Aquila Capital is to acquire a portfolio of 21 operational small-scale hydropower plants located in Northern and Central Portugal with a total capacity of approximately 100 MW from EDP. The investment marks Aquila Capital’s first step into Portugal’s hydropower market. Aquila Capital is already active in the Iberian Peninsula’s integrated
IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap II Fund has completed its first transaction in the Benelux by acquiring 2Connect, a leading manufacturer of specialised cables and connectors, from the van der Put family. Financial terms of the transaction, which sees the firm’s founder reinvest alongside the fund, have
New World Capital Advisors (NWCA), a specialist merchant banking and investment firm, has appointed two new Partners – Alexander Tsirigotis joins as Chief Operating Officer and Simon Evans as General Counsel. NWCA focuses on market dislocations, special situations and bespoke investments across developed and emerging markets. The pair will enhance
SANNE, a specialist provider of outsourced corporate, fund and private client administration, has promoted Karlien De Bruin to Director and Head of SANNE’s Management Company (Manco) business in South Africa. In her new role, Karlien (pictured), will lead a team of business and operational professionals in delivering best-in class expertise
Following the initial boom of liberalisation, new restrictions are having a severe cooling effect on the nascent international Chinese PERE market – fund managers that are in it for the long-haul will need to up their game during this period of tightening, writes Jimmy Leong, Managing Director in Asia, at
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made a strategic investment in alternative investments platform iCapital Network.
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City. “Abacus Group has been doing some amazing things in the hosted IT space, growing not just throughout the
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised shareholders and re-investors of France-based Aries Alliance, a manufacturer of machine tools, titanium wing structures, and engine parts for the aerospace sector, in connection with the LBO of the group, structured by Astorg Partners, which acquired a majority stake. BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire,
Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) is to sell PeroxyChem, a worldwide manufacturer of peroxygen chemistries, to German Evonik Industries AG, a publicly-traded global speciality chemicals company, for USD625 million, or 10.4 times EBITDA, before synergies. The transaction is expected to be completed by mid-2019, subject to
FreeOx Biotech, a spin-out of Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS which is developing a new class of neuroprotective drugs, has closed its first round of funding with EUR500,000 from private investors Montserrat Esteve and Francisco Javier Alsina. The biotechnology firm has two highly promising molecules in its pipeline to treat stroke and
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