on investments, future investments and
BGF, the UK and Ireland-focussed investor in growing businesses, invested nearly half a billion pounds into British businesses in 2018, in another record year of growth.
With an average of one deal per week, BGF invested GBP288 million into 51 new businesses across the UK and Ireland and provided GBP153 million of follow-on funding to companies in its existing portfolio to support further growth.
Since BGF began in 2011, it has invested over GBP1.85 billion across 263 companies.
New businesses added to the portfolio in 2018 included BGF’s first investment in the Republic of Ireland since announcing the
Venture capital investor Beringea has led a GBP9 million investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm.
The funding round, also backed by US investors True Ventures and Route 66, is one of the largest ever investments in a financial technology company in the North. Maria Wagner, Investment Director at Beringea, led the deal.
The investment also marks the expansion of Beringea’s footprint in the North of England, as the firm has launched its first dedicated office in the region in central Manchester. This expanded presence will enable Beringea to work more closely with the region’s scaling businesses and provide
By Jean-Philippe Castellani, Societe Generale – The reasons are many for the increase in the number of private equity funds seeking to mitigate foreign exchange (FX) risks through risk management solutions.
The most obvious is the fact fund managers are more aware of the pitfalls of the past and are keen to avoid getting their fingers burned again. The structure of private equity funds means money from investors is generally locked in for 10 years. This gives fund managers a bit of breathing space to think strategically about how to manage the acquired asset and examine economic cycles.
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