Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Wynnchurch Capital, a middle market private equity firm focused on recapitalisations, growth capital, management buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and restructurings, has closed its sixth private equity fund, Wynnchurch Capital Partners VI, with $3.5bn of capital commitments.

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JULY 5, 2024

Private equity firm KKR & Co agreed to acquire Varsity Brands, a U.S. maker of sports uniforms and school yearbooks, from buyout firm Bain Capital for about $4.75 Bain acquired Varsity Brands in 2018 from private equity firms Charlesbank Capital Partners and Partners Group for around $2.5

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Coalesce Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in human capital-driven and technology-enabled services companies, has closed its inaugural fund, Coalesce Capital Fund I, and parallel vehicles, with $900m in total capital commitments. Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm with $5.8bn of assets under management, announced today that it has completed the successful fundraising for Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund III, and various affiliated investment vehicles totalling $1.7bn. Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, has recently announced the launch of the IRA Healthcare Real Estate Fund. The closed-end fund, with a total capitalization of $500m, will focus on acquiring medical properties and senior housing assets across the United States.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

The fund, one of the largest in the firms history, will focus on high-growth software and technology companies across multiple sectors. The capital was raised from a broad investor base, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. Source: PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 21, 2023

Hayfin Capital Management exceeded its fundraising target of $6.6bn for its latest fund, Hayfin Direct Lending Fund IV, a spokesman confirmed. Hayfin expects total available capital to be at or near the strategy’s hard cap of €7 billion by the end of the year, the firm said in a news release Friday.

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JUNE 14, 2023

GrowthCurve Capital has held the final close of its inaugural private equity fund, GrowthCurve Capital Partners I, with total capital commitments of $1.4bn for the fund and related co-investment vehicles. Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. SMBC), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

RRJ Capital, the private equity firm founded by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Richard Ong, is seeking to raise as much as $2bn for a new fund that focuses on private credit in Asia. RRJ has returned more than 93% of cash on average back to investors across its funds.

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JULY 17, 2023

Crown Growth Opportunities IV (CGR IV), the organization’s fourth international venture capital fund, underwent a final close at LGT Capital Partners Trough co-investments, secondaries, and funds, the Crown Growth Opportunities Fund IV collaborates with venture capital firms.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Wynnchurch Capital (Wynnchurch), a middle market private equity firm focused on recapitalisations, growth capital, management buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and restructurings, has closed its sixth private equity fund, Wynnchurch Capital Partners VI, with $3.5bn of capital commitments.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital has partnered with Ownership Works, a nonprofit founded by KKR’s Co-Head of Global Private Equity Pete Stavros that is aiming to generate at least $20bn of wealth for employees over the next decade.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Paine Schwartz Partners , a NYC-based private equity firm which specializes in sustainable food chain investing, closed its $1.7bn food and agribusiness-focused Fund VI. Fund VI is exclusively focused on sustainable investments in the food and agribusiness sector. Source: FINSMES Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Singapore- and New Delhi-based private equity firm Quadria Capital has marked the first close of its third investment vehicle. “We are on track to reach our final target for this fund, which puts us in good stead to execute our strategy and capitalise on a rich pipeline of opportunities.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sandbrook Capital, a private investment firm dedicated to transforming the world’s energy infrastructure, today announced the final closing of Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure Fund I at its hard cap of $1.5bn. The firm now manages $2.1bn in limited partner capital, including associated co-investment vehicles.

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JULY 18, 2023

The report cites Apollo partner Brian Feurtada as confirming that the the New York-based firm has so far assembled a roughly 10-strong family office with headcount expected to increase in the future. Blackstone and KKR & Co are also reportedly establishing units to focus on ultra wealthy private investors.

