Private equity makes limited progress on ESG promises
Some 63% of British buyout firms say they have taken ESG into account in their businesses, but only 29% of them publicly disclose their policies and progress in this area
Some 63% of British buyout firms say they have taken ESG into account in their businesses, but only 29% of them publicly disclose their policies and progress in this area
Global private markets investor Partners Group has agreed to buy a "significant" equity stake in European electronic toll collection business Telepass to value the company at more than €2bn.
Thomas H Lee Partners' former alternative credit business has closed its first fund since being bought by First Eagle Investment Management last December.
Open source management company FOSSA has closed its Series B round on $23.2m to support the release of its Security Management service. The capital was supplied by Bain Capital Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Costanoa Ventures.
Extend, a startup which says it has reinvented the extended warranty process, has closed its Series B on $40m.
Arbor Investments has closed its fifth fund, Arbor Investments V LP (Arbor V), with $1.5 billion of outside capital commitments. The firm has also closed its second captive subordinated debt fund, Arbor Debt Opportunities Fund
Cascadia Capital has formed a new investment banking practice dedicated to the robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence (RAAI) sectors. Cascadia’s RAAI practice has been formed in response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution – commonly referred
HarbourVest Partners has held an oversubscribed and hard cap close of its latest secondaries fund, Dover Street X LP (Dover X), with $8.1 billion of capital commitments. The hard cap close of Dover X follows
The billionaire founder of private equity major Vista Equity Partners, Robert Smith, has avoided indictment for tax fraud by the US Department of Justice after agreeing to pay $139m and to co-operate with a government
Opalesque Industry Update - Pangolin Investment Management has recruited Mohshin Aziz, who has spent the past decade as transport analyst with Maybank-Kim Eng in Kuala Lumpur. Before that, he spent six years as head of
Tech-focused private equity house Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has made a strategic investment in GovernmentCIO, a provider of high-end tech and digital solutions to the US federal health IT services market.
Alternative real asset manager Harrison Street has made a trio of hires to strengthen its European investment and research teams.
Blackstone has scored a hefty return by agreeing the $14.6bn sale of US life science office buildings major BioMed Realty.
Central and eastern European private equity firm Enterprise Investors has increased its stake in Croatian bakery Pan-Pek to 100%.
Auerbach Funds has hit a first close for its $100m-targeting third real estate private equity fund.
Unquote associate editor Denise Ko Genovese talks Nigel van Zyl from Proskauer, which won the Law Firm of the Year (Fund Formation) category at the British Private Equity Awards.
Unquote interviews Andy Currie from Alantra, winner in the Corporate Finance Firm Of The Year category for the 2020 British Private Equity Awards.
Private equity-backed hospital clinical and business software specialist Surgical Information Systems has picked up a majority investment from tech-focused buyout house Accel-KKR.
Jacobo Llanza, Alantra’s chief executive said the deal will accelerate the firm’s plan 'to create a leading private debt group in Europe'
London is the second most popular destination for fintech investment globally, behind San Francisco. Of European VC cash flowing into fintech so far this year, 44% has gone to London-based companies
