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Sep 04, 2026
Carlyle and sports-focused private equity firm Dynasty Equity were among minority investments in current Super Bowl holders the Seattle Seahawks, supporting the Khosla family's $9.6bn acquisition of the NFL franchise.
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Sep 04, 2026
MS PARTNERS, co-founded by former KKR European impact head Stanislas de Joussineau, has reached a near-€150m first close for its debut pan-European private equity fund - almost halfway to its €300m target.
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Sep 04, 2026
UK venture capital investment more than doubled during the first seven months of 2026 despite virtually no increase in the number of deals, adding to evidence that the country's venture recovery is being driven by larger rounds, AI and late-stage businesses rather than a broad-based resurgence in dealmaking.
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Sep 04, 2026
Lower mid-market buyout house Tyree & D'Angelo Partners has nearly doubled the size of its flagship fund series after racing to a $650m hard-cap close for Fund IV in less than two-and-a-half months.
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Sep 04, 2026
Benetton family investment holding company Edizione has completed the combination of 21 Invest and Tages to create €3bn-AUM alternatives manager 21 NEXT, which is already preparing an €800m pan-European lower mid-market buyout fund as part of plans to more than triple its assets.
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Sep 04, 2026
Netley Capital has amassed about $1.2bn of firepower for its private equity tertiaries strategy, less than a year after launching the first dedicated pool targeting the emerging market.
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Sep 03, 2026
Apax Digital has agreed a strategic growth investment in securities finance technology platform Wematch, with the funds becoming majority shareholder following completion. Existing strategic investors Barclays, Deutsche Börse Group, JP Morgan and Societe Generale, alongside management, will remain invested. Wematch provides regulated digital infrastructure for securities lending and total return swap workflows, with close to […]
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Sep 03, 2026
Blue Owl Capital has hired Schroders executive Philippe Benedetti to lead its Swiss private wealth business, as the $319bn alternatives manager continues its expansion outside of the US by opening a Swiss office.
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Sep 03, 2026
Pantheon has expanded access to its infrastructure secondaries strategy through a new evergreen fund, two years after raising a record $5.3bn for its latest institutional infrastructure programme.
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Sep 03, 2026
CVC Secondary Partners has closed its sixth global private equity secondaries fund on $10bn, continuing a rapid expansion of the firm's firepower in the asset class.
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Sep 03, 2026
Constitution Capital Partners has launched a collective investment trust aimed at bringing its North American middle-market private equity strategy into US defined contribution retirement plans, as alternative asset managers position themselves for potentially significant new flows from the 401(k) market.
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Sep 03, 2026
HIG Capital has hired Blackstone senior managing director Younghee Choi as head of Asia, extending a rapid buildout of its capital formation operation as the $75bn alternatives manager looks to expand its Asian LP base.
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Sep 03, 2026
Polish private equity house Avallon MBO has held a €171.5m first close for its fourth flagship fund, already surpassing the total raised by its predecessor as its targets a potential €260m final close.
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Sep 03, 2026
Long-time Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub has launched her own venture firm, Prompt Capital, and is seeking up to $40m for its debut fund.
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Sep 02, 2026
Epiris has agreed a cash acquisition of Unified Communications as a Service specialist Gamma Communications which gives the FTSE 250 business a roughly £1.08bn enterprise value.
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Sep 02, 2026
Nordic buyout house Axcel has closed its eighth flagship fund at a €2.1bn hard cap, increasing the strategy by 60% from its 2024 predecessor vehicle.
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Sep 02, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz has added $1.75bn of fresh capital to its fifth growth fund, increasing the vehicle to $8.5bn less than eight months after closing the vehicle.
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Sep 02, 2026
Special situations investor Ocean Avenue Capital Partners is back in the fundraising market eyeing up to $750m for its latest investment vehicle, which will target co-investments alongside independent sponsors.
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Sep 02, 2026
Charlesbank Capital Partners has named Brandon White and Sandor Hau as co-managing partners in a significant leadership transition at the $22bn-plus middle-market investor, with long-time CEO Michael Choe stepping back after 12 years at the helm.
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Sep 01, 2026
India's sovereign-anchored National Investment and Infrastructure Fund has reached a INR190bn ($2bn) first close for its second flagship infrastructure fund, already securing capital equivalent to roughly 85% of the final size of its predecessor.
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Sep 01, 2026
Ares Management has closed its fifth Japan logistics development fund at a JPY612bn ($4bn) hard cap, increasing the strategy by nearly 50% from its predecessor just over a year after acquiring the platform through GCP International.
