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Miss Group, an international web hosting business backed by private equity investor Perwyn, has completed its fourth acquisition this year to date – Swedish VPN provider PrivateVPN.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Sweden, the company provides VPN services to over 75,000 customers globally. In the 12 months to March 2022, PrivateVPN reported revenues of SEK29m.
PrivateVPN is the fastest growing private VPN product worldwide, enabling customers to easily connect to high security servers to provide encrypted and safe communication. It also protects its customers’ IP from third party companies.
PrivateVPN founder Martin Müller will leave the business post
Investcorp-Tages has held the second close of its Impact Fund with a total allocation of €60 million.
Through the fund Investcorp-Tages will invest in financially sustainable and social impact-generating companies that aim to expand their business into new European markets or new product lines.
The fund’s strategy has been designed to identify investment opportunities where the social and environmental impact is significant and measurable, with a particular focus on small and mid-cap European companies operating in the health, education, and job creation sectors.
To ensure maximum independence in the assessment and measurement of impact, Investcorp-Tages has collaborated with
Greenfield Partners has held tetheh final close of its second fund, Greenfield Partners Fund II, with $200 millionin capital commitments, according to a report by Tech.
The fund will aim to invest in Series B and C funding rounds of 15 startups.
Greenfield Partners, which was established by TPG Growth back in 2016, has now raised over $500 million. The fund’s partners spun out into an independent fund in 2020 with the backing of new institutional investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged New Jersey-based investment adviser Energy Capital Partners Management LP (ECP) with allocating undisclosed, disproportionate expenses to a private equity fund it advises. ECP agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle the SEC charges and has voluntarily paid back more than $3.3 million to the fund.
According to the SEC’s order, ECP led an investment consortium to acquire the stock of a public company in what is referred to as a take-private transaction. In connection with this transaction, which closed in March 2018, ECP agreed that third-party co-investors would not have to
HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM) is creating a new unit, the Capital Solutions Group (CSG), to sit within its alternatives business, HSBC Alternatives.
The CSG will raise funds and create bespoke offerings in private and sustainable assets delivering flexible capital solutions for both institutional and wealth clients of HSBC Asset Management.
The CSG will become a new horizontal within HSBC Alternatives, collaborating with the existing investment capabilities of indirect alternatives, private credit, venture capital and real assets, to develop and scale solutions for both issuer and investor clients.
Borja Azpilicueta will lead CSG and move to HSBC AM
Connected Energy has secured an additional £15 million in investment from five new major investors.
Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc, the Hinduja Group, Mercuria, OurCrowd and Volvo Energy have joined existing investors Engie New Ventures, Macquarie, and the Low Carbon Innovation Fund 2, to back the energy storage specialist.
The investment will enable Connected Energy to scale up its operations and move into utility scale project development.
Investor interest in Connected Energy is particularly high because it is one of only a handful of companies in the world to have proven that second life vehicle batteries can be used in commercial
Private equity house, YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, has made a double promotion with Helen Villiers rising to investment director and Ben Pitt taking on the role of investment manager.
Having joined YFM as an investment manager in June 2019 after five years with Grant Thornton, Villiers has become a central figure in originating, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities, including the primary buyout of fire and electrical compliance specialist RGE in April last year.
Helen also represents YFM on the board of global aviation services provider ACC.
Pitt joined
Global law firm Paul Hastings has appointed private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright as a partner based in London.
Cartwright joins from Morgan Lewis and adds firepower to the firm’s fast-growing London office, which has increased revenue by 41% over the last year on the back of strong demand in its Private Equity, Finance, Structured Credit and Securities & Capital Markets practices.
Cartwright’s areas of focus include advising private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices on private equity investments and M&A transactions. He advises several leading US private pension plans, and represents a number of private
Impact investor North Sky Capital (North Sky) has made the final investment from Clean Growth V, an impact secondaries fund.
The investment was structured to provide attractive return potential with downside protection and centred on an LP interest in a 2018 fund managed by a highly experienced climatech general partner with whom North Sky has had a nearly two-decade long relationship.
In the last 17 years, North Sky has invested out of two flagship private markets strategies: sustainable infrastructure (direct investments) and impact secondaries (private equity).
North Sky was also the first firm worldwide to offer an impact secondaries
HGGC, a middle-market private equity firm with a sector-focused approach, has completed fundraising for HGGC Fund IV (Fund IV) with $2.54 billion of capital commitments.
Fund IV exceeded its $2.25 billion target and continued to diversify its global limited partner base, including a significant commitment from the General Partner and its affiliates, who collectively remain the largest investor across all HGGC funds, ensuring strong alignment of interests.
Fund IV is HGGC’s largest fund to date and is nearly 38% larger than the Firm’s $1.85 billion Fund III. With the closing of Fund IV, HGGC now has more than $6.8 billion
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