Deals
Private equity funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners have closed the sale of their approximately 42 per cent stake in Cheniere Energy Partners, to Brookfield Infrastructure and funds managed by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners.
The transaction values the approximately stake at USD7 billion.
The sale represents the culmination of Blackstone Energy Partners’ eight-plus years of involvement with Cheniere. In 2012 Blackstone Energy Partners and its affiliates invested USD1.5 billion in Cheniere Energy Partners to build the first two liquefaction trains at the Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana. Sabine Pass was the first LNG export facility in the lower 48 states,
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed the fifth strategic add-on for its utility market intelligence, data science and consulting platform E Source, with the acquisition of Excergy, a consulting and technology implementation firm that partners with water, electric, and gas utilities and municipalities.
Excergy helps customers assess, design and deploy operational technologies, such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions, through multi-year engagements.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Excergy’s services include all aspects of a project from determining technology needs, writing RFPs, vendor selection, implementation and integration, customer communication and project management to completion.
“E Source is a great partner
Warburg Pincus has agreed to make a strategic investment in GA Foods, a provider of nutritional meals serving healthcare and senior customers.
The growth investment will support future strategic initiatives including continued investments in the healthcare sector and scaling the company’s manufacturing and logistics footprint.
Founded in 1973, GA Foods is a specialised maker of highly specified meals serving the unique needs of healthcare members, seniors, children, the military, and for disaster relief efforts. The Company’s services include meal design, food preparation & packaging, distribution, and integration with payor & provider systems for both home-delivered and congregate customers. These meals
International law firm Proskauer has advised One Peak on its USD30 million investment into Danish backup-as-a-service software provider Keepit.
RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) is to sell N3 to Accenture. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, N3 is a tech-enabled sales and demand generation firm with specialised talent across areas such as cloud, software and 5G ecosystems. The company utilises its artificial intelligence-powered platform to generate efficient sales conversion and high-value revenue solutions for its clients.
With over 2,200 employees and locations across five continents, the Company leverages its global reach as a key partner to leading technology firms, including Microsoft, Cisco, and SAP.
“N3 has experienced tremendous growth during its partnership
Point Predictive Inc, a San Diego-based company that provides machine learning solutions to the lending industry, has completed a Series B growth financing led by Napier Park Financial Partners with participation from the company’s existing investor, Mosaik Partners.
The company has also hired Michael Housman as its new Chief Technology Officer and promoted Eric Werab to Chief Revenue Officer to facilitate the rapid growth Point Predictive is experiencing.
Point Predictive has gained wide adoption of its Ai+Ni scoring solutions across the automotive and fintech markets over the last 18 months. The company’s Auto Fraud Manager, IncomePASS™, and Synthetic ID
Finance Durham Fund, which was established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has invested GBP250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage.
The investment through Finance Durham, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), will support construction of a solar film pilot plant in County Durham, further improve the efficiency of Power Roll’s solar film technology and help commercialise its capacitor technology with its joint venture partner.
Headquartered in Sunderland, Power Roll has developed a unique, flexible, lightweight solar film capable of producing ultra-low-cost green electricity
Fircroft Group, a technical recruitment business backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has integrated with NES Global Talent (NES) to create a combined global human capital solutions organisation.
NES is a specialist in workforce solutions, providing staffing across the oil and gas, power, renewables, chemicals, life sciences and mining sectors worldwide. The firm has grown significantly in the last five years, both organically and through seven strategic acquisitions. It currently has over 66 offices in 33 countries, with more than 1,000 employees.
Warrington-based Fircroft was founded in 1970 to service oil and gas companies in the North Sea and
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on European dealmaking activity. However, opportunities remain for those willing to take risks, according to the eighth edition of the European M&A Outlook, published by CMS in association with Mergermarket.
The report is a comprehensive assessment of dealmaking sentiment in the European M&A market. It canvasses the opinions of 230 senior Europe-based executives, from corporate and private equity firms, about their expectations for M&A in the year ahead.
According to Mergermarket data, in H1 2020, European deal volume fell 31 per cent to 2,800 transactions and aggregate value dropped by 29 per
Hg, a European investor in software and tech-enabled services businesses, has made an investment in The Citation Group (Citation), a provider of tech-enabled, subscription-based HR and Employment law, Health & Safety, and ISO services to SMEs.
Citation provides tech-enabled compliance and quality related subscription services to over 40,000 SMEs across the UK. Citation helps these SMEs to comply with relevant regulations and ensure certain levels of quality and standards are met, in areas such as Health & Safety, HR/Employment Law, ISO and industry specific rules and standards by providing a combination of expert advice, software tools and audits/assessments, mostly on
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