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MAY 31, 2024

The Australian Retirement Trust, a pension fund valued at AUD 260bn ($174bn), plans to increase its private credit allocation over the next year, targeting opportunities in Europe and North America. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Major private equity firms have faced significant obstacles in selling or listing their China-based portfolio companies in 2023, with Beijings tightening restrictions on IPOs and a decelerating economy having left foreign investors capital effectively trapped, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to buy Canada’s Nuvei NVEI.TO in a deal that values the payments technology firm, which has received financial backing from actor Ryan Reynolds, at $6.3 The buyout of Nuvei, which has a market capitalization of nearly $4.42 in a deal that.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 as it was delisted by private equity firm TPG Inc.;

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

Private equity giant Blackstone announced on Tuesday it had sold 3,000 shared-ownership homes to Britain’s biggest private pension fund, in a sign of growing dealmaking by big money managers in the UK housing sector. Source: Reuters Can’t stop reading?

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JUNE 15, 2023

TA Associates, a leading global private equity firm, announced the completion of fundraising for its latest flagship fund, TA XV, with total limited partner commitments at its hard cap of $16.5bn. Launched in late November 2022, TA XV was oversubscribed and exceeded its initial target size.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 30, 2024

Amulet Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm investing in the healthcare sector, has closed Amulet Capital Fund III with approximately $1.2bn in total capital commitments.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

NMNLP II closed with $825 million of equity capital commitments, including approximately $725 million of third-party Limited Partner commitments and approximately $100 million from the General Partner. With an initial fundraising goal of $750 million, the completed capital raise substantially exceeded the target. billion rupees.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Brynwood Partners, a private equity firm focused on control investments in consumer product businesses, closed its ninth fund, Brynwood Partners IX L.P., with over $750m of committed capital. The firm targets non-core brands or companies operating exclusively in the consumer sector.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

I Squared Capital is considering selling a minority stake in Think Gas Distribution Pvt. The private equity firm is working with an adviser to sell as much as a 30% stake in Think Gas, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private. Source: BNN Bloomberg Can’t stop reading?

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MAY 31, 2024

New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co is actively seeking to acquire a private credit firm to strengthen its private capital operations within its $3.6tn asset management division. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The $3.7bn-managing San Antonio Fire & Police Pension Fund has picked four private equity firms to receive its latest tranche of fund commitments. The post San Antonio pension picks PSG, Arlington Capital among new private equity commitments first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

New York-based private equity firm Harvest Partners (Harvest), has closed it latest buyout fund, Harvest Partners IX and its parallel funds (HP IX) with $5.34bn in capital commitments, ahead of its $5.25bn target. Harvest and its affiliates have over $20 billion of assets under management.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund, Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), is set to invest $150m in Apollo Global Management, the world’s second-largest private equity firm. As global funds seek alternative markets for investments and fundraising due to restrictions in China, Korea is emerging as a focal point.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Private equity firm Apollo Global (APO.N) is weighing a bid for UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) in a deal that could value the company at about $6.26bn, Sky News reported on Wednesday. The PIC was created in 2004 to provide a safety net for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes that are in deficit.

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JULY 4, 2023

NextEnergy Capital (NEC), a global solar specialist in the renewables sector, has held the first close of its fifth investment vehicle NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG), which is targeting capital commitments of $1.5 Investors in NPV ESG include KLP, a German occupational pension fund, and a large Nordic pension fund.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

clean energy developer, today announced that it has raised a $1.2bn capital package to support the expansion of its large-scale renewable energy portfolio comprising utility-scale transmission and storage, onshore wind and solar generation, and offshore wind. energyRe, an independent U.S.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

billion investment from pension fund Australian Super. The move to look to equity investments differs from data centre rival DigitalRealty’s approach. In an interview with Capacity , Jordan Sadler, Digital Realty’s SVP, public and private investor relations revealed his company was more focused on private capital partners.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

British banknote printer De La Rue is in discussions with private equity firm Disruptive Capital GP and pension fund manager Pension SuperFund Capital, collectively known as PSFC Entities to sell up to 40% of its equity, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Lone View Capital, an LA-based private equity firm investing in the technology sector, has held final close of its inaugural fund, Lone View Capital Fund I with total committed capital of $850m, bringing the firm’s AUM to approximately $1.1bn.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up “AustralianSuper is resolute the value and future value of Origin is better in the hands of AustralianSuper members and other shareholders than a private equity consortium planning to shortchange them,” the pension fund said.

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