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ZEDRA, a global specialist in fund solutions, has secured regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, for the acquisition of Curaçao- and US-based Atlas Fund Services, a privately held, fully licensed, alternative investment fund administrator.
Aspen Power Partners, a distributed generation platform, has secured a $350 million investment from funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle and acquired Safari Energy, LLC from PPL Corporation.
Alation Inc, a specialist in enterprise data intelligence has raised $123 million in a Series E funding round led by Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures alongside participation from new investor Databricks Ventures.
Voyager Interests, a private equity firm specialising in the energy services and equipment sector, has acquired Knight Energy Services, one of the largest tool rental companies serving the US oil and gas industry, from Clearlake Capital Group.
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising midmarket companies, has sold portfolio company Nekoosa, a manufacturer of specialty paper and film products used in the graphics and commercial print markets.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Nekoosa produces a comprehensive suite of specialty engineered materials in four key product areas: application and pressure sensitive tapes used to protect and transfer graphics onto surfaces such as store window and commercial vehicles; synthetic papers that offer a digitally printable tear-and-water-proof alternative to lamination; sheeted digital and offset grade carbonless paper; and
Global investment firm Sixth Street has held the final close of funds totaling $4.4 billion in fresh capital commitments to invest in fast-growing businesses through the firm’s Sixth Street Growth platform. The funds closed at their hard cap.
Ed Saunders has re-joined global law firm Goodwin as partner in the firm’s private equity practice in London. Saunders was previously a finance associate in Goodwin’s UK Private Equity practice for three years to 2019.
Saunders acts for managers, general partners, funds, banks, non-bank lenders and other market participants on a range of products across the fund finance sector. His extensive experience includes acting on subscription line, umbrella and managed account financings, net asset value (NAV) and hybrid fund facilities across various asset classes, preferred equity arrangements and management and co-investment liquidity lines, including advising on security packages in respect of
Star Mountain Capital, a private investment manager with over $3 billion in assets under management focused exclusively on investing in established, small and medium-sized businesses in the North American lower middle-market, has appointed T J Della Pietra as a senior advisor.
Cairn Capital has rebranded as Polus Capital Management (Polus), following its strategic combination with specialist credit manager Bybrook Capital in 2021.
The rebranding reflects the coming together of two successful European credit managers to create a cohesive firm with a shared vision and unified goals of delivering best-in-class performance and client service to institutional investors.
Polus says investors are already benefitting from the valuable synergies and investment insights covering performing through to distressed, enabling the firm to be more relevant to institutional investors’ needs as they naturally evolve through the cycle. The firm’s underlying investment strategies, teams and governance structure
The first priority for most newly launched funds is typically in the front office. In the back-office, new technology and outsourcing capabilities are providing comfort to them…
Though fundraising may be the greatest challenge facing a new or first-time fund manager, it is often back and middle-office considerations that make or break the business over the long-term.
At each stage, from debut fund to a fourth vehicle, about one-third of emerging managers don’t raise a subsequent fund. How their team is structured is usually a major factor.
In Private Equity Wire’s emerging manager survey conducted in September, the second greatest
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