A legendary creature looms large in the start-up world. In this milieu, the status of unicorn – young, successful, and worth over a billion US dollars – is viewed as the ne plus ultra. But another creature is currently shaking up the scene: the zebra. This is the name for companies that do not only […]
Deals. Das Geschäft mit Beteiligungen funktionierte jahrelang reibungslos, geriet jüngst aber ins Stocken. Bis sich das wieder ändert, dürfte es dauern.
Mit rund 80 Portfoliounternehmen und rund 80 Mio. EUR investiertem Kapital ist NBank Capital ein wichtiger Pfeiler für Gründer und Mittelständler in Niedersachsen. Die drei Geschäftsführer Ralf Borchers, Simon Köhler und Christoph Siegfried bilden die neue Spitze des Hauses.
Bain Capital, a US private investment firm with around $185bn of AUM, is to acquire wealth management software company Envestnet in a deal valued at $4.5bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Index Ventures sammelt 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar ein: Index Ventures hat 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar über zwei neue Fonds eingeworben, um seine Investitionen in künstliche Intelligenz zu verstärken.
Die Harmonisierung der nationalen Insolvenzregelungen in Europa erleichtert grenzüberschreitende Investitionen von Private-Equity-Fonds, dient der Kostensenkung, sowie insgesamt einer besseren Allokation von Ressourcen an effizientere oder innovativere Unternehmen. Darüber hinaus kann eine solche Vereinheitlichung die paneuropäische Verbriefung von Vermögenswerten vereinfachen, wovon kleinere Staaten mit kleineren Vermögenspools profitieren.
Global mergers and acquisitions activity has maintained the positive momentum achieved at the start of 2024, with deals completed during the second quarter improving upon the same period last year, according to research from WTW’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor.
Clean energy technology company NLine Energy announced that it has raised $11 million, with proceeds aimed at expanding its business helping commercial and industrial facilities to decarbonize in North America and internationally. Founded in 2010 with an initial focus on developing small hydropower projects, Oregon, U.S.-based NLine Energy provides technology aimed at converting wasted energy […]
Hahn & Co, a South Korean private equity firm founded by former Morgan Stanley banker Scott Sang-Won Hahn, has raised $3.4bn for a new buyout fund, making it the largest single-country focused vehicle in Asia this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital’s flagship private equity decarbonisation strategy is to make a majority investment in CEBAT, an Italian utility infrastructure service provider and portfolio company of funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.
Impact investor North Sky Capital announced today that it has raised $250 million at the close of has closed its impact secondaries fund, Clean Growth VI (CG VI), aimed at investing predominantly in the energy transition, climate tech, the circular economy, and healthy living sectors. Founded in 2000, North Sky aims to create positive social […]
Der Anbieter einer SaaS-Plattform für die operative Steuerung von Container-Lieferketten wird unter anderem von Apex Black und Schenker Ventures unterstützt.
Despite the impressive rise of private alternatives, two-thirds of European and Asian professional fund buyers believe their clients remain underexposed to this asset class, according to a study. PGIM, the global asset management arm of Prudential Financial, surveyed 210 gatekeepers from the UK, Europe and Asia, revealing significant underinvestment in private market strategies. In Europe, […]
The Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System (LACERS), which manages $23.1 billion in assets, has committed up to $110 million to various private equity funds, according to a report by Pensions & Investments citing officials at the pension fund.
As liquidity constraints put pressure on the private equity industry, the secondaries market is expected to grow substantially over the next twelve months, with fundraising and deal flow set to expand, according to Investec’s latest Secondaries Report, Charting a Course for Further Growth.
