The Amplio Group’s solar subsidiary, Amplio Solar, has secured EUR16 million in financing from a leading Italian bank to invest in 7 MW of solar plants in the Italian province of Latina, Lazio. This expansion brings Amplio Solar’s fully operational solar portfolio to over 30 MW, with a total investment

CN Creative, Ltd (CNC) has raised GBP2 million (USD3.1 million) in a Series A financing round led by Advent Life Sciences. The funds will be used to continue and finalise development of CNC’s Nicadex, a medically approved, electronic nicotine replacement inhaler.  Despite large-scale public health efforts, about 20% of adults in

Dunedin-backed Hawksford is now the largest independent trust company in Jersey following its acquisition of Trustcorp Jersey Limited (Trustcorp), a Jersey based trust and corporate services provider. This is the eleventh acquisition made by a Dunedin backed business in the last twelve months and is a prime example of Dunedin’s

Morgan Stanley Private Equity has formed a strategic partnership with Jesus Reyes-Heroles, the former Director General of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), to pursue energy investments in Mexico and across Latin America. The goal of the partnership is to build a leading regional energy company involved in a broad base of investments

OpenGate Capital, a global private investment and acquisition firm, has reached agreement to acquire the Latin American (LATAM) portfolio of businesses of global ICT service provider Getronics International, a subsidiary of KPN, a leading telecommunications and ICT provider in The Netherlands. The acquired portfolio consists of three distinct country-wide operations

Global private equity investor Actis is paying USD102 million to acquire a significant minority stake in Brazil´s prestigious University Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional. Founded in 1965 Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional today has a total of 36,000 students across eight sites. Offering both undergraduate and post graduate study, long distance learning

An affiliate of Sun European Partners, the European adviser to Sun Capital Partners, has acquired Bonmarché from the Administrators, KPMG.  It is intended that the business will trade from approximately 230 stores, thereby providing continued employment to approximately 2,400 employees in the UK. However, in order to ensure that the

RJD Partners has sold the operations of European Boating Holidays (EBH), the largest independent operator of European inland waterway boating holidays, to a French syndicate-backed management buy-in, led by Serge Naim and financed by Avenir Entreprise and AMS Industries. The value of the transaction was undisclosed. EBH is the sixth

The Paris office of international law firm Taylor Wessing has acted as sole counsel to Proparco and Unigrains in connection with their respective investment of USD7.5m and USD2m into SEAF India Agribusiness International.   SEAF India Agribusiness International was established by SEAF, an international not-for-profit organisation that sets up and