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Hampleton Partners, an international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised 2getthere Holding, a manufacturer of driverless electric shuttles, on its majority acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen.
This is the second autonomous vehicle technology transaction closed by Hampleton within the space of nine months.
“Hampleton led a great process from start to finish, introducing us to an outstanding partner in ZF that will unlock the next dynamic growth phase of our company. Hampleton’s level of experience and, above all, profound understanding of the automotive market, led us to the best possible transaction,” says Carel van
Themis, an Africa-focussed power company backed by Denham Capital, is partnering with Kingline Development Nigeria Limited (Kingline) to develop a 550MW natural gas-fired power plant in Ondo State, Nigeria.
The Kingline Power Project is currently in its development stage with a target to proceed to financial close by Q2 2020, becoming fully operational in 2022. It will be located on 111 hectares of land in the Ondo State Industrial Park, adjacent to the existing Omotosho Power Plant.
At a Project cost of approximately USD600 million, the Project will be one of the lowest cost gas-to-power facilities in the international
OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, is joining other health care systems and strategic investors from within the healthcare industry as a limited partner in Boston-based LRVHealth.
As part of LRVHealth’s collaborative innovation platform, which represents a network that delivers care to 50 million Americans across 25 states, OSF will help identify, create and invest in early-stage companies spanning healthcare IT, tech-enabled health services, medical devices, and diagnostics.
As a strategic investor in LRVHealth’s fourth fund, OSF HealthCare will benefit from access to early-stage companies that have been identified and vetted through a vast network that reaches
Omnes has announced a 15 per cent investor net IRR on its EUR134 million Capenergie 2 fund, which is focused on renewable energy and launched in 2010.
The value-add infrastructure fund ranks among the top performers in the sector in Europe; generating an investor net multiple of 2x.
Omnes is a pioneer in the energy transition sector, with the launch of its first fund in 2006 and EUR1.3 billion in assets under management in this field.
The purpose of the Capenergie funds is to invest in independent power producers across Europe, providing them with private equity growth capital.
Aquila Capital has acquired a portfolio of project rights for renewable energy projects in Spain with a total capacity of more than 700 MW.
It consists of over 400 MW of onshore wind projects and around 300 MW of solar projects, construction of which is expected to commence by the end of 2019 with grid connection expected by 2021. Based on the very favourable local conditions and the strong decrease of technology costs over recent years, renewable energies in Spain can be operated profitably independent of state subsidies. In order to secure project revenues, Aquila Capital intends to contract long-term
ThinCats, a fintech lender for mid-sized SMEs, has launched a new GBP100 million funding programme for private equity backed UK businesses.
ThinCats has close to GBP1 billion of capital to invest and is seeing increasing demand from private equity backed businesses to fund larger sized deals up to GBP15 million.
The new funding programme follows a series of recent loans facilitated by Dave Sherrington, Regional Head of Sales at ThinCats to businesses in partnership with leading private equity houses. In January, ThinCats provided a GBP5m funding package for Flat Iron, an award-winning restaurant chain backed by consumer brands specialist
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) is to acquire Newell Brands’ Process Solutions business.
Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Process Solutions is a manufacturer and material sciences company that offers custom-designed plastic, nylon, monofilament and zinc products in the health care, consumer, and industrial end markets. By leveraging its value engineering and manufacturing technology, the business services a wide variety of commercial industries and customers, as well as governmental agencies globally. Process Solutions is also the primary supplier of copper-plated zinc penny blanks to the United States Mint as well as a supplier of coinage to other
WIT Fitness, a London-based sports retail business focusing on training footwear and apparel, has secured a GBP2m investment from growth capital investor VGC Partners.
This follows the explosion of global sneaker sales activated by ecommerce, a trend which has also been adopted by the consumer of the ever growing communities in functional fitness training programmes such as high intensity interval training (HIIT) and CrossFit.
Founded by former amateur athlete Dan Williams and sports retail expert Sam Kitching in London in 2015, WIT Fitness operates an online retail platform in both the UK and US markets, selling branded training footwear
Financial services-focused private equity firm Preservation Capital Partners (Preservation Capital) has completed its strategic investment in US construction-focused MGA Cove Programs (Cove) after receiving all necessary regulatory approvals.
Together with insurTech-driven cyber and specialty lines MGA Ascent Underwriting (Ascent), which Preservation Capital acquired an interest in last year, the deal has created one of the largest independently-owned specialty lines MGAs, managing more than USD200 million GWP.
Ascent and Cove will continue to operate under their respective market-leading brands. Each is a pioneer in speciality product development and distribution within their own markets, supported by best-in-class underwriting and claims teams. The
Packhelp, a Warsaw-based startup that allows users to design and order their own custom-branded packaging, has raised EUR8.5 million in one of the largest Series A rounds in the CEE region.
White Star Capital led the investment, along with the participation of existing investors. The raised capital will be used primarily to accelerate growth in Europe.
Packhelp was founded in 2015, as a solution for the painful experience of ordering custom-branded packaging. The company founders, who have a background in marketing, sales, printing and IT, decided to leverage their knowledge to disrupt the old fashioned industry. The result is
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