Politics
Opalesque Exclusive: Adaptability rewards this trend-following hedge fund

Opalesque Exclusive: Adaptability rewards this trend-following hedge fund

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Trend followers, who buy an asset when its price trend goes up and sell when its trend goes down, expecting price movements to continue, have experienced fluctuating fortunes since 2009 partly

Politics
AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Adaptability rewards this trend-following hedge fund

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Adaptability rewards this trend-following hedge fund

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Trend followers, who buy an asset when its price trend goes up and sell when its trend goes down, expecting price movements to continue, have experienced fluctuating fortunes since 2009 partly

Large
Vista Equity Partners investor charged in $2bn tax evasion case

Vista Equity Partners investor charged in $2bn tax evasion case

Robert Brockman's case is the largest tax case ever against an individual

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Arbor Grabs $1.7 Billion of Dry Powder

Arbor Grabs $1.7 Billion of Dry Powder

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

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Cascadia Forms “Industry 4.0” Practice

Cascadia Forms “Industry 4.0” Practice

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

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HarbourVest’s Performance Leads to Hard Cap Close

HarbourVest’s Performance Leads to Hard Cap Close

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

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Wind Point Partners Acquires Handgards

Wind Point Partners Acquires Handgards

Wind Point Partners has acquired Handgards, a manufacturer of disposable products used in the foodservice sector. Handgards’ branded and private label products – sold through an independent sales representative network – include more than 200

Buyout
Billionaire Vista Equity founder Smith to pay $139m after admitting 15-year tax fraud, avoids prosecution

Billionaire Vista Equity founder Smith to pay $139m after admitting 15-year tax fraud, avoids prosecution

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

Angel / Venture
VC-backed Homebell sold to Portal United – report

VC-backed Homebell sold to Portal United – report

Portal United is to acquire online home renovation booking platform Homebell, a portfolio company of VCs including Lakestar and Index Ventures, according to local newswire Deutsche Startups, citing Portal United's CEO, Alexander Oberst.

Digital Transformation
Ardian sells Gantner to Alantra-backed Salto

Ardian sells Gantner to Alantra-backed Salto

Ardian has sold Austria-based Gantner to Salto Systems, a Spanish electronic locking company backed by Alantra Private Equity.

Appointments
Pangolin to launch a fund that bets on aviation recovery

Pangolin to launch a fund that bets on aviation recovery

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

Software and Hi-Tech
PE-backed Cohedron bolts-on two Dutch companies

PE-backed Cohedron bolts-on two Dutch companies

Argos Wityu-backed Dutch company Cohedron has acquired social medical consultancy firm Argonaut Advies and care services administrator Zorg-Lokaal.

Buyout
Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe buys into US federal health IT services contractor GovernmentCIO

Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe buys into US federal health IT services contractor GovernmentCIO

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.

Software and Hi-Tech
Omnes, BPI France sell Somos to trade

Omnes, BPI France sell Somos to trade

Investors including Omnes and BPI France have sold their stakes in Somos Semiconductor to Switzerland-based trade buyer ST Microelectronics.

Buyout
Harrison Street brings in de Pablo to spearhead European healthcare RE strategy amid trio of hires

Harrison Street brings in de Pablo to spearhead European healthcare RE strategy amid trio of hires

Alternative real asset manager Harrison Street has made a trio of hires to strengthen its European investment and research teams.

Software and Hi-Tech
Vam, Adon buy Sicurezza e Ambiente

Vam, Adon buy Sicurezza e Ambiente

Vam Investments and Adon Capital have acquired Sicurezza e Ambiente, an Italian company specialising in road maintenance and safety.

BioMed Realty
Blackstone headed for huge profit after agreeing $14.6bn BioMed realty sale

Blackstone headed for huge profit after agreeing $14.6bn BioMed realty sale

Blackstone has scored a hefty return by agreeing the $14.6bn sale of US life science office buildings major BioMed Realty.

Software and Hi-Tech
Patrimonium acquires Roth Group in SBO from Equistone

Patrimonium acquires Roth Group in SBO from Equistone

Patrimonium Private Equity has acquired Switzerland-based fire protection and construction company Roth Group in an SBO from Equistone.

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