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Permira has appointed Jörg Rockenhäuser as chairman of DACH, effective 1 January, 2023. Rockenhäuser, who has been with the business for 22 years – 15 years as head of DACH – will continue his work as a member of Permira’s Investment Committee.
Global private equity investor Advent International is to acquire Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, in an all-cash transaction that values Maxar at an enterprise value of approximately $6.4 billion.
The EQT X fund, part of global investment firm EQT, has competed its acquisition of BTRS Holdings Inc, a B2B order-to-cash software specialist.
Bellevue has recruited an experienced private equity secondaries team consisting of Steven Kroese, Lars Honegger and Chris Davies, that has been operational as of 1 December, 2022.
This acquisition adds a new field of activity to Bellevue’s Private Markets operations – secondary strategies – that complements its existing well established direct investment activities. Bellevue will launch a secondary investment vehicle at the beginning of 2023.
Steven Kroese will serve as managing partner and a member of the Bellevue Private Markets Investment Team. He previously worked for more than 16 years at Partners Group as Senior Vice President and Member of
Ruomu Li has joined Cooley’s Shanghai office as a partner in the firm’s business department, where she will focus on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions with an emphasis on the technology and life sciences industries.
Li arrives from Morrison & Foerster, where she served as a partner in the M&A, private equity investments and buyouts practices. She has extensive experience representing strategic and financial investors and target companies in the US, across China, and internationally on a broad range of M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions.
Li brings nearly 16 years of experience in M&A and private
Asset managers are selling private equity holdings via secondary market transactions at a record rate as they look to cover losses from other investment and rebalance portfolios, according to a report by Reuters.
The report says that the sell-off is another signal that investors are beginning to “fall out of love” with alternative investments that until recently were flavour of the month.
With deals being negotiated privately, total turnover is difficult to gauge, although the report cites investment firm Hamilton Lane as saying that some $224 billion in private equity stakes have been offered in the secondary market this year
VI Asset Management has appointed Apex Group to provide fund administration services to its inaugural evergreen Asia private credit fund.
Private investment house Ardian has formed a new $2.1 billion private equity partnership with Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of $284 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company.
Software-focused private investment giant Thoma Bravo has closed its AUD1.06 billion ($729m) acquisition of Australia-based aerial imagery company Nearmap.
The purchase price which equates to AUD2.10 per share, represents a 39% premium to the stock’s closing price on 12 August, the day before news of the all-cash deal broke.
Nearmap, founded in Perth, Australia in 2007, is one of the world’s largest aerial survey companies, providing users with access to high resolution aerial imagery, city-scale 3D content, AI data sets and geospatial tools.
Munich Private Equity Partners (MPEP), a specialist in investments in the European and North American lower mid- and mid-cap buyout segment, has held the final closing of its fourth fund-of-funds programme, MPEP IV, with capital commitments of around EUR392 million, well above its original target of EUR250 million.
MPEP IV is targeting a focused portfolio of 15 to 20 Lower mid- and mid-cap buyout funds per investment region. To date, the fund-of-funds has made commitments to 28 funds across Europe and North America.
MPEP says the fund attracted strong support from existing and new investors with the final fund size
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