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Colony Capital, a leading global investment management firm, today announced it has agreed to terms of a strategic investment in which the affiliates of Wafra will acquire a minority stake in Digital Colony, the digital investment management division of Colony Capital.

OJO Labs today announced that it has closed on a $62.5 million funding round led by Wafra, the investment platform with $25 billion under management, with participation from Breyer Capital, LiveOak Venture Partners, Royal Bank of Canada, and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures.

Daniel de Faro Adamson, Senior Managing Director of Wafra and President of Capital Constellation, speaks about trends of asset owners and the shift to a more collaborative approach to investing.

Russell Valdez of the $25bn investor discusses how GPs can ease pressing concerns of LPs and how the firm is supporting its managers during the coronavirus crisis.

Emerging managers’ innovative investment strategies and hunger to outperform make them an attractive proposition for LPs looking to deploy capital in a dislocated market.

Capital Constellation is acquiring a minority ownership stake in Pollen Street Capital, a European investment platform focused on the financial and business services sectors.

The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation ("APFC") and The Railways Pension Scheme ("RPMI Railpen") Increase Commitment to Capital Constellation by $200 Million.

Capital Constellation is building on its next-generation private-equity business by offering coinvestment
capital to managers it backs.

TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced it has reached an agreement that will result in new, preferred equity investments totaling $320 million, which the company expects to be closed and funded by mid-April.

Wafra Europe Ltd. managing director Tom Rotherham-Winqvist offers some advice to new managers looking to establish themselves on the private equity scene. Wafra’s experience since 2011 with debut and growth stage managers has led us to one key insight: LPs’ human resource constraints mean the pain of a low Return on Time (RoT) process may outweigh the promise of a high MOIC outcome…

BOCA RATON, Fla., August 7, 2019 – AE Industrial Partners, LP (“AEI”), a private equity firm specializing in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services, Power Generation, and Specialty Industrial markets, today announced that Bonaccord Capital Partners, (“Bonaccord”), a division of Aberdeen Standard Investments (“ASI”), and funds managed by Wafra Inc. (together with its affiliates, “Wafra”), have each made strategic investments in AEI.

In the 15 months since Capital Constellation launched as an investor in young private equity shops and their funds, the LP-backed firm has deployed about $500 million, with plans to continue shopping for more deals.