MiddleGround Capital

With Hamilton Lane as the lead investor, MiddleGround Capital raised a continuation fund with $440 million in capital commitments that will enable it to merge two metal distributor companies.

In a departure from the usual focus on tech and life sciences, EQT led today's private market dealmaking with its acquisition of a U.S. educational institution.

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $10 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Feb. 3. Private equity: $7.8 billion Vista Equity Partners acquired KnowBe4, a security awareness training and simulated ...

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $9.4 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Dec. 2. Private equity: $7.7 billion KKR via the KKR Asia IV Fund completed a tender offer ...

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $4.1 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Nov. 18. Private equity: $3.1 billion Korea’s KBFG has taken a stake in global private market exchange ...

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $4.4 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Sept. 23. Private equity: $2.6 billion Blue Ridge Construction Capital acquired Matthews Sand and Gravel and Edge ...

The following is a compilation of the private market deal activity for the week ending July 1. Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $13 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period. Private equity: $11 billion ...

Lexington, KY-based MiddleGround Capital closed a series of its funds, including its flagship fund MiddleGround Partners II, MiddleGround Partners II-Z and Mobility Opportunity Fund, with $736 million at the end of April. Among the investors in the latest round was ...

The Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, which oversees the assets of the County Employees Retirement System and the Kentucky Retirement Systems, moved forward with three new alternative investments last month. The newly combined $21.4 billion retirement system is deploying $210 million ...

Archean Capital Partners closed its Archean Capital Fund II at over $425 million as interest in providing strategic anchor capital to newly formed private equity firms is clearly on the rise. The firm was set up in 2017 by outsourced ...