Financial services

Pinnacle Investment Management, an Australian Securities Exchange-listed multi-affiliate investment management group, is taking a 22.5 percent interest in VSS Capital.

Partners Group has agreed to acquire Empira Group, a premier real estate investment platform.

Empira's investment strategies include European residential, US residential, transition-to-green and real estate credit.

'As inflation cools and interest rates potentially ease after 2024's period of elevated rates – easing only in the last couple of months – the economic landscape should be more supportive of dealmaking activity.'

Affinia is an accountancy services business in the UK.

Esker is a cloud-based company servicing the finance, procurement and customer service industries in the ‘Office of the CFO’ market.

The appointment will be effective 1 January 2025.

The firm named Boada as a director with a remit to open its Madrid office and lead its PE strategy in Spain.

“Most of the GPs out there have understood that more LPs want co-investment,” says Pictet's Thibaud Roulin.

‘Most of the GPs out there have understood that more LPs want co-investment,’ says Thibaud Roulin, head of North America, private equity.