The San Francisco-based private equity newcomer has closed its oversubscribed fund without the help of a placement agent.
Newbury Partners, launched by Auda Advisors’ former secondaries team, has already committed 25 percent of its debut fund.
The Valence Group, a merchant bank recently launched by Arsenal co-founder Barry Siadat, has completed its first acquisition. Siadat left Arsenal in mid-2007 to pursue specialty chemical investments.
Oversubscribed Cadent Energy Partners II will target small- to medium-sized energy companies throughout North America.
The private equity firm’s ninth real estate fund – the largest ever private equity real estate fund raised – will take advantage of current market dislocation.
DLJ South America Partners' first fund has completed three investments to date, including particpation in a club deal for Latin American and Caribbean McDonald’s restaurants.
The publicly listed KKR affiliate has agreed to swap $3.5 billion in debt for assets with its asset-backed commercial paper issuers. It will also sell a controlling interest in its REIT subsidiary to Rock Capital 2 and has proposed a rights offering of 20 million shares for ‘general corporate purposes’.
The Indian alternatives manager has completed fundraising for its third private equity fund in less than three months, bringing its assets under management to more than $1.4 billion.
The firm has invested or committed most of the funds it raised in its initial public offering in April last year, ahead of its two year target to invest the money.
As part of its clean tech investment drive, the German bank’s asset management division is in the early stages of developing a fund exclusively devoted to climate change technology.