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Private equity firm Pomona Capital has held the final close of its eighth secondaries fund, Pomona Capital VIII, with commitments of USD1.75 billion.
The fund had a target of USD1.3 billion and was substantially oversubscribed, hitting its hard cap.
Pomona Capital VIII, like its predecessor funds, seeks to purchase interests in high-quality private equity funds, as well as portfolios of private equity-backed companies.
"Over the years, Pomona has executed a differentiated middle-market value strategy in the secondaries business," says Pomona CEO Michael Granoff. "Our approach resonates with investors who recognise the long-term attractiveness of private equity but are
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed an investment to support the multi-million pound management buy-out of Connect Communications, a provider of telephone systems and unified communications channels to businesses across the UK, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Established in 1992, Connect Communications manages the day-to-day running of multi-site telecoms systems, via a state-of-the-art networks operations centre and a limited network of third party engineers.
Connect Communications’ software enables technical faults to be identified and rectified quickly and efficiently, before problems escalate.
High-profile global enterprises supported by the business on a pan-EMEA basis include Barclays, Coca-Cola, CSC
Middle market private equity firm Castle Harlan has acquired Gold Star Foods, a nutritional food distributor to K-12 schools in California, Arizona and Nevada.
The seller was the Chicago private equity firm Prospect Partners.
Gold Star, based in Ontario, California, serves 380 school districts comprised of more than 3,500 schools, enabling them to provide students nutritional meals through federal and state programmes for breakfasts and lunches that include programme-approved healthy ingredients.
Gold Star's proprietary software platform and expertise in USDA commodity tracking provides a valuable service to schools, which receive reimbursements from federal and state governments based on
Impax has closed the project financing of the Joukhaisselkä wind park in Northern Finland with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and has completed the acquisition of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park from Fortum and Metsähallitus.
The Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park is located in the Kittilä and Sodankylä municipalities and is the second project acquired by Impax New Energy Investors II (Impax NEF II) from Fortum and Metsähallitus. The wind park has 17 wind turbines with an expected installed capacity of 51 megawatts (MW).
The Joukhaisselkä wind park has nine turbines, with a planned installed capacity of 27 MW. It is located in
Ipreo Holdings is to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division.
The sponsors are acquiring the business from affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), who will retain a minority ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Ipreo is a provider of new issuance software solutions across the equity, fixed income, municipal, and syndicated loan markets, including bookbuilding systems, roadshow and conference management platforms, and electronic document delivery.
Ipreo's suite of investor relations services provides corporate clients with cross-asset class surveillance, shareholder analysis, investor
Augentius Singapore has been appointed to administer the L Capital Asia Fund 2, which has commitments of USD1bn.
L Capital Asia Fund 2 is the latest private equity fund sponsored by the LVMH Group / Groupe Arnault and YTL.
L Capital Asia is characterised by the multidisciplinary nature of its investments and its multinational team of professionals, who have over 183 years of cumulative experience in Asia.
Headquartered in Singapore, L Capital Asia focuses on investments in the emerging/fast growing markets of Asia.
L Capital Asia primarily focuses on the following key elements:
Developing attractive and
High Street Capital has sold its investment in BeneSys, a benefits payments processing services company, to The Riverside Company, a private equity firm.
BeneSys provides third party administration and related outsourced software services for Taft-Hartley union trust funds.
The company was advised by KPMG Corporate Finance in connection with the transaction.
"Originally, I structured my relationship to High Street Capital so I could walk away after three years,” says BeneSys CEO George Buhalis. “But, we were together nine years. Why? Because they brought BeneSys multiple resources to not only identify the 'light on the opposite shore' that we needed to head
HarbourVest Partners has held the final close of HarbourVest Partners 2013 Direct Fund LP, a global direct co-investment fund, at USD1.0bn, above its USD750m target.
HarbourVest’s prior co-investment fund, 2007 Direct, a USD734m fund, is fully invested with accelerating distributions.
The 2007 Direct portfolio includes buyout and growth equity investments across the US, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
Similar to the 2007 Direct Fund, which invested more than 64 per cent in companies with enterprise values below USD1.5bn, the 2013 Direct Fund intends to have a majority of its portfolio focused on small and mid-market companies.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a significant investment to support the GBP30m acquisition of Prism UK Medical Limited form Toronto-based TSX Venture Exchange-listed Prism Medical Ltd.
Prism is a provider of safe patient handling solutions that enable the mobility disadvantaged to live at home in a safe and dignified manner, improving their quality of life. In addition to homecare, Prism also has significant business in the long term care and acute care areas.
Prism manufactures and supplies products under a number of market leading brands in addition to offering a range of complementary services including assessment, installation,
A more expansive Significant Investor visa programme would help innovative Australian businesses benefit from venture capital funding to fuel future economic growth.
That’s according to a submission recently lodged by the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL).
“The Significant Investor visa programme has proven itself to be an important part of Australia’s strategy to compete for global capital from offshore investors,” says AVCAL’s chief executive, Yasser El-Ansary. “But the programme should be expanded in order to allow offshore investors to allocate capital to other asset classes that are critical to supporting the growth of Australia’s future,
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