Deals
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has agreed to acquire the North American operations of AMECO, a full-service provider of construction equipment, scaffolding, small tools management and total site solutions, from Fluor Corporation for USD73 million.
Headquartered in Greenville, SC, AMECO provides construction projects with full lifecycle management of their asset optimisation and craft workforce support needs from consultative pre-bid estimates, to site services and ongoing site maintenance support. AMECO serves capital construction project owners, contractors and ongoing plant operators in the chemical, power, energy, life sciences and advanced manufacturing sectors across the US and Canada.
For the first time in history, global venture investments surpassed USD100 billion in Q1 2021. According to the research data analysed and published by Sijoitusrahastot, worldwide VC funding in Q1 2021 rose by 94 per cent YoY to USD125 billion. During the period, two unicorns on average were created daily, raising the quarterly total to 112.
KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co KG has continued to strategically expand its presence in the Polish renewable energy market with the 27 MW Rywald project, its third Polish onshore wind farm.
“Central and Eastern Europe and Poland in particular offer attractive risk-return profiles in both wind energy and photovoltaics (PV). Poland, a country heavily reliant on coal, has a huge need for additional renewable energy capacity, which our institutional investors can benefit from as part of a strategic portfolio addition,” explains Michael Ebner, Managing Director of KGAL Investment Management and responsible for the infrastructure asset class. “We are currently
Independent non-alcoholic spirits brand Lyre’s, has completed a seed-plus funding round valuing the business at over GBP100 million.
This milestone has been achieved in under 24 months of trading, during which time Lyre’s has become the most widely distributed non-alcoholic spirits brand – now available in 43 countries – generating double-digit monthly revenue growth with annualised sales on course to exceed GBP35 million by the fourth quarter of this year.
Lead institutional investors introduced in this funding tranche – Lyre’s third round since inception – include US-based Morgan Creek Capital Management (early-backers of Alibaba, SpaceX, Lyft, Drizly NinjaVan and Allbirds)
CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investments in European SMEs – has acquired a majority stake in Eidosmedia, an international player in Content Management System (CMS) solutions.
Eidosmedia develops innovative content management solutions serving clients with high-value content and complex workflow management needs. Its software covers the end-to-end content lifecycle for very large media, financial research, academic and public research and corporate organizations.
Established in 1999, with an engineering team based in Milan, Eidosmedia is today a leading global supplier with over 200 employees based across Europea, North America, and Asia Pacific, and generates EUR29 million
Nexif Energy, an Australian and South East Asian power company, backed by Denham Capital has reached financial close on its 154 MW Snapper Point Power Plant under construction in South Australia.
This project will convert turbines using diesel to cleaner natural gas and, in conjunction with Nexif Energy’s Lincoln Gap Wind Farm, provide firm renewable power to the grid.
The Snapper Point project is a flexible and fast response dispatchable power plant under fast-track development. The project, which received development approval in August 2020, will utilise five gas turbine generating units leased for 25 years from the South Australian
Mogrify Limited (Mogrify), a biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapies, has held the second closing of its Series A financing of USD17 million, bringing the total raised to USD33 million in this round.
The funding will support the advancement of Mogrify’s immuno-oncology and ophthalmology programs, as well as continued platform development and the exploration of cell reprogramming for novel therapeutic application.
This second close of the Company’s Series A was led by Parkwalk Advisors and incorporates additional funding from strategic Corporate Pharma investor Astellas Venture
FCDE is to sell Babcock Wanson to Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, which will invest in the transaction alongside the existing management team.
Following the completion of this sale, Kartesia will take control of a solid pan-European group, transformed and restructured since the 2016 carve out from its previous shareholder.
Babcock Wanson is a major European provider of industrial process heating equipment and solutions (primarily boilers and burners) and in the supply of high value-added associated services. The Group is well positioned to capitalise on a growing market, as the supportive regulatory
Law firm Seward & Kissel represented opportunistic credit manager Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with its strategic partnership with York Capital Management to form Generate Advisors.
Under the partnership agreement, York’s approximately USD4 billion Collateral Loan Obligation (CLO) business and team, led by Rizwan Akhter, will transition to Generate Advisors and continue to manage York’s current CLO portfolio as well as any future CLOs issued by Generate Advisors.
Kennedy Lewis will be investing in Generate Advisors and has committed at least USD200 million of capital to be invested in the equity of Generate Advisors’ future CLOs litigation. The firm’s
Percival Menswear, a London-based contemporary menswear fashion brand, has secured a further GBP3 million investment from growth capital investor VGC Partners, following an initial investment of GBP150,000 in 2018.
The Hackney-based brand, which employs eight people, has set itself apart in recent years by creating collections that subvert the classics of the male wardrobe. This includes featuring in the David Beckham Eyewear campaign and curating a custom tour wardrobe of Niall Horan, as well as more recently collaborating with Brighton-based artist and illustrator Sophy Hollington.
Percival, led by creative director, Chris Gove, and head of marketing, Terry Donovan, utilised
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