BlackRock has completed an initial close for its latest renewable power fund, Renewable Income Europe, with EUR275 million in commitments secured from a range of institutional investors from Europe and Asia. Renewable power generation has been a leading source of investment flow within infrastructure over the last five years. BlackRock
2015 was a good year for VCTs in performance terms with the average VCT up 9 per cent to 31 December 2015, whilst the fundraising for the tax year 2014/15 was GBP429 million, the fourth highest ever. The VCT sector is also meeting investor demands for income, with the VCT
Lewis & Clark Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Tom Hillman, has raised USD104 million for a new fund that has already begun making investments in high growth companies across the Midwest. “We are entrepreneurs and have grown successful businesses,” Hillman says. “Our model is to pass on our
FRP Advisory, the business advisory firm, has acquired Litmus Advisory, the debt advisory firm and specialists in structuring finance for companies and private equity firms looking at asset based lending (ABL). The arrival of a specialist debt advisory team is part of FRP Advisory's continued incremental expansion of its services from offering both
State Street Corporation’s GX Private Equity Index(PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, saw an overall return of -1.37 per cent in Q3 2015, it’s first fall in three years. “The third quarter marks an abrupt end to an uninterrupted, 12-quarter streak of positive returns, the longest
Chubb has created a new Private Equity Practice to provide specialised insurance solutions to US and Canadian private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Seth Gillston, the Executive Vice President who previously had been named to lead the practice, will manage a team of underwriters with deep industry knowledge and
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has exited its investment in Plastique, a manufacturer of thermoformed plastic and pulp packaging after the company was acquired by TEQ, an Illinois-based thermoformed packaging company and subsidiary of NYSE-listed ESCO Technologies, for an undisclosed sum. Minority shareholder BGF invested GBP5 million in Plastique in July
The Novo 2 Fund, which is managed by Tikehau IM, has finalised its participation in a Euro PP private placement for the Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB). The Fund invested EUR25 million in this EUR124 million unlisted bond issue maturing in 2023. LFB, a public-sector corporation, was
Chinese venture capital firm Qiming Venture Partners (Qiming) has held the closing of Fund V, its fifth US Dollar venture capital fund with USD648 million in commitments. This fund continues Qiming's strategy of funding innovations through outstanding Chinese entrepreneurs in the Information Technology, Internet and Consumer (Intersumer), Healthcare, and Cleantech
Noerr has advised the French Pernod Ricard Group on the agreement of a strategic partnership with Black Forest Distillers. The second largest spirits and wines group worldwide has taken over a strategic majority in the Black Forest company and will, in future, cooperate with the manufacturer of the well-known Monkey
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