Glennmont Partners, a fund manager focused exclusively on investing in clean energy infrastructure, has agreed to the sale of a 15 per cent minority stake in Project Piiparinmäki, a 211.4mw wind farm, to Kansai Electric Power Company. The onshore wind farm, located in central Finland, is currently under construction with
Vattenfall has entered into a partnership with Greencoat UK Wind, and has given the green light to the construction of South Kyle, its largest onshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.
Icebreaker.vc, which invests in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian tech companies, has held a first close of its second fund at EUR50 million. The target size of Icebreaker Fund II, which will invest in very early stage tech companies, is EUR75 million. Already before the Corona crisis there was a gap
Ropes & Gray has advised K2 Insurance Services, a portfolio company of US private equity firm Lee Equity Partners, on its acquisition of Pioneer Underwriters, a London-headquartered underwriting services organisation. The deal will see Pioneer’s ongoing underwriting portfolio, together with underwriting and support staff, transfer to K2, a specialist insurance
Ogier’s Jersey investment funds team has advised Index Ventures on the simultaneous closings of Index Ventures Growth V, which has raised USD1.2 billion to invest in later-stage, growth rounds, and Index Ventures X, which recently closed at USD800 million to put into earlier rounds for smaller start-up companies.This latest USD2
Growth equity investor Verdane has partnered with Conscriptor, Sweden’s largest developer of medical journal documentation services and dictation software, and Max Manus, a speech recognition and dictation software company.
Lowenstein Sandler has announced that Mary E Storella has joined the firm’s life sciences group as the group’s vice chair and head of life sciences transactions. Storella will focus on mergers and acquisitions, early and late stage collaborations, licenses, options, co-development and co-commercialisation collaborations, clinical collaborations, and diagnostic collaborations in
Bodhala, a data-intelligence and legal technology platform, has secured USD10 million in an investment round led by Edison Partners, a Princeton, NJ-based growth capital firm. The company will use the funds for product expansion and sales and market acceleration as it transforms and modernises the purchasing of outside counsel services.
Peak, a software maker helping businesses use AI, has raised USD12 million in an extended Series A funding round led by existing investors MMC Ventures and Praetura Ventures. This fresh investment brings Peak’s total amount of funding to USD18 million. Peak will use the incoming capital to support its rapid
Blackstone’s private equity division saw assets reach USD174.7 billion, while the group’s hedge fund performance fell more than 8 per cent during a torrid first quarter. But the world’s largest alternative investment manager has grown its overall assets over the past year, and now has USD150 billion in “dry powder”
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