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AMP Capital has launched its Global Infrastructure Fund and has attracted a significant commitment from global private equity and infrastructure investor Pantheon into its global infrastructure platform.
AMP Capital has created the platform by converting its Strategic Infrastructure Trust of Europe (SITE) from an open-ended to a closed-ended European fund and launching the Global Infrastructure Fund.
SITE’s existing portfolio comprises USD750 million worth of assets, which will be shared with the Global Infrastructure Fund. The fund is aiming to raise a further USD1.25 billion of new commitments, giving the global infrastructure platform an overall target size of USD2 billion.
The value of global private equity deals targeting Africa has more than doubled (137 per cent) in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year, according to research by global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Global PE funds completed 15 deals collectively worth USD1.5bn in the period between 1 January 2014 and 30 June 2014, up from 10 deals totalling USD621m in the first half of 2013. As a proportion of total African PE spend (83 per cent in 2014 H1) and deal volume (44 per cent in the same period), global PE firms are now
HIG Capital’s portfolio company Onyx Payments has acquired Norway-based Net Trans Services and Spain-based Worldwide Payment Systems (WPS).
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Onyx acts as a global clearinghouse for hotel commissions, processing transactions in over 200 countries and 29 currencies. As a result of the acquisitions, the company will seek to eliminate payment processing barriers and improve efficiencies, while increasing commerce transparency between hotels and travel distributors.
"We are pleased to support Onyx in its acquisitions of Net Trans Services and Worldwide Payment Systems," says William Nolan, a managing director of HIG Capital. “The acquisition will expand Onyx’s geographic
More insurance companies across the EMEA region see themselves as sellers of business units rather than buyers over the next three years, according to a survey by Towers Watson and Mergermarket.
More than 60 per cent of respondents said they expected to divest operations before 2017, up from just 20 per cent who said the equivalent just a year ago.
Meanwhile, the percentage of organisations saying they expect to make an acquisition in the same three year timeframe has fallen from over two thirds (69 per cent) to well under half (42 per cent).
Fergal O’Shea, EMEA life
European Senior Secured Loan Programme (ESSLP), a joint venture between affiliates of Ares Management and GE Capital, has reached a total of EUR1 billion in commitments since inception in 2012 with the completion of its 10th transaction.
ESSLP’s investments are made through the Ares European direct lending team, Ares Capital Europe, and GE Capital, primarily in the form of unitranche loans.
The GBP120 million refinancing of Notemachine, a portfolio company of Corsair Capital and an owner and operator of ATM machines across the UK and Germany, was the first credit facility upsize for the ESSLP. In January 2014, the
Glennmont Partners has bought a portfolio of wind farms from developer and operator Sorgenia France, part of Sorgenia Green Group.
The acquisition comprises two wind farm sites of 16 MW and 6 MW located in the Haute Normandie and Nord Pas de Calais regions in France respectively. The sites are located in one of the strongest wind resource areas of the country.
The two projects are ready to be built, having obtained all building permits and secured all land leases for 40 years. Power purchase agreements with EDF have been signed for both projects, which will benefit from the
Mailcloud has successfully completed a seed funding round led by enture capital investors Octopus Investments, with Bessemer Venture partners, that takes total funding to USD2.8m.
The round also includes Xavier Niel’s Kima Ventures, an early backer of Square, Nest and other high profile startups. Seedcamp London have also invested from their new USD50m growth fund. The company has attracted a number of high profile angel backers including Barry Smith, co-Founder of Skyscanner, Irish tech entrepreneur Ray Nolan, Frederic Court, Partner at Advent Ventures and Daniel Malhery founder of Deezer.
Founded in November 2013, Mailcloud is a unique service where
CTPartners Executive Search has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Austrian-based Neumann, a leading executive search and leadership consulting firm.
The transaction includes offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as across Eastern Europe.
Neumann focuses on several key industries that complement CTPartners’ targeted practice areas including: Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences, Technology, Professional Services and Financial Services. Neumann’s consultants will increase CTPartners’ presence in key German-speaking markets, including Europe’s largest and fastest growing economy, Germany.
“This transaction is consistent with our growth strategy to expand the CTP global footprint. Acquiring one of Europe’s leading executive
Ogier recently advised English entrepreneur and businessman Richard Caring on his GBP135m sale of the world famous Wentworth Club to China-based Reignwood Group.
Wentworth Club provides the headquarters for golf's PGA European Tour and hosts the annual BMW PGA Championship, making it one of the most desirable golfing locations in the world. It also played host to the 1953 Ryder Cup and, until 2007, the annual HSBC World Match Play Championship.
Caring, the owner of a range of prestigious clubs and restaurants across London which includes The Ivy, Scott's and Annabel's, purchased the celebrated venue in 2004 prior to
Solar power specialist SunEdison has signed a joint venture agreement with JIC Capital to finance, develop, construct and own up to 1 GW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in China over the next three years.
The joint venture will focus on facilitating and structuring non-recourse financing for solar PV plants in one of the world's largest and most attractive solar markets. SunEdison, directly or through an affiliate, including a yieldco, may purchase the projects developed by the joint venture at fair market value.
"This historic joint venture is a great step forward for SunEdison," says Ahmad Chatila, president
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