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The value of VC investment in UK businesses remained steady in Q2 2022, as global VC investment dropped to a six quarter low, according to new research by KPMG.
Tikehau Capital has raised a record €3.3 billion for the fifth generation of its direct lending strategy, up 57% compared to the previous vintage.
South Street Partners (South Street) a private equity real estate investment firm, has held the final close of SSP GP Fund I, its inaugural discretionary commingled fund, at over $225 million, significantly in excess of its original target of $100 million.
The fund will continue South Street’s strategy of executing on opportunistic, value added and special situation investment opportunities in real estate assets located in the Southeastern United States as well as select US and international markets.
The fund’s GP structure enables South Street to scale its successful 13-year strategy of partnering with institutional investment firms on large cap transactions
Silversmith Capital Partners (Silversmith) has held the first and final close of its fourth fund, Silversmith Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), which was significantly oversubscribed, at its hard cap of $1.25 billion.
In addition to the $1.25 billion from limited partners, the Silversmith team will contribute $90 million to Fund IV.
Fund IV is the firm’s largest to date and brings total capital raised to more than $3.3 billion since its founding in 2015.
Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor funds, Fund IV will focus on partnering with and supporting the best entrepreneurs leading growing, profitable technology and healthcare
Petra Funds Group (Petra), an independent private funds administrator, has opened its London office, which will be led by former Riverstone European General Counsel and head of ESG, Charlie Chipchase.
Chipchase, an experienced in-house private equity lawyer with over 20 years of experience, will focus on expanding Petra’s European footprint with an emphasis on maintaining the same commitment to delivering a best-in-class fund administration solution for private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds.
Chipchase joins Petra from Riverstone, where he managed legal, compliance, and regulatory matters across multiple funds, capital strategies, and jurisdictions. At Riverstone, he built out and
European Camping Group (ECG), a European outdoor accommodation provider backed by PAI Partners, is to acquire Vacanceselect, a campsite and mobile-home operator, from funds advised by Permira and minority shareholders including The Ganivenq Family and Batipart.
Headquartered in Montpellier, France, Vacanceselect is present in over 270 campsites, located across attractive holiday-making European destinations such as France, Italy, Spain and Croatia. The Company operates 22,000 mobile-homes under the Tohapi and Vacanceselect brands. Vacanceselect has a strong presence throughout the camping and outdoor accommodation value chain, including rental activities, mobile home sales and online digital distribution.
Since acquiring ECG (which is
Forward Solutions, a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, has acquired Utility Sales Associates, a provider of outsourced sales services for utilities and telecommunications equipment manufacturers.
Utility Sales Associates, headquartered in Chicago, IL, further expands Forward Solutions’ existing coverage areas into the highly strategic utilities and telecommunications sectors, while strengthening the company’s geographic footprint in the Central United States. Utility Sales Associates’ product offering includes network testing equipment, cables, transformers, grips, switches, personal tools, safety products, and cable installation, repair, identification and locating equipment, among others. Utility Sales Associates will represent a new, standalone go-to-market brand within Forward Solutions’ portfolio focused
ICG’s debut Infrastructure fund, ICG Infra I, has acquired British Solar Renewables (BSR), one of the largest integrated solar developers in the UK.
ICG Infrastructure Equity successfully raised €1.5 billion in investor commitments in February 2022.
ICG Infra has acquired the business from Siem Europe and will become the majority owner of BSR. The current management team will remain as shareholders and will work alongside ICG to develop the current pipeline and business to continue the focus on building high quality renewable energy projects to help the UK achieve its Net Zero emissions target by 2050.
Located in Somerset,
Ceros Financial Services is partnering with Forte Capital Group, a financial advisory firm based in New York City with approximately $1 billion in client assets and 45 registered representatives and its affiliate, Innovation X Advisors, a leading late stage venture capital firm.
The Innovation X family of funds have over $2 billion of capital commitments and have realised many successful exits including Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Palantir and Pinterest. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Mark Goldwasser, CEO of Ceros Financial Services, acquired the business in 2019 with partners Chris Dewey and David Brown. Ceros Capital Markets, the firm’s
Actis is to acquire a controlling stake in Yellow Door Energy Limited (YDE), a distributed Commercial & Industrial (C&I) solar platform in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region with around 200MW of secured production capacity.
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