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Inflexion has appointed Andrea Bertolini as partner and head of Financial Services. Bertolini, who will lead the origination and execution of Inflexion’s Financial Services investments, has spent the last 12 years at Cinven, most recently as Senior Principal.
During his time at Cinven, Bertolini was involved with a number of transactions including Avolon, Eurovita, Guardian Financial Services, Partnership, Viridium Group and True Potential. Prior to Cinven, Andrea worked in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup.
To date, Inflexion has invested over £750 million into the Financial Services sector across 14 businesses, and currently has six Financial Services investments in its
Blue Owl Capital has held the final close of Dyal Capital Partners V (Fund V), the latest in its portfolio of GP Capital Solutions funds, with $12.9 billion of capital commitments, almost $4.0 billion larger than the team’s previous vehicle.
Triton Partners, a Swedish mid-market private investment firm focused on investments in industrial tech, services, consumer, and healthcare companies, has made an offer for Finnish construction systems provider Caverion that values the business at around €1.09 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
Software investment specialist Thoma Bravo, in partnership with Sunstone Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of UserTesting Inc, a specialist in “video-based human insight”, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, in partnership with Everstone Capital Partners, is to acquire Cprime, an information technology services management company, from engineering consulting services provider ALTEN Group, for a reported $360 million.
HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $53 billion of equity capital under management, has sold its portfolio company Medusind to Alpine Investors (Alpine). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Cleavemoor, a consumer sector investment advisor, has launched Cleavemoor 10, a new open ended hybrid vehicle employing the firm’s proprietary Agile Horizon Strategy, which combines a consumer sector long/short public equities portfolio with longer-term consumer private equity investments.
Investors are demonstrating a keen appetite for alternative investments. However, they are simultaneously showing a need for a certain level of liquidity. This is leading to a growing demand for semi-opened-ended alternative funds being launched in European fund domiciles.
Investment managers have seen their regulatory and compliance burden inch upwards for years. The use of management companies in jurisdictions like Luxembourg has sought to ease this load. Investment managers are welcoming the additional support provided by a third-party ManCo, allowing them to concentrate on their core capabilities of managing money.
Blackstone has promoted Brad Marshall, senior managing director, to the new role of global head of private credit strategies, after nearly two decades with the firm, according to a report by Pension & Investments Online.
The report cites Blackstone spokesperson Kate Holderness as confirming the appointment along with the addition of Jonathan Bock who has joined as co-CEO of the firm’s two business development companies, Blackstone Private Credit Fund and the Blackstone Secured Lending Fund.
Bock who joins from Barings BDC where he held the role of CEO, will work alongside Marshall, who had previously been the sole CEO of
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