The World Bank Group and Ithmar Capital, a Moroccan sovereign investment fund, are to establish a Green Growth Infrastructure Facility for Africa (GGIF), the first pan-African fund dedicated to green investment in the continent. GGIF will be structured as private capital fund and its objective is to attract private investors
Northleaf Capital Partners has launched a global private credit programme, with more than USD1.4 billion in capital raised from a core group of Canadian pension plans. Northleaf’s global private credit strategy provides investors with diversified exposure to private credit investments and offers flexible debt financing solutions to privately held companies.
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, is to acquire Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) from Brockway Moran & Partners. CPI specialises in crisis prevention, non-violent physical intervention and dementia care training for education, healthcare and corporate customers. Terms of the private transaction were
European buy and build activity in the first half of 2016 reached its highest level since 2008 with the largest number of deals in the UK and Ireland, according to Silverfleet Capital’s latest semi-annual European Buy & Build Monitor. The Buy & Build Monitor, which tracks global add-on activity undertaken
Baird Capital has sold its portfolio company Watkins Hire to Carrier Rental Systems (UK). The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1998, Watkins is a provider of industrial and commercial heating and cooling equipment rental services. Watkins supplies heaters, steam and water boilers, fuel tanks,
Seedrs alumnus FreeAgent has floated on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, marking the first time an equity crowdfunded company has gone on to IPO. This announcement comes directly after Beauhurst announced that Seedrs has completed 122 deals in private companies by the end of Q3. This is more than any
Kirkland & Ellis has advised EMR Capital, a mining private equity manager, on the closing of the oversubscribed EMR Capital Resources Fund II with commitments of USD860 million. The fund, which will make investments in global metals and mining companies and projects, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global
Law firm Howard Kennedy is acting for Octopus Apollo VCT on the issue of its 2017 prospectus and on its proposed merger with Octopus Eclipse VCT. Its 2017 issue will see Octopus Apollo VCT target a fundraise of GBP20 million. The proposed merger with Octopus Eclipse VCT will bring
Activa Capital and Paluel-Marmont Capital are selling their stake in Gaz Europeén to DCC, a shareholder of Butagaz since 2015. Following the acquisition of an equity interest and a capital increase in December 2013, Activa Capital and Paluel-Marmont Capital have been accompanying the development of Gaz Européen as shareholders alongside
Financial technology group ayondo has acquired the TradeHero brand, a Singapore investor education app that has been ranked the number one Apple iOS finance app in over 90 countries. The acquisition for TradeHero’s brand outside of China and the US, further expands ayondo’s footprint in Singapore nearly a year after
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