Graham Winfrey
The firm remained active on the fundraising and investment front in Q3, collecting $800m for its latest North American buyout fund and deploying $1.5 billion in private equity deals.
The firm took roughly six months to raise its Resurgence Fund II, which makes equity and debt investments in the US and European mid-market.
Toronto-based advisory firm Setter Capital has attracted significant interest from LPs for the firm’s online platform SecondaryLink, a free site that connects buyers and sellers of secondary interests.
The $33bn endowment has named Lane MacDonald, former managing director of Harvard's public markets platform, as managing director for private equity.
The Toronto-based firm acquired industrial mineral products company NSC Minerals, Altas’s first investment since being founded last year by former Onex managing director Andrew Sheiner.
The firm has hired Todd Papau as a vice president of sales and business development to help build out its relationships with institutional investors and family offices.
The firm has collected more than $1.1bn toward a $1.3bn target for its eighth secondaries fund, which launched in 2012.
Frank 'Tripp' Brower, the founder of placement agency Capstone Partners, passed away on 29 September after a battle with cancer.
The firm has promoted Seth Boro and Holden Spaht to managing partners in San Francisco, bringing the total number of managing partners to six.
The Canadian distressed-for-control investor closed on $812m. Catalyst’s previous fund hit its $1bn hard-cap in 2011.