iXO backs MBO for Exsto

iXO backs MBO for Exsto

French GP iXO Private Equity has backed a MBO for French polymer moulding specialist Exsto.

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Carlyle said to reap 7x return selling Eggplant in $330m deal

Carlyle said to reap 7x return selling Eggplant in $330m deal

Carlyle has reportedly made a 7x return selling digital test automation and monitoring software business Eggplant to trade buyer Keysight.

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Carlyle exits Eggplant for $330m

Carlyle exits Eggplant for $330m

The Carlyle Group has sold software company Eggplant to Keysight Technologies for $330m.

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Carlyle scores 7x return on sale of UK software provider

Carlyle scores 7x return on sale of UK software provider

The firm has exited its investment in tech company Eggplant to rival Keysight Technologies for $330m

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Gyrus Capital hires two

Gyrus Capital hires two

Recently-launched GP Gyrus Capital has added Anna Mattsson Samanta and Patrick Vink to its operating and advisory partnership.

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Genesis Capital launches €150m fund

Genesis Capital launches €150m fund

Genesis Capital, a private equity firm dedicated to investments in central Europe, is launching a new fund, Genesis Private Equity Fund IV (GPEF IV), with a €150m target.

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Abante, Altamar to manage Mapfre fund-of-funds

Abante, Altamar to manage Mapfre fund-of-funds

Spanish insurance company Mapfre has launched a new private equity fund-of-funds in partnership with Spanish GPs Abante and Altamar Private Equity.

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Reputational risk, early secondaries help assuage LP default fears

Reputational risk, early secondaries help assuage LP default fears

With the Covid-19 outbreak leading investors to suddenly reassess their exposure to private equity, some GPs have feared that a number of LPs could start defaulting on commitments. But such fears appear somewhat overblown, writes

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Goodhart Partners gobbles up even bigger share of CapitalSpring

Goodhart Partners gobbles up even bigger share of CapitalSpring

London-based asset management firm Goodhart Partners is buying out more than 30 minority stakeholders in private equity firm CapitalSpring, according to The Wall Street Journal. Goodhart Partners had previously bought a minority share in the

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LPs becoming more satisfied with GP transparency after fallout caused by global financial crisis

LPs becoming more satisfied with GP transparency after fallout caused by global financial crisis

Limited partners are becoming more satisfied with the transparency in general partners (GPs), repairing from the frustration caused after the global financial crisis, a report from Coller Capital claims.

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Private equity industry doesn’t take climate change seriously investors believe

Private equity industry doesn’t take climate change seriously investors believe

Most investors believe the private equity industry fails to do enough to fight climate change, according to a new report from Coller Capital. The latest editions of its Global Private Equity Barometer found that most

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Vast majority of LPs satisfied with GP transparency – survey

Vast majority of LPs satisfied with GP transparency – survey

Four fifths of LPs are currently satisfied with GP transparency, according to Coller Capital's biannual Global Private Equity Barometer, compared with 39% in the same period in 2012 and 40% in 2009.

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Xenon-backed Impresoft bolts on Progel

Xenon-backed Impresoft bolts on Progel

Information and communications technology (ICT) business Impresoft, a portfolio company of Italian GP Xenon Private Equity, has acquired digital transformation specialist Progel.

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Secondaries players weigh up risk and rewards of “ring-fencing” deals

Secondaries players weigh up risk and rewards of “ring-fencing” deals

GP-led transactions isolating assets hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis could appeal to adventurous secondaries players, but challenges abound. Alessia Argentieri reports

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TSG Names Two New Managing Directors

TSG Names Two New Managing Directors

TSG Consumer Partners (TSG) has promoted Erik Johnson and Ed Wong to managing director. Both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wong are based in New York. “Erik and Ed have been an integral part of our

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Francisco Partners to acquire Consignor – report

Francisco Partners to acquire Consignor – report

According to reports, US-based GP Francisco Partners has signed an agreement to buy Norwegian shipping software company Consignor from its founder.

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Shocking survey reveals strength of dejection felt by women in private equity

Shocking survey reveals strength of dejection felt by women in private equity

Not a single woman in private equity surveyed in the latest Investec GP Trends report plans to start their own buyout house on leaving their current firm - a shocking indictment of the wider malaise

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LPs give thumbs up to video pitches for fundraising, praise GP engagement via ‘Covid calls’

LPs give thumbs up to video pitches for fundraising, praise GP engagement via ‘Covid calls’

The vast majority of private equity LPs are seeing proactive engagement from GPs on the impact of the coronavirus crisis on their portfolios, new research shows.

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LPs need more transparency about how GPs are tapping subscription lines of credit: ILPA

LPs need more transparency about how GPs are tapping subscription lines of credit: ILPA

LPs need greater transparency about how their private equity general partners are tapping subscription lines of credit, new guidance from the Institutional Limited Partners Association says.

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Video: CPPIB’s Delaney Brown on improved LP/GP relations

Video: CPPIB’s Delaney Brown on improved LP/GP relations

In the fourth of Unquote's Lockdown series, Delaney Brown, managing director and head of PE funds at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), discusses improved GP/LP relations since lockdown began and how there are no

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