Various market forces are driving prospects for alternative managers globally, with Ireland being a key destination. Persistent low interest rates are pushing institutional investors towards alternative assets. This, coupled with the Covid pandemic further curtailing appetite for bank lending, has created opportunities for managers, particularly in the debt/credit spheres. In
By A Paris – When the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive was enacted, there was talk of AIFMD becoming a brand to rival UCITS. The latest enhancements to the Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) structure in Ireland may well oil the wheels in the journey to making this a reality. Following the
Aurelius has acquired all shares of Panasonic’s European Consumer Battery Business Units (Panasonic Consumer Energy) from Panasonic Europe. From its European sales headquarters in Zellik Belgium, Panasonic Consumer Energy operates two manufacturing facilities, one located in Belgium and one in Poland. Across its locations Panasonic Consumer Energy today employs around
Accelmed Partners (Accelmed), a private equity firm focused on acquiring and investing in US commercial stage, lower middle market HealthTech companies, has closed its oversubscribed second fund, Accelmed Fund II (Fund II) at the fund’s hard cap of USD400 million, exceeding its original USD300 million target. Fund II received significant
Mainspring Fund Services and Aspida Group have partnered to provide Guernsey-domiciled private equity and venture capital funds with a comprehensive solution for fund administration, compliance, governance and reporting. At the same time, the partner firms confirmed their very first launch – a USD550m Private Investor Fund. The Guernsey-domiciled Fund, which
IronNet Cybersecurity (IronNet), a cybersecurity specialist backed by private equity investor C5 Capital, is to merge with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The transaction will see IronNet list on the New York Stock Exchange and trade under the ticker symbol IRNT. IronNet merges industry-leading
The New, one of Latin America’s fastest-growing plant-based meat brands, has secured funding from Lever VC, a global investor in the alternative protein space, and Paulo Veras, Founder and CEO of 99, Brazil’s first tech unicorn. Funding will be used to complete expansion of a 1,000 sq m production facility
Peloton Capital Management and Stephen Smith have acquired Glass Lewis from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’) and Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). Glass Lewis is a provider of independent global governance solutions. Its unbiased research reports that provide analysis and recommendations on every proxy vote, including M&A
PatSnap, a global leader in Innovation Intelligence, has secured USDD300 million in Series E funding. The investment round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment with participation from CPE Industrial Fund and existing investors Sequoia China, Shun Wei Capital, and Vertex Ventures. PatSnap plans to use
MintGreen has closed a seed financing round, led by CoinShares Ventures, the investment arm of the publicly listed digital asset investment firm, as it looks to deploy the first large-scale commercial project to harvest heat from bitcoin mining. MintGreen is a Canadian clean tech company that recovers waste heat from
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