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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.
Summit Partners has held the first and final closing of its newest Europe growth equity fund, Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund IV, at its hard cap with €1.4 billion in total capital commitments. Launched in October 2022, the fund was oversubscribed.
Warburg Pincus’ interest in China’s $3.8 billion mutual fund industry shows no sign of abating with the US private equity giant reportedly making progress on the acquisition of a stake in Zhong Ou Asset Management Co from Intesa Sanpaolo, according to a report by Reuters.
Consumer-focussed private investor L Catterton is close to agreeing the sale of UK-based luxury boat-builder Princess Yachts to US private equity firm KPS Capital Partners (KPS), with a deal set to be announced as as early as this week, according to a report by PlymouthLive.
Over the past 30 years, New York-based KPS, which has about $141 billion of assets under management, has focussed on acquiring manufacturing business in a range of markets including branded goods, consumer goods, healthcare and luxury products, and automotive parts. According to KPS, it creates portfolio company value “almost exclusively through operational and performance improvement”.
Public transport specialist Via has raised $110 million in a financing round led by 83North, at a valuation of $3.5 billion, the same as the company’s previous financing in November 2021. Exor NV, Pitango, Janus Henderson, CF Private Equity, Planven Entrepreneur Ventures, Riverpark Ventures, and ION Crossover Partners also participated in the round.
Via intends to use the funding to expand its product suite, improve its end-to-end digital infrastructure for public mobility, and expand into new markets and verticals.
Via’s products are used by more than 600 communities around the globe to expand access to public transportation by building networks
Eureka Equity Partners has recapitalised Blueprint NYC a healthcare communications agency providing promotional services to pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech companies, in partnership with the firm’s founders and senior team leaders.
Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm supporting growth stage European SMEs in the circular economy, has appointed Anders Brejner as investment director. Brejener joins the business from GRO Capital, a European tech-focused private equity firm.
Crestbridge has expanded its team in Luxembourg with two senior appointments – Teodora Croitoru who joins as head of compliance, fund services, and Emmanuelle Poret who has taken on the role of head of client onboarding, fund services & ManCo.
Audit, tax, advisory and risk firm Crowe, has promoted Alex Conway, a director within its Professional Practice and Private Client teams, to partner. Conway specialises in professional practices and individual partners’ taxation, with a particular focus on the private equity sector .
Conway has 14 years of experience working in tax and accounting, including spending time as head of tax at mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge.
Conway he has experience advising partners and partnerships on a range of issues, including basis period reform, international expansion, salaried members legislation, LLP set up and succession, fund structuring, income based carried interest analysis
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