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Cathay Capital inaugurated the Sino French Innovation Fund at an official launch ceremony at CEIBS Beijing Campus last week along with CDB Capital and Bpifrance.
As one of the new investors who have confirmed their contribution, Valeo, a leading automotive supplier, will partner with Cathay to reinforce its access to innovative startups in smart transportation and connected car applications. In addition, Cathay announced it will donate 500,000 Euros to CEIBS to set up the Cathay Global PE Research Fund.
In July this year, during the Chinese Prime Minister’s state visit to France, cornerstone investors Bpifrance and CDB Capital signed
Victory Park Capital (VPC) has provided a USD20 million credit facility to 7710 Holdings, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance products and support services to fire departments that protect residents in suburban and rural geographies.
The facility will allow 7710 to accelerate the delivery of a competitive, high-value workers’ compensation insurance alternative to customers located in nearly 40 states across the US.
In addition to providing 7710 with its first institutional credit facility, VPC also provided a strategic equity investment to support working capital and regulatory surplus requirements for the company.
“7710 has convened a seasoned group of executives
Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company Capella Healthcare to Medical Properties Trust, a Birmingham, Alabama based self-advised real estate investment trust, for USD900 million in cash.
Capella is an operator of community hospitals in growing, mid-sized communities across the US Capella’s hospitals are operated in tandem with local healthcare leaders, hospital boards, physicians and employees. Capella targets hospitals that are struggling to meet the growing demands of governmental regulation, complicated reimbursement requirements and the constant and capital-intensive upgrading of equipment and facilities. Capella infuses capital to expand services quickly and provides the
European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has promoted Alfa Chan, David Mackenzie and Joachim Braun to partners in the firm. In addition, Adam Ahern will also be joining at the end of September as an associate in the firm’s London office.
These promotions and appointment demonstrate the firms commitment to strengthening the team as it continues to deploy its new EUR870 million* second fund, following the successful fundraising of Silverfleet Capital Partners II, which closed in May 2015.
Chan and Mackenzie are both based in London and have been with Silverfleet Capital for thirteen years and eleven years respectively,
Kuepa has closed a USD3 million convertible loan from the Multilateral Investment Fund and Inicia Fund, allowing the firm to continue opening new schools and expand its vocational training programs in Mexico, Colombia, and the rest of Latin America.
“We are very excited to work with Kuepa in expanding education opportunities to working adults in Latin America through affordable market-based solutions,” says Oscar Farfan of the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund.
Over 30,000 young-adult students have taken vocational courses with Kuepa over the last three years. Kuepa currently employs more than 250 people across five countries. Over 90 of them
Retail analytics specialist Retency has secured EUR5 million in financing from Truffle Capital, a European venture capital firm, which will be used to accelerate the company's development and boost its R&D activities.
Founded in 2014, Retency provides physical retailers with analytics, marketing and advertising solutions equivalent to those used by their e-commerce counterparts, allowing them to gain insights on shoppers' behavior in their stores and optimize their on- and off-line marketing.
Retency products have already been adopted by leading retailers in the cultural, clothing, leisure, DIY, cosmetics, grocery and automotive sectors.
Bernard-Louis Roques (pictured), Co-Founder and General Partner
The HQ Group is to combine its private equity and real estate businesses under the HQ Capital brand. This move will create an independent alternative investment manager, with more than USD12 billion under management in private equity and real estate.
As part of the rebranding, Auda, the private equity firm, and Real Estate Capital Partners, the real estate investment company, will operate under the new HQ Capital brand. Equita, the mid-cap buyout firm, will become a subsidiary of HQ Capital and be renamed HQ Equita.
“We have been investing in alternative assets for over 25 years, which makes us
Aberdeen Asset Management has completed the acquisition of FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a diversified private markets manager with offices in Stamford, CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
The acquisition, together with the previously announced purchase of SVG Capital’s stake in the joint venture Aberdeen SVG Private Equity Managers Ltd, sees Aberdeen join a small number of private equity managers with investment professionals on the ground in the world’s major markets. The combined team now has around 50 such professionals in the US, Europe and Asia.
Since inception, FLAG has raised over USD7 billion of discretionary commitments from its
Victory Park Capital (VPC) is to invest up to EUR230 million in loans originated by Zencap over a three year period, under an exclusive agreement.
The partners are teaming up to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, Netherlands and Spain with efficient, fast and easy access to capital. Zencap is the fastest growing online lending marketplace in Continental Europe, allowing SMEs to apply for loans between EUR5.000 and EUR250.000.
Under the terms of the preferred partnership agreement, VPC will be the largest institutional investor on the P2P platform and has secured a credit facility from a leading
Winsight has acquired Technomic, a leading provider of primary and secondary market information and advisory services to the food industry.
Technomic was acquired from its founder, Ron Paul, who spent much of the last 50 years establishing the business as the "go-to" source for food and foodservice industry insights and strategic advice.
"The acquisition of Technomic represents an important step in Winsight's growth strategy by providing our customers and audiences access to the most credible source of food industry market intelligence," says Mike Wood (pictured), Chief Executive Officer of Winsight. "Winsight's industry leading print and digital assets, along with its
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