Blackstone has held an oversubscribed, hard cap, and final close of Blackstone Life Sciences V LP with $4.6 billion of capital. This is the largest life sciences private equity fund ever raised by any firm.
Early-stage investors Kindred Capital and Capnamic Ventures have led a €2.47m seed round for How.FM, a Germany-based software platform that aims to assist companies with training and communication with manual workers.
EQT has sold a minority stake in Sweden-based enterprise software provider IFS to US private equity firm TA Associates, in a deal valuing the company in excess of €3bn.
The transaction, expected to conclude next month, involves EQT VII transfer ownership of the Swedish company it has held since 2015 to successor funds VIII and IX
Private equity firms Elige Capital and Extens have acquired a minority stake in French cardiology software developer Medireport.
Investment platform Warren Brasil has raised $22.5m in a Series B round led by QED Investors.
Energize Ventures has led a $10m series-B extension for Switzerland-based Beekeeper, a software company that develops communications systems for remote employees.
The capital raised puts the London-based private equity firm almost three-quarters of the way toward the fund’s target
Fitch has downgraded Malaysia for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, slashing the sovereign rating by one notch to BBB+ due to the Covid-19 crisis and political uncertainty.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s board of directors has approved a proposal to accelerate its transition towards being a green bank, including devoting over 50% of its investments to the green economy by
In this round-up, the latest cluster of Covid-19 in Beijing city comes to an end, the US imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials and Mainland-based social media apps are faced with more pressure.
Finnish database software firm MariaDB Corporation has raised $25m in an additional series-C round led by SmartFin Capital.
Momentum is growing for the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to have a strong green thrust, as the UK’s mini-Budget and comments by European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde made clear this week. Capital
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has announced a management succession plan that names Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg as managing partners. LLCP was founded in 1984 and its co-founders – Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman
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High yield bond issuance is coming thick and fast in Europe, with primary supply not limited to straightforward Covid-proof credits, but also coming from highly levered firms feeling the pinch of the pandemic restrictions.
Philippine issuers are flooding the market with dollar bonds, giving investors an unprecedented selection of deals from the country. There is plenty more to come. Morgan Davis reports.
Goldman Sachs Growth has backed an $80m series-D funding round for Germany-based enterprise architecture software LeanIX.
Open-source enterprise software infrastructure company Suse, a portfolio company of EQT, has acquired California-based Rancher Labs.
HIG Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Italian IT specialist Project Informatica from founder and CEO Alberto Ghisleni, who will reinvest alongside the GP and continue to lead the company.
