SL Capital Partners has entered into an agreement to manage Aviva Investors’ private equity portfolio from 1 February 2016.  SL Capital is a subsidiary of Standard Life Investments.  With the majority of the private equity portfolio in run-off, Aviva Investors has taken the decision to delegate the management and monitoring

Amaya Capital Ltd and Azura Power Holdings Ltd have reached financial close for Amaya Capital’s Flagship West Africa power investment, the 450MW Azura-Edo Independent Power Project in Edo State, Nigeria. The USD876 million transaction is the first of a new wave of project-financed greenfield IPPs currently being developed in Nigeria. The financing of

mPrest, a provider of monitoring and control software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has raised a USD20 million Series A round of funding led by GE Ventures, the venture arm of GE, and OurCrowd, one of the world's leading equity crowdfunding platforms. mPrest will use the investment to expand

Maslow Capital (Maslow), a provider of development finance in the UK, and TPG Special Situations Partners (TSSP), the dedicated credit and special situations platform of TPG , have formed a joint venture to leverage their collective expertise in the real estate lending sector. The relationship will bring together the regional

Noerr has advised the group Veolia on the purchase of Nuon Energie und Service. A team from Noerr’s Energy Group led by the Berlin partners Dr Tibor Fedke and Dr Christoph Spiering, and the Düsseldorf real estate specialist Christoph Brenzinger acted for Veolia. Nuon Energie und Service, which has to

The corporate team from the Manchester office of national law-firm, Shoosmiths has advised private equity firm, NorthEdge on its investment into TKC, a Greater Manchester-based kitchen trade supplier. The investment was used to back a management buyout of TKC and to secure a majority stake in the GBP19m-turnover business for

Fifth Street Asset Management successfully agented and syndicated over USD3 billion in 22 deals across its platform in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters LPC League Tables.  This represents a company record and a 67% increase over the USD1.8 billion of deals agented and syndicated in 2014.   The Fifth Street

According to Altius Associates, one of the biggest global challenges facing investors in 2016 will be how private equity fund managers deal with the highest level of dry powder ever recorded while still delivering returns commensurate with private equity risk.  This, together with making sense of the unprecedented number and