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Quilvest Capital Partners, a dedicated global mid and lower mid-market alternatives investment manager with over $7bn in AUM, has successfully listed one of its earliest portfolio companies, BBB Foods, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Innova Capital, a Poland-based PE firm investing in buyouts in mid-sized enterprises doing business in Central and Eastern Europe, has acquired a minority stake in CloudFerro, a leading provider of cloud services to the European space sector.
Citigroup has carried out a simulation to explore how a private equity fund could be tokenised on a blockchain network, working with investment firm Wellington Management and ETF sponsor WisdomTree to carry out its “proof of concept”, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Capstreet, a Houston-based lower middle market private equity firm, has acquired Analytic Stress Relieving (ASR), a provider of on-site heat-treating services. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Alternative investment giant Blackstone has started construction on its 226,000 sq ft European headquarters, which is located on the site of the former Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London. The commencement ceremony was attended by Blackstone’s CEO and Co-Founder Stephen Schwarzman, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the US Ambassador to the UK, Jane Hartley.
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group has priced AlbaCore Euro CLO VI, its sixth collateralised loan obligation, at €402.3m, growing the total values of the firms’ CLO issuance to date from €2.2bn to ~€2.6bn.
Blackstone has withdrawn its bid to acquire a stake in the company holding the media rights to German football’s Bundesliga as opposition from fans to the involvement of foreign private capital reached fever pitch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Paris-based alternative investment firm Anaxago Capital’s first fund dedicated to the decarbonisation of European assets, AxClimat I, made its first investment in Vidia Equity’s oversubscribed Vidia Climate Fund I, which closed last month at its €415m hard cap.
Global law firm Dechert has appointed Eliot L Relles as a Partner in its corporate and securities practice group as part of efforts to enhance its capabilities in leveraged finance and private credit. Relles will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Family offices have upped their allocations to alternatives in recent years, with an average 52% of assets now allocated to the asset class up 200 basis points since 2020, and they will continue to do so in 2024, according to a report by global private investment firm KKR.
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