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The Riverside Company scored a $1 billion exit as funds associated with Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners partnered to acquire its portfolio company Energy Exemplar, a provider of simulation software.    

Here's a roundup of hires and promotions in the alternative investment industry for the week ending Sept. 29, including at KKR, Atlantic General and more.

Investors The C$402 billion ($298 billion) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) hired Yana Watson Kakar as managing director and head of Americas in New York, where she will oversee the pension fund’s offices in Mexico and Brazil. ...

Kiara Mitchinson has joined the European investment banking unit at William Blair as director in the firm’s financial sponsors group in London. Mitchinson is slated to provide comprehensive advisory services to private equity clients, officials said in an announcement. She ...

Chicago-based William Blair added William Kallop as managing director of the firm’s consumer and retail group. Kallop will focus on clients across the consumer and retail sector, including consumer services, food and beverage, and enthusiast brands. He joins from Goldman ...

William Blair added David Hatch to its investment banking team focused on supply chain and commercial services.

Jake Stuiver has joined William Blair’s New York office to work on complex limited partner-led secondary transactions. He brings a decade of secondary advisory experience and has advised on over $12 billion of LP-led secondaries, most recently working at M2O, ...

Three senior staffers have joined William Blair’s tech-enabled services (TES) investment banking practice from Truist.   Blake Jones joins as managing director in Chicago. Josh Funt and Louis Oliver came on board as directors in the firm’s Atlanta office. All ...

The following is a compilation of the private market deal activity for the week ending June 24. Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $28 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period. Private equity: $24.6 billion ...

William Blair announced the addition of Derek Caracciola to its New York office as a managing director on the private capital markets team.