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The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius Environmental (Aurelius”), an environmental management and materials recycling business, with a GBP1.5 million debt funding package.
The funding will be used by Aurelius to purchase new machinery to improve efficiencies, reduce the company’s carbon footprint and help to support its sustainable development strategy and strong social and economic ethos.
Black Country-based Aurelius recycles lead acid batteries using an energy positive process that deals with the hazardous chemicals in lead acid batteries to produce enhanced products for re-use in the battery manufacturing industry. Working in partnership with Cambridge
Glennmont Partners has completed the divestment of a portfolio of five car park canopy solar PV projects in northern France. With a total operating capacity of 55MWp, the solar projects have been sold to the global solar independent power producer (IPP), Sonnedix.
The five solar PV car park canopy projects; Batilly (10.4MWp), Douai (11.9MWp), Flins (10.6MWp), Maubeuge (11.8MWp), and Sandouville (10.4MWp), commenced operations between December 2011 and January 2012.
The sale continues to demonstrate the successful divestment of Glennmont’s Clean Energy Fund Europe I (“Fund”), which was fully invested in 14 onshore wind, solar PV and bioenergy assets across
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million growth capital investment into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare business, 352 Medical Group Limited (3fivetwo).
The investment was made via a new fund managed by Foresight in partnership with 57 Stars, dedicated to investing in businesses with the potential to boost the economy of Northern Ireland.
Founded in 2004 by NHS Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Suresh Tharma, 3fivetwo began by providing services such as health screening, 3D obstetrics and gynaecology scanning. Since then the Company has grown significantly, first and foremost as a service provider for private patients and also as a
Eldridge Industries (Eldridge) has closed USD1.36 billion of common equity issued to a partnership owned substantially by Swiss businessman and philanthropist, Hansjörg Wyss, and Eldridge Co-Founder, CEO and controlling-member, Todd Boehly.
This marks the second investment the Wyss and Boehly partnership have made into Eldridge. The new proceeds will further capitalise Eldridge and will drive strategic growth across the Company’s businesses.
“The new capital raised is a testament to our Company’s positive trajectory, strengthens our balance sheet, and positions us to further invest in our initiatives,” says Boehly. “We believe this additional capital will benefit all stakeholders of our businesses
Estera, a leading global fund administration and fiduciary services provider, has successfully advised Bluefield Solar Income Fund on its application for accreditation as a Guernsey Green Fund.
Bluefield Solar is the first London-listed investment fund to successfully achieve Guernsey Green Fund status. Estera is one of Guernsey’s leading fund administrators, and has an experienced and sizeable team overseeing a full service provision to a wide variety of funds.
Estera is the fund administrator for long-standing client Bluefield Solar Income Fund, and has extensive experience in administering London-listed funds. In addition, Estera has a wealth of specialist experience in renewables and
LA-based private investment firm Atar Capital has acquired Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) through its portfolio company, Recycling and Waste Solutions (RWS).
RWS provides US supply chains with managed solutions for commodity recycling and waste services.
SSG provides and manages recycling, waste and sustainability programs for regional and national companies throughout North America. Atar says consolidating the two companies into a single firm expands their ability to deliver sustainable, economic waste solutions and broadens opportunities for growth. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Robert Lezec, senior managing director at Atar, says: “We strongly believe in the future
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterprise value of GBP50 million.
Comprising 64 turbines in locations across the UK and Ireland the SEP portfolio contains all five of the wind farm investments made by the Environmental Capital Fund (ECF), a specialist infrastructure fund managed by SEP. The portfolio ranges from single-turbine sites across the Orkney and Shetland Islands to utility-scale turbines in Curraghderrig, Ireland and the Port of Tilbury in London.
The acquisition will supplement PiP’s existing wind assets including Aura, one of the largest stand-alone Feed
Canadian alternative asset manager Ninepoint Partners has acquired the assets of LOGiQ Global Partners, a global institutional advisory business, from Flow Capital Corp.
The LOGiQ Global Partners team has a long history of helping institutional investors achieve greater portfolio diversification by providing strategic access to differentiated global asset managers.
With this acquisition, Ninepoint Partners adds seasoned sales and client service professionals, CAD3.5 billion of institutional contracts and almost 20 years of longstanding relationships with Canadian Institutional investors. The combined platforms will further enhance Ninepoint’s ability to bring innovative alternative solutions to Canadian retail and institutional clients.
“This is a great
Funds advised by specialist debt investor Permira Debt Managers (PDM) are acting as senior secured lender to Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) in its acquisition of Valantic, a DACH-based digital consulting and software provider.
Valantic was founded in 2012 as DABERO Service Group and renamed in 2017, after nine acquisitions in six years. It now has more than 800 customers across DACH, based in 13 locations and employing circa 1,100 staff. The business has developed into a fully integrated technology enterprise platform providing services in the areas of financial services, enterprise software, business and predictive analytics, logistics and supply chain management.
Gide has advised Idia Capital Investissement, a subsidiary of group Crédit Agricole, on its investment in the share capital of Maison Chapoutier, a wine producer and merchant in the Rhone valley and whose vineyards cover 450 hectares in France and abroad (Australia, Spain and Portugal).
This transaction is part of a more global reorganisation of Maison Chapoutier’s shareholding, alongside the Chapoutier family and its longstanding partner Sofina.
This investment will boost the development of the family-owned vineyard’s activities, in particular as regards biodynamic growing methods and wine tourism.
In continuing its investment strategy in the wine sector, Idia thus
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