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Adams Street Partners, LLC, a private markets investment management firm with more than $54 billion of assets under management globally, has secured more than $3.2 billion in capital commitments for its seventh Secondaries Investment Program, including the successful close of Global Secondary Fund 7.
Overall European deal activities remained strong until the third quarter of 2022 before a drop in the fourth quarter, according to the 2023 edition of the annual CMS Private Equity Study, analysed data from over 100 deals CMS advised on during the year.
Columna Capital, a pan-European private equity investor, has completed a significant investment in Physidia SAS, a French specialist in home haemodialysis solutions. Existing shareholders, the Plowiecki family and founders Cyril Balas and Michel Houdou, will remain as minority shareholders.
Integrum, an investment firm focused on partnering with technology-enabled service companies, has completed fundraising for its inaugural fund, Integrum Capital Partners LP at $1.1 billion, exceeding the fund’s original target.
This total excludes related co-investment vehicles that provide the fund with capacity to invest additional capital.
The fund received strong support from an international group of high-quality institutional investors, including pension funds, wealth managers, insurance companies, consultants, family offices, foundations, and funds of funds.
Integrum says the new funding will allow it to continue executing on its differentiated approach to value creation, investing to produce sustainable organic growth,
Baker Botts, an international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, has appointed Clay Brett as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department based in Houston. Brett was previously a partner at Houston-based energy investment firm Millennial Energy Partners.
Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has appointed David Roberts as a managing director in the firm’s digital commerce team, top focus on nvestments across eCommerce, marketplaces, consumer products, services and adjacent enabling software verticals.
Roberts joins Great Hill after 11 years at Advent International, where he focused on investments in growth businesses in the consumer sector. He co-led or was actively involved in investments across consumer products, digital and e-commerce, consumer technology, retail, restaurants, travel and hospitality, content and gaming.
Roberts is currently a Director of Sovos Brands, one of the fastest
Carried interest earned by a group 255 of the UK’s top private equity dealmakers, totalled £2.7 billion in the 2020-2021 tax year, according to a report by The Financial Times, quoting deal analysis by law firm Macfarlanes.
Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund now ranks among the largest private equity allocators by portfolio percentage (33$%), having made more than $600 million in commitments to the asset class in FY 2023, according to a report by Buyouts Insider.
The report cites board documents and meeting minutes as revealing that $5 billion pension system now allocates more to private equity than it does to any other strategy. Its next biggest allocation is domestic and international equity at 27%.
And the systems PE allocation could have further to go yet with tree documents revealing a target range of 10 to
Pear VC has closed its fourth fund with $432 million in capital commitments, making it one of the largest seed funds raised in recent years by a non-multistage vehicle. The fund will target pre-seed and seed investments in AI.
Kinzie Capital Partners LP has held the final close of the company’s first institutional fund, Kinzie Fund II, with $150 million in total commitments, from a wide range of investors including foundations, endowments, pension funds and family offices.
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