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CoVenture Management, an alternative asset management firm focused on direct credit opportunities and credit-oriented investments in early and late-stage companies, has appointed Joe Iraci as chief compliance officer. And managing director.
KKR & Co’s new international private equity fund for high net-worth investors has so far attracted $400 million from clients, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing information from the firm’s co-chief executive officer Joe Bae. The report quotes Bae as revealing at an investor conference on Thursday, that KKR is also planning to launch a private equity fund for US retail investors in the current quarter, along with an infrastructure fund for US retail clients. According to Bae the alternative industry could potentially attract $9 trillion to $10 trillion of the estimated $180 trillion of wealth currently in the
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Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have completed the previously announced acquisition of a majority (60%) stake in Emerson’s Climate Technologies business in a transaction valuing the business at $14.0 billion. 
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
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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.

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