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BDO, a provider of business advisory services with a revenue of $12.8bn, has promoted Jamie Austin to Head of Global Private Equity. Austin has been part of the firm’s global PE leadership team since its inception.
Benefit Street Partners, a credit-focused alternative asset manager with approximately $75bn in AUM and a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments, has closed its fifth flagship direct lending vehicle, BSP Debt Fund V, with $4.7bn of capital.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has appointed Brian Klaban as the firm’s new Head of Capital Markets and as a Director on the originations team. Klaban will be based in LLCP’s Chicago office.
HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $60bn of capital under management specialising in providing both debt and equity capital to mid-sized companies, has opened a new office in Dubai.
Disagreements over valuations have been a barrier for buyout firms attempting to exit their portfolio companies, according to a report by Bloomberg, which cites an Ares Management executive speaking at this year’s IPEM in Cannes.
Optima Partners, a global regulatory compliance and risk management advisory firm, has appointed Michele Foldenauer, most recently an Exam Manager in the private funds unit of the SEC’s National Exam Program, as a Director.
Cordillera Investment Partners, an investment management firm focusing on niche, non-correlated assets, has completed fundraising for its $62m Whiskey Opportunities Fund.
Spain’s largest private equity firm, Asterion Industrial Partners, is looking to raise more than €2bn ($2.2bn) from investors for a new fund that will focus on European infrastructure investments, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Golding Capital Partners has held the first closing of its flagship infrastructure fund of funds, Golding Infrastructure 2022 – the fifth generation of the firm’s infrastructure strategy – with €360m in capital commitments.
Capitalmind Investec, a European M&A advisory firm whose majority shareholder is Investec as of June 2023, has appointed Sture Stölen and Lars Carlson as Partners as part of a strategy to “broaden its European footprint”.
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