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Month: January 2021

AMW :- Opalesque Roundup: More hedge funds report market beating returns in 2020: hedge fund news, week 03

Opalesque Roundup: More hedge funds report market beating returns in 2020: hedge fund news, week 03 In the week ending January 15th 2021, a lot happened at Renaissance Technologies as its famed Medallion fund, available

The Rise of Growth Equity—Connecting PE and VC

Posted by Mike Turner and Shing Lo, Latham & Watkins LLP, on Friday, January 15, 2021 Editor's Note: Mike Turner and Shing Lo are partners at Latham & Watkins LLP. This post is based on

Large firms drove secondary fundraising to a record $76bn in 2020

A handful of firms powered fundraising for private equity secondary deals last year despite hurdles tied to the coronavirus pandemic

Polaris to launch sale of ProData Consult in 2021 – Mergermarket

Private equity firm Polaris is working with Danske Bank to sell Danish IT consultancy ProData Consult, four sources familiar with the situation have told Mergermarket.

Redalpine leads series-A for Felmo

Redalpine has led a series-A funding round for Germany-headquartered pet healthcare startup Felmo.

HIG backs Spanish audiovisual content business

Madrid Content City studios owns the location where successful TV series, such as 'La casa de papel', were filmed

Värde Partners promotes Brendan Albee to partner, names two new senior managing directors

Credit and distressed investment specialist Värde Partners has named Brendan Albee as its newest partner amid a trio of promotions.

Apax-backed ThoughtWorks gets $720m investment

The software consulting firm will use the proceeds to buy back equity from existing investors

Holland Capital backs Dimensys

Holland Capital has invested in Dimensys, a Dutch company specialised in asset and product lifecycle management.

WMS backs FruchtExpress MBI

Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen (WMS) has backed the management buy-in of fruit and vegetable wholesale business FruchtExpress, backing the company alongside incoming managing director Holger Schmitz.

European PE dealmaking, distressed and turnaround fundraising set for record highs in 2021: PitchBook

European private equity dealmaking will set a record high in 2021 as firms look to deploy cautious aggression amid a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, PitchBook is predicting.

Litorina, Bragnum back Nordic Surface Group

Nordic investor Litorina, together with Bragnum Invest, has acquired Nordic Surface Group (NSG) from Capillar Equity.

CBPE hires Arma to sell Xceptor

CBPE Capital has hired Arma Partners to sell data automation software provider Xceptor.

Vietnamese mobile payments app MoMo gets $100m Warburg Pincus co-led investment round

Warburg Pincus has co-led a $100m Series D funding round for Vietnamese mobile payments app MoMo.

Spectrum invests $51m in Quantile

Spectrum Equity has injected $51m in growth capital funding into optimisation engine Quantile.

Forbion et al. in $196m round for NewAmsterdam Pharma

Forbion, Morningside Ventures and Ascendant BioCapital have led a $196m series-A funding round for Dutch clinical-stage biotechnology company NewAmsterdam Pharma (NAP).

Ex-US Air Force chief of staff Goldfein joins Blackstone as senior advisor

Former US Air Force chief of staff David Goldfein has been hired by Blackstone as a special advisor.

VCs in $160m series-D for Sennder

A consortium of venture capital investors, including Lakestar and Accel, has backed a $160m series-D round for Germany-based freight and logistics software platform Sennder.

SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index up 3.70% in December

Opalesque Industry Update - SS C Technologies Holdings announced that the gross return of the SS C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for December 2020 measured 3.70%. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS

Apax-backed ThoughtWorks hits $4.6bn valuation thanks to flurry of new investors

Private equity house Apax has seen its portfolio business ThoughtWorks boosted to a $4.6bn valuation thanks to a string of new investors committing to the company.

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