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New State Capital Partners, a spin-out from Sun Capital Partners, has closed its first deal, investing in Gautier Steel, which makes specialty steel products, according to a statement from the firm, sister news service peHUB reported.
Inquiring regulators want to know.
Blue Sea Capital’s Fund I has drawn a $15 million commitment from the $118 billion Texas Teacher Retirement System, as the Florida-based lower mid-market buyout shop lands a major private equity LP in its effort to spin off from Brockway Moran & Partners.
Two former partners of Austin Ventures have set up their own Austin-based private equity firm, Tritium Partners, to take majority stakes in Internet, media, supply chain, business services and financial services companies that are growing fast or have the potential to do so, Buyouts has learned.
1  Adveq and the Coller Institute of Private Equity at the London Business School have teamed up to survey more than 1,200 public and private pension funds about the asset class. The survey revealed that public and private pension funds have increased their allocations to the asset class by hundreds of billions since 2005. Why did […]
Texas Teachers taps EM program for commitment Blue Sea Capital founded by Brockway Moran veterans New firm lands major private equity LP Blue Sea Capital’s Fund I has drawn a $15 million commitment from the $118 billion Texas Teacher Retirement System, as the Florida-based lower mid-market buyout shop lands a major private equity LP in […]
Fresh off a quick sale of Digital Insight, Thoma Bravo is marketing its its 11th fund, according to sources
By spinning off a unit that represents about a third of the company, owners of SunGard Data Systems Inc are separating two businesses going in different directions and giving themselves options for exiting the eight-year-old investment.
Private equity investments by college and university endowments delivered an average return of 9.1 percent in 2013, falling short of the 11.7 percent jump in overall portfolios and reversing a year-ago outperformance by the asset class, according to a closely-watched annual survey by the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments.
Pantheon, the fund-of-funds manager, has raised €504 million ($688.6 million) for a separate account managed on behalf of client Bayerische Versorgungskammer. BVK is the largest public pension manager in Germany.
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