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FUNDRAISING
Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, has received total client commitments of USD15 billion for its fourth private equity buyout programme.
SURVEY
Raymond James | Cebile has released its H2 2021 Secondaries Market Update, which summarises key trends witnessed in 2021, and the outlook for the rest of the year.
RESEARCH
Europe-based alternative asset fund managers now hold EUR2.06 trillion in assets under management (AUM) as of December 2020, up from EUR1.81 trillion a year ago – an increase of over 13 per cent – and are on track to make 2021 a record year for fundraising, according to Preqin’s 2021 Alternative Assets in Europe Report, which has been produced with leading European asset manager Amundi for the fourth year in a row.
FUND LAUNCH
QED Investors, a global fintech venture capital firm, has closed a significantly oversubscribed seventh fund (Fund VII), with capital commitments of USD1.05 billion.
DEALS
Visma, a provider of business-critical software to private and public companies in Europe, today announces that it has expanded its shareholder base through a secondary sale to leading institutional investors – Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind, and GIC – valuing Visma at EUR16 billion (~NOK165 billion).
DEALS
Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management have received a binding offer and entered into exclusive negotiations with Perrigo for the sale of HRA Pharma.
E-BOOK PREVIEW
Each year SS&C Intralinks, in partnership with Private Equity Wire, polls limited partners (LPs) worldwide for an insider’s view of their sentiments toward their current funds, how they select general partners (GPs), and allocation plans for the coming 12 months.
FUNDRAISING
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative asset management firm with USD45 billion of equity capital under management, has closed its inaugural European Middle Market Fund, HIG Europe Middle Market LBO Fund, with aggregate capital commitments of EUR2 billion.
PODCAST
Private Equity Wire speaks to Ian Connatty, managing director of funds at British Patient Capital. The conversation centred around BPC´s new GBP375 million ‘Future Fund: Breakthrough,’ how it aims to accelerate the growth of R&D-intensive businesses, and the recent growth of unicorns in the UK and Europe.
FUND LAUNCH
Green entrepreneur Jo Bamford has joined forces with multi-family office Vedra Partners to launch HYCAP, a hydrogen investment fund which has set its sights on raising GBP1 billion.
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