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By the end of 2026, private capital AUM in Europe is forecast to reach €4.9 trillion, delivering a 14% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in AUM since 2021, according to Preqin analysts.
The total assets under management (AUM) of private capital funds focused on Europe stood at €2.2 trillion at the end of December 2021, according to Preqin Pro, the company’s database and analytics tool. To put this into perspective, in December 2015, the industry’s AUM was around €1.3tn, almost doubling in the last seven years.
The strong performance of private capital assets following the global financial crisis (GFC)
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has completed a £3.5 million growth equity investment into Ruleguard, a London based SaaS technology provider supporting financial institution regulatory compliance.
Ruleguard was established by founder John O’Dwyer in 2013 as a software development consultancy. O’Dwyer an opportunity in 2015 and developed a software platform to support the newly incoming Client Assets Sourcebook (CASS) regulations. Since then, Ruleguard has grown rapidly by winning business with a growing blue-chip customer base and expanded its capabilities to become one of the most competitive GRC platforms in the financial sector.
The global
LGT Capital Partners (LGT CP) has welcomed US-based investor The Kresge Foundation as a new external co-investor as part of the further build-out of Lumen Re and confirmed the roles of two senior managers in Bermuda.
Lumen Re serves as a cornerstone of LGT Capital Partners’ ILS investment activity, both as a dedicated property catastrophe reinsurance carrier, and as a fronter/service provider to the LGT CP ILS fund suite. The reinsurer was established by LGT Capital Partners’ specialist ILS team (LGT ILS Partners) in 2012 to facilitate the structuring of investments in ILS on behalf of ILS funds and mandates
Siris, a private equity firm focused on investing and driving value creation in technology companies, has appointed Vipul Tandon as a Managing Director and Head of Credit Opportunities.
In his new role, Tandon will look to capitalise on meaningful opportunities to invest in structured credit and junior capital in the technology industry.
Credit Opportunities is a natural extension of Siris’ research-driven sourcing model and its value and operational approach to technology investing. The team will leverage the Siris team’s industry knowledge and investing expertise, as well as the Siris Executive Partners’ operational experience.
Tandon has more than
Private equity attorney Nicola Di Giovanni has joined Skadden as a partner in the firm’s Paris office. Di Giovanni’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border private equity.
Di Giovanni advises investment funds, family offices and industrial companies in particular on acquisitions, buy-outs and joint ventures.
Di Giovanni cola joins from another international law firm in Paris where he was a partner in its corporate department. He is fluent in French, English and Italian.
SkyBridge Capital, has secured an investment worth 30 per cent of the business from FTV Ventures, a $2 billion venture capital firm based in Nassau, Bahamas, according to a report by Finance Magnates.
Singapore-based multi-family office Whampoa Group is planning niogn to raise $50 million for a new cryptocurrency hedge fund and also deploy $100 million via a venture capital fund focused on the same space, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Reality television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is teaming up with Jay Sammons, a former partner at Carlyle Group Inc, to launch a SKKY Partners, new private equity firm which will focus on investments in consumer and media businesses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites a joint statement as revealing that the new firm will look to make both contril and minority investments in a range if sectors including consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, and plans to make both control and minority investments.
Kardashian and Sammons will serve as co-managing partners, with Sammons responsible
North Haven Capital (NHC), a private investment group based in Portland, Maine, has acquired New England-based Chamberlain Group (TCG), a designer, developer, and manufacturer of anatomical medical models.
NHC teamed up with BankProv, a future-ready commercial bank that offers adaptive and technology-first banking solutions to emerging markets and BDC Capital, recognised locally and nationally as a leader and innovator in business lending and capital investment. Upstream Capital assisted in originating the transaction.
The Chamberlain Group’s products provide the best alternative to animals and cadavers for emerging medical device training and the associated procedures. NHC identified TCG as a scalable, high
The Marketing Practice, a B2B marketing specialist backed by private equity investor Horizon Capital, has extended its presence in the APC region with the acquisition of ABM, demand and media specialist Rombii.
The deal marks the company’s first acquisition in the region and its fifth in the last 18 months, making it one of the largest B2B tech marketing specialists in the world.
Rombii’s founder Sam Howell and its managing director Marcus Wilkinson will remain in their roles. Rombii joins US-based Campaign Stars and 90octane alongside Kingpin and Omobono, all of which were acquired in the last 18 months
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