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Madrona has appointed a deep bench of operational and investor team members who will work with portfolio companies on strategy and execution. Wei Gao joins as venture partner, Anna Baird as operating partner and Vivek Ramaswami as partner.
As venture partner, Wei will help identify new investments and provide strategic and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Wei brings over 20 years of operating leadership across product, technology, and business operations. A
Baird is an Operating Partner at Madrona, where she will leverage her deep go-to-market and operating expertise to help advise fast-growing and acceleration-stage companies in the Madrona portfolio.
The carnage in the syndicated bank market looks set to continue and the near-term liquidity of direct lenders is being squeezed. Private equity sponsors are looking for other levers to pull on their buyout financing, writes Colin Leopold
Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions, a tech-driven private fund administrator, has appointed Scott Trimble as Senior Vice President of Business Development.
Warburg Pincus is making its largest investment to date in the Asian insurance sector with the commitment of $350 million to set up Oona Insurance, a Southeast Asian digital general insurance platform, according to a report by Reuters.
The report cites a statement by Warburg Pincus as confirming that the buyout firm is partnering with Abhishek Bhatia, a former group chief officer of Asian insurance company FWD Group’s new business models unit, to set up the new business.
Oona will comprise Warburg Pincus’ two existing insurance assets – Indonesia’s PT Asuransi Bina Dana Arta Tbk and Philippines’ Mapfre Insular
CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII is to acquire 50% of Gridspertise, a smart grid OEM serving electricity infrastructure operators owned by the Enel Group through Enel Grids.
Gridspertise is an energy transition enabler, providing essential hardware, software and services to electricity infrastructure operators. Its products help customers transform traditional electricity distribution grids into smart grids and respond to the steep growth in power consumption demands.
The product offering of Gridspertise includes smart electricity meters, smart grid devices – namely devices installed at a higher level of the electricity value chain which record energy flows and automate energy dispatching decisions –
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, has allocated an additional $445 million in commitments to private equity and real estate, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Capital Dynamics Clean Energy has received the highest rankings from GRESB, a specialist ESG benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments across the world, in multiple categories.
Each year, GRESB assesses and benchmarks the ESG performance of assets worldwide, providing clarity and insights to financial markets on complex sustainability topics. Capital Dynamics Clean Energy and Infrastructure III LP (CEI III), invested in renewable energy projects across Europe, was awarded a 5 Star GRESB Rating and was recognised as “Sector Leader” for the Renewable Power sector.
The fund was ranked first in the categories for Renewable Power Global, Renewable Power Europe
Private equity funds have accelerated the acquisition of European oil and gas assets, with 16 deals worth a combined £12 billion announced in the 12-month period ended 31 July 2022, according to data from global law firm Mayer Brown.
KKR is to invest $300 million for a 13.33% stake in Advanta Enterprises Limited (Advanta), a subsidiary of UPL and a leading global seed company that aims to deliver innovative farming solutions and technology to farmers around the world.
Ares Management Corporation (Ares), a global alternative investment manager, has held the final closing of its Ares Special Opportunities Fund II (ASOF II) at its hard cap of $7.1 billion of commitments, including General Partner commitments, way in excess of its $4.0 billion target.
In January 2017, the Ares Private Equity Group developed its Special Opportunities strategy as an expansion of its flexible capital investment activities and to be a non-control complement to Ares’ existing for-control private equity strategy. As part of an integrated Private Equity team located across the US and Europe, the Special Opportunities strategy comprises 24 investment
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