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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
CEPRES has launched CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology.
CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables investors to analyse existing, or plan complex new, private markets portfolios by running stochastic forecasts on cash flows and stress testing portfolio compositions to optimise asset allocations for any market condition.
With increasing capital dedicated to illiquid private market strategies combined with today’s growing complexity of portfolios and market uncertainties, many institutional investors – pension plans, insurers and sovereign wealth funds – face difficulty planning future liquidity and managing increased risk management regulatory requirements. CEPRES Predictive
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Industrials team has advised Switzerland-based Cavotec SA (Cavotec) on the carve out and disposal of its Airports Division to US-based investment group Fernweh Group. Cavotec Airports Division will now be known as Dabico Airports Solutions (Dabico).
Cavotec is a global engineering group, headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland, and listed on the Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm, Sweden. Cavotec designed and manufactured automated connection and electrification systems for ports, industrial, and airport applications worldwide before making the decision in 2021 to streamline its strategy and divest its Airports division. Cavotec will now focus solely on the growing markets for sustainability solutions
Lithium startup EnergyX, which completed two rounds of financing from 2020 to 2021 through the Netcapital Funding Portal, has received a $450 million investment commitment from private equity firm Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM) in conjunction with its plans to go public by 2024.
Founded in 2017, EnergyX is a developer of next generation battery technology and direct lithium extraction technology to help enable the global transition to renewable energy.
Netcapital.com hosts an SEC-registered funding portal that enables private companies to raise capital online, while investors are able to invest from almost anywhere in the world, at any time, with
NovaQuest Private Equity has rebranded as QHP Capital in a move designed to more closely identify with its management company. QHP partners with tech-enabled life sciences and pharmaceutical services companies that help to reduce total cost of care, fulfil unmet medical needs, diminish unnecessary procedures, improve efficiency, and/or elevate patient quality of life.
QHP stands for Q Healthcare Partners – the “Q” serving as a connection to the Firm’s heritage within Quintiles (now IQVIA) and also with NovaQuest. QHP will continue to serve as the investment manager for the NovaQuest Private Equity family of funds. Partners in QHP include Jeff
SWEN Capital Partners (SWEN CP), a specialist in responsible private equity, has held the the final close of SWEN Infra Multi-Select 4 (SIMS 4), which is classified as an Article 8 fund under the EU’s SFDR, at €470 million.
SWEN CP has now raised more than €1 billion over the last 12 months in multi-strategy infrastructure and equity investments across its mandates, advisory clients through its SIMS 4 fund and SWEN Exclusive Infrastructures, a fund dedicated to the needs of private banking that was launched in October 2021 via co-investments with SIMS 4.
SIMS 4 offers a predominately European investment
Broadridge has appointed Stephen Johnston as Managing Director, Client Delivery Operations for Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions (FCS). Johnston will be responsible for all of the client servicing operations of the Fund Communication Solutions business, with Service Leads as his direct reports, and will be supported by FCS’s teams that span Ireland, UK, India and Poland.
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), a global representative for the alternative investment industry, and its private credit affiliate, the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), has welcomed the political agreement on the European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) Regulation confirmed earlier this week.
The modernisation of the ELTIF framework will lead to a significant increase of investment into the EU economy at a time when traditional sources of financing are becoming more challenging for businesses to access.
The new rules will make it easier for asset managers to launch products that cater to both institutional and retail clientele with additional
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