Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Ultra-rich individuals and families worth more than $150bn are helping drive a resurgence in private equity buyouts, providing capital for some of the year’s biggest acquisitions to overcome a tough dealmaking environment. ASA in January with funding from Denmark’s Kirk Kristiansen dynasty, the owners of Lego Group.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This is with a couple of private equity funds, including Arkhouse management and Brigade Capital Management. 24 Street asset management operates to closed end funds today. It's been a private business till now, so they don't have to report what the funds are doing to anybody. As you mentioned, there is some office exposure.

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AltAssets

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The post MassPRIM picks out GTCR smaller buyout fund, Nordic Capital mid-market vehicle in latest commitments appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News. The $110bn-managing Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has picked a trio of private equity fundraises among its latest commitments.

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AltAssets

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Benelux-focused private equity firm Mentha Capital has raised €153m for the region’s first buyout fund solely targeting companies contributing to achieving climate and environmental goals.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Pictet Alternative Advisors has announced the close of its first healthcare-focused thematic private equity fund at $320m – exceeding its target size of $300m. The fund was launched in 2022 and is managed by Yann Mauron, David Braga Malta and Chiara Brambillasca.

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Frazier Healthcare Partners closed its $2.3bn Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund XI, exceeding its target in just six months The fund, known as FHGB XI, is focused on controlling interests in middle-market healthcare companies and secured strong backing from global limited partners, including public pension funds, financial institutions, sovereign (..)

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

They've made it more expensive for the company to borrow money to finance new investments and refinance existing funding, including the scheduled buyouts of convertible equity portfolio financing (CEPFs). It intends to use the proceeds to complete all the planned buyouts of CEPFs through 2025.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A consortium led by private investment firms Starwood Capital Group and Warburg Pincus is working to finalise a deal to take ESR Group private, valuing the Hong Kong-listed real estate fund manager at over $7bn, according to a report by Reuters. The company raised $1.6bn during its 2019 IPO in Hong Kong, pricing shares at HKD16.8

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The private equity group has used both approaches in healthcare in recent years, taking One Medical public before organizing a strategic sale and selling Ortho Clinical Diagnostics to Quidel. Source: MEDTECHDIVE Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

MetLife Investment Management, the institutional asset management business of MetLife, has formed a new $1.2bn private equity fund of funds, significantly boosting the amount of private capital the insurer manages for outside investors.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bahrain-based alternative asset manager Investcorp is aiming to raise 2bn to 4bn yuan ($274m-$548m) for its first private equity fund in the Chinese currency, its executive said, to explore buyout opportunities in the country. Some private equity and venture funds are stepping up efforts to raise yuan funds.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The highly anticipated €16bn ($17.36bn) acquisition of Sanofi’s consumer health unit by buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) could signal a surge in large private equity deals across Europe, according to a report by Bloomberg citing comments from investors and analysts. increase over the previous 12-month period.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Rising interest rates have made it more challenging for the company to refinance existing funding and finance its growth. The other aspect of the company's strategic plan is selling its natural gas pipeline assets to repay funding as it matures and finance future renewable energy acquisitions.

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PE Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The portfolio comprises 20 limited partnership interests, a majority of which are North American but also includes European buyout funds. The post Ardian scoops up $2.1bn portfolio from CPP Investments appeared first on PE Hub.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The renewable-energy industry has been beaten up over the past year as rising interest rates have hurt returns and it's getting more difficult to fund growth projects. NextEran Energy Partners calls these Convertible Equity Portfolio Financings (CEPF) and management has sold pipeline assets to fund CEPF buyouts in 2024 and 2025.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2023

read more The post Ex-Warburg Pincus head strikes healthcare deal from $570m fund appeared first on Private Equity Insights. read more The post Ex-Warburg Pincus head strikes healthcare deal from $570m fund appeared first on Private Equity Insights. Source: Medical Economics Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm specialising in national security, aerospace and industrial services, has held the final close of its third flagship private equity fund, AE Industrial Partners Fund III, at $1.28bn. read more The post AEI closes fund III at $1.28bn appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

Swedish investment firm EQT, Europe’s largest private equity house with over €200bn in assets under management, is looking to raise $12.5bn for a new fund which will focus on investments in the Asian market, according to a report by Reuters. read more The post EQT eyes $12.5bn for new Asia fund appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Pan-European private equity house Apheon has raised a €435m continuation fund to reinvest in a pair of high-performing companies from its fourth mid-cap buyout vehicle. The post HarbourVest leads €430m continuation fund for pair of Apheon ‘star assets’ appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

