Buyout
EQT brings in veteran Microsoft dealmaker Marc Brown to head new growth capital investment strategy

EQT brings in veteran Microsoft dealmaker Marc Brown to head new growth capital investment strategy

EQT has brought in former Microsoft investment exec Marc Brown to head up its new growth investment strategy.

Limited Partners
Marching Orders for the Next Investment Chief of CalPERS: More Private Equity

Marching Orders for the Next Investment Chief of CalPERS: More Private Equity

The nation’s biggest public pension fund is consistently short of the billions of dollars it needs to pay all retirees their pensions. It seeks higher returns.

Fundraising
Video: Travers Smith's Sam Kay on fundraising's paradigm shift

Video: Travers Smith's Sam Kay on fundraising's paradigm shift

Unquote interviews Sam Kay from Travers Smith, finalist in the Law Firm Of The Year – Fund Structuring category for the 2020 British Private Equity Awards.

Manufacturing and Industrial
Partners Group acquires stake in toll business Telepass for €1.06bn

Partners Group acquires stake in toll business Telepass for €1.06bn

Italian transport sector company Atlantia will retain control of the business

Angel / Venture
Video: Frog Capital's Mike Reid on growth equity's chance to shine

Video: Frog Capital's Mike Reid on growth equity's chance to shine

Unquote interviews Mike Reid from Frog Capital, which recently took the Venture & Growth Capital House of the Year gong at the 2020 British Private Equity Awards.

advisor
Unigestion Asia-Pacific private equity head Marchand hired by placement agent Campbell Lutyens

Unigestion Asia-Pacific private equity head Marchand hired by placement agent Campbell Lutyens

Global placement agent and fund advisor Campbell Lutyens has brought in Unigestion's Asia-Pacific private equity lead Eric Marchand.

Oil and Energy
Apollo bets on royalty investing to unlock more renewable energy deals

Apollo bets on royalty investing to unlock more renewable energy deals

The New York firm said it expects to invest as much as $200m in Great Bay Renewables, which funds solar and wind projects in exchange for a cut of the projects’ revenue streams

Europe
Meet the European private equity’s most influential women

Meet the European private equity’s most influential women

We highlight the 10 women in private equity from Financial News’s 14th list of the 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance

Software and Hi-Tech
Private equity executives see opportunity in uncertainty

Private equity executives see opportunity in uncertainty

Firms with money to spend are seeing plenty of investment opportunities in the pandemic-induced slowdown

Europe
European private equity’s most influential women

European private equity’s most influential women

We highlight the 10 women in private equity from Financial News’s 14th list of the 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance

Amadeus Capital Partners
Amadeus Capital Partners leads investment in visual data security, privacy specialist Pimloc

Amadeus Capital Partners leads investment in visual data security, privacy specialist Pimloc

Amadeus Capital Partners has led a £1.4m seed financing round for visual data security and privacy business Pimloc.

Public
Private equity makes limited progress on ESG promises

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

Buyout
Partners Group buys into European motorway toll collection business Telepass at over €2bn valuation

Partners Group buys into European motorway toll collection business Telepass at over €2bn valuation

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.

Buyout
THL’s former $17bn credit arm closes first fund since buyout by First Eagle Investment Management

THL’s former $17bn credit arm closes first fund since buyout by First Eagle Investment Management

Thomas H Lee Partners' former alternative credit business has closed its first fund since being bought by First Eagle Investment Management last December.

Angel / Venture
Bain Capital Ventures among Series B backers for open source management business FOSSA

Bain Capital Ventures among Series B backers for open source management business FOSSA

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.

Angel / Venture
Extended warranty ‘reinventor’ Extend gets $40m venture capital-backed Series B investment

Extended warranty ‘reinventor’ Extend gets $40m venture capital-backed Series B investment

Extend, a startup which says it has reinvented the extended warranty process, has closed its Series B on $40m.

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