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Tour Partner Group, a newly-formed formed holding company for Hotels & More, Irish Welcome Tours and Authentic Vacations, is to acquire Trans Nordic Tours, the largest local inbound tour operator to the Nordic countries by revenue.
Trans Nordic Tours, launched in 1995, is based in Denmark and successfully led by founders Yvonne and Pierre d’Hermilly. It provides in-market services for consumers travelling to popular destinations throughout Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, the Baltics and Russia. Since inception, it has grown to 41 staff, speaking 17 different languages, and services a fast growing and geographically diverse client base.
The acquisition marks
NXT Capital has held the final closing on approximately USD415 million in equity capital, above its original USD350 million target, for NXT Capital Senior Loan Fund V. When coupled with targeted leverage, Fund V will have approximately USD1.2 billion of available capital to invest.
The Fund will invest in senior debt transactions directly originated and underwritten by NXT Capital’s Corporate Finance Group. The investment strategy is focused on senior secured loans, including straight senior, stretch senior and unitranche loans made primarily to private equity sponsored middle-market companies across a wide range of industries in the United States.
The Fund
Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, has closed a Series B round of financing led by Sequoia India, which brings the company’s total funding to USD21 million.
Smartkarma is disrupting the traditional model of investment research, which has long been dominated by investment banks. It is a model in a state of flux: banks are under pressure from regulators to improve pricing transparency and resolve inherent conflicts between their research and investment banking departments. Many investment banks are also downsizing research desks due to cost constraints, resulting in a decline in the depth and breadth of coverage of
ArchOver, the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has facilitated over GBP50 million of lending with no losses or late payments.
The platform has always been available to both institutional and retail investors, with both groups lending under the same terms and conditions. ArchOver will continue to focus on developing its lending strategies to meet growing market demand, while maintaining its unrivalled combination of transparency, equality and security with investors selecting the companies they wish to lend to.
With GBP4 million in total shareholder and investment capital, this latest achievement demonstrates the strength of ArchOver’s business model as it matches
Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) is to aquire Apollo Global Germany (Career Partner Group), from its current shareholder Apollo Education Group Inc.
Fund III, together with a number of underlying Fund III investors, will hold a 79 per cent stake in the business. Fund III will be partnering with CEO Dr Sven Schütt and his management team, who will be investing in the new structure.
Career Partner Group is a leading provider of private higher education and personnel development in Germany. Operating principally under the brand of International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef (IUBH), the business
Private equity firm Amalgamated Australian Investment Group (AAIG) is planning to attract tech-savvy investors with a series of products and services that will streamline the investment decision-making process.
AAIG, which acquired the Australian Stock Report (ASR) in 2014, has been expanding its core offering which now includes stock market research (trading signal service), wealth management through ASR Wealth Advisers and full-service stockbroking through Ascot Securities.
“We believe in providing investors with a one-stop shop which will optimise their investment efforts,” says Matthew Roberts, Managing Director of AAIG. “Over the past few years, we have been building our capabilities and
Certain funds managed by Ellington Management Group, a US-based investment manager, are to become minority shareholders in the Thea Artemis Greek Non-Performing Loans (NPL) servicing platform, subject to regulatory approval.
The Ellington Funds have also made an investment alongside DDM to participate in the income generated from the servicing and performance of the Artemis Portfolio. As a result of this transaction DDM’s investment will decrease by EUR15 million from EUR50 million to EUR35 million.
Thea Artemis was formed in July 2017 through a partnership between Attica Bank and Aldridge EDC, a specialty finance company and acquirer and manager of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has appointed Jeremy Kenley and Sandy Bhogal as partners in the firm’s London office.
At Gibson Dunn, Kenley will continue his real estate private equity practice, and Bhogal will continue his corporate tax practice. Both will join the firm from Mayer Brown International.
“We welcome Jeremy and Sandy to the firm,” says Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “Building out our transactional practice in London has been a strategic priority for the firm, and the office has developed a broad capability in public and private M&A, private equity, equity capital markets, real estate, and
Exaltare Capital Partners has held the successful closing of its initial private equity fund, Exaltare Capital Partners Fund I, at USD90 million.
Limited partners include a range of sophisticated institutional investors, family offices and asset managers. Founded in 2012, Exaltare is focused on acquiring niche-leading, owner-operated lower middle market businesses.
With the closing of Fund I, Exaltare also recapitalised ECP-PF Holdings Group. PF Holdings was formed in December 2012 by Exaltare and Brightwood Capital Advisors to acquire 15 clubs in Connecticut operating under the Planet Fitness brand. Through a combination of acquisitions and new club development, the PF Holdings
Valuation and risk trends in the secondary private equity markets for interests in private equity funds and shares in venture-backed private companies worldwide were the main topics for discussion during the recent NYPPEX Roundtable Webinar.
Guest speakers included Raj Marphatia, Partner, Ropes & Gray (Palo Alto, CA); Anthony Shontz, Managing Director, Partners Group (Denver, CO); Justin Burden, Managing Director, Industry Ventures (San Francisco, CA), Ricardo Miro-Quesada, Chief Investment Officer, Arcano Partners (Madrid, Spain); Fabrice Moyne, Partner, Mantra Investment Partners (Paris, France) and Jon Noble, Partner, Montgomery & Hansen (Menlo Park, CA).
The Webinar was moderated by Laurence Allen, Managing Member, NYPPEX Private Markets (Rye Brook, NY) and attended primarily by portfolio managers at financial institutions, pension funds, asset managers,
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