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ZEDRA Fund Services has won a new mandate to provide comprehensive fund administration and corporate governance services to IG4 Capital’s latest USD231.5 million blind-pool Private Equity II Fund, which will focus on special opportunities in Latin America. Ryan Taylor, director of ZEDRA Fund Services, explains: “We have proven and significant experience in the small and mid-tier alternative funds administration sector, where we can bring our particular skills and experience to bear for the benefit of our clients. As well as all the traditional threshold services expected, this would include benefiting from our experience in value-added areas such as fund governance, meeting
Holland Capital has sold its portfolio company Inno4Life, a manufacturer of machines for the pharmaceutical industry, to Dec Group, a Swiss powder handling and process containment equipment provider.
Inno4Life’s management will remain actively involved in the company after its acquisition, which will continue to operate under its own name following the deal.
Inno4Life is a manufacturer of complex filling and packaging machines for the pharmaceutical industry. The company delivers tailor-made solutions to its customers, which include large pharmaceutical companies.
Inno4Life searched for a strong partner to team up with in order to enable further international growth, and found this partner
When it comes to investing in Latin America’s private markets, Brazil leads the way, accounting for 58 per cent of all Private Equity and Venture Capital investment in 2019, according to the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA).
Foresight Group has secured co-investment from a syndicate of four institutions investing alongside Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners to finance a greenfield onshore wind project in Sweden.
Distributed solutions specialist Applied Blockchain has completed a GBP2 million funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital firm QBN Capital. The newly-injected funds will be invested in developing a platform using privacy enhancing technologies to help companies to collaborate and generate meaningful outcomes together, without having to share any of their data.
Companies face increasing cybersecurity risks and regulatory requirements in regards to their data, and these are further exacerbated as data leaves an organisation and is shared with others. Recent events mean that businesses are going to become even more digital, and this means that companies will have
Albion Capital has refinanced Albion Community Power, a GBP105 million renewable energy portfolio, by raising GBP57 million of debt across the portfolio of onshore wind, hydro, solar and battery projects.The successful refinancing demonstrated Albion’s ability to raise, deploy and return institutional funds within a five year period. The portfolio of FIT and ROC wind, hydro, rooftop solar and battery storage projects delivered unlevered returns of 15-20 per cent for shareholders; more than 30 per cent above the target returns.
The refinancing required raising long-term, non-recourse, institutional, RPI-linked debt from funds managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments. The debt was secured
Taxfix, a digital tax app aimed at simplifying the process of filing a tax return, has raised USD65 million in a Series C round from investors including Index Ventures and Creandum.
The company will use the funds to grow its 200-strong team by another 100 people, as it broadens its range of products and expands into new countries later this year, including its operations in Europe.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with partner Neil Rimer joining the Taxfix board. Existing investors Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participated in the round.
Taxfix was founded in 2016 in Berlin by Mathis Büchi
Fortino Capital Partners has held a first close on EUR45 million for the successor of its first VC-fund, Fortino Capital Venture II.
The fund, which will be focussing on early stage European software and tech companies with a regional bias to the Benelux, has a target size of EUR80 million. Including this fund Fortino Capital Partners now has three funds in its portfolio.
“We are living through uncertain and tough times and as an investment company we would like to, more than ever, send out a sign of hope and trust to young entrepreneurs. With our new fund we would
Legal & General Capital (LGC) announces that it has taken a 36 per cent stake in The Kensa Group, one of the UK’s largest players in the ground source heat pump technology sector, as it scales up its investments in addressing decarbonisation. Complementing Legal & General’s existing clean energy investment portfolio, which now includes low carbon heat, transport and power generation, the deal follows Legal & General’s increased stake in Pod Point, one of the UK’s largest electric vehicle charging companies, alongside EDF. Investing in sub-scale industries that it can use its platform to grow rapidly in the post-crisis period, the
BlackRock has held the final close of Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (GEPIF III) at USD5.1 billion, making it the largest alternative investment fundraise in BlackRock history. The final close value also exceeded both the original Fund target of USD3.5 billion and the original hard cap of USD4.5 billion.
“This milestone is a testament to BlackRock’s focus on helping clients achieve better investment outcomes,” says Edwin Conway, Global Head of BlackRock Alternative Investors. “Investors are looking to build resilience into their portfolios and ballast against equity market shocks by increasing their allocations to less correlated exposures in private markets.
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