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Sep 01, 2026
Carrick Capital Partners has closed a $600m single-asset continuation vehicle for Saviynt, offering existing LPs an 11x gross return on their original investment while committing another $255m to the identity security business - the largest investment in Carrick's history.
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Sep 01, 2026
LeapFrog Investments has hired former Helios Investment Partners global investor relations head Virginia Doble as partner and global head of Investor Solutions, putting her in charge of fundraising, co-investment and capital mobilisation.
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Aug 28, 2026
LGT Capital Partners has raised €850m for its seventh dedicated European small buyout fund, exceeding its €800m target.
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Aug 28, 2026
GenNx360 Capital Partners has nearly doubled the size of its flagship private equity fund with an $865m Fund IV close, substantially beating its original target after returning more than $1.3bn to investors over the past 12 months.
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Aug 28, 2026
StepStone Group has raised $1.7bn across its first dedicated infrastructure secondaries fund and related separate accounts, extending a strategy that has until now been pursued through the manager's wider infrastructure platform rather than a standalone closed-end vehicle.
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Aug 28, 2026
Permanent Capital Ventures has raised a $200m second fund targeting Series A applied AI investments, rapidly scaling a venture platform that only began investing in early 2024.
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Aug 28, 2026
Einride founders Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck have launched Navisalma, a new European venture platform designed to combine venture investing with private equity-style operational value creation.
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Aug 28, 2026
MassMutual Ventures has launched a $150m second climate technology fund, maintaining the expanded scale of its first vehicle while sharpening its investment strategy around AI and technology targeting energy infrastructure, real estate and other real assets.
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Aug 27, 2026
Capital F, a venture capital firm targeting tech businesses serving markets where women drive purchasing and product demand, has closed its debut fund on $17.
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Aug 26, 2026
Granite Asia has surpassed $500m for its first pan-Asian private credit strategy, marking a rapid expansion beyond the venture capital business it inherited from GGV Capital after the firm's US-Asia split in 2024.
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Aug 26, 2026
Fiat Ventures has rebranded as FGV Capital alongside closing its second fund at $35m - 40% above its original target.
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Aug 25, 2026
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has closed its second Growth Markets Fund at about $3bn, nearly tripling the $1bn raised for its predecessor.
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Aug 24, 2026
Siguler Guff has raised $500m across its second Global Emerging Markets Growth Opportunities fund, co-investment vehicles and separately managed accounts - more than doubling the amount of capital its predecessor programme deployed into India.
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Aug 24, 2026
Temasek-backed Azalea Investment Management has raised more than $1bn across three private equity products, with the launch of its first evergreen vehicle helping offset a substantial reduction in the size of its latest flagship fund-of-funds.
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Aug 21, 2026
Gaming specialist Makers Fund has closed its fourth flagship vehicle at $250m - half the size of the $500m Fund III it raised at the height of the last gaming investment cycle in 2022.
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Aug 21, 2026
Private equity sponsors are increasingly turning to minority stake sales and hybrid capital as pressure to generate distributions collides with a still-challenging exit environment, according to a new market update from White & Case.
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Aug 21, 2026
Crestline Management has raised $625m for its second European Capital Solutions fund, increasing the strategy's fund size by nearly 75%.
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Aug 20, 2026
Machine Investment Group has increased the primary capital in its flagship real estate strategy by more than 40%, closing Machine Real Estate Fund II at its $350m hard cap.
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Aug 20, 2026
HIG Capital has hired former Oaktree Capital Management and Schroders Capital executives Tim Hsu and Chris Todisco as managing directors in its Capital Formation Group, strengthening its fundraising operation as the $75bn alternatives manager continues to expand its global credit platform.
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Aug 19, 2026
KKR has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Indian ticketing and entertainment platform BookMyShow, backing the company's expansion in live events and experiences.
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Aug 19, 2026
Reach Capital has closed its largest fund to date at $265m amid a further expansion beyond the education technology specialism on which the venture manager built its business.
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Aug 19, 2026
Floating Point has raised $125m for its third fund, nearly doubling the size of its previous vehicle, as the early-stage investor looks to scale a strategy built around tech-enabled businesses operating in complex, capital-intensive sectors rather than traditional software.
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Aug 19, 2026
Broadwing Capital has closed its inaugural institutional private equity fund on $440m, beating its $350m target, as the four-year-old manager looks to scale a lower mid-market buy-and-build strategy that has already produced 26 acquisitions.
