Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The funds, managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital (“Expansion Capital”), exceeded the target total raise of $850m by over 40%. The funds, managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital (“Expansion Capital”), exceeded the target total raise of $850m by over 40%.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Travelport said the deal creates a “new ownership structure” to include Elliott Investment Management, Davidson Kempner Capital Management, Canyon Partners, Siris Capital and other institutional investors. The company did not immediately respond with additional information about the new ownership structure. Travelport said the.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The company plans a broader rollout in early 2025 and has opened a waitlist for new lenders. Arc’s platform also serves as a financial system of record for private companies, aggregating unstructured data to enhance liquidity and transparency in a historically opaque sector.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 8, 2024

Arkhouse Management, a New York-based investment firm that takes a private equity approach to public markets investing, has, with investment partner Brigade Capital Management, upped its all-cash proposal to acquire US retail chain Macy’s to $24.00 Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Companies that pay dividends display a commitment to shareholders and tend to have prudent capital management. Some companies offer consistent dividend payments year in and year out, but those payments offer modest yields of 2% or less. Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invests in underserved companies and sports a 11.2%

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

(Nasdaq: CNSL) (“Consolidated Communications” or the “Company”), a top 10 fiber provider in the United States, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement (the “Agreement”) to be acquired by affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. Source: Businesswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Connection Capital, a London-based private markets and alternative investment platform, has added to its co-investment team with the appointment of Caitlin Cameron from Gresham House as an Investment Associate.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Ares Capital If you'd like to build an even larger passive income stream, take a look at Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S., Ares provides private companies with the cash they need to expand.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Financial services group GSB has launched GSB Capital, a new division focussing on debt and equity capital markets for individual and corporate clients, which will be headed by Grant Bergman.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The shift to a for-profit AI powerhouse This isn't the first mega-capital raise OpenAI has closed. billion capital raise that OpenAI just completed, however, could involve equity. Thrive Capital, which invested a reported $1.25 Altimeter Capital, which is run by veteran tech investor Brad Gerstner. Tiger Global.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

"These projects provide visibility to new sources of cash flow for the partnership for this year and beyond," co-CEO Jim Teague said in the company's fourth-quarter earnings release. Ares Capital If you'd like to earn even more dividend income from your investments, consider Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC).

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With global energy companies forced to slash their capital expenditures due to unprecedented demand uncertainty, it's coal that's stepped in to fill the production void and meet growing global demand needs. I'm talking about smaller, generally unproven private companies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Basically, investors fund a SPAC via a more traditional initial public offering (IPO), seeding it with cash with the expectation that the SPAC will find an attractive private company to buy. It expects to spend between $70 million and $100 million on capital investments in the second half of the year.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

has agreed to a deal to be taken private by its largest shareholder, just two years after the pharmacy network debuted on the stock exchange during the pandemic boom of initial public offerings. Persistence Capital Partners (PCP), which already owns 50.2 %of per share for the proposed sale, which values the company at $916m.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Private company SpaceX successfully launched and "caught" its 20-story Starship rocket as it returned to Earth, a key step in making its large rocket reusable and ready for human missions to the Moon and Mars. Now, with companies such as SpaceX, the space economy is on the verge of taking a great leap forward.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Next Round Capital, a leading venture capital and secondaries advisory firm is pleased to announce that Wyan Yarbrough, CFA, has joined the firm as Director of Research. He played a key role identifying and leading investments in a broad range of public and private companies, including C3.ai,

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

Private equity and venture capital firms typically have access to investments that are not available to everyday investors. Well, to put it simply, these funds raise capital from ultrahigh-net-worth individuals called accredited investors. Let's dig into the fund, and assess whether investing like a billionaire is right for you.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust partnered with Miami, Florida-based Rialto Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to make the successful $1.2bn bid for the 20% interest in a joint venture set up by the FDIC to hold the failed bank’s $16.8bn in commercial real estate debt.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Total estimated consideration is $900 million, including $500 million in cash, with the remainder representing a minority equity stake in the combined private company. Or is that an opportunity that, you know, you've sort of identified as one that works but maybe were not necessarily capitalizing on that near term?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Similar funds were approved for Bitcoin and Ethereum earlier this year, injecting billions of dollars of old-school capital into those crypto leaders. Ripple Labs is a private company, but Claver argues that it could use a stock sale to raise operating capital and legitimize the XRP-based payments system.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2024

Many generative AI start-ups have done this, as it is a more efficient use of capital. Among its client base are some of the hottest start-ups, including 60% of funded generative AI start-ups and 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies with valuations above $1 billion).