JLL Partners, a mid-market buyout shop, has revealed it is in the market with its nith flagship buyout Fund. According to Buyout Insider, the target represents a scaling back from the target of the recent Fund’s two predecessors.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

private equity firm Bain Capital is nearing the final close of its fifth and biggest Asia-focused fund after having raised around $6 billion from global investors, said two people with knowledge of the situation. tensions – all of which cast a shadow over Asia funds with a heavier allocation to the country.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

Astorg has closed the Normec Continuation Fund, capitalised with €1.4bn by lead investors CVC Secondary Partners, Pantheon, Lexington Partners and Eurazeo, alongside sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, asset managers and family offices.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

Independent European infrastructure fund manager Arjun Infrastructure Partners has held the final close of its Infrastructure Alliance Europe 2 fund with total capital commitments of €1.1bn, with an additional €300m allocated to its co-investment programme.

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AltAssets

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Apollo Global Management is planning the roll-out of a flagship fund likely to open next year to boost its overall assets under management to $1.5trn by 2029. According to Buyout Insider, this AUM boost will be driven by ‘dramatically’ scaling its private equity business.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

One of the most influential investors in these disruptive technologies is Cathie Wood , the visionary behind ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKK) , a fund that specializes in finding and investing in companies that aim to transform the world. An approval may also open the door to a buyout.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 10, 2023

The funds are reportedly looking at a 100 per cent buyout Adani Capital has $40bn of assets under management and $8bn in book value. Read more Endeavor Closes $610m Equity Fund The investment vehicle is anticipated to yield a total capitalization of more than $1.5 The group is expecting 2-2.5

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

A premium-priced buyout deal sent the company's shares rocketing well higher in price, to the point where they had risen by 30% week to date before market open on Friday, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. This might be unwarranted. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the sale.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

BlackFin Capital Partners, a leading European financial services sector investment specialist, has held the final close of BlackFin Financial Services Fund IV with €1.8bn, taking the firm’s total assets under management to $4bn. Since raising Fund III, BlackFin has invested substantially into its platform.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 17, 2024

read more EQT’s Sinding Says Buyout Firms Hunt for New Ways to Exit A growing number of private equity giants are considering new ways of exiting their portfolio. billion A consortium including Blackstone Singapore state fund GIC and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. read more Blackstone-led consortium bids Haldiram Snacks at $8.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

It's So Heavy Climbing out of the pandemic, large banks provided tens of billions of dollars in loans to fund major buyouts, including private-equity buys of Citrix, Nielsen Holdings, and the seismic $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year by Elon Musk.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 9, 2024

While the exact number of rate cuts is still uncertain, this regulatory action is expected to stimulate a surge in high-yield dividend stocks, primarily because fund managers tend to aggressively purchase high-yield dividend stocks in low-rate environments. Later this year, the Federal Reserve is projected to begin reducing interest rates.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

Read more South Korea’s Hahn & Co raises $3.4bn for new buyout fund Aircraft landing gear maker Héroux-Devtek Inc. read more South Korea’s Hahn & Co raises $3.4bn for new buyout fund Hahn & Co, a South Korean private equity firm founded by former Morgan Stanley banker Scott.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Tracing Spotify's AI roots way beyond recent innovations Oh, but Spotify's AI interest didn't start with the DJ service or even with the Sonantic buyout. How about the ReadSpeaker deal, a 2021 buyout that provides custom AI voices for Spotify's Car Thing media player? Nice try, but the AI path still goes much further back in time.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2024

Underscoring this point, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF , which is widely considered a bellwether fund for small to mid-cap biotechs, boat raced both the benchmark S&P 500 and the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund over the 10 years covering 2010 to 2020 (see graph below). Image Source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2024

In CRISPR's case, the company is well-funded, and it isn't carrying significant obligations on its books. What would a buyout mean for investors? While an acquirer might like some aspects of the business, it might not want all of them, especially if it means the additional cash from a sale can help in reducing its debt. As of Sept.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 17, 2024

investment fund Carlyle Group is studying around 300 Japanese businesses as part of its pipeline, a sign of the continuing boom in private equity deals in the country. “We look at a lot of deals every day,” Kazuhiro Yamada, co-head of the Japan buyout advisory team, said in an interview.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

Milan-based private equity firm Alto Partners and Italian fund management company Arca Fondi have agreed to the buyout of Eurosirel, a manufacturer and distributor of medical devices and cosmetics. The transaction is expected to close by June.

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