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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management is launching its second infrastructure debt fund as part of its ongoing development of the BRIDGE platform.
The new Luxembourg-regulated fund will have the same investment philosophy as the previous generation and is aiming to raise between EUR 400 million and 800 million.
A second BRIDGE platform fund (Benjamin de Rothschild Infrastructure Debt Generation) is being launched. It will be managed by the same team of 11 experts based in London. The fund seeks to broaden the range, capturing fresh opportunities, whether at the project or operational stage, which have been identified by the investment
I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, has agreed to acquire Viridian Group Holdings Limited (Viridian) from Arcapita.
Viridian is the leading independent, integrated energy company operating across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. With over 480 employees, the Group comprises two main brands Energia and Power NI and has a c.20% share of domestic electricity sales volume and a circa 27 per cent share of business electricity sales volume on an all-Ireland basis.
Viridian’s generation portfolio consists of 747 megawatts of gas-fired combined-cycle generating technology capacity and 225 megawatts of onshore wind assets in operation and
Dalfen America Corp (DAC) has acquired McKinney Central Business Park located at 2010 and 2040 N Redbud Boulevard in the rapidly growing DFW suburb of McKinney, Texas.
Built in 2001, the 201,425 square-foot, multi-tenant industrial business park is fully leased and comprised of 2 light industrial buildings containing notable tenants such as PODS Enterprises LLC and Dallas Morning News. In addition to the buildings, DAC acquired 6.5 acre parcel of land for future development purposes. The business park is extremely well located with excellent access off of US-75 North Central Expressway and adjacent to Sam’s Club and Walmart.
McKinney is
Castanea Partners has made an investment in Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, a retailer and wholesaler of branded artisanal ice creams.
With the investment, Castanea becomes the sole outside investor joining the Columbus-based company as owners alongside founder Jeni Britton Bauer, her husband, Charly Bauer, her brother-in-law, Tom Bauer, and longtime friend, CEO John Lowe.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams was founded in 2002 by James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Jeni Britton Bauer. Britton Bauer’s ahead-of-the-trend vision—using whole ingredients and dairy from grass-pastured cows, rather than synthetic flavorings and commodity ice cream mix—coupled with inspired flavors, sparked the artisan ice cream movement
BDC Capital has invested USD6.7 million in Toronto-based Wave, a company that provides online financial tools for small businesses.
This money comes from BDC Capital's new USD150 million IT Venture Fund II announced last month. BDC Capital's investment is part of Wave's Series C funding round, which has now raised USD22.1 million and includes participation from CRV, The Social+Capital Partnership, OMERS Ventures and an unnamed strategic investor in the fintech sector. Wave has earmarked all Series C funds for the ongoing innovation and development of its suite of tools.
The investment was managed by Peter Misek, BDC Capital IT Venture
Affiliates of Balance Point Capital (Balance Point) have made a strategic investment in Ranger Airshop. Balance Point provided equity capital to facilitate the acquisition of the Company led by Argosy Investment Partners (Argosy).
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Easley, South Carolina, Ranger is a full service provider of unit load devices ("ULD") and other cargo control products. ULDs are broadly defined as any platform that is used to facilitate the movement of air cargo. Ranger maintains the industry's largest fleet of ULDs available for one way, short-term and long-term lease and operates more than 30 locations in 18 countries
Virtual Instruments, a specialist in real-time infrastructure performance management, and storage performance analytics provider Load DynamiX are to merge to create the industry’s first end-to-end infrastructure DevOps platform.
To accelerate joint innovation in the multi-billion-dollar IT infrastructure market, HighBar Partners will lead a new USD20 million investment round into the combined company. Additional investors in the new company include Azure Capital Partners, Kinetic Ventures and Benhamou Global Ventures, the investment fund founded by Eric Benhamou, former CEO of 3Com.
Under the terms of the deal, the combined entity will retain the name Virtual Instruments and will be led by Philippe
Three private equity experts are partnering to form LendTech Capital Partners (LendTech), a new investment advisor focused on private equity strategies within the marketplace lending industry.
LendTech has been established pursuant to a joint venture between affiliates of Liberum, a London based investment bank who conceived Europe's first institutional investor in marketplace loans in 2013 and has raised over USD1.9 billion for marketplace lending funds and platforms; Ranger Alternative Management II, LP, an investment advisor which manages two leading direct lending funds, The Ranger Specialty Income Fund and the Ranger Direct Lending Fund, the latter which is publicly traded on
Private equity and venture capital in ex-US developed markets and emerging markets delivered negative returns in the third quarter of 2015, but managed to outperform public markets in those regions substantially, according to Cambridge Associates.
The Cambridge Associates LLC Global ex US Developed Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index returned -0.6 per cent for the quarter ending September 30, 2015, as measured in US dollars. Its public market counterpart, the MSCI EAFE, fell -10.2 per cent over the same period – a much steeper decline. The Cambridge Associates LLC Emerging Markets Private Equity and Venture Capital Index posted a
The corporate team in Clyde & Co's Tanzania office has advised Silafrica Plastics and Packaging International Limited on the successful investment by AfricInvest Fund III.
Silafrica has operations in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and India. The group has been operating since the 1960s providing plastics and packaging solutions to a wide variety of sectors.
Prior to the investment, Silafrica was wholly-owned by the Sumaria Group, a conglomerate with interests in numerous industries across Africa.
The Clyde & Co team acting on this transaction (as both international counsel and local Tanzanian counsel) was led by Michael Strain and included
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