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Advent holds $1.65bn fund closeThe firm’s fifth Latin American vehicle takes the title for the region’s largest private equity fund raised to date.
- Advent hires former Dunkin’ Donuts’ exec
Will Kussell, who worked as president at the restaurant chain, will help Advent identify investment opportunities.
- Global firms add to advisory rosters
CD&R has hired the former Proctor & Gamble boss AG Lafley. Advent and Carlyle have also recently added veterans to their advisory networks.
- Advent loses operating partner to Morgan Stanley
P Jayendra Nayak is leaving Advent International less than a year after joining the firm to lead the bank's Indian efforts.
- Providence-backed KDG raises €760m
Germany’s largest cable television operator has gone public in the largest IPO in Germany since 2007.
- Pennsylvania commits $40m to JH Whitney, Advent
The pension, which is cutting back its private equity programme, will invest $25m in JH Whitney’s seventh fund and $15m in Advent’s fifth Latin American fund.
- Advent in market with fifth Latin American fund
The fund, with a target of around $1.5bn, will focus investments primarily on Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
- ABRY presses play on $1.2bn cable deal
The Boston-based firm will use $536m of equity in the take-private, the latest in a string of transactions around the $1bn mark agreed in recent weeks.
- Quietly finding profit
Three years after establishing its New York office, Christopher Witkowsky catches up with ATP Private Equity, one of Europe’s largest backers of private equity funds, as it looks to deploy dry powder.
- Advent opens first New York office
The globally focused buyout firm is establishing a presence in the US financial capital for the first time in order to deepen its investment platform and expand its list of contacts.