by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Public pension plans tracked by investment data and analytics firm eVestment reported USD154.6 billion of commitments to private markets funds in 2020. This is a 2 per cent increase from 2019’s totals. In a pandemic-impacted year that turned fund due diligence and the...
by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
HighBar Partners, a Menlo Park, CA-based private equity investor, announced today that HighBar Partners III, L.P. has raised $100 million of strategic capital from Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. This innovative transaction will enable HighBar to make...
by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Vintage Wine Estates Inc. has found its perfect pairing: a blank-check company that will debut the private-equity-backed winemaker on the public market. Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company, plans to merge with Vintage Wine Estates...
by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
A FTSE-250 company which handles share registrar and other back-office services for some of Britain’s biggest businesses has become the latest UK corporate name to attract takeover interest from a buyout fund. Sky News has learnt that Siris, a technology-focused...
by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Fuel cell-truck startup Hyzon Motors Inc. agreed to a merger with blank-check company Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. in a deal that values the two combined at more than $2 billion. The transaction will generate about $626 million of gross proceeds, including...
by Sebastian | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Golding Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading independent asset managers for alternative investments, has held the final closing of its largest ever buyout programme, Golding Buyout 2018, with record commitments of some €375 million. Existing LPs were joined...
