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Taiwanwese Insurers Taiwan Life and Cathay Life have both made new capital commitments to venture capital and private equity funds – Taiwan Life US20 million to to the latest venture capital vehicle of local VC firm Taiwania Capital, and Cathay Life Insurance $30 million to private equity fund Platinum Equity Capital Partners VI, according to a report by DealStreetAsia.
Taiwania Capital Buffalo Fund VI, is reported to be looking to raise up to $200 million in capital commitments and will, like its predecessor funds, focus on investments in early-stage tech startups in Taiwan.
Taiwania Capital was founded in August 2017
PGIM Private Capital provided nearly $10.0 billion of senior debt and junior capital to more than 140 middle-market companies and projects globally in the first half of 2022, marking a record first-half origination volume for the firm.
PGIM Private Capital is a source of private debt for public and private companies and is the private capital arm of PGIM, the $1.4 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.
PGIM Private Capital’s H1 lending includes $8.4 billion of investment-grade investments, $1.3 billion of below-investment-grade investments; $190 million of mezzanine and private equity investments.
Some 56 new issuers across a
Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s most active investors in growing businesses, has made a profitable exit from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software provider ProspectSoft through a sale to trade acquirer The Access Group.
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has more than doubled its commitment to The Prince’s Trust to help young people across the UK to create the leading businesses of the future.
A new five-year expanded nationwide partnership with The Prince’s Trust will help up to 10,000 additional young people to start, sustain and grow their own business through an extension of the Enterprise programme. The partnership currently makes LDC the leading corporate supporter of young entrepreneurs at The Prince’s Trust.
LDC first partnered with The Prince’s Trust in 2019 to support its Enterprise programme, which equips young people with the
Global infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, is to acquire VLS Environmental Solutions (VLS) from Aurora Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm.
Surging inflation has prompted sovereign investors to re-examine their asset allocation, with private markets the main beneficiary, according to the latest Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study.
Now in its tenth year, the study details the views of 139 chief investment officers, heads of asset classes and senior portfolio strategists at 81 sovereign wealth funds and 58 central banks, who together manage $23 trillion USD in assets.
After a long period of low interest rates and low inflation, sovereign investors have been forced to reconsider their macroeconomic assumptions and adjust their investments accordingly. The majority (59%) have repositioned their
FPE Capital (FPE), a specialist software and services growth investor into UK and Irish lower mid-market companies, has promoted Ben Cole to investment director and added further expanded its investment team with the appointment of Harry Gill as investment manager.
Cole has been with FPE since 2019, when he joined to lead the firm’s Origination activities and Gill joins the investment team following the successful recent Fund III raise which saw FPE raise the new fund’s hard cap to final close at £185 million.
Gill joins FPE Capital from BDO where he was a Manager in the Corporate Finance
Catherine Lewis La Torre has been appointed CEO of British Patient Capital, returning to the role she held from 2018 until 2020 before she was named as acting CEO of the British Business Bank in September of that year.
Lewis la Torre has also been appointed as Chair of British Business Investments, taking over from Francis Small who recently concluded his term in office. In addition, Lewis La Torre has taken on the role of Senior Responsible Officer for the Bank’s other equity schemes.
Following the recent announcement that Louis Taylor will be joining as the Bank’s new CEO in
Ares Management Corp is targeting more than €11 billion for a new new European direct-lending fund, making it the continent’s largest direct lending fund to date, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Unnamed sources are cited as revealing that fundraising for the new Ares Capital Europe VI fund is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2023, while Ares has already begin courting potential investors.
In April last hear, the Los Angeles-based firm reeled it had raised €11 billion euros for the Ares Capital Europe V Fund, and Fund VI is looking to surpass that record total.
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Ambienta SGR (Ambienta), one of Europe’s largest asset managers entirely focused on environmental sustainability, has held the first and final close of its fourth Private Equity fund after less than six months of active marketing, hitting its €1.55 billion hard cap.
The fundraising attracted significantly more interest from investors than Ambienta could accommodate from the very start of the fundraising and closed on exactly the date set at the outset.
Ambienta IV is the largest European Private Equity fund ever raised solely focused on companies that enable positive environmental change in their respective sectors. The fund attracted capital commitments from
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