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Fuel Venture Capital, an early-stage investor in technology and digital companies, will raise money for its next fund using a new funding structure its says is positioned to “transform the private markets landscape”.
Institutional investors will be able to participate in the upcoming Fuel Venture Capital Flagship Fund II, which is aiming to raise $300 million, via The Fuel VC Note, a listed, centrally cleared transferable Note that can be sold and traded throughout its duration.
Investing in the fund in this way enables the potential liquidity and transferability of a stake in an underlying asset class that
The Texas County & District Retirement System (TCDRS) has added two additional private equity funds to its investment portfolio in recent weeks, despite recently announcing a reduction in its annual PE commitment, according to a report by Alternatives Watch.
The new managers hired are growth equity focused Parthenon Capital and ZMC, an investor in media, entertainment, communications and technology business. Parthenon Investors VII, which recently closed at $4.5 billion, received a $110 million commitment, while TCDRS also allocated $75 million to the MC IV fund.
The $42 billion Austin-based pension scheme recently announced it was cutting back its annual commitment
Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, the middle-market focused private equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is to sell Ovation Fertility to US Fertility. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
M&G Investments, along with two other large shareholders, is to vote against a proposed private equity takeover of British events group Hyve PLC because the bid significantly undervalues the international exhibition company, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Ancala Partners has acquired a majority interest in Noventa Energy Partners, a global renewable energy company which provides a full suite of services to decarbonise the heating and cooling of buildings, for an undisclosed amount.
BC Partners is to acquire a majority stake in Metropolitan College and AKMI IEK, a provider of post-secondary education in Greece, in partnership with founders Konstantinos and Kalliopi Rodopoulos, who remain shareholders and will continue to support the business.
Limerston Capital has acquired Concept Life Sciences, a leading integrated drug discovery, development and manufacturing organisation, in a carve-out from Spectris plc, through its new fund Limerston Capital Partners II, LP.
The acquisition is Limerston’s fourth platform deal in the life sciences space. The firm targets UK businesses with EBITDA of between £5 million and £15 million.
Concept Life Sciences is an established contract research organisation (CRO), primarily serving the global research and development market, with clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology space ranging from blue chip to virtual biotech.
Its team of around 300 accomplished scientists and over
DW Healthcare Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has closed the DW Healthcare Partners Small Cap, a fund focused on lower middle market healthcare investments, with $210 million in total capital commitments.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, is to acquire Dastex Reinraumzubehör GmbH & Co, an independently owned cleanroom garment & consumables distributor in Europe, and Vita Verita, a leading player in the Swedish market, as a first add-on to the platform.
EY has made two additions to the EY Global Private Equity leadership team – Konstanze Nardi has been appointed as the EY Global Private Equity Exit Readiness Leader and Will Rhode as EY Global Private Equity ESG Leader.
The two senior appointments follow an investment of around $1 billion phased over four years to expand private equity (PE) capabilities in the areas of value creation and portfolio transformation; deal leadership; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) services.
Based in London, Nardi takes up her role with immediate effect. During her 20-year career at EY, she has worked in the US,
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