David Beckham’s Guild Esports to launch London IPO
The former England football captain is a minority shareholder in the business, in which AIM-listed investment firm Blue Star Capital holds an 11.7% stake
The former England football captain is a minority shareholder in the business, in which AIM-listed investment firm Blue Star Capital holds an 11.7% stake
The World Bank has selected a trio of banks for a new 15 year Sustainable Development Bond (SDB), its first euro benchmark of its 2020/21 fiscal year. Elsewhere, the Republic of Korea scooped €700m with
The shortlist for this year's Unquote British Private Equity Awards has been announced and the public vote is now underway – pick your winners before 5pm on 16 September.
GI Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural Data Infrastructure Fund LP, with $1.8 billion in capital. The new fund was oversubscribed and beat its target of $1.25 billion. Investors in the Data
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: U.K. private equity and venture capital industries generated 10-year returns of +14.2% in 2019, outperforming the FTSE100 and the FTSE250, which generated returns of +7.4% and +12% respectivel...Article Link
Argonaut Private Equity has acquired the cementing services business of BJ Services which filed for bankruptcy in July 2020 after failing to reach an agreement with its lenders. Tomball, Texas-based BJ Services is a provider
BlackRock-backed online retailer The Hut Group (THG) has confirmed its intention to proceed with an initial public offering to raise gross proceeds of around £920m.
Trive Capital has formed NuBridge Commercial Lending to make first-lien, short-term bridge loans for commercial and multifamily properties across the United States. NuBridge will target loans that are between $1 million and $10 million with
Posted by Will Gornall (University of British Columbia), on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Editor's Note: Will Gornall is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. This post
The firm would be the first alternatives manager to go public since Hamilton Lane in 2017
Patrimonium Private Equity and co-investors have sold their stakes in plastic powder producer Fixatti Group to France-based listed chemicals company Arkema.
Move creates cheaper alternative to traditional initial public offering
Private equity firm TPG could be about to rake in $700m across the initial public offering of two blank-check companies, according to sources familiar with the matter speaking with Bloomberg. They told the publication that
Chinese tech powerhouse Ant Financial has filed for what could be the biggest initial public offering ever, which could see the company raise $30bn.
GF Data’s just-released report for the second quarter of 2020 provides a clear view of the M&A marketplace in the months following the onset of Covid-19: Virtually no change in valuations, dramatically reduced volume and
Opalesque Industry Update - Commonfund, an asset manager for endowments, foundations and public pension investors, announced today the re-opening of its online Diverse Manager Portal. Originally launched last year, the portal was designed to broaden
Robert Smith, founder of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, is seemingly under investigation by the US Justice Department, according to a Bloomberg report. The publication has spoken with four sources familiar with the matter
Posted by Andrew R. Brownstein, Andrew J. Nussbaum, and Igor Kirman, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Saturday, August 22, 2020 Editor's Note: Andrew R. Brownstein, Andrew J. Nussbaum, and Igor Kirman are partners at
Arlington Capital Partners has agreed to sell Centauri to publicly traded KBR for $827 million in cash. Centauri is a provider of engineering, intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced technology to intelligence and national defense agencies for
