Angel / Venture
Bullpen Capital is eyeing a capital pool of $150m for its sixth venture capital fund

Bullpen Capital is eyeing a capital pool of $150m for its sixth venture capital fund

Bullpen Capital is looking to raise $150m in its fifth venture capital fund, which will make it a little larger than its predecessor.

Belgium
Bencis loos to raise $560m for its sixth private equity fund

Bencis loos to raise $560m for its sixth private equity fund

Bencis, an investment firm focused on the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, is looking to raise $560m for its sixth fund.

Buyout
Encore Capital raises up to $27m for its third real estate vehicle

Encore Capital raises up to $27m for its third real estate vehicle

Encore Capital Management has pulled in up to $27m for its third housing opportunity fund, AltAssets reports.

Software and Hi-Tech
Schroder Adveq hires head of secondaries from Unigestion

Schroder Adveq hires head of secondaries from Unigestion

Christiaan van der Kam will start at the private equity arm of asset manager Schroders on 1 September

India
Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund to invest $1.49bn in Jio Platforms

Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund to invest $1.49bn in Jio Platforms

In the past several weeks, Jio has raised 115.69bn rupees from leading technology and private equity firms.

General Partners
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

Oil and Energy
Nemir Kirdar, Middle East Financier With Foot in the West, Dies at 83

Nemir Kirdar, Middle East Financier With Foot in the West, Dies at 83

The private equity firm he founded, Investcorp, tapped into Persian Gulf oil money and once purchased Tiffany and Co., Gucci and other Western brands.

Digital Transformation
AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 49: Asset managers who delivered in the downturn

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 49: Asset managers who delivered in the downturn

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: This is our regular report on hedge funds and alternative asset managers who are successfully protecting assets and outperforming the markets during the first months of 2020. Digital curren...Article Link

Digital Transformation
AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 49: Asset managers who delivered in the downturn

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 49: Asset managers who delivered in the downturn

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: This is our regular report on hedge funds and alternative asset managers who are successfully protecting assets and outperforming the markets during the first months of 2020. Digital curren...Article Link

Software and Hi-Tech
AMB :- Bridgepoint acquires EQT’s $4.5bn credit business

AMB :- Bridgepoint acquires EQT’s $4.5bn credit business

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: UK-based private equity firm Bridgepoint Advisers has agreed to buy rival buyout group Swedish-based EQT Partners' €3.9bn ($4.5 billion) credit business. EQT, which has €62 billion in asse...Article Link

Software and Hi-Tech
AMB :- Bridgepoint acquires EQT’s $4.5bn credit business

AMB :- Bridgepoint acquires EQT’s $4.5bn credit business

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: UK-based private equity firm Bridgepoint Advisers has agreed to buy rival buyout group Swedish-based EQT Partners' €3.9bn ($4.5 billion) credit business. EQT, which has €62 billion in asse...Article Link

asia
HQ Capital bags $750m private equity fund Auda Capital VIII

HQ Capital bags $750m private equity fund Auda Capital VIII

Private equity firm HQ Capital has just announced the raise of its largest fund ever in its three decade-long history. The global alternative investment firm of the Germany based HQ Group has announced the final

All Transactions
Fulcrum Buys Consumer Products Packager

Fulcrum Buys Consumer Products Packager

Fulcrum Capital Partners has made an investment in Belvika Trade & Packaging, a provider of outsourced packaging services. Belvika provides primary packaging, secondary packaging, and merchandising services primarily to consumer packaged goods companies operating in

All News
GreyLion Spins Out from Perella Weinberg

GreyLion Spins Out from Perella Weinberg

PWP Growth Equity has completed its spin-out from Perella Weinberg. The new firm – now operating as GreyLion Capital – will continue to manage its two existing private equity funds with total capital commitments of

Consumer Services
Lion Capital-backed retailer AllSaints to restructure store portfolio

Lion Capital-backed retailer AllSaints to restructure store portfolio

The group launched company voluntary arrangements in the UK and North America as the high street reels from the pandemic

All News
Sterling Hits Hard Cap

Sterling Hits Hard Cap

The Sterling Group has held an oversubscribed and hard cap close of its fifth fund, Sterling Group Partners V LP, with $2 billion of capital. The new fund was raised after just four months of

All News
Osceola Closes First Fund

Osceola Closes First Fund

Osceola Capital has held a hard cap and above target close of its inaugural fund with an oversubscribed $125 million of capital. Limited partners in the new fund include public pension plans, financial institutions, a

Europe
HQ Capital closes its largest fund at $750m

HQ Capital closes its largest fund at $750m

The fund of funds, which surpassed its target of $600m, is set to invest in Asia, Europe, and the US

BlueBee
Capricorn ICT Arkiv makes third successful exit through sale of BlueBee

Capricorn ICT Arkiv makes third successful exit through sale of BlueBee

Capricorn ICT Arkiv has completed its third successful exit with the sale of genomics data analysis solutions provider BlueBee to Illumina, a fellow life science business.

Downsizing
Providence in single-asset restructuring for HSE24

Providence in single-asset restructuring for HSE24

Providence Equity Partners is to complete a single-asset restructuring deal for HSE24, the operator of German TV channel Home Shopping Europe.

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