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Investment manager Downing has closed a dedicated GBP125 million infrastructure fund focusing on the flexible generation sector in the UK.
The increase in deployment of renewable energy has created a new class of flexible generation assets of which gas peakers play a significant role and is where the fund will focus its investment activities.
Downing’s energy team have made over 100 energy investments to date across a range of sectors including: solar, reserve power, battery storage, wind and biomass.
Shane Swords (pictured), Head of Institutional Fundraising at Downing, says: “This is a significant step forward in our institutional
The shareholders of Inflexion Private Equity-backed CloserStill Media have reached an agreement to sell the exhibitions operator to Providence Equity Partners.
Founded in 2008, CloserStill operates content-led exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, the US and the Far East and has been ranked in The Sunday Times HSBC International FastTrack 200 for three consecutive years. The firm’s success is down to its ability to consistently provide world-class content and attract large, high-value audiences, with The London Vet Show, the Pharmacy Show, Learning Technologies, Cloud Expo Europe, Data Centre World, Cloud Expo and Data Centre Asia in Singapore, in its portfolio.
Alantra has acquired a strategic stake in pan-European alternative asset manager Access Capital Partners, a deal that sees the firm add fund of funds, co-investment and secondaries strategies to its existing direct investment activities.
Alantra will be offering its clients access to six specialised asset management classes: private equity, active funds, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private wealth management.
Alantra says the investment represents a key achievement in its strategy of becoming a pan-European diversified asset manager, by (scaling up its existing businesses, developing complementary asset classes, and playing a key role in the industry consolidation taking place
Mirabaud Asset Management has held the final closing of its first private equity vehicle having raised assets of EUR150 million in excess of expectations.
Launched a year ago, Mirabaud Asset Management’s first private equity vehicle is now fully subscribed by both international institutional and family office clients.
The lifestyle-dedicated private equity vehicle is managed by Renaud Dutreil and Luc Alban Chermette, who bring deep sector expertise, insight and strong industry relationships in the field of living heritage companies – niche, family-run small and medium sized businesses across Europe in the field of luxury services and apparel. They are
American Securities has partnered with management and acquired FleetPride, a distributor of aftermarket parts for the US heavy-duty truck industry. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Irving, Texas, FleetPride is the largest independent heavy-duty aftermarket parts distributor in the US. The Company acts as a critical link between 2,150 suppliers and 100,000 customers who are served through a national network of over 270 branch locations. FleetPride carries the industry’s broadest selection of aftermarket truck parts, offering over 145,000 SKUs across 490 brands, including its own private label offering.
Al Dragone, President and CEO of FleetPride, says:
Parklands Group, an independent care home provider in the north of Scotland, has received a GBP5m investment from BGF to further accelerate its growth.
Set up in 1993 in Buckie by Ron Taylor, Parklands provides high-quality residential care for older people at eight care homes across Moray and the Highlands, the most recent being its newly opened state-of-the-art Lynemore home in Grantown on Spey. Parklands was one of the first nursing care providers in Scotland to achieve Investors in People status and the group has won a series of awards for the quality of its care and its commitment to
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with more than USD35 billion of assets under management, has closed the Adams Street 2018 Global Fund with USD824 million in capital commitments, exceeding its target of USD800 million.
The fund received strong demand from investors worldwide, with commitments from both new and existing investors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The diverse array of investors included public and corporate pension plans, high net worth individuals, foundations, and endowments.
Adams Street has offered its global program since 1996, providing clients access to a comprehensive private markets portfolio with multiple
Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) is to acquire the Douglas West wind farm from Blue Energy. Completion under the Sale and Purchase Agreement is expected to take place in Q1 2019, subject to the finalisation of construction, operation and maintenance contracts.
Douglas West is located 7 miles south west of Lanark, Scotland and will have a total capacity of 45MW, and will be subsidy free. Construction is expected to start in 2019, with commencement of commercial operations targeted for July 2021. Owner’s engineer and construction management services will be provided by Natural Power and Blue Energy. All construction contracts will be
Price f(x), a specialist in cloud pricing software, has raised EUR25 million in a Series B funding round led by Digital+ Partners, a European B2B technology growth investor, and management consulting firm Bain & Company.
Series A investors, Prague-based Credo Ventures and London-based Talis Capital, also participated in the round.
Established in 2011 in Munich, Price f(x) provides a modular SaaS solution for Price Optimization, Management (PO&M) and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) for enterprises of any size, based on the latest in native cloud architecture. The company currently serves over 80 global, blue-chip B2B and B2C customers across a variety of
Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) have agreed the sale of a majority stake in OTTO Luft- und Klimatechnik GmbH & Co (OTTO) to Engie Deutschland (Engie), a specialist in technical building services, facilities management, industrial refrigeration technology and energy services in Germany.
OTTO, a leading specialist provider of ventilation and air-conditioning solutions, cooling technology and building automation, was acquired in May 2014 by Equistone. The financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed and completion of the sale remains subject to the approval of the relevant competition authorities.
OTTO was founded in 1967 and has established itself as
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