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Fasanara Capital – a London-based asset management and technology platform – has secured a strategic circa $200 million mandate from one of Canada’s largest pension funds. These latest funds will be used by Fasanara Capital to support further expansion of its global fintech ecosystem.
Private equity firm KKR & Co is looking to offload Canadian oil and gas producer Westbrick Energy Ltd in a potential deal valued at between $1.13 billion and $1.5 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
The report cutes unnamed sources as revealing that majority owner KKR is looking to find a buyer by the end of the year, one of the sources said, but that it could also hold on to Westbrick should it fail to find a suitable buyer.
KKR has owned Westbrick for a decade, investing CAD250 million in the company when it was a smaller producer
With a target of $20 billion, software investments firm Vista Equity Partners is seeking the third largest amount of capital among private equity funds in market, for its latest flagship fund, according to a report by Private Equity International.
The report cites documents prepared of a US pension fund as showing that Vista Equity Partners VIII, which launched earlier this year, has already passed the halfway mark.
A due diligence report by the chief investment officer of Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds CRTPF, prepared for the pension’s 16 November investment advisory council meeting reveals that the fund has so
Carlyle Group is targeting at least $1.6 billion for a second private equity fund which will focus on investments in renewable energy and sustainability assets, according to a report by Reuters.
The report cutes sources familiar with the matter as saying that Carlye began raising capital for Carlyle Renewable & Sustainable Energy Fund II earlier this year, which it achieves its target size, will be twice the size of its $800 million predecessor fund.
Carlyle has already been active in renewable energy and sustainability sector investments this year, investing $350 million to acquire a majority stake in US renewable energy
Climate Adaptive Infrastructure (CAI), an investment firm that targets control investments in large-scale, low-carbon real assets in the clean energy, water, and urban infrastructure sectors, has close of its inaugural fund, Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Fund with more than $825 million in equity.
In addition, alongside the Fund, CAI has an affiliated co-investment programme of over $200 million, for a total of over $1 billion in equity to deploy.
The fund attracted an institutional set of global limited partners comprised of endowments, foundations, insurance firms, pensions and superannuation funds, and fund of funds, in addition to prominent family offices and high
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising mid-market companies, has acquired L2 Brands, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of custom apparel and headwear for the collegiate, destination and leisure, and corporate markets.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
With a heritage dating back more than 30 years, L2 Brands creates customized products that connect consumers with the schools, destinations, and traditions they love. Since its founding in 1991, L2 Brands has grown into a diversified business with a successful history of long-term profitable growth. L2’s two brands—League and Legacy—offer widely recognised lines of
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Motivating Systems, a provider of behavioural management software to K-12 schools and districts, as an add-on to its portfolio company, Navigate360.
Motivating Systems is the creator of PBIS Rewards, an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioural, academic, social, emotional and mental health. PBIS, which stands for Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports, helps schools track positive reward and behaviour referral data, which are critical inputs in assessing the overall wellbeing of a student. The company’s software suite allows customers to analyse
MiddleGround Capital, an operationally focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, has acquired SixAxis, a provider of compliance-driven safety equipment solutions across diverse end markets.
SixAxis’ patent-protected suite of customisable and modular solutions are purpose-built to address companies’ safety and productivity challenges. The Company’s products, offered under the brand families SafeRack, ErectAStep and Upside Innovations, include superior stairway and platform systems, fall protection and bulk loading solutions.
With an over $3 billion addressable market for access and loading fall prevention solutions, SixAxis is well positioned within a highly
LDC-backed Croud, a global digital marketing agency working with some of the world’s leading brands, has acquired Born Social, a global social media agency. This transaction marks Croud’s third acquisition in 12 months.
With the support of its private equity partner LDC, it continues to build its group of global businesses. This follows the acquisition of luxury digital marketing agency VERB Brands in November 2021, and data and analytics company impakt Advisors in December. The transaction takes Croud group’s annual revenues to more than £50 million in its latest financial year, a record for the group.
The business is
Grant Avenue Capital, a middle market healthcare-focused private equity firm, has launched Helios Clinical Research, a new integrated clinical site organisation that partners with patients, physicians, and biopharma sponsors to optimise clinical research.
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