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Private equity firm PAI Partners is to acquire a majority stake in Infra Group, a multi-disciplinary network infrastructure services provider, joining current investors ICG, Andera Partners and the management team led by Tom Vendelmans.
Global software investor Insight Partners has raised $118m for Insight Vision Capital II, its second 20/20 Vision Capital fund, which will focus on investments in diverse-led, top-tier, early-stage venture capital funds.
Armen, a private investment firm that focuses on minority shareholder investments in European alternative investment companies through GP stakes transactions, has bolstered its team with the appointment of Max Darque as Investment Director in London.
Darque Max brings 12 years of international experience in global private equity and capital markets. Prior to joining Armen, he was a Senior Investment Director at private investment office, Praesidium, where he invested in European and US private equity with a focus on primary funds and co-investments, building a portfolio of 20-plus co-investments and over 50 funds.
Prior to that, Darque co-founded Alterum, a SaaS
Stafford Capital Partners has appointed Victoria Sherliker as its new Chief Compliance Officer. Sherliker joins from gunnercooke where she was a Partner in the firm’s private equity and regulatory division.
Canadian private investment firm Brookfield has agreed to acquire the 80% stake it doesn’t already own in annuities provider American Equity Investment Life Holding (AEL) in a deal that values the business at $4.3bn.
The proportion of private equity managers assessing and measuring climate-related risks has risen sharply over the last twelve months, supported primarily by a significant increase among Asian managers, according to a report by LGT Capital Partners.
Increased regulation and financial market volatility are fuelling M&A disputes in an uncertain deal market, with dealmakers identifying the digital assets and services sector, and ESG factors as dispute hotspots, according to Berkeley Research Group’s Midyear M&A Disputes Report 2023.
Notion Capital, a European early-stage venture capital investor focused on the business software and fintech sectors, has held the final close of its new oversubscribed Notion Capital V fund at its €300m hard cap.
Thayer Street Partners Management, a private investment firm that provides flexible growth capital to tech-enabled financial, real estate, and business services companies, has held the final closing of the Thayer Street Partners Opportunity Fund II with total capital commitments in excess of $275 million.
Professional services company JTC has appointed private equity specialist Ashley Vardon as Senior Director in the firm’s fund services team in Jersey. Varcom, who joins from Sanne, where he held the position of head of private equity, has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry.
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