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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
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
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