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Sidra Capital, a Saudi based alternative asset manager, in partnership with BlackRock Alternatives, has held the first close of the Sidra-BlackRock Asia-Pacific Private Equity Strategy. The bespoke strategy looks to provide investors with unique Shari’ah compliant private equity opportunities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
The strategy leverages BlackRock’s established GP network and strong deal flow to access leading managers with compelling transactions. The strategy is structured to provide investors with a diversified exposure to the APAC region. APAC comprises of countries located in the East, South, and Southeast Asia as well as Australia and Oceania.
APAC private equity has consistently
Geoff Hutchinson has been appointed as head of private equity for Australia and New Zealand at Carlyle Group Inc, according to a report by Bloomberg. Hutchinso joins the firm as a managing director from New Zealand-based infrastructure investor Morrison & Co, where he was co-head for Australia and New Zealand.
KKR has partnered with Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), a global sovereign investor, to co-invest across performing private credit opportunities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
The Partnership aims to deploy at least $1 billion of long-term capital, providing bespoke credit solutions to companies and sponsors. Mubadala will deploy its capital alongside KKR’s existing pools of capital, including the recently raised KKR Asia Credit Opportunities Fund, a $1.1 billion vehicle focused on performing, privately originated credit investments in the region.
The partnership strengthens Mubadala’s exposure in the rapidly growing APAC credit market, while enabling KKR to significantly scale its APAC credit
Asante Capital Group (Asante), an independent private equity placement and advisory group, has launched a series of strategic growth initiatives designed to enhance the firm’s ability to connect Asia-based GPs with allocators across the globe and strengthen their ability to penetrate Asian pools of capital.
Asante has GP clients throughout the region, including in China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Australia. The firm has a demonstrated track record of harnessing their understanding of the market and investor demands to raise established funds across the region.
Among these initiatives and based on his proven industry expertise, relationships and leadership across the
Arcapita Group Holdings (Arcapita), a global alternative investment firm, is to target a series of strategic investments in Saudi Arabia through Arcapita Capital Company, a new Riyadh-based subsidiary licensed by the country’s Capital Market Authority, Arcapita Capital Company.
The Carlyle Group has acquired a majority stake in Spain-based plywood manufacturer Garnica from Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) and certain shareholders in a €500 million deal.
The transactions sees ICG exit the company, while the Garnica family will reinvest part of the money obtained and retain, along with the management team, a meaningful stake in the capital.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher advised The Carlyle Group on the acquisitions.
Blackstone Group has moved to reflect a sharp decline in global equity prices caused by rising interest rates and a slowing economy, by marking down the value of its sprawling investment portfolio, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Advent International (Advent) has appointed Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg as Operating Partners. Dubey and Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies.
Dubey and Ginsberg bring substantial experience in building digital communities and scaling disruptive global businesses, having each previously served as chief executive officer of Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), a leading provider of digital technologies designed to help people make meaningful connections. Dubey and Ginsberg were instrumental in developing the online dating category, growing
Bregal Sagemount (Sagemount), a growth-focused private equity firm, has held the final closing of the Bregal Sagemount Fund IV (Fund IV) at its hard cap of $2.5 billion, 66% larger than its prior fund.
Fund IV will continue the investment strategy Sagemount has pursued since inception in 2012, providing flexible, solution-oriented capital to durable growth businesses with high recurring revenues, operating in end-markets with uncorrelated secular growth characteristics.
Sagemount launched the Fund IV raise earlier this year and was fully allocated over the summer. The fund had a 100% Limited Partner participation rate and a 130% re-up rate by dollar
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