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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
Revelstoke Capital Partners portfolio company Fast Pace Health (Fast Pace) has invested in First Care Clinics (First Care) to expand its clinical footprint and increase access to care for underserved rural populations.
The combination results in a multi-specialty provider of rural healthcare and value-based care population health management services through a network of over 200 clinics serving over three million annual patient visits across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and Alabama.
Revelstoke focuses on investing in, and growing, healthcare services companies.
First Care clinics will be rebranded as Fast Pace in the upcoming months and the leadership
Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate, M&A and private equity practice with the addition of Chauncey Lane as a partner in its Dallas office.
Lane structures and negotiates complex transactions for strategic buyers and sellers and private equity firms in the technology and financial services industries. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Lane was a partner with Reed Smith.
Lane is regularly called on to advise clients on their most significant transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions, going private transactions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, and recapitalisations. He regularly leverages his transactional experience to advise
Crunchbase, a prospecting platform powered by best-in-class proprietary data, has secured $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Alignment Growth.
Existing Crunchbase investors including OMERS Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Emergence also participated in the round. As part of teh fund raising, Alex Iosilevich, Partner at Alignment Growth, is to join the Crunchbase board of directors.
Crunchbase’s account-based prospecting software enables prospectors—in sales, recruiting, business development, and finance—to find and engage with qualified accounts, while simultaneously creating awareness for companies that want to be discovered. Crunchbase attracts more than 75 million unique visitors annually and recently surpassed
Crestbridge’s UK funds team has provided a comprehensive suite of administration services to support the recent successful first close of Shard Credit Partners’ inaugural technology-focused venture debt fund.
The new ‘Venture Debt Fund I’ secured £16.5 million in commitments from the UK and European institutional investors, alongside UK technology industry entrepreneurs, on its first close, and will make investments in senior secured loans with equity warrants to venture capital backed businesses in the B2B ‘Service as a Software’ (SaaS) and Fintech sectors across the UK.
The fund has completed two investments with total commitments of £6.5m ahead of the
Charles has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures to become Europe’s leading conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also participated.
Charles is an all-in-one, conversational-first operating system that is bringing everything associated with ecommerce into WhatsApp and other chat apps. The company enables businesses to sell products, send newsletters and support customers with ongoing personalisation and deep system integration via chat. With the new funding round, Charles is further expanding its operations from Germany into key European markets and targeting larger enterprise
Boeing has made a $50 million investment in AEI HorizonX, a partnership the company established with private equity firm AE Industrial Partners to invest in transformative aerospace technologies.
The new funding will anchor AEI HorizonX’s second venture fund (Fund II), which plans to raise $250 million to support promising start-ups in future mobility, space, sustainability, digital enterprise applications, networks and security.
Since its inception in 2021, the AEI HorizonX portfolio has achieved five IPOs (initial public offerings) and exits. The venture capital group’s current portfolio features 51 global investments, including companies that are driving innovations in artificial intelligence and machine
Following its recent Annual General Meeting (8 July), the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) has elected a new-look committee as it continues to champion Jersey’s ecosystem for alternative funds.
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to acquire Green Street, a provider of commercial real estate intelligence and analytics. Green Street’s current majority owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the technology and healthcare industries, will retain a minority position in the business.
Green Street Chief Executive Officer Jeffry Stuek, Jr, along with the senior leadership team, will continue leading the company.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022 pending customary regulatory approval, have not been disclosed.
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