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ADM Capital, a Hong Kong-headquartered investment manager specialising in Asia Pacific credit and sustainable investment, has raised USD630 million in new assets, taking its total under management to USD2.4 billion.
These funds will be invested in the Asian private credit markets and will target mid-sized companies.
Neil Harvey, former CEO of Hong Kong and Greater China and head of Asia Pacific Asset Management at Credit Suisse, joins the Asia Pacific private credit team in Hong Kong as executive chairman. Harvey has been engaged to align ADM Capital for an anticipated expansion in the Asia Pacific private credit industry. The
Silver Cloud Investments has been launched by a former managing partner at the UK sell-side M&A house Cavendish Corporate Finance, Joe Stelzer.
Silver Cloud Investments will provide capital investment to businesses across its target sectors with a flexible approach, helping management teams to either stabilise previously growing businesses and/or support the growth of companies with strong and scalable business models in the current difficult business climate.
Silver Capital Investments will consider a variety of ownership structures for both owner-managed businesses or companies that have been considered non-core and divested by larger companies. The firm is primarily targeting four core business sectors:
American Pacific Group, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, in partnership with Joe Falsetti of Dana Holdings, has acquired SaltStick, an electrolyte replenishment supplement with a strong following among endurance athletes for in-competition and training activities.SaltStick was founded in 2006 by Jonathan Toker, an elite-level triathlete and trail runner who holds a PhD in organic chemistry. SaltStick products are now sold in over 40 countries around the world; products include SaltStick Vitassium, a medical food designed for individuals suffering from sodium and potassium deficiency. This acquisition was the first for American Pacific Group’s newly established holding company, Roadrunner Holdings LLC,
Moonfare, a European private equity and alternatives investment platform, has launched a top-tier US tech fund offering where individual investors and wealth managers can invest money into these funds for the first time.Moonfare has enabled its users access to another US tech fund after it was able to close Insight Partners’ Growth Equity fund within a week. Insight Partners has 20 years of experience in operating and investing in growing software companies, with over USD20 billion in AuM.
The newly offered fund manager currently has more than USD7 billion in total capital commitments and targets later-stage US start-up companies. The fund’s prior
LGB Corporate Finance has arranged a GBP20 million Medium Term Note (MTN) programme for Simply Asset Finance, a private equity backed specialist asset finance provider. The facility will enable Simply Asset Finance to expand its lending capabilities.
Simply Asset Finance offers finance products as a secured lender to SMEs to fund the purchase of business-critical equipment and to free up working capital. It is a portfolio company of Cabot Square Capital, a private equity investor in UK specialist lending businesses.
LGB Corporate Finance completed the establishment of the Simply MTN programme and a first issue of notes of GBP4 million
A cybersecurity company, with a platform that helps to safeguard transport and infrastructure systems, has raised a further GBP1.8 million to help it expand its business in the maritime sector.CyberOwl has secured funding from 24 Haymarket, Mercia’s EIS funds, and the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia as part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund. The latest investment will allow the company to expand its global client base and establish itself as a leader in cybersecurity for shipping lines and port operators.
CyberOwl, which has offices in Birmingham and London, provides early
Maven Capital Partners has led a funding round in Chester-based Intilery.com, a customer data platform and real-time decision engine that powers multi-channel campaigns.
The funding will enable Intilery to expand the sales and marketing team and develop its commercial offering.
Both Maven VCTs and Maven Equity Finance, which forms part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and is managed by Maven, invested as part of the transaction.
Intilery’s unique technology designs and enhances customer relationship management (CRM) strategies for businesses across multiple sectors. Intilery’s real-time, omnichannel CRM platform offers its clients a 360 view of its marketing activities as well
Glennmont Partners, a fund manager focused exclusively on investing in clean energy infrastructure, has agreed to the sale of a 15 per cent minority stake in Project Piiparinmäki, a 211.4mw wind farm, to Kansai Electric Power Company.
The onshore wind farm, located in central Finland, is currently under construction with COD expected in late 2021. Once operational, Piiparinmäki will be the largest wind farm in Finland, a significant wind power asset in the Nord Pool area, and one of the largest unsubsidised wind farms in Europe.
The sale of the stake in Piiparinmäki marks the first divestment from Glennmont’s EUR850
Vattenfall has entered into a partnership with Greencoat UK Wind, and has given the green light to the construction of South Kyle, its largest onshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.
Icebreaker.vc, which invests in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian tech companies, has held a first close of its second fund at EUR50 million.
The target size of Icebreaker Fund II, which will invest in very early stage tech companies, is EUR75 million. Already before the Corona crisis there was a gap of investors in this segment since most tech investors focus on later investment rounds, according to the firm.
Investors in the new fund include Finland´s state-owned investment company Tesi and KRR III fund-of-funds, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Oy Julius Tallberg, as well as other
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