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Stafford Capital Partners, an international private markets investment and advisory group, has launched Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund V, its fifth infrastructure secondaries vehicle.
UK mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has sold Vendigital, a management consultancy focused on supply chain cost and supply challenges, to Siemens Advanta.
Founded in 2000, Vendigital combines consulting services with a proprietary digital platform to provide clients with data-led transformation programmes aimed at identifying and solving complex issues.
Since acquiring Vendigital in 2018, Livingbridge has helped the business deliver significant organic growth. The company has seen a three-times increase per annum in the number of client wins since April 2020, delivering a c60% uplift in revenue.
Livingbridge was advised by Clearwater International (Corporate Finance); Eversheds (Legal) and PwC
Global private equity firm Permira has appointed Kelly Grier, who recently retired as US chair and managing partner and Americas managing partner of Ernst & Young (EY), as a senior adviser to its global Services team.
At EY, Grier oversaw more than 81,000 people in 31 countries, with annual revenue of over $21 billion. During her 31-year tenure with the firm she served in a variety of leadership roles before becoming US chair in 2018.
At Permira, Grier will leverage her global network and experience in leadership development, risk management, financial reporting, and corporate governance, to support the firm’s investment
PwC’s UK Deals Insights and Analytics team has chosen Doorda Data Products to augment its analytics capabilities for hedge fund, private equity, and corporate clients. Doorda researches, consolidates, links and updates open data from hundreds of publishers into a cloud data platform.
By incorporating data from Doorda, PwC says its UK Deals Insights and Analytics team can focus on the analytics work that is critical when executing deals.
PwC says the team is also looking to capitalise on features unique to the Doorda Data Platform; historical data not kept by data publishers, data specifically harvested by Doorda using Freedom of Information
The private equity industry is shifting its focus from deal-making to value creation, driven by the persistent uncertainty across financial markets and global macroeconomics. As a result, general partners will need to work to maximize the value of their existing investments through a number of key strategies.
Bain Capital is considering re-listing its Virgin Australia airline – Australia’s second biggest carrier – in what would be one of the country’s largest initial public offerings (IPOs) of the year, according to a report by Reuters.
Alternative investment manager Stonepeak Partners is looking to raise $2.5 billion (€2.3 billion) for its new infrastructure fund, which will target investment opportunities in North American and Europe, according to a report by IP&E Real Assets.
The report cites an investors meeting document as revealing that the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana (Louisiana Teachers) has approved a $50 million commitment to the new Stonepeak Opportunities Fund.
The fund is already in the process of acquiring a 50% interest in the Key Access Pipeline System, with the acquisition expected to complete by the end of the current quarter.
Former fund managers from KKR & Co and British International Investment Plc are planning to raise up to $250 million for a new fund that will invest in technology-focused startups in India, according to a report by Reuters.
Ajay Candade, who until recently led KKR’s growth tech business in India, and Nikhil Balaraman, who was previously head of South Asia tech investment at BII, are the co-founders of venture capital fund, Fractal Growth Partners (FGP), which according to unnamed sources, will look to make ‘scale-up’ investments of between $10 million and $15 million in companies that have moved past the
Growth-focused private equity firm Bregal Sagemount, is acquiring a minority stake in Enhesa, a provider of regulatory and sustainability intelligence from ICG, with existing investor CGE Partners retaining its majority stake in the company.
British Patient Capital and Mubadala Investment Company, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign investor, have a made a co-investment in the SV Biotech Crossover Opportunities Fund (SV BCOF) through the UK’s Life Sciences Investment Programme, a £200 million initiative launched in 2021 to support the growth of UK life sciences businesses.
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