Deals
The First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Fund (FREIF I) and Renovalia Energy have expanded their Renovalia Reserve joint venture with the addition of two wind power plants in Southern Mexico.
The investments diversify the Renovalia Reserve portfolio beyond Europe into North America and nearly double the power capacity of the wind farm assets worldwide. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
“Adding wind power plants in Mexico to Renovalia Reserve’s portfolio is a natural extension of the company’s strategy,” says John Barry, managing director of First Reserve and member of the board of directors of Renovalia Reserve. “Growth
Mobile recruitment specialist Assured Labor has closed a USD5.5m funding round led by Capital Indigo.
Capital Indigo joins existing investors Great Oaks Venture Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Kima Ventures, Enzyme Venture Capital, Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin.
“Our digital recruitment platform is taking off in Mexico and Brazil and we couldn’t be happier to add such an accomplished partner,” says David Reich, founder and chief executive of Assured Labor. “With over 1,000 employers joining Assured Labor each month, this investment will enable us to meet that demand by growing our engineering and sales teams while solidifying our market leadership
Datalogix has closed a USD25m Series B round of equity financing led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).
IVP joins existing investors General Catalyst, Sequel Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The financing will enable Datalogix to continue its rapid growth and accelerate adoption of its audience and measurement solutions across display, mobile, video, social and search channels. This will include investment in scaling its industry leading technology platform and geographic expansion.
The new funding round follows the closing of a record year for Datalogix, capped by a tripling of its digital business in March. In the past
Following approval from the French financial markets regulator (Autorité des Marchés Financiers or AMF), ACG Group has completed its acquisition of Groupama Private Equity with Groupama changing its name to ACG Capital as a result of the transaction.
The acquisition encompasses Quartilium’s funds of funds business (EUR1.4bn under management) and the mezzanine fund ActoMezz (EUR220m).
Groupama is a long-term partner of ACG Capital and retains all its investments in the funds managed by the company.
Aligning the interest of the asset management team and investors, ACG Group will continue to grow by constantly focusing on the quality
Yellow&Blue Investment Management, ABB Technology Ventures and b-to-v Partners have invested EUR4.8m in ROMO Wind along with the founders of the wind farm optimisation company.
Yellow&Blue, a specialised clean-energy venture capital investor backed by Nuon/Vattenfall and headquartered in the Netherlands, led the investment. It invested alongside ABB Technology Ventures, the venture arm of ABB, a power and automation technology group and global supplier to the wind industry. b-to-v is a venture capital investor backed by a network of 200 entrepreneurial private investors investing across different industries including renewable energy.
ROMO Wind is a product led technology and service company
Private equity firm HIG Capital has acquired Pegasus Financial Services (PFS), the world’s largest processor of commissions paid by hotels to travel agencies, from Pegasus Solutions.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, PFS’s global payment network and technology solutions serve a large and diverse customer base of hotels and travel agencies worldwide. The company provides a range of services to its hotel and travel agency customers, including commissions receipt and disbursement, foreign currency exchange, and reconciliation and tracking services.
HIG is joining Mark Dubrow, chief executive officer, Monica French, senior vice president of business development, and
The North West Fund for Digital & Creative, managed by AXM Venture Capital, has supported the launch of new software venture Sitedesk which will this Summer launch a on-site Building Information Modelling collaboration tool, Sitedesk Dabit.
The initial development work on Sitedesk Dabit was commissioned by construction entrepreneurs Paul Grady and Danny Doohan, who saw the opportunity for a tool that bridged the gap between architects’ 3D models and the on-site project manager.
The North West Fund for Digital & Creative introduced the company’s new chief technology officer, Chris Sewart, who previously acted as CTO at Yuuguu
Euro Car Parts, the UK’s largest car and van parts distributor, has agreed to merge with Netherlands based Sator Holding to create one of Europe’s largest car parts distributors.
The merger has been financed by LKQ Corporation, the largest provider of aftermarket and recycled collision replacement parts and refurbished collision replacement products in the US and Canada.
LKQ has acquired Sator Beheer BV, also known as Sator Holding, from H2 Equity Partners, effective from 1 May 2013. The purchase price is approximately USD268.4m (GBP176m).
Sator Holding was established in 2005 by the merger of the previous Van
Small transactions (under GBP10m) dominated the UK equity capital markets and M&A market in Q1 2013, increasing by 6.3 per cent from 319 in Q1 2012 to 357 deals in Q1 2013, according to Experian.
The increase can largely be attributed to a substantial upturn in the volume of smaller scale equity fundraising from UK public companies, which increased transactions from 116 worth GBP225m in Q1 2012 to 225 worth GBP334m in Q1 2013.
The total number of UK M&A and ECM transactions recorded in Q1 2013, however, fell by 14.2 per cent: from 1,239 transactions in Q1
The venture capital trust (VCT) sector raised GBP402.5m in the 2012/13 tax year (value of new shares issued), according to figures published by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC).
This is up 22 per cent on the previous tax year (GBP330.9m).
Excluding enhanced share buy backs, the VCT sector raised GBP269.2m in the 2012/13 tax year compared to GBP267.4m raised in the previous tax year.
Ian Sayers (pictured), director general, AIC, says: “The level of funds raised is at its highest in seven years, reflecting strong investor demand for the sector. This is a clear vote of confidence
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