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Private equity investment firm KKR has launched the Eco-Innovation Award for its portfolio companies as part of the firm’s Green Solutions Platform (GSP).
The platformh aims to identify, support and highlight environmental initiatives across three areas: eco-efficiency, eco-innovation, and/or eco-solutions.
The Eco-Innovation Award is intended to reward current projects or initiatives within KKR portfolio companies that are innovative, environmentally beneficial solutions that create business value.
“Our goal with the Green Solutions Platform and now the Eco-Innovation Award is to encourage and support our companies’ eco-innovation work as we do their eco-efficiency projects,” says Elizabeth Seeger, director at KKR
Private equity returns remained relatively flat in the first three months of the year, according to State Street’s GX Private Equity Index, which saw an overall return of 0.65 per cent for the period.
The index, which includes a dataset dating back to 1980, is based on directly sourced limited partnership data and represents more than USD2 trillion in private equity investments, with more than 2,500 unique private equity partnerships, as of 31 March 2016.
State Street says the return of US-focused funds remained unchanged from the previous quarter. Among all three main strategies, venture capital posted a loss of
Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm based in Dallas and Nashville, has acquired telepsychiatry services provider FasPsych in partnership with the company's founder, Ed Irby.
Irby, along with the company’s management team, rolled a significant equity stake in conjunction with the transaction.
FasPsych, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, manages a specialised pool of contracted psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners from across the country to provide telepsychiatry services via real-time, interactive televideo communication.
Services are primarily provided in the Southwest US to hospitals, community mental health centres, residential mental health centres and various other mental
Manulife Investments is introducing the Manulife International Equity Private Trust and a Series F for the Manulife Dollar-Cost Averaging Fund (DCAF).
The Manulife International Equity Private Trust will be part of the Manulife Private Investment Pools, which now has a lower minimum entry point of USD100,000.
Launched in December 2012, Manulife Private Investment Pools offer investment pools spanning a range of asset classes.
The portfolios are managed by asset managers at Manulife Asset Management and Mawer Investment Management. The Manulife International Equity Private Trust is invested primarily in equity securities of companies located outside of Canada and the
The first half of 2016 has seen an overall shift towards larger private equity deals with total deal value up 2 per cent and volume slipping by 17 per cent, according to SL Capital’s Q2 2016 Private Equity Barometer.
The number of European private-equity-backed deals declined by 8 per cent in the second quarter of 2016 from 381 transactions in Q1 to 350. Combined deal value improved in the second quarter, rising by 66 per cent.
The aggregate value of buyouts in the year to Q2 2016 (EUR107.4 billion) was down a nominal 0.2 per cent on the previous 12
Data visualisation and analysis specialist PlanetRisk has acquired Analytic Strategies, a provider of enterprise analytics services to the federal government.
With this acquisition and the addition of Analytic Strategies’ expertise in enterprise analytics, data system management, operations research, supply chain management and intelligence analysis, PlanetRisk expands its suite of analytic capabilities.
“At the core of this acquisition are highly valuable data analytics capabilities that will allow PlanetRisk to further expand its robust services in big data engineering, advanced analytics, geospatial business intelligence, social network analysis and enterprise risk modeling,” says Paul McQuillan, president and CEO of PlanetRisk. “The addition
Press Ganey, a healthcare performance improvement company, is to be acquired by EQT Equity fund EQT VII, part of the global private equity group EQT.
Under the terms of the agreement, EQT will acquire all of Press Ganey’s common stock.
Shareholders of record will receive USD40.50 in cash per share of Press Ganey common stock, resulting in an enterprise value of approximately USD2.35 billion.
The offer price represents a 20 per cent premium to the year to date volume-weighted average price and a 62 per cent premium to the initial public offering price for the common stock.
Sverica Capital Management’s Sverica Fund IV has acquired a majority stake in RMS Healthcare Management, a provider of management services to Med First Immediate Care and Family Practice.
The transaction marks Sverica’s second investment made from Fund IV. Cadiz Capital also participated in the transaction.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Med First provides primary care, urgent care and occupational medicine services via 13 clinic locations across rural North Carolina and South Carolina. The company addresses the unmet healthcare needs of rural populations through a hybrid primary care and urgent care model. Med First is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
Vestar Capital Partners, in partnership with management, has acquired Mobile Technologies Inc (MTI), a provider of mobile device security and display technologies, from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company (HKW).
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Founded nearly 40 years ago, MTI operates in three business segments: Retail Merchandising (solutions that display, power, and secure mobile devices within the retail environment); ArmorActive (engineered solutions that empower tablets and smartphones for enterprise mobility and connectivity applications); and Global Services (installation, preventive maintenance, on-demand break-fix, and contact centre services to support businesses’ retail and enterprise mobile device deployments worldwide).
OST Energy, an independent engineering consultancy, has teamed with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and solar energy company Lightsource Renewable Energy to bring Europe’s largest floating photovoltaic (PV) solar project to completion.
A 6.3 Megawatt peak (MWp) array floating on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir west of London, is now providing a source of clean energy to water utilities company, Thames Water. It is the first floating solar project to secure European bank financing.
Thames Water will buy all energy generated by the project as part of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lightsource.
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