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Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, is to open a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. The new flagship location will occupy 1,300 square meters in the OMNITURM in Frankfurt’s financial district and serve as a hub for Blackstone in Germany.
The new office will host professionals across Blackstone’s private equity, real estate, and credit businesses, in addition to providing a hub for the firm’s private wealth solutions business, which serves investment professionals and individual investors across Europe. Juergen Pinker, Senior Managing Director, will lead on private equity, with Jurij Puth, Senior Managing Director, leading on credit.
Blackstone has been
Apex Group Ltd has appointed Anthony Alfonso as global head of valuation. Alfonso will be responsible for the group’s valuation advisory services for a wide range of investor types, including hedge funds, private equity and debt funds, venture capital, mutual funds, structured credit, family offices, pension funds as well as corporates, insurance companies, banking and other financial institutions.
Apex Group’s Valuation Services provide periodic valuations for illiquid financial instruments such as equity, debt and derivatives to meet specific reporting requirements, throughout all stages of a fund’s lifecycle.
Alfonso has more than 25 years of financial services experience providing valuation
TA Associates has paused fundraising for one of its newer strategies, the firm’s third Select Opportunities Fund, which came to market alongside the firm’s 15th flagship pool and was targeting $1.5 billion, according to a report by BuyoutsInsider.
MindGeek, the owner of several pornographic video-streaming platforms and studios, including Pornhub, is being acquired by Ethical Capital, a new private equity firm based in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, according to a report by The Financial Times.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
According to unnamed FT sources, MindGeek’s most recently published figures show revenues in 2018 reached $460 million while profit margins have at times neared 50 per cent, while data from internet traffic analytics firm Similarweb ranks Pornhub as the 12th most visited website in the world last year.
The deal is Ethical Capital’s first
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has paid $155 million to acquire a “significant minority stake” in Indonesian gas company PT Samator Indo Gas from existing company shareholders, according to a press statement.
Following CVC’s investment, the Harsono family will continue to hold a majority stake in the business and retain control of the company.
CVC, which has €137 billion of assets under management, has made seven previous investments in Indonesia according to its website, including Siloam International Hospitals, and retailer MAP Aktif Adiperkasa.
PT Samator Indo Gas has several expansion plans in the near future, including an upcoming new
Fintech-focused private equity firm Motive Partners is in discussions to acquire ACI Worldwide Inc, a provider of payments software and services to banks, merchants and other customers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Unnamed Bloomberg sources familiar with the matter say that Motive has been exploring funding options for a potential take private deal this week, although nothing has been finalised and discussions may yet fall through.
Shares in ACI, which according to its website offers a range of payments services including a platform for handling in-store transactions and fraud-detection services, rose 2.9% to $23.35 at 3:09 pm in New
Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil company, is planning to expand its corporate venture capital arm by up to $200 million with the extra funding set to be in place as early as April, according to a report by Reuters.
Two unnamed Reuters sources have revealed that the new funding will be focused on innovation and technology investments across Asia-Pacific, although the plan has yet to be finalised and details may change.
Petronas responded to a request from Reuters for confirmation by saying that it “plans to allocate additional funds to Petronas Ventures, increasing the size of its venture capital arm from
Court Square Capital Partners, a middle market-focused private equity firm with $7.4 billion in assets under management, has made a strategic investment in Five Star Parks & Attractions, a developer and operator of large-format family entertainment centres.
Ahdiv Nathan has joined Turnspire Capital Partners, a New York-based, special situations private equity investment firm, as a vice president. Nathan joins Turnspire from DestinHaus Capital, a private equity firm focused on industrials and manufacturing businesses.
Kester Capital, a UK lower mid-market private equity specialist, has invested in MAP Patient Access, a specialist in market access consulting services to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
The investment represents Kester’s fifth investment in the life sciences sector.
Headquartered in Cambridge, MAP is dedicated to accelerating patient access to ground-breaking medicines, devices, and diagnostics. It has a proven track record of helping its customers navigate increasingly complex healthcare reimbursement pathways, with particular expertise in rare and orphan diseases and cell and gene therapies. MAP’s integrated approach blends best-in-class consulting with membership including its proprietary digital platform, MAP Online,
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