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UK-based lower mid-market private equity firm Westbridge has promoted Rebecca Sinclair, who joined the firm in 2019, to investment director, and Luke Gilbert, who joined in 2023, to investment manager.
Fasanara Capital is marketing a new ‘best ideas’ fund that will draw on the firm’s private credit strategies, and is hoping to raise up to $500m in capital commitments for the vehicle, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Seaya has closed Seaya Andromeda, the first Article 9 climate-tech fund based in Southern Europe, with €300m in total capital commitments from LPs including Iberdrola, Nortia and Santander.
Marathon Asset Management, a global credit manager with $23bn in AUM, and Webster Financial Corporation, the holding company for $76bn commercial bank Webster Bank, are to launch a private credit joint venture, which will deliver direct lending solutions to sponsor-backed middle market companies.
The $1.7tn private lending industry is just beginning its expansion, and has the potential to grow to a $25tn market globally, according to Michael Zawadzki, Blackstone Credit and Insurance’s global chief investment officer.
European mid-market private equity firm Inflexion is to sell its investment in ITM, a data services and technology provider for the pensions market, to Lumera, a Sweden-based, private equity-backed insuretech company.
New York-headquartered alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital has held the final close of its seventh control-oriented fund, New Mountain Partners VII, with $15.4bn in capital commitments.
The HgCapital Trust has agreed the sale of European software-as-a-service provider F24 to Altor, a Stockholm-based private equity firm investing across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the DACH region.
French private equity firm PAI Partners and Spanish investment firm Inveready have collaborated on a bid for Avatel, Spain’s fifth-largest telecoms company, according to a report by Expansion, citing unidentified market sources.
Private investment house Ardian has raised $3.2bn for the sixth generation of its global co-investment platform, Ardian Co-Investment Fund VI, including fund commitments and mandates from Ardian Customized Solutions.
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