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As competition for the most desirable assets increases among alternative asset managers, optimising capital structures, including leverage solutions, is key to supporting expected returns on equity. Richard Wheelahan, managing director and co-founder of Fund Finance Partners, explains.
Drilling Tools International, an oilfield services firm which builds and rents out drilling equipment for oil and gas companies, is to list in New York after agreeing to merge with special purpose acquisition company ROC Energy Acquisition Corp, according to a report by Reuters.
Inflexion is to acquire a majority stake in dss+, a provider of sustainability-focussed operations management consulting services, from Gyrus Capital, via its Buyout Fund VI, which closed with £2.5 billion in capital commitments in March 2022.
ARX Equity Partners, a Central Europe-focused private equity firm, has completed the sale of TES Vsetin, a Czech electro-mechanical engineering company, to a private equity consortium of Genesis Capital and Avallon. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Quant trading specialist DE Shaw & Co has closed its first dedicated private equity fund with more than $450 million in capital commitments, falling just sort of the fund’s $500 million target, which was set a year ago, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apex Group has appointed Alice Read as country head, Jersey. She will report to James Burke, regional head of Northern Europe and Channel Islands and be responsible for leading the group’s Jersey-based team.
Consumer-focussed private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners has acquired Unilever’s Suave beauty and personal care brand, which includes hair care, skin care, skin cleansing and deodorant products, in North America. Suave will continue to be owned and operated by Unilever outside of the US and Canada.
Pan-European private equity firm Astorg is to use LemonEdge’s cloud native platform for its LP, GP and fund accounting requirements.
Astorg, which has over €18 billion of assets under management, will will now manage its full accounting processes via the LemonEdge platform without the need for offline processes.
This includes transaction automation across the fund structure, without legacy equity pick up, single click ILPA and customer reporting, and integrated calculations including NAV, waterfalls and IRRs.
Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has appointed Peter Saldarriaga as a Managing Director. Saldarriaga will be based in the firm’s Boston office.
Saldarriaga has over fifteen years of experience in private equity and consulting. He spent over twelve years at Bain Capital, where he focused on buyouts and growth investments in the industrial, business services, and technology sectors.
Saldarriaga was also the co-founder, CEO, and CFO of Belong Acquisition Corp, a $150 million SPAC focused on high-growth tech-enabled businesses. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company
Bridge Investment Group Holdings is to acquire Newbury Partners, an investment manager that specialises in acquiring limited partnership interests in private equity funds through secondary transactions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $320.1 million.
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