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Global alternative investment firm Investcorp is to invest $100 million to acquire a majority stake in SEC Newgate, a global strategic communications and advocacy group, in a deal that values the business at over $250 million.
Private equity investment firm Golden Gate Capital is to acquire a majority equity stake in DMC Power, a designer and manufacturer of proprietary connector technology systems for high voltage power infrastructure from PE firm Bridgepoint.
IK Partners, via the IK IX Fund, has made an investment in independent wealth management platform Cinerius Financial Partners (Cinerius) alongside existing investor, Summit Partners, and the Cinerius management team.
Dechert has added Sam Kay as a partner in the firm’s financial services and investment management practice in London. With over 25 years of experience advising on investment funds, Kay specialises in fund formation work for a wide range of private equity firms across a broad range of investment strategies.
Altas Partners, a private equity investment firm that makes long term investments of between $400 million and over $1 billion in typically just one or two deals per year, has closed its third fund with capital commitments of $4 billion, according to a report by Buyouts Insider.
US private equity firm Silver Lake has finally acquired a majority holding in Software AG after increasing its stake in the software development specialist to 63%, according to a report by Reuters, and will now pursue a de-listing of the company.
Earlier this month, Silver Lake upped its stake to 41% after Bain Capital and Rocket Software agreed to sell their Software AG shares to the tech investment specialist.
Back in April, Silver Lake offered to buy Software AG for €30 euros per share, valuing the German software developer at €2.2 billion euros ($2.39 billion) before upping its bid to
Cathay Capital Private Equity has held the final close of its fourth Small Cap fund, which will invest in growth companies across Europe, North America and Asia, at €240 million, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to over €5 billion.
Small Cap IV is the first of Cathay Capital’s private equity funds to be designated as Article 8[1], joining the firm’s latest venture capital fund (Cathay Innovation) and healthcare fund (Cathay Health).
A smart of the designation, the fund’s investment team will apply exclusion filters during the selection process, and also set and track tailored objectives for portfolio companies
Hy24, a private investment firm focused on the clean hydrogen sector, has appointed Guillaume Lesueur, former Head of EDF Pulse Ventures, as managing director to lead a new investment initiative focused on technology and equipment manufacturers.
Hy24, a joint venture established in 2021 by FiveT Hydrogen and Ardian, is committed the growth of a global hydrogen ecosystem by investing across the entire clean hydrogen value chain. Hy24’s first fund – Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure, or “Infra Fund” – is targeted at building out the hydrogen infrastructure market. The Infra Fund has raised €2 billion to date and has already made
General Atlantic (GA) a global growth equity firm, has made a $115 million investment in Author Health, a provider of comprehensive care and treatment for Medicare Advantage recipients with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
The funding will be used to help Author Health expand into new markets and secure additional partnerships with other insurance and healthcare companies.
Author Health is led by CEO Dr Katherine Hobbs, a psychiatrist, former health insurance executive, and a national leader in quality and value payment for behavioural health. Dr Gary Gottlieb, a geriatric psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and
AVP has appointed Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan as a new General Partner in New York and head of the firm’s €1.5 billion Late Growth Fund for North America. De Saint-Aignan brings more than 20 years of growth equity experience with a focus on the technology sector.
De Saint-Aignan joins AVP from private investment firm Sun Capital Partners, Inc (Sun Capital), where she served as a managing director since 2020 and led the firm’s technology vertical with investments in platform companies Exadel and LoanLogics as well as numerous add-on acquisitions.
Before Sun Capital, de Saint-Aignan was the founding partner of the growth
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