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Alternative investment giant Blackstone has opened its retail private credit fund ECRED to retail investors in France as part of an exclusive partnership with BNP Paribas’ wealth management and Cardif companies.
Middle-market private equity firm Gryphon Investors has agreed to sell HEPACO, a provider of emergency response and scheduled environmental services, to Clean Harbors, a provider of environmental and industrial services, in a transaction valued at $400m.
Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners are close to agreeing a $2bn debt package with a group of private credit lenders including Apollo Global Management and Blackstone to help finance their leveraged buyout of software developer Alteryx, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private Equity Wire has announced the winners of the European Awards 2024, which recognise recognise excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories.
Coalesce Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in human capital-driven and technology-enabled services companies, has closed its inaugural fund, Coalesce Capital Fund I, and parallel vehicles, with $900m in total capital commitments.
Independent infrastructure investment manager Ancala has held the final close of its third flagship co-mingled fund with €1.4bn in capital commitments, surpassing its original €1.2bn target and marking the firm’s largest single fundraise to date.
Private equity firm Kennet Partners and the private equity division of investment manager Federated Hermes have invested €25m in software company Screendragon, a specialist in project management and workflow solutions catering to the agency and marketing sectors.
Economic headwinds saw UK M&A activity in 2023 fell to almost a fifth below levels seen in the previous year, according to PwC’s latest Global M&A Trends 2024 Outlook, a semi-annual analysis of global deals.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a legal challenge to its latest set of rules, which require hedge funds and private equity firms to detail quarterly fees and expenses to investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Alternative asset, equity and fixed income fund managers have identified private equity, renewable energy and hedge funds as the alternative asset classes most likely to increased inflows in 2024, according to new research by fund management solutions specialist Carne Group.
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