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OTPP appoints Frank as senior managing director
Karen Frank will lead the LP's private capital and "high-conviction equities" teams
Mediobanca, Russell Investments launch third private market fund
Fund invests in secondaries, distressed assets and opportunities in dislocated industrial sectors
ICG acquires Workhuman minority at $1.2bn valuation
Balderton Cpaital, Atlas Venture and Benchmark are early investors in the HR platform
RJD to invest up to £12.75m in Improve
Improve most recently reported revenue and adjusted EBITDA of ТЃ10.1m and ТЃ1.7m respectively
Video: Cambridge Associates' Marcandalli on impact investing moving centre stage
In a new instalment of Unquote's Lockdown series, Annachiara Marcandalli explains why it is unlikely that coronavirus will sideline impact investing
Piper to launch next fund in 2021
Managing partner Chris Curry told Unquote the fund is expected to target ТЃ150-175m
VCs in £25m round for Cazoo at valuation of $1bn
Since launching in December 2019, the online car retailer has generated ТЃ20m in revenues
Buy-and-building through the storm
Bolt-ons remain one way of deploying capital and building value, but a tough financing market and pricing mismatches make for a challenging landscape
HSBC contributes $7m to Privitar's series-C
Warburg Pincus led an $80m series-C funding round for the data privacy company in April 2020
Coatue leads $150m Checkout series-B with $5.5bn valuation
US-based late-stage investor Coatue has previously taken stakes in companies such as Instacart
Epidarex Capital III closes on £102m
Fund invests in new life science companies from emerging research hubs across the UK
MMC leads $3m seed round for Agamon
Fresh capital will be used to scale the company's deployments with more hospitals globally
August-backed Code acquires Isopharm
Based in Sheffield and founded in 1999, the dental training company employs 50 people
Inflexion acquires Rosemont for £156m
Inflexion has worked on a number of other carve-outs, including Ocorian, THE and Marley
Capita to sell Eclipse to PE-backed Access UK for £56.5m
Access UK was backed by Hg in 2018 in a deal that valued the software developar at ТЃ1bn
From PE darling to hard-hit sector: gyms face uncertain post-covid future
As gyms and fitness clubs across Europe gear up to welcome back consumers, Unquote explores their tricky path out of lockdown
BlackRock and ApoBank launch healthcare fund
BlackRock-managed fund aims to give ApoBank's institutional clients access to healthcare investments
Eurazeo-backed Planet acquires 3C Payment
Planet is said to pay between the high millions and low tens-of-millions-of-euros on an acquisition
Inflexion-backed ONP invests £1.5m in Lavatech
Founded in 2013, Lavatech is the developer of legal app InCase and is based in Manchester
SoftBank in $19.5m in Splyt series-B
SoftBank vice-president Daichi Nozaki will join the company's board of directors
EQT sells credit business to Bridgepoint
There were five or six bidders in the early stages of the sale auction, including Schroders
Hoxton closes second fund on almost $100m
Hoxton Ventures II has a 30% carry rate with a 2.5% management fee and no hurdle
Mobeus leads £4m round for MyTutor
Fresh capital will be used to increase the availability of MyTutor's platform
European fund closes slump by 42% amid lockdown
Unquote recorded 44 first or final closes of European PE funds between March and May, a 42% drop on the three-month average seen across 2019