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MidOcean Partners, a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments, has exited its position in Nutrabolt, an active health and wellness company.
Paul R Hogan, an M&A and private equity attorney based in Chicago, has joined Holland & Knight as a partner. Hogan was previously with Eversheds Sutherland and, prior to that, he served as secretary and general counsel of a publicly traded holding company.
Hogan joins the firm shortly after the arrival of a team of nine energy-focused partners, also from Eversheds, who are located in Atlanta, Houston, New York and Washington, DC.
Hogan focuses on corporate matters and strategic transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and equity and debt financings. He advises clients on all
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses, has promoted Jonathon (Jon) Bunt and Karen Winterhof to Partner.
With private equity new fund commitments slowing, investors are priortising key strategies and sectors into 2023, according to the H2 Rede Liquidity Index (RLI).
Software focused private equity investor Thoma Bravo has closed three new buyout funds with a combined $32.4 billion in capital commitments, one of the biggest private equity fundraisings so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
DWS, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank AG, is exploring the possible sale of its private equity secondaries business as part of a wider company plan to withdraw from areas of operation where it currently lacks scale, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that DWS has already been in contact with several parties interested in potentially acquiring the unit.
Chief Executive Officer Stefan Hoops, who has been conducting a broad review of DWS’ operations since his appointment six months ago, reportedly believes that the PE secondaries business requires substantial investment, and that
Avant, a credit-first financial technology company that provides access to financial solutions to underserved non-prime consumers, has secured $250 million of corporate debt and redeemable preferred equity from Ares Management Alternative Credit funds .
Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, is to sell Octo, a pure-play digital modernisation solutions provider to the US federal government, to IBM.
New figures from Datasite, a virtual data room provider for mergers and acquisitions due diligence, reveal that M&A deals are up by 3% when compared to the same period last year.
Datasite, which facilitates approximately 13,000 deals annually, compiled the figures based on the deals taking place on its platform from January to November. These deals are recorded at their inception, and are not yet announced, giving clear evidence that dealmaking is continuing and there is a steady deal volume already being worked on, although many won’t be announced for another six to nine months.
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Northleaf Capital Partners, a global private markets investment firm, has opened a new office in Tokyo, Japan, the ninth location in the firm’s global network complementing its existing Asia-Pacific presence in Melbourne, Australia.
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