Managers
BP is to purchase Chargemaster, a UK-based electric vehicle (EV) charging company. Chargemaster operates a network of EV charging points, with over 6,500 across the country. It also designs, builds, sells and maintains EV charging units for a wide range of locations, including for home charging.
Tufan Erginbilgic, chief executive, BP downstream, says: “Bringing together the UK’s leading fuel retailer and its largest charging company, BP Chargemaster will deliver a truly differentiated offer for the country’s growing number of electric vehicle owners.
“At BP we believe that fast and convenient charging is critical to support the successful adoption of
BitSight, a provider of Security Ratings, has closed USD60 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s total funding to USD155 million. The financing was led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital and Singtel Innov8.
BitSight pioneered the security ratings market in 2011, as the first company to develop a security ratings product. Today, organisations and nations worldwide use the BitSight Security Ratings SaaS platform to help manage third party risk, benchmark performance, underwrite cyber insurance policies and conduct M&A due diligence. With over 1,200 customers collaborating and verifying BitSight Security Ratings on a
ARQIS has advised BWK GmbH Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft (BWK) on the acquisition of a majority stake in H & R Industrierohrbau.
H & R Industrierohrbau, based in Goldbach in Bavaria, is specialised in the maintenance and construction of piping in production facilities. In 2017, the company generated a turnover of almost EUR16 million with 80 employees at its three locations – two of which are “on-site locations” at industrial parks in the Rhine-Main area. Among H&R’s customer base are major companies of the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors (eg AkzoNobel, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, and Clariant) as well as other medium-sized industrial customers.
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F2i SGR, acting on behalf of its second fund, is to acquire Enel Group’s entire portfolio of vegetable biomass plants.
The deal includes the purchase of two plants for the production of electric energy from vegetable biomass, for combined power of 47 MW; the plants are located in the Italian regions of Calabria and Emilia-Romagna. The deal also includes, on completion of the period of construction (scheduled for the end of 2018), two more plants, for a combined electrical power of 48 MW. These plants are located in the Italian regions of Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna, and production activities are scheduled
LGT Capital Partners reports that European alternatives managers’ adoption of ESG principals has increased.
The sixth annual ESG Report assessed some 294 managers globally, grading them on how successfully they have integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment activities.
The report found that the majority, at 58 per cent, of private equity firms are rated as either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ in terms of ESG integration, compared to just 27 per cent in 2014, indicating that this has been made a priority by private equity managers.
Europe continues to lead the way in ESG integration, particularly
Odysseus Investments, the venture capital and private equity arm of Reech Corporations Group and Seed Founders, a technology investment company established by InsureTech investor Minh QTran, are joining forces to create an new framework which will allow investors to achieve scale exposure to a range of traditional, alternative and tech venture capital assets.
The firm writes that Odysseus Alternative Ventures combines Reech Group’s strengths in real estate, alternative assets and technology with Seed Founders’ expertise in incubating innovative start-ups in insurTech, propTech and disruptive finance generally.
The new firm plans to bring an innovative approach to managing alternative
SimpleNexus has raised USD20 million in growth capital from Insight Venture Partners to accelerate continued growth and expansion.
SimpleNexus provides a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app that connects mortgage lenders with borrowers and real estate agents, allowing all parties to easily exchange data and documents through the lifecycle of a mortgage loan. The online application is custom branded to the lending institution and includes individual pages for each loan officer to share.
“Our unprecedented growth clearly demonstrates the leading role SimpleNexus occupies in the digital mortgage movement and an industry wide embrace of our mobile-first technology that
Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt and minority equity investment in American Residuals Group (ARG), an Arkansas-based environmental services company. Funding was provided by Ironwood Mezzanine Fund IV LP and its affiliated funds.
Ironwood Capital President and Chief Investment Officer Carolyn Galiette, says: “ARG is one of the largest wastewater collection and disposal companies in the country. The investment thesis is to continue to grow organically into new geographies and explore additional acquisitions.”
“ARG has a proven track record of providing quality services to the municipal and industrial food processing market and we’re excited to partner with the
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4 (MEIF4), and Wren House Infrastructure are to sell part of Viesgo to Repsol in a deal valued at EUR750 million.
Repsol will acquire the majority of Viesgo’s unregulated assets including Viesgo Supply, which has electricity and gas contracts with 750,000 households and businesses, as well as 700MW of conventional generation hydro power (both pumping storage and run-of-river); and two Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plants with a total installed capacity of 1650MW.
MIRA and Wren House will retain Viesgo’s regulated entities including the electricity distribution network business
MPC Capital’s investment platform for renewable energies in the CARICOM region, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund, and Trinidad and Tobago conglomerate ANSA McAL, are to acquire an operational 21 MW windpark Tilawind, located in Tilarán in the Guanacaste province, Costa Rica.
With a wind turbine capacity factor of 45 per cent, Tilarán represents an excellent location for the wind farm, which has been operational since 2015 and has the potential to expand its capacity to 40 MW in the future. Tilawind and the expansion were developed and constructed by the local project developer Gruman Resources, who currently operates the wind farm.
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