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...
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...
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...
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...
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... 