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Brian Mulcahy has joined BakerHostetler’s Chicago office as a partner in the firm’s Business Practice Group and member of the Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions teams.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, has led a $580 million Series B Funding round in Anthropic, a public benefit corporation and AI startup lab ached in 2020, according to a report by DailyAlts.
The round, which follows a $124 million Series A fundraise in 2021, also included participation from Caroline Ellison, Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR).
Anthropic, which is based in San Francisco, was founded by the brother-and-sister team of Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, who were vice presidents at AI research lab OpenAI LLC. Its 40-person team focuses on
OMERS Capital Markets has participated in Group14 Technologies’ $400 million Series C funding round.
OMERS’ investment will be overseen by its global Capital Solutions team, which is focused on identifying and executing on complex opportunities across a number of themes, including decarbonisation, clean-tech and life sciences. The team’s goals include fostering long-term partnerships with innovative companies to help them scale up and help shape the economy of the future.
Centre Partners-backed Midwest Mobility Solutions and Slayton Wireless, both AT&T National Authorised Retailers, are to merge creating a new AT&T National Authorised Retailer with a footprint of over 160 stores in 11 states in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
Micross Components, a provider of high-reliability microelectronic product and service solutions for aerospace, defense, space, medical and industrial applications and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, has acquired the High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies business of Semtech Corporation, a global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms.
Micross’ acquisition – the fifth under Behrman Capital’s ownership and first since consummating a continuation fund transaction in February of 2022 – addresses a number of strategic priorities for the Company. The addition of Semtech’s High-Reliability Discrete Diodes and Assemblies Product portfolio provides Micross with power management components that
Antwort Capital, a Luxembourg-based feeder fund platform which provides qualified private investors access to top-tier private market funds, has held the final closing of the Antwort Buyout Opportunities FF with €26 million in capital commitment from private investors.
More than 60 investors from Luxembourg and internationally participated in the Fund.
The Fund’s aim is to get exposure to the private equity buyout segment in Europe and North America by investing in SwanCap’s multi-strategy fund “Swan V” as the underlying fund.
SwanCap specialises in the private equity buyout segment and offers its predominantly institutional investors an “integrated investment strategy” by combining
AMECO, a leading provider of construction and maintenance Site Services planning and delivery and portfolio company of One Equity Partners, has acquired F&M MAFCO, an international supplier of tools and equipment rental, sales and service programmes.
Tim Fries, F&M MAFCO’s CEO, has been named chief growth officer of both organisations and president of F&M MAFCO. He will report directly to AMECO CEO Gary Bernardez and be responsible for developing and implementing a long-term growth strategy that fully leverages the synergies of both businesses to drive comprehensive solutions to clients. Fries will oversee all joint strategic planning, business development, marketing and
StepStone Group, a global private markets investment firm, has held the final closing of StepStone Senior Corporate Lending II (SCL II), raising $1.3 billion of commitments, surpassing its target of $1 billion.
Through SCL II, StepStone seeks to invest in post-Covid-19 vintage, senior secured, first-lien performing corporate loans. The portfolio will be diversified across geographies, managers, and single loan positions. Flexible allocations allow the Fund to allocate to GPs with the strongest pipelines.
The Fund attracted a broad and diverse group of investors with support from existing investors and new investors to StepStone’s private debt platform.
SCL II benefits from
A new survey from Stifel Financial Corp (NYSE: SF) and Eaton Partners, a Stifel Company, suggests that institutional investors continue to have a strong appetite for GP-led secondary recap transactions across the globe, even in the face of increased market volatility, high inflation, and geopolitical instability.
The Stifel/Eaton Partners 2022 GP Advisory Survey questioned 97 global investors regarding their approach to investing in GP-led secondary transactions.
Investors ranked Technology, Healthcare, Industrials, and SaaS as their current top four industries of focus, while Life Sciences and Energy were ranked the lowest.
Opportunities are borderless, with respondents reporting a wide-ranging and balanced
Godspeed Capital Management (Godspeed Capital), a lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has acquired Rachlin Partners (Rachlin), a fully integrated architecture, planning, program management and construction management (PM/CM) company focused on education and government facilities in California.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
With an emphasis on education, healthcare, and government facilities for public and private clients across Southern California, Rachlin joins Huckabee Architects, Inc (Huckabee), Godspeed Capital’s new Architecture, Engineering, and Consulting (AEC) services and solutions growth platform.
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