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Forge Global Holdings, a private securities marketplace, has expanded its private market data products and solutions offering for institutional asset managers, with the launch of the Forge Private Market Index, a benchmark for actively traded private companies.
The new index leverages Forge’s 13 years of private market trading data and experience to enable investors to better measure their investment returns and gain insights on late-stage, venture-backed companies.
The index includes US domiciled companies that have raised at least one round of primary funding and have higher relative secondary liquidity in the past 12 months, thereby reflecting the actively traded
Innova Capital, a private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has promoted Andrzej Pietrzak to partner, boosting the firm’s position in the e-commerce, logistics, and tech-enabled B2B sectors as it seeks investment opportunities through the recently launched Innova/7 fund.
Pietrzak has been with Innova since 2013, and prior to becoming a partner, was a managing director at the company. Over the last few years, among things, he has overseen the development of INELO Group and PEKAES and was responsible for handling Innova’s exit from both investments. He has also been involved in some of Innova’s consumer goods investments,
Accordion, a private equity-focused financial and technology consulting firm, is to acquire Merilytics, a provider of analytics, data management, and business intelligence reporting solutions to businesses around the world.
With private equity sponsors and CFOs putting increased emphasis on data & analytics to drive insights that enable faster value creation decisions, Accordion says the acquisition of Merilytics will be the foundation of is Data & Analytics Practice to strengthen long-term support for its CFO clients.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not disclosed.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India, Merilytics uses decision sciences and an analytics-based approach
McGuireWoods has expanded its private equity team with appointment of partners Richard Starling and William Herrfeldt, who are highly regarded for their work advising clients on investment fund formation matters.
Starling and Herrfeldt advise fund sponsors on the organization, negotiation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, as well as regulatory and internal governance issues, and they advise institutional investors with respect to those and other alternative investments.
Starling, who joins in Charlotte, works with a wide variety of private funds and related products, including buyout, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds; fund of funds; separately managed accounts; managed
Crestbridge has appointed Paul Phelan as head of risk and compliance – Ireland, as the business continues to enhance its platform in Dublin. Phelan has over 24 years’ pf financial services experience specifically related to the administration and management of regulated multi-domiciled investment fund products.
Phelan, who is an approved person under fitness and probity requirements by the Central Bank of Ireland, joins Crestbridge Link Group where he had headed up the compliance function in Ireland.
Phelan holds a variety of certifications from the Institute of Bankers in Ireland, is a Licentiate of Compliance Institute, and holds fellowship status with
Truffle Private Markets Group (TPMG), a provider of private markets solutions and partner to wealth managers and family offices across Europe, has launched the US Mid-Market Private Equity Programme (TPM US Midmarket Programme) which has already closed 75% of its target size in 3 months.
Climate concerns have remained high on investors’ agendas. But with regulatory, governance and currency concerns still running high, Georges Beukering, Co-founder and Head of Capital Raising, Climate Fund Managers, details the way managers can allay investor apprehension when looking to invest in the space.
US private equity firm Bain Capital has raised around $6 billion for what will be its fifth and largest Asia-focused fund, with a final closing expected in the next few weeks, according to a report by Reuters.
Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, are to acquire Arconic Corporation, a provider of aluminium sheet, plate, and extrusions, as well as architectural products, in an all-cash transaction that values the company at an enterprise value of approximately $5.2 billion.
The transaction includes a minority investment from funds managed by affiliates of Irenic Capital Management (Irenic).
Under the terms of the deal,Arconic shareholders will receive $30.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of approximately 36% to the company’s undisturbed closing stock price on 27 February, 2023. Upon completion of the transaction, Arconic’s shares will no longer
Carlyle Group saw its shares sink on Thursday after the company revealed its Q1 distributable earnings earnings were below most analyst estimates due to a steep fall in income from sales of assets in its private equity portfolio, according to a report by Reuters.
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