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Lazard has recruited Courtney Haydon from Guggenheim Securities as a Managing Director to enhance its private equity and alternative asset management dealmaking capabilities, according to a report by Reuters.
Adenia, a private equity firm focused on growth opportunities in Africa, has sold its stake in payments service provider OMOA Group to SPE Capital, a private equity firm focused on the Middle East and Africa.
A consortium of private equity firms comprising CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and Platinum Ivy, are to acquire Hargreaves Lansdown in a deal that values the UK’s largest savings and investment platform at £5.4bn ($6.9bn), according to a report by Bloomberg.
Valor Equity Partners, an operational growth-focused private equity investment firm with $17.5bn in assets under management, has held the final closing of its flagship fund, Valor Equity Partners VI at $2.35bn, surpassing its original $2bn target.
LGT Capital Partners is expanding its semi-liquid open-ended solutions with the addition of two new private equity and private credit vehicles, allowing investors to invest efficiently in the firm’s fully funded structures and the LGT Endowment.
Single-family office Leon Capital Group has partnered with iCapital, a global fintech platform that provides the wealth management industry with access to alternative investments.
Anduril Industries, a defence technology start-up, has raised $1.5bn in a fundraising round led by Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel, and Sands Capital, which values the California-based start-up at $14bn.
LA-based private equity firm Meaningful Partners has acquired Fitness Ventures, a US health and wellness platform and the second largest franchisee of Crunch Fitness.
Mid-market private equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners has closed the merger of its portfolio company TranSystems with Gannett Fleming, another transportation infrastructure service firm and a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners.
Private equity buyout activity made a resurgence in the first half of the year, with direct lending emerging as a crucial component in the current market topography, according to the latest data from Mergermarket and Debtwire.
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