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US private equity major General Atlantic has added Neal Kok, a Director at rival private investment firm KKR, to its team as it looks to bolster its operations in Australia, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.
The value of the shares held by the founders and top executives of some of the largest US private equity groups, including Carlyle, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo Global, and Ares Management, have risen by $40bn — the most since the beginning of last year on the back of a surge in assets, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Credit-focused alternative asset manager Apollo Global Management has experienced a record year in annual earnings — prompting the firm’s CEO, Marc Rowan, to take a “victory lap” — and is setting targets to double its private credit origination business and put the asset class into retirement accounts, according to a report by Bloomberg.
California-based hedge fund and activist shareholder Butler Hall Capital has issued an open letter to French skincare company L’Occitane, urging its board of directors to relist on a US exchange and reconsider the company’s valuation following news of Blackstone’s potential bid to acquire the business.
Global growth private equity investment firm Warburg Pincus has made a strategic investment in Bloomerang, a donor, volunteer and fundraising management software platform for small and medium-sized nonprofits.
Global growth equity investment firm General Atlantic has made a minority investment in global outsourced investment office Partners Capital Investment Group through the acquisition of a portion of the stake held by longstanding external shareholders and some of the founding generation partners.
Global investment firm Verlinvest has made a minority investment in French luxury skincare brand Cible Skin, which will go towards accelerating the company’s growth across Europe, China and the US and supporting its development of new products and treatments.
Global private investment firm Carlyle has agreed to sell British video game developer and publisher Jagex to private markets manager CVC Capital Partners and technology sector-focused private equity firm Haveli Investments.
Harvey Schwartz, CEO of The Carlyle Group, the world’s fifth largest private equity firm, and former President and Co-COO at Goldman Sachs, has set new targets for the private equity firm’s growth and profitability, after a period of high interest rates and senior management issues, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The Riverside Company, a global private equity investment firm focused on the lower end of middle-market companies, has closed its Riverside Acceleration Capital Opportunity Fund II, raising $235m in capital commitments and subsequently increasing its growth equity investment capacity by more than four times.
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