EQT to close ninth buyout fund in Q3
Swedish private equity firm EQT plans to close EQT IX, which has a €14.75bn target and €15bn hard-cap, during the third quarter.
Swedish private equity firm EQT plans to close EQT IX, which has a €14.75bn target and €15bn hard-cap, during the third quarter.
Fintech startup Titanbay is hoping to open up private equity investing to small and medium-sized institutional and private investors through its newly-launched platform.
Committed Capital has acquired a majority stake in Netherlands-based Intersteel, a manufacturer of door handles from private equity firm 5Square and shareholder Peter van Leeuwen.
Private equity firm UI Gestion, alongside Caisse d'Epargne Ile-de-France Capital Investissement (CEIDF) and IRD Gestion, has acquired French packaging specialist Sopac Medical from Turenne Sante and A Plus Finance.
LP platform Titanbay has now launched its platform for smaller LPs to invest in private equity funds.
German customer intelligence platform provider Zeotap has raised $42m in a series-C round from NeueCapital, Math Capital, TTCER Partners, Kathaka, the Rupert family office, and Coparion.
London-headquartered secondaries specialist Headway Capital Partners has sold Italian lighting company Castaldi Lighting to market peer Penta.
CommerzVentures has invested $6m in speciality analytics firm Concirrus.
US pension giant CalPERS has fallen well short of its annual return goal amid its private equity investments tanking due to the coronavirus.
EVentures has led a $4m seed funding round for Sorare, a Paris-based fantasy football game developer.
Nordic private equity firm Polaris has acquired and plans to merge four Danish bus and coach operators to form a single nationwide transport company, Vikingbus.
Draper Esprit has led a £16.4m series-C funding round for fraud detection company Ravelin.
Head of Ardian US Benoît Verbrugghe talks to Unquote about plans to use recently raised funds to provide liquidity to investors amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the evolution of the secondaries market
Milaya Capital invests in a £15m funding round for alternative banking financial technology company Lanistar.
Bankrupt circus producer prepares to sign deal that would strip TPG and other shareholders of their ownership stakes
The crisis was heralded as a chance to level the playing field for working mothers in banking – it has not worked out that way
Limited partners are increasingly turning to debt and mezzanine infrastructure funds as they hunt for relatively safe havens for their investments amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Southeast Asia-focused venture capital house Wavemaker Partners has breezed past its target to reach a $111m final close for its third fundraise.
The scale at which the European private equity industry has been besieged by the coronavirus crisis is becoming increasingly clear thanks to new data from PitchBook, with fundraising, dealmaking and exit activity all falling to
Forescout took a 12% cut in its sale price to a private equity firm after the coronavirus stalled the deal
