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BlackRock is to acquire Infraestructura Institucional, Mexico’s leading independently managed, infrastructure investment firm, expanding BlackRock’s infrastructure capabilities in Mexico.
The agreement builds upon BlackRock’s existing USD6 billion global infrastructure platform and strengthens the Firm’s long-standing Mexico business. The acquisition will fully enable BlackRock to deliver to its local and international clients the compelling infrastructure opportunities emerging in Mexico. Upon closing, BlackRock’s infrastructure investment platform will manage more than USD7 billion of invested and committed assets and over 80 employees located in six offices globally. The Firm’s Mexico office will grow to over 50 employees and USD26 billion of assets under
Salient Partners has successfully completed its acquisition of Forward Management, creating a USD27 billion diversified asset management firm and reaffirming the firm’s position as provider of liquid alternative and real asset investment strategies.
The combined firm has 250 employees across its offices in Houston, San Francisco and New York.
Salient's management team will continue to be led by John Blaisdell as chairman and chief executive officer, along with Jeremy Radcliffe as president, Lee Partridge as chief investment officer, Ben Hunt as chief risk officer, and Robert Naka as chief operating officer. The firm's portfolio management teams report to Lee
Shoreline Capital, a private fund manager in Chinese distressed debt and special situation investments, has closed its third fund at USUSD500 million. The fund, Shoreline China Value III, was over-subscribed.
Meanwhile, Shoreline held the first close for Fund IIIÂ’s overflow fund at USD115 million. Based on current indications of interest, Shoreline expects the overflow fund to also be oversubscribed within the month.
Since the firmÂ’s inception in 2004, Shoreline has focused on illiquid credit-related opportunities arising from the inefficiencies in China’Â’s financial system. Such opportunities include (i) non-performing loan (“NPL”) portfolios; (ii) distressed special situations; and (iii) non-distressed special situation investments.
The amount of capital awarded by investors to separate account structures reached an all-time high in 2014. In an extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight – June 2015, Oliver Senchal examines the growing prominence of this type of alternative structure in the broader fundraising market, including investor appetite and fund manager plans.
Growing prominence
Preqin’s Real Estate Online contains detailed information on over 300 real estate separate account structures. As Fig 1 displays, the aggregate value of separate accounts awarded in a single year between 2006 and 2012 never exceeded the USD7.7 billion awarded in 2011. While 2013 represented
Noerr has advised the private equity investor American Industrial Partners (AIP) on the acquisition of the German OEM fasteners division of Anixter. The total volume of the global transaction is USD380 million.
Anixter is one of the world’s leading providers of products in the fields of data communication and security solutions, cable, as well as fasteners and small parts. With a workforce of 9,100, the company achieved revenues of USD 6.4 billion in 2014. In Germany Anixter operates at two locations.
The Noerr team led by the London partner Dr. Thomas Schulz advised AIP comprehensively on the German law aspects
The unlisted infrastructure fund market targeting Germany, either solely or as part of a wider geographic focus, remains relatively small, with data from Preqin’s Infrastructure Online service revealing only 18 unlisted vehicles have reached a final close since 2010. Fundraising has declined from six funds closing in 2013 raising an aggregate EUR2.7 billion, to three funds closing last year raising EUR700 million; so far this year there have been no unlisted infrastructure funds closed targeting Germany.
The largest Germany-focused fund closed since 2013 is AXA Infrastructure Generation III, managed by France-based Ardian; the fund raised EUR1.5 billion for investments in
Hokkei, a new Cardiff based restaurant launched by two MasterChef finalists Dale Williams and Larkin Cen, is looking to raise GBP275,000 through the Seedrs equity crowdfunding platform.
Williams and Cen are looking to share 25 per cent of the business which aims to flip Chinese takeaway food on its head and remove the stigma attached to takeaways being unhealthy and unadventurous.
The campaign, which is already live on Seedrs has drawn the attention of more than 160 investors including Go Compare co-founder, Hayley Parsons, who has invested GBP50,000 of her own money for around 4.5 per cent of the
Nordic Capital Fund VII (Nordic Capital) has acquired Sunrise Medical, a specialist in premium mobility products, from Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone).
Sunrise Medical develops, designs, manufactures and distributes manual wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, scooters, as well as seating and positioning products. The Company’s products are sold in over 130 countries. Sunrise Medical’s headquarters are based in Malsch, Germany and the company has 2,000 employees worldwide.
Thomas Roßnagel, President & CEO of Sunrise Medical, says: “With Equistone’s outstanding support, for which I am very thankful, we were able to develop Sunrise Medical to its next level of performance as the Global Leader
eQ Asset Management has held the final close at USD80 million for its North America-focused private equity fund, eQ PE VII US. The fund was raised in only five months and closed above its target.
eQ PE VII US invests in funds investing in unlisted small and medium-sized companies operating in USA and Canada. The portfolio will comprise approximately ten portfolio funds investing across different industries, geographies and stage. eQ will manage the fund and will be advised by Chicago-based RCP Advisors, who will be responsible for fund selection.
Staffan Jåfs, head of private equity, says: “We are excited
Capital Dynamic has launched commercial operations of six onshore wind farm projects since the beginning of 2015 – five in the UK and one wind power generating facility in the United States – with total power generation capacity of 179.1 megawatts.
Capital Dynamics, through its Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CEI) team, invests in, finances, owns and operates proven power generation technologies around the world. In its Global Clean Energy & Infrastructure Fund (the Fund), the team has acquired rights or invested in 1,464 MW of clean energy capacity in North America and the UK.
“Capital Dynamics is proud to
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