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Astorg has held an interim closing of its its flagship fund, Astorg VIII, with total fund commitments of €4bn, which represents about 90% of the target size and hard cap of €4.5bn, and a nearly 10% increase on Astorg’s predecessor fund.
Private, employee-owned investment firm Neuberger Berman has held the final close of the NB Credit Opportunities Fund II with approximately $2.5bn in limited partner capital commitments, exceeding the fund’s initial target of $1.5bn.
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC is betting that tighter bank lending policies will see companies look to private credit to provide the capital they need and is shifting money to the sector as a result, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A new assessment of the fossil fuel policies of 15 of the largest private equity firms operating in North America and Europe, has found that the sector is lagging behind other investors in terms of action on climate change.
Vintage Investment Partners, a global technology-focused private investment firm with over $3.6bn in assets under management, has appointed Eldad Gabay as Senior Vice President, Data & Analytics at the firm.
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and one of the world’s largest institutional investors, believes that private equity’s golden age of high valuations, lower leverage costs and low interest rates is at an end and won’t be “coming back any time soon”, according to a report by The Financial Times.
Global investment firm Carlyle has agreed to acquire Evolution Funding (Evolution), one of the UK’s largest used car finance platforms, investing alongside Evolution’s founders and existing investor LDC. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has sold its portfolio company SK AeroSafety to Bridgepoint, a global private equity firm. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas has completed the sale of Hydro International, a provider of technological solutions for the control, storage and quality management of wastewater, stormwater and industrial process water, to Oldcastle Infrastructure.
Private investor Rcapital, has completed its second carve out deal of 2023 with the acquisition of Temple Lifts from Hitachi. Temple, which has over 35 years’ experience in the lift maintenance sector, was acquired by Hitachi in 2017.
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