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AmalCap provides USD5m to support Pegasus portfolio company Carol’s Daughter

Amalgamated Capital (AmalCap), the New York-based leveraged finance division of Amalgamated Bank, has provided a USD5m senior secured revolving credit facility to Carol’s Daughter, a portfolio company of Pegasus Capital Advisors. AmalCap provides asset-based financing to individual companies as well as cash flow-based senior secured financing to support investments made

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Monroe Capital launches MC Healthcare Finance

Monroe Capital is launching a new healthcare finance company to assist lower middle-market healthcare companies in meeting their liquidity needs to fund working capital, growth initiatives, expansion and refinance existing debt. The new firm, MC Healthcare Finance, will provide short-term, asset-based funding for healthcare companies located throughout the US. MC

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Adicitiz closes EUR2m fundraising round from Omnes Capital

Adictiz, a social and mobile gaming specialist, has closed its first EUR2m round of financing from Omnes Capital (formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity), which will help it to pursue its strategy of expansion in France and abroad. Founded in 2009 by 27-year-old Charles Christory, Adictiz has authored web and mobile

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Coalition confusion over wind farms is backward looking

The recent confusion and lack of direction from the Westminster Government may cause the UK to slide towards the bottom of the renewable energy production capacity table in Europe, says Luca Concone, CEO of the Real Asset Energy Fund… At the moment wind farm capacity accounts for less than 6

Actis backs first phase of South Africa’s renewables programme

Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has signed key financing and government agreements in the construction of three renewable energy projects in South Africa. Actis portfolio company Globeleq is part of the consortium building the 138 megawatt (MW) Jeffrey’s BayWind Farm on the Eastern Cape, the 50 MW photovoltaic

Umeme IPO more than 35 per cent oversubscribed

Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has held the IPO of the Ugandan electricity company Umeme. The share application period for Umeme, which has been an Actis investment since 2005, closed last week more than 35 per cent oversubscribed, with particular demand from East African institutions and Ugandan retail

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Man Group appoints Citi to provide fund administration services

Citi has completed the implementation of Man Umbrella Sicav, the Luxembourg fund business of the Man Group. Citi will provide an integrated range of services that includes custody, depositary bank, fund administration and transfer agency services.  Man is an alternative investment management business with over USD52.7bn under management.   Man

Investors cooling on M&A as driver of growth

Growing concerns about the economy are curbing corporate expansion plans, according to the latest analysis by the Finance M&A panel conducted jointly with CMS Hasche Sigle. CMS Hasche Sigle polls the heads of the transaction departments at major German companies plus leading investment bankers and M&A consulting firms for their

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