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AXA IM Alts, a specialist in alternative investments with €185 billion of assets under management, has appointed Laurent Lavergne to the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, effective 1 October 2023.
G2 Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on investment in technology companies, has promoted Neel Mehta to partner. Metha joined the firm in August 2021 as an investor and helped drive G2’s investment in Locus Robotics.
Recent hikes in interest rates as central banks look to tackle soaring inflation have impacted a plan by Assicurazioni Generali to offload up to €20 billion ($21.87bn) of insurance liabilities through a sale to private equity-backed companies, according to a report by Reuters.
Private equity-backed “take-private” deals for UK listed companies have beaten last year’s total, from 12 deals in 2021/22 to 13 in 2022/23, as funds continue to be attracted by the lower valuations on UK companies, according to data from International law firm Mayer Brown.
HSBC Asset Management has held the final closing of its third directly-managed secondaries fund, Private Equity Opportunities III, which launched in December 2022, with total commitments of around $738 million, bringing total commitments across HSBC AM’s secondaries program to a combined $3.2 billion.
HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $56 billion of equity capital under management, has expanded its dedicated infrastructure team with the addition of John Bruen as a Managing Director in the company’s London office, effective 1 August.
Juniper Square has appointed Christine Egbert as General Manager, Fund Administration, the firm’s most senior executive responsible for scaling its fund administration offerings catering to the needs of private fund managers
Audax Private Debt, a provider of financing solutions for middle market private equity sponsors, has joined the iCapital Marketplace, a platform launched by iCapital in June that connects financial advisors and their clients with a broad array of alternative investment offerings.
New advances in artificial intelligence are creating a buzz in tech M&A in 2023, that if backed up by capital deployment could make up for the dip in private investment into the sector in 2022.
Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.
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