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Aug 18, 2026
Homestead Capital has held the first close of its debut commingled agriculture private credit fund, securing a $150m anchor commitment from a large US state pension system as it expands beyond the farmland equity strategy on which it built its $1.8bn investment platform.
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Aug 18, 2026
Investment house Ninety One has closed its third Africa Credit Opportunities fund on $404m including leverage, almost doubling the capital raised across its emerging market senior credit strategy to $815m.
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Aug 17, 2026
Great Hill Partners has hired former Bain & Company exec Sam Liu as director of AI, adding a second senior artificial intelligence specialist this year as the buyout major looks to embed the technology across both its investment process and portfolio company value creation.
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Aug 17, 2026
Partners Group has secured a $1bn private credit mandate from a major Asian institutional investor, adding to a run of bespoke accounts that has made customised mandates a significant source of new capital for the Swiss private markets manager.
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Aug 14, 2026
Continuim Equity Partners has more than doubled the size of its flagship fund in two years, closing its third manufacturing and industrial-focused vehicle on $548m after just 32 days in market.
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Aug 14, 2026
EMERGING and Promethean Investments have launched a $300m-targeting hospitality and experiential entertainment investment vehicle, using a roughly $185m portfolio of identified assets as the foundation for a strategy targeting AI, automation and technology-enabled businesses across the sector.
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Aug 13, 2026
The Virginia Retirement System has reported a 12.1% net investment return for the fiscal year to June 30, 2026, growing its trust fund to $135.2bn.
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Aug 13, 2026
Accel has raised $3.5bn across four new early-stage venture funds, reinforcing its long-term conviction that AI is creating a tech supercycle that will accelerate company formation and reshape venture investing globally.
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Aug 12, 2026
TPG has agreed to acquire a 61.2% controlling stake in South Korea's largest car rental company, Lotte Rental, from Hotel Lotte and Busan Lotte Hotel in a transaction valued at KRW1.31tn ($925m).
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Aug 12, 2026
Canyon Partners has completed the final close of its latest US opportunistic real estate strategy on about $570m, beating its initial $500m target.
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Aug 12, 2026
Apollo S3 has led another single-asset continuation vehicle, backing Monogram Capital Partners' transfer of drinks manufacturer Mountaintop Beverage into a new fund.
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Aug 11, 2026
Canadian investor Polar Asset Management has secured more than $215m for the first close of its second dedicated significant risk transfer (SRT) fund, expanding a strategy that has emerged as a key way banks are managing regulatory capital while opening a fast-growing niche for private credit investors.
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Aug 11, 2026
Exponent has completed a roughly €750m single-asset continuation vehicle for Irish electrical engineering specialist H&MV, extending its ownership of one of Europe's fastest-growing infrastructure services businesses at a €1.4bn valuation.
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Aug 10, 2026
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan posted a 9.5% net return for the first six months of 2026, with its venture growth portfolio emerging as the largest contributor to performance as the Canadian pension fund's assets surpassed C$300bn.
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Aug 10, 2026
Italy-focused private markets manager Nextalia has held a €1.1bn first close for its second flagship private equity fund, securing one of the country's largest pools of capital dedicated to mid-market buyouts just five months after launching the raise.
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Aug 07, 2026
Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire UK-listed airline easyJet in a £5.7bn transaction, ending a competitive bidding process after rival suitor Castlelake withdrew.
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Aug 07, 2026
South Park Commons has closed its fourth fund on $575m, more than double the size of its predecessor vehicle, as the early-stage investor looks to hold larger positions in portfolio companies beyond their formative stages.
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Aug 07, 2026
White Star Capital has held the final close of its fourth flagship venture fund at $250m to target Series A and B dealmaking in AI-driven companies.
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Aug 07, 2026
Energy Capital Partners has closed its sixth flagship infrastructure fund on $8.1bn, more than 80% larger than its predecessor and well above its original $5bn target.
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Aug 07, 2026
Alpaca Real Estate has completed the final close of its inaugural fund on about $223m, joining a select group of first-time real estate managers to secure institutional backing in what remains a difficult fundraising environment for emerging GPs.
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Aug 06, 2026
Partners Group has entered exclusive discussions to acquire a majority stake in Aroma-Zone, a French natural beauty, wellness and selfcare brand, from Eurazeo.
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Aug 06, 2026
Europe's IPO market has reopened after the 2022 correction, but the backlog of potential listings is rapidly narrowing, creating a more selective exit environment for private equity sponsors, PitchBook data suggests.
