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The Private Equity US Emerging Managers Summit is aimed at management firms and funds in their early stages of development, raising capital for funds I through III, as well as managers and funds operated by women and leaders from diverse backgrounds.
Schroders Capital, the’ specialist private markets investment division of Schroders, has launched Schroders Capital Climate+ LTAF, a Long-Term Asset Fund, designed to help UK pension fund investors support the net zero transition.
IQ-EQ has established operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), giving the global investor services group its first physical presence in the Middle East. The new office, is located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and means IQ-EQ nos has a presence in 25 jurisdictions worldwide.
Clearlake Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in the technology, industrial and consumer sectors, has had a bid worth $3.78 billion to acquire cloud computing provider Blackbaud Inc rejected because it undervalues the company, according to a report by Reuters.
EQT Life Sciences has held the final close of its LSP Dementia Fund, raising approximately €260 million in fee-generating assets under management, meeting the hard cap and surpassing the target fund size of €100 million.
TOP STORY: British private equity firm Actis has paid around $500 million to acquire a portfolio of Latin American data centres from Nabiax, a Spanish data processing centre operator owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefonica.
Argand Partners, a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, has made a senior addition to its investment team with the appointment of Eric Korsten as Managing Director. Gerald Lizzo has also joined the firm as an Associate.
Actis, a UK-based private investment firm focused on sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Neda Vakilian as head of its Investor Solutions Group (ISG), which was previously known as the Investor Development Group.
Vakilian is based in London and will be responsible for leading Actis’ capital raising initiatives and strategic investor programs. She will assume the role from Neil Brown, who is stepping back within Actis to focus on working directly with investors.
During her near 20-year career, Vakilian has worked across private capital markets, business development, and fundraising. Before joining Actis, she was co-head of capital solutions and investor relations for
HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm,.has added Bob Currier to the HCI Executive Partner group to advise on human capital management, including talent acquisition, organisational design, leadership development and succession throughout the entire HCI portfolio.
Accelex, a SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched an automated document acquisition solution for private market fund managers.
Automated document acquisition provides a consolidated content feed to the Accelex data extraction platform using direct API connectivity to portals including SS&C Intralinks and FIS Digital Data Exchange, email attachment capturing and SFTP. Actionable accounting data and investment insights are now accessible within minutes of document availability from managers.
Accelex says the platform utilises artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to categorise, classify, and tag documents, enabling efficient document management. The document acquisition
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