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Private credit investment firm Littlejohn & Co, has appointed Federico Persico, a credit specialist with more than 15 years of investing, business development, and investor relations experience, as Head of Capital Formation.
Apollo Global Management has entered into negotiations to acquire US-based aluminium products maker Arconic Corp, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, with Arconic’s shares soaring by 19.8% in afternoon trading on Tuesday as news of the potential deal first broke.
Investcorp has held the final closing of Investcorp North American Private Equity Fund I, which focuses on control buy-out investments in middle market services businesses in North America, with over $1.2 billion in capital commitments.
The fund’s blue-chip institutional backers include pension plans, family offices, private wealth funds and an insurance company operating across North America, Europe and the Gulf region.
Fund I currently has a strong portfolio of seven investments in companies across the strategy’s core business services verticals. The investment strategy is focused on family- and founder-owned business across six subsectors including: tech-enabled, knowledge & professional, data
KKR has completed the JPY7.2 billion ($5.2 billion) acquisition of Hitachi Transport System (HTS), a third-party logistics business based in Japan, from Hitachi, with the company set to be renamed as LOGISTEED Ltd from 1 April 2023.
KKR holds the shares of HTS through HTSK Co, Ltd (HTSK), a special purpose entity which owns 100% of the shares with voting rights in HTS, and through HTSK Holdings Co, Ltd (HTSK Holdings), a 100% parent and holding company of HTSK.
KKR will work in strategic partnership with Hitachi, which owns 10% of the shares with voting rights in HTSK Holdings, while
Inflexion is to acquire a majority stake in Nomentia, a European treasury and cash management software provider, from current investors PSG Equity and Verdane. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s Buyout Fund VI.
Helsinki-headquartered Nomentia is a modular, cloud first software provider delivering a portfolio of solutions to the cash & treasury management segment around bank connectivity, payments, cash visibility and forecasting, trade finance, and risk & reporting.
Nomentia’s base of 1,400-plus blue chip customers spans a wide range of industries and geographies across Europe with the firm’s solutions used in over 80 countries to process more than €1.2
Lyric Capital Group, a New York-based private equity firm that specialises in investing in music copyrights, has closed its second fund, with total commitments of approximately $410 million, exceeding its target with support from a diverse group of new and existing institutional investors.
Growth in Net Asset Value credit facilities has increased exponentially in importance among private equity and other alternative investment funds since the pandemic relative to the secondary trading of assets as a means of creating liquidity, according to the Citco group of companies.
Angeles Equity Partners, a lower middle-market private equity investment firm focused on value creation through operational transformation, has appointed Randi Moran as chief performance officer at Angeles Operations Group.
Variable cost models are on the rise as PE firms remain cautious about increasing head count in uncertain times. This prudence is also resulting in the further growth of outsourcing as firms aim to manage cost and improve efficiency. Due diligence is becoming increasingly demanding and stringent, with cybersecurity concerns taking centre stage.
Despite the devastation it caused across the financial industry, the crypto winter resulting from the fall of FTX helped highlight the rigour of Gibraltar’s legislation around the way client assets are segregated and protected.
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