Deals
NTR has added a portfolio of just over 200 MW of operational and pre-construction onshore wind projects in Sweden and Finland to its NTR Renewable Energy Income Fund II.
The portfolio comprises three operational projects totalling 94 MW and one advanced stage development cluster totalling 108 MW potential capacity in southern Sweden. Total capital investment, including the build out of the development cluster, is expected to be in excess of EUR180 million. NTR acquired the portfolio projects, called Vindin, from a consortium of nine Swedish industrial companies.
“Sweden and Finland represent exciting new geographies for the fund, each having
BGF provided a record investment of almost GBP50 million into AIM-listed companies in 2018, bringing total funding in AIM-listed firms to GBP150 million across 43 companies.
Funding into AIM-listed companies includes investments in structured and equity investments in businesses located across the UK, operating in a range of sectors, including biotech, chemical technology, manufacturing and energy.
In addition to supporting companies with initial investments, such as Manchester’s genedrive – which received funding from BGF to accelerate the commercial traction of its HCV-ID Kit – BGF also made additional investments into its own portfolio companies, including Accsys Technologies, which is
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has completed an investment in LIST, a developer of software solutions for the financial industry.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LIST is a provider of trading and compliance software solutions and infrastructural services to a wide range of financial institutions. The company’s trading and brokerage platform offering, FastTrade, supports operations in a multi-asset and multi-market environment with modules for pricing, quoting, hedging, position keeping, algorithmic trading and execution management in high and low-touch business environments. LIST’s capital markets, governance, risk and compliance solutions are used by more
Blackstone Resources AG has created Blackstone Research in the city of Erfurt in Germany. Blackstone Research is a wholly-owned entity which will provide an important platform for the company to carry out further research and allow Blackstone to establish a substantial battery-production project in Germany.
The aim is to manufacture the next generation of electric-vehicle batteries, close to where German auto manufacturers are based.
EUR200 million will be invested into this new project, initially from Blackstone’s own funds with the aim to garner further support from subsides provided by the EU’s research and development funds, and the German government
JZ Capital Partners Limited (JZCP), a London listed fund that invests in US and European microcap companies and US real estate, has sold Petrocorner, a network of petrol stations throughout Spain, to a Spanish subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP).
JZCP owns Petrocorner through its 18.75 per cent stake in JZI Fund III.
Headquartered in Madrid, Petrocorner is a strategic build-up in the Spanish retail petrol station market, comprised of 65 petrol stations located across Spain with annualised sales volume of approximately 250 million litres of petrol.
JZCP expects to receive cumulative gross proceeds of EUR12.1 million from the
Metropolitan Partners Group Management (Metropolitan), a direct-lending fund manager that provides senior-secured, transitional capital to small and mid-sized businesses in the US, has closed an investment in US Home Aggregation (US Home), an acquirer and manager of single-family rental homes across targeted markets in the US.
US Home will use the committed capital from Metropolitan to expand its existing portfolio of homes.
US Home acquires foreclosed single-family homes at a significant discount to both market and replacement costs in tertiary markets across the country that possess positive demographic and employment trends. The company uses a proprietary mapping tool that
Refinitiv has launched BRI Connect, part of a suite of tools enabling the global investment community to identify investment opportunities around China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) through access to trusted, holistic information including macroeconomic, project, market, financing, geopolitical and operational risk data.
The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on building significant infrastructure projects across Asia, Europe, and Africa. Officially launched by China’s President Xi in 2013, it is already considered the largest investment program in history, accounting for more than USD500 billion of spend in infrastructure projects across more than 70 countries.
The initiative encompasses a vast range
Venture capital investor Beringea has led a GBP9 million investment in AccessPay, a Manchester-based fintech firm.
The funding round, also backed by US investors True Ventures and Route 66, is one of the largest ever investments in a financial technology company in the North. Maria Wagner, Investment Director at Beringea, led the deal.
The investment also marks the expansion of Beringea’s footprint in the North of England, as the firm has launched its first dedicated office in the region in central Manchester. This expanded presence will enable Beringea to work more closely with the region’s scaling businesses and provide
Vectis, a private equity firm long active in Nigeria, has concluded a restructuring investment transaction of USD12 million into Leventis Foods Ltd, an established Nigerian FMCG manufacturing company with leading brands of bread and snacks.
The transaction is pending regulatory approvals. Upon completion Vectis will control a majority stake and AGL will maintain minority.
Bread and flour-based snack sectors emerged in Nigeria over the past years and are expected to have a substantial growth with new products coming on the market. Rising disposable incomes and growing popularity of quality branded snacks will be key growth drivers especially among the
Law firm Thomson Snell & Passmore, has advised on the corporate restructure and Management Buy-Out (MBO) of SE10, and its related group companies.
SE10 is an integrated communications and public relations agency, specialising in strategic brand journalism and content marketing for international industrial business-to-business clients. The company has an international presence, providing expert services to world-class brands from its offices in London, Chicago and Singapore.
The corporate team advised the SE10 group on the restructure, which included the management buy-out of one of the founding partners. Thomson Snell & Passmore was required to project manage the various complex international
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