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Martin Longchamps has been appointed as the new head of private equity at Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. Longchamps joins from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board where he was managing director of private equity.
Longchamps, who will be based in Caisse’s head office in Montreal, succeeds New York-based Martin Laguerre, who had been in the role for less than two years.
Caisse de Depot’s private equity portfolio, which was worth CAD82.5 billion ($60.1 billion), or nearly 20% of CDPQ’s assets under management, at the end of last year, posted a 39.2% return in 2021
Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated technology and consumer investor, has sold Pixomondo (PXO), an Oscar and Emmy award-winning virtual production, visualisation and VFX company, to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
PXO, which is known for its work on premium content including Sony Pictures Television’s The Boys, as well as Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender, maintains three LED sound stages and seven offices in the US, UK, Germany, and Canada.
PXO will continue to
Balderton Capital has appointed Danny Bloom as Head of Legal, and Andrew Wigfall as Executive In Residence (EIR) as part of its commitment to further building out its EIR programme and portfolio support team.
The appointments follow other recent senior hires including Rachel Bremer (Chief Marketing & Communications Officer) and Elodie Broad (Head of Impact).
In his new role, Bloom will lead Balderton’s legal team, advising on the firm’s investments and exits, and working closely with the portfolio on legal matters throughout their journey from term sheet through to exit.
Wigfall, meanwhile, is moving from his previous role as Balderton’s
TPG, a global alternative asset management firm, has appointed Pamela Pavkov has a Partner and Head of TPG NEXT, a strategy designed to back the next generation of diverse alternative asset managers.
In her role, Pavkov will be responsible for driving TPG NEXT’s investment strategy, sourcing, execution, and portfolio management.
TPG launched TPG NEXT to accelerate the growth of diverse-led GPs by providing access to capital, business building expertise, and strategic advisory to underrepresented talent. The strategy aims to increase the number of diverse-led firms in alternative assets, aligning the industry more closely with broader demographic trends and catalysing diverse-led
ConnexPay, a payments technology company that integrates payments acceptance and issuance inside a single platform, has secured a $110 million growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor.
Previous ConnexPay investors also participated in the round.
The funding will enable ConnexPay to drive international expansion in Europe and beyond, as well as continue to enhance its innovative payments platform. With this investment, ConnexPay has raised a total of $145 million to date.
Founded in 2017, ConnexPay was initially developed to serve the travel industry, today supporting many of the largest travel agencies, tour operators, and
InMotion Ventures (InMotion), the corporate venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover, has appointed Mike Smeed as Managing Director, with the fund playing a key part in the company’s recently launched Open Innovation strategy.
Smeed joins from Chery Jaguar Land Rover, a Shanghai-based joint venture between Jaguar Land Rover and Chinese car manufacturer Chery Automobile Co, where he was the Vice President of Finance. He brings a wealth of experience enabling growth in multinational environments and is well versed in managing relationships between large corporations and disruptive high-growth business units.
InMotion, launched in 2016, has already invested in start-ups
TOP STORY: Toshiba Corp could be taken private by a consortium led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) in a deal that vales the business at about $16.1 billion (JPY2.4 trillion), according to a report by Bloomberg.
Nordic Capital has completed its largest ever fund raise, and one of the largest in Europe so far this year, with the closing of Nordic Capital Fund XI at its hard cap of €9 billion, exceeding its €8 billion target.
BlackRock Alternatives (BlackRock), through its Infrastructure business, has raised $4.5 billion in initial investor commitments for BlackRock Global Infrastructure Fund IV (Infra IV), achieving over half of its targeted size at first closing.
The fund, which invests in essential infrastructure assets globally, secured initial commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and family offices. These clients are based around the world, including from the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Over 75 per cent of the commitments in the Fund are from investors who have invested
SilverEdge Government Solutions (SilverEdge), a provider of cybersecurity, software, and intelligence solutions for the defence and intelligence communities and a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital, has acquired Counter Threat Solutions (CTS), a provider of all source and counterintelligence analysis, identity intelligence, and enterprise IT and data management solutions.
Founded in 2015 and based in Reston, Virginia, CTS provides technology solutions and related services to key US intelligence agencies. Led by CEO Theresa Keith, a US Army intelligence veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the IC, CTS employs more than 100 technical and mission support specialists, nearly 100%
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