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Texas Permanent School Fund (Texas PSF) has made an anchor investment of $200m in private equity firm Velocity Capital Management’s Opportunity Fund, with an agreement to negotiate acquiring a minority interest in the firm targeted to close in the fourth quarter.
Tech investor Paladin Capital Group has appointed Nazo Moosa as Managing Director for the firm’s European operations, driving international investments and fundraising, as well as serving on the Executive Committee.
Insurance-focused asset manager Prosperity Asset Management (PAM) has appointed two new hires – Matthew Petre and Cassandra Becker – as part of an initiative to scale its third-party insurance AUM and capital markets activities.
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager focused on mid-market private equity, structured capital, and alt credit investments, has appointed Jon Fox, former President of Värde, as Global Head of Capital Formation.
Banks and private credit firms are vying to provide over $5bn in debt financing to support a potential buyout of eye care company and Ray-Ban owner Bausch + Lomb, by Blackstone and TPG, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity firm Altor has agreed to sell Swedish investment bank and asset manager Carnegie to Norway’s largest bank, DNB, for approximately SEK12bn ($1.14bn), with the deal expected to close in the first half of next year, according to a report by Reuters.
Prime Capital AG, the alternative asset specialist, with a focus on Continental Europe and €4.3bn assets under management as well €8.4bn assets under administration, has held the third closing of its Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund II.
Global law firm O’Melveny has boosted its cross-border capabilities with the addition of two experienced pan-Asia transactional lawyers — Stephanie Keen and Sylvia Taslim — as Partners in the firm’s established Mergers & Acquisitions practice based in its Singapore office.
Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital has successfully closed an oversubscribed single-asset continuation fund to support the continued growth of Comply365, a global compliance, safety, and training platform serving the aviation, defence, and rail industries.
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