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EnCap Investments, a provider of capital to the independent sector of the US oil and gas industry with offices in Houston and Dallas, has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund XI with capital commitments of USD7.0 billion, exceeding its target.
Fund XI provides growth capital to proven management teams focused on the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America.
EnCap is led by seven managing partners including founders David B Miller, Gary R Petersen, D Martin Phillips and Robert L Zorich, as well as Jason M DeLorenzo, E Murphy Markham IV and Douglas E Swanson, Jr.
This year Pantheon Group has been celebrating its 35th anniversary. It is testament to the drive and determination to evolve the business model in response to changing market dynamics that has helped Pantheon stand the test of time to become, arguably, one of the most important global private equity, infrastructure and real assets fund investors.
One only has to consider the numbers: 450 investors; 200 staff across six global offices; USD36.9 billion of AUM (as of 30 June, 2017), with USD21.5 billion committed in PE primaries and USD11.1 billion in PE secondaries; USD 2.4 billion committed to global private equity co-investments; and
Agilitas, a pan-European private equity firm, has completed the buyout of Danoffice IT, a global value-added reseller of Information Technology and Information Systems to international organisations and businesses operating worldwide. Consideration on the transaction is not being disclosed.
Danoffice IT is headquartered in Svendborg, Denmark, with offices in several locations across the globe, providing high-value support to a wide range of international clients with significant cross-border operations and exposure to developing countries. Danoffice IT offers a one-stop-shopping platform with an array of products, services and logistical solutions, backed by professional and certified personnel ready to assist its client’s headquarters or
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired workplace safety and training company Lewellyn Technology from Evolution Capital Partners (Evolution).
This is ACP ’s first platform investment from the business-to-business training and certification thesis ACP launched earlier this year.
Lewellyn is a market leader providing critical, high impact electrical safety training and inspection services such as Arc Flash, Combustible Dust and Lockout/Tagout risk assessments. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Company provides onsite training, hazard assessments, and mitigation for Fortune 1000 companies nationwide through its highly skilled in-house network of engineers and technicians.
“We are excited to partner with Mike Vea
Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm specialising in capital markets technology, has expanded its team with the appointment of former UBS and IHS Markit Managing Director, Roger Spooner as Head of Strategic Relationships.
Andrew Patey, former Group Finance Manager at Octopus Investments has also joined as Head of Finance.
Previously on the firm’s Executives in Residence program, Spooner will now manage the relationship between buy side and sell-side institutions and Illuminate Financial’s portfolio companies, as well as its extensive pipeline of fintech firms.
Spooner spent over a decade at IHS Markit, serving in a variety of roles
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has appointed Stefan Rose as a Portfolio Manager in its Infrastructure Debt team.
Rose’s appointment further strengthens REPM’s USD4 billion infrastructure platform, which invests in both equity and debt, and it follows the announcement of three other senior hires last month. The team now comprises over 30 professionals located across five offices globally.
With over 17 years of experience in financing pan-European infrastructure projects Stefan brings a wealth of relevant experience with him and will report to Tommaso Albanese, Head of Infrastructure. Based in London, he will be
Blue Water Energy has held the final closing of Blue Water Energy Fund II (BWE Fund II), with total commitments over USD1.1 billion, surpassing its target of USD1 billion after securing further commitments from a number of new limited partners.
Blue Water Energy, founded in 2011 by Jerker Johansson, Tom Sikorski and Graeme Sword, closed its inaugural Fund I in May 2013 with USD862 million of commitments and now has a portfolio of eleven companies in this fund. BWE Fund II’s investment strategy will be the same as BWE Fund I; a buy and build strategy focused exclusively on opportunities
The proportion of Limited Partners that make ‘direct’ investments (investments into private companies without the involvement of a private equity fund) has peaked, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.
Between 2006 and 2012, the share of LPs making direct investments almost doubled, but it has not changed materially since then, remaining at about a third of LPs. Co-investing, by contrast, has been increasingly popular, with the number of LP co-investors doubling over the last decade.
Another structural limit has become apparent in LP approaches to Chinese private equity. The proportion of investors committing to China-specific funds
Tikehau Capital is to sell its stake in the real-estate promoter Nafilyan & Partners in three stages to the Belgian property developer Immobel.
Tikehau Capital invested a total of approximately EUR8.9 million (including EUR7.7 million in bonds and EUR1.2 million in capital) in Nafilyan & Partners between July 2014 and May 2016 and currently owns a 15 per cent stake in the company before capital increase.
The sale is scheduled to take place in three stages. Following a capital increase by Nafilyan & Partners on 2nd December, Immobel now holds 15 per cent of the company. Immobel will acquire
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Bundesverband Alternative Investments (BAI) are to jointly engage with policymakers and regulators in the European Union and globally on issues of interest to their respective memberships.
Included in the agreement is work relating to the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the AIMA affiliate body that represents asset management firms in the private credit and direct lending space.
The agreement builds on the increasingly close cooperation between the two associations. The BAI and AIMA, for example, held joint meetings with Brussels policymakers during the recent European Supervisory Authorities (ESA) Review.
The associations also
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