Industry
Pantheon joins forces with Kermony for France-focused push
Relationship is set to facilitate access to Pantheon's offering for French institutional investors
Clearwater opens Leeds office, appoints Goldsack
Newly appointed partner Richard Goldsack previously worked at Grant Thornton and EY
SDG500 launched to invest in developing countries
Fund invests debt and equity in seed, series-A and series-B rounds in emerging and frontier markets
Mayfair hires Price from Lloyds Bank
Price led the strategic debt finance and capital structure advisory teams at Lloyds
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: the Review/Preview special
In this special bumper episode, the Unquote editorial team does a deep dive on key 2019 stats in each market
Why Larry Fink should attend Allocate
Allocate launched three years ago to provide private market investors with a forum to discuss mega-trends
Capza appoints Abensour as head of investor relations
GP also appoints Stefan Arneth from MEAG as sales manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
DACH VCs introduce sustainability clause
VCs and their portfolio companies will commit via a term sheet and shareholder agreement clause
Pantheon promotes Wong and Vainio to partner
Pantheon offers regional primary fund programmes, secondaries, and co-investment
Partners Group nears $100bn in AUM
Alternatives manager has secured $7.1bn in new commitments from private equity, and $4.9bn from private debt
Atomico promotes Haivas to partner
VC is currently investing from Atomico IV, which closed on $765m in February 2017
Sofinnova promotes Krel to partner
Krel joined the VC in 2013 and has worked on industrial biotech investments since then
Blake joins Herbert Smith Freehills funds practice
Jonathan Blake joins as head of international private funds strategy
Three UK charities on hunt for impact-focused managers
Successful manager would oversee a £32m portfolio with a focus on ESG and impact
Vendis appoints Riisberg as senior adviser in Nordic region
Christian Riisberg was previously founding partner of Alipes and a board member for various companies
Bowmark hires two, including new partner
Both Mani and McRae have joined from the small-cap investment team at CapVest, where Mani was head
Rede appoints Goodlad as head of transactions
Magnus Goodlad will replace Yaron Zafir, who has stepped down from his role and will act as senior adviser
Stephane Etroy joins Ares as head of European PE
Former executive vice-president and head of private equity at CDPQ will join from 6 February
Corporate divestments fuel European buyouts
Carve-outs and spin-outs represented around 14% of all buyouts in 2019, up from 11.5% in 2018 and 10% in 2017, according to Unquote Data
New merchant bank Umbra Capital Partners launches in UK
Umbra will also act as an investor itself, in addition to offering advisory services
Model LPA – useful protection or unnecessary guide?
Fund formation specialists weigh in on ILPA's recently launched Model Limited Partnership Agreement
Abris promotes three directors to partners
All three partners will also join the investment committee as non-voting members
ECI promotes Pike to partner
Suzanna Pike joined ECI in 2011 to work on deal origination, and was promoted to director in 2017
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Craving carve-outs
Listen to the latest episode of the Unquote Private Equity Podcast, where the team discusses corporate carve-outs