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are among the most exciting trends in the capital markets right now. One company I've been following for a while is voice recognition software developer SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN). Big tech has already shown interest in this space. Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

“The Special Committee and, ultimately, the full Fiesta Board of Directors, determined that this transaction delivers significant, immediate and certain value to Fiesta stockholders while providing Pollo Tropical the scale, resources and flexibility for continued success as part of a private company.” Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Qualtrics said that it expects the transaction to close in the second half of 2023, after which it will be a fully private company once more. Read more Cathay Capital Announces Final Close of $270 Million Growth Private Equity Fund Cathay Capital Private Equity, a leading international investment firm, announces the final.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 21, 2019

This post on the WeWork IPO ends with the following observation: In fact, I would argue that the WeWork bull case and bear case have more in common than it seems: both are the logical conclusion of effectively unlimited capital. I don’t think there is unlimited capital. Will capital availability dry up like it normally does?

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Golub Capital has reported that its middle market private company index has shown the strongest earnings growth over the past two years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway surpassed $1 trillion in market capitalization earlier this year for the first time. The rest of Berkshire's value comes from its insurance businesses, ownership of BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy , and other private companies. billion in cash as of June 30.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Private equity Have you ever read about a company that makes an interesting or compelling product only to learn that you can't invest because it's still private? Generally speaking, investing in private companies is off limits to most investors.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sequoia Capital has come out on top of Dealroom’s latest global ranking of VC investors, based on the success of the firms they back, as well as how early the firms were to back these fast-growing technology and software businesses with global potential. The firm has added 35 unicorns to its tally of 319 since the start of 2022 alone.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 9, 2024

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is the only company besides SpaceX with re-entry capabilities for spacecraft. And yet, as we sit here today, its shares have a measly valuation of just $2 billion compared to SpaceX's reported $200 billion as a private company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ispace and Hakuto Our next private company contender to duplicate Intuitive Machines' success is Japan's ispace (not to be confused with China's iSpace -- although I guarantee there will be confusion). In 2022, ispace attempted to land a Hakuto lander, but software glitches caused the lander to run out of fuel prematurely.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This information is valuable to almost any company, but especially for investment banks and money managers that need to be well informed when making decisions. The company provides corporate credit ratings for public and private companies. S&P Global's ratings division is what it's best known for.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 22, 2023

Wellington Management has held the final close of its fourth private late-stage growth strategy, Wellington Hadley Harbor IV, with $2.6bn in capital commitments and over $200m in co-investment capacity to invest alongside the fund.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Well, it turns out that the Washington project, although owned and operated by Energy Northwest, would use SMRs manufactured by a private company called X-energy. A second, long-term reason is that a successful SMR project in Washington State could turn Amazon into a major player in nuclear power generation nationally.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Arkhouse Management, a New York-based investment firm that takes a private equity approach to public markets investing, has, with investment partner Brigade Capital Management, upped its all-cash proposal to acquire US retail chain Macy’s to $24.00

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 17, 2024

Sky News has learnt that Focus Group is close to signing a deal to sell a majority stake to Hg Capital, the investor known for its successful bets on software and technology companies. In 2020, the two founders sold a 25% stake to Bowmark Capital, another private equity firm, at a valuation of about £225m.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

The remainder reflects the value of all the wholly owned private companies that also help make up the conglomerate. These include battery company Duracell, underwear brand Fruit of the Loom, insurer Geico, flooring outfit Shaw Industries, and railroad BNSF, just to name a few. It's all capital appreciation.

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