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Aug 06, 2026
HarbourVest Partners has brought in former DWS executive Guido Lombardi as private wealth lead for France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Southern Europe, as the private markets manager continues to expand its wealth platform across the EMEA.
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Aug 06, 2026
KKR has raised $19.2bn for its biggest-ever infrastructure investment fund as investor demand for critical infra continues to accelerate - particularly around digital infrastructure, energy transition and electrification.
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Aug 06, 2026
G Squared has closed its seventh flagship fund on $2.3bn, its largest vehicle to date, as the venture secondaries specialist looks to capitalise on the asset class moving from the sidelines to become a core feature of the industry.
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Aug 05, 2026
L Catterton has agreed to sell science-backed wellness company Thorne to Procter & Gamble in a $3.8bn cash transaction, less than three years after investing in the business.
The post Deal Roundup: L Catterton agrees $3.8bn Thorne sale, Gryphon exits Jensen Hughes to New Mountain appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.
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Aug 05, 2026
Blue Owl Capital has closed its inaugural European net lease strategy on more than €1.6bn, exceeding both its €1bn fundraising target and a subsequently increased €1.5bn hard cap.
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Aug 05, 2026
The California State Teachers' Retirement System delivered a 13.9% net return for the fiscal year ending June 30, almost double its 7% policy benchmark.
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Aug 04, 2026
Adams Street Partners has raised more than $5bn for its latest secondaries investment programme, as the private markets investor looks to capitalize on a secondary market that surpassed $200bn of annual transaction volume for the first time last year.
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Aug 04, 2026
Bridgepoint has soared past its fundraising target for its latest European direct lending strategy, closing Bridgepoint Direct Lending IV on €5.1bn.
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Aug 04, 2026
Highland Europe has raised its largest fund to date, securing €1.1bn for its sixth vehicle as the growth-stage technology investor looks to capitalise on what it describes as a "transformational" period for European AI companies.
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Aug 04, 2026
Janus Henderson, Victory Park Capital and Privacore Capital have raised an additional $100m for their private asset-backed credit interval fund AltsABF from General Electric Pension Trust.
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Aug 03, 2026
Pantheon has closed its largest dedicated co-investment programme to date, raising $3.2bn amid continued investor demand for lower-cost, direct private equity exposure.
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Aug 03, 2026
Hamilton Lane has strengthened its push into GP-led secondaries by acting as the sole lead investor in a $270m single-asset continuation vehicle for Savant Wealth Management.
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Aug 03, 2026
Index Ventures has expanded its latest fundraise to $3.5bn across seed, venture and growth investing as the venture firm positions itself to back founders throughout the AI cycle.
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Aug 03, 2026
Tech-focused secondaries direct investor Savano Capital Partners has closed its fourth flagship fund on $252m, exceeding its fundraising target and marking a step-change in the firm's institutional investor base with its first-ever commitments from public pension plans.
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Aug 03, 2026
Align Ventures has hit an above-target close for its second early-stage fund in the wake of a series of successful Fund I exits, the firm said.
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Jul 31, 2026
Blue Earth Capital has passed $200m in capital commitments for its impact secondaries strategy after it concluded a second close. Momentum for the latest close came largely from the US, where three prominent names joined the investor base. These were Builders Vision, iAlumbra Capital and Sonen Capital. The firm said the milestone marks an important […]
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Jul 31, 2026
Kingswood Capital Management has closed two oversubscribed vehicles that together raised $4bn. The larger of the two, Kingswood Capital Opportunities Fund IV, concluded with $3.1bn in commitments, well above its original $2.25bn target. The firm also held a final close on its debut small cap vehicle, Kingswood Capital Opportunities Small Cap Fund I, which brought […]
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Jul 30, 2026
Hg, the leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses, today announced that it has agreed the sale of its majority shareholding in Quantios, a leading provider of SaaS solutions to the global trust and corporate services industry, to Vista Equity Partners. Hg first invested in the business in 2022, then TrustQuay, and […]
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Jul 30, 2026
Pantheon has co-led an €811m multi-asset continuation vehicle for BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital, showing the desire for complex GP-led secondaries in Europe. The vehicle will fund the next stage of expansion for two portfolio companies, with the first being Safety21, a European GovTech platform focused on road safety and smart mobility, while the second is Onlineprinters, […]
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Jul 30, 2026
GTCR has closed its first ever Capital Solutions Fund, bringing in roughly $1.25bn in total commitments across the vehicle and its affiliated entities. The capital came almost entirely from investors who already back other GTCR vehicles, a group spanning public and corporate pension schemes, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions. The vehicle has […]
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Jul 30, 2026
Chicago-headquartered Wind Point Partners has brought to a close its eleventh flagship vehicle at $3.2bn, surpassing its hard cap. The fund, Wind Point Partners XI, attracted backing from over 65 institutions across 17 countries, reaching across pension funds, insurers, asset managers, family offices and foundations. Alongside these outside commitments, the firm's General Partner and participants […]
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Jul 30, 2026
D.A. Davidson & Co, the employee-owned US financial services firm, has appointed John Baumgartner as vice chairman and co-head of equity capital markets as it looks to expand its investment banking platform and strengthen relationships across the middle market. Baumgartner will lead the firm's equity capital markets team alongside Josh Nolan, overseeing the origination, structuring, […]
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Jul 30, 2026
D.A. Davidson & Co, the employee-owned US financial services firm, has appointed John Baumgartner as vice chairman and co-head of equity capital markets as it looks to expand its investment banking platform and strengthen relationships across the middle market. Baumgartner will lead the firm's equity capital markets team alongside Josh Nolan, overseeing the origination, structuring, […]
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Jul 29, 2026
Bain Capital and Tillman Global Holdings have announced a $1.5 billion investment in Eaton Fiber, an affiliate of Tillman, to accelerate the expansion of Verizon fiber broadband through fiber network deployment across the United States. The investment, which was led by Bain Capital's Special Situations team, fully funds the acquisition of Ripple Fiber and the […]
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Jul 29, 2026
Outrigger Impact, a finance platform focused on ocean economies, has unveiled the Outrigger Impact Fund I. According to The Fish Site, the Fund is a $100m vehicle designed to channel equity and debt into blue economy businesses across Small Island Developing States. The fund is built to strengthen the ability of island nations to withstand […]
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Jul 29, 2026
Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has named Gordon Smith as its new fund manager - retail. Smith brings two decades of retail sector experience, will work out of the company's Perth office and take charge of Centuria's large format retail and daily needs retail portfolios, which together reach across more than 70 […]
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Jul 29, 2026
T. Rowe Price has joined forces with Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) to unveil the T. Rowe Price Goldman Sachs Private Markets Fund. The vehicle is an interval fund aimed at bringing institutional-grade private market investing within reach of everyday investors. According to T.Rowe, the vehicle draws on the portfolio construction strength of T. Rowe […]
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Jul 29, 2026
Jump Capital, the Chicago-founded venture firm established in 2012 alongside Jump Trading, has concluded its seventh fund at $350m. According to Crypto News, this fund marks the biggest vehicle in Jump'a history and shows a deeper push into digital assets. Announced on 29 July, the new fund will maintain the firm's established coverage of FinTech, […]
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Jul 29, 2026
Jump Capital, the Chicago-founded venture firm established in 2012 alongside Jump Trading, has concluded its eighth fund at $350m. This fund marks the biggest vehicle in Jump's history. According to Jump Capital, Fund 8 is focused on investing in AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tooling and related enterprise technologies. Announced on 29 July, the new fund […]
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Jul 28, 2026
Great American Holdings, a provider of financial advisory, valuation, asset disposition, and investment banking services and majority-owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, has announced the acquisition of Trampe Settles, a Dallas-based family law litigation support firm. Trampe Settles is focused on providing expert witness services in disputes involving the valuation of closely held […]
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Jul 28, 2026
Hong Kong-based PE house ZQ Capital has completed the final close of its flagship fund at its $300m target, with the vehicle finishing oversubscribed. According to Fund Selector Asia, the fundraise drew commitments from a mix of returning backers and first-time investors, widening the firm's base of institutional investors and family offices across North America, […]
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Jul 28, 2026
GCM Grosvenor has secured its final close of its first Credit Secondaries Fund (CSF), securing $1.2bn in commitments for the platform. The funding was raised both within and alongside CSF, a result the firm attributes to heightened appetite among investors for a strategy that is expanding at pace across private markets. The approach is founded […]
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Jul 28, 2026
Brookfield has secured approximately $2bn at the first close of its new private equity vehicle anchored by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). The fund, named Brookfield Middle East Partners (BMEP), secured its initial funding from a group of strategic anchor backers, led by PIF alongside other institutional investors from the region and around the […]
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Jul 28, 2026
KKR has named Roy Gori, the former president and CEO of Manulife, as a senior advisor as it looks to deepen its reach across international financial services and insurance markets. Gori will guide the firm on strategic openings across insurance, wealth management, banking and distribution, with particular attention on Asia Pacific and other international markets. […]
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