Managers
Just two weeks after its global launch, the Automotive Transformation Group has completed the acquisition of automotive industry software supplier SalesMaster.
Connecting consumers and vehicles, automotive ecommerce has thrived and accelerated in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, when many dealerships were closed around the globe. Having a strong online retail presence, from taking online deposits all the way through to fully end-to-end transactions, has become a prerequisite, along with seamless and integrated back office systems. The Automotive Transformation Group came to market earlier this month to drive such digitalisation even further, by revolutionising the entire vehicle sales process, with a
Multi-family investment office Arete has expanded with the launch of Arete Zero Carbon aimed at helping businesses to achieve net zero carbon.
Arete Zero Carbon has been formed in response to UK government’s legislation, which requires all UK businesses to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. Arete Zero Carbon will be led up by one of the UK’s leading authorities on zero carbon design, Dr Stephen Finnegan.
Finnegan has over 25 years of experience in developing low and zero carbon strategies for numerous public and private sector businesses. He joins Arete with plans to build out a new team
A new global study has found that 70 per cent of private equity firms plan to invest in LatAm in the next five years – ahead of Asia Pacific – while over nine out of ten North American-based GPs are set to commit capital to the region by 2026.
According to the report ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalizing on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, commissioned by Auxadi, 90 per cent of US-based private equity firms said they are interested in doing deals in LatAm. Auxadi provides accounting and tax services to private equity, real estate and multinationals.
The research was based
Macquarie Asset Management has held the final close of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP V) after reaching USD6.9 billion in commitments.
MIP V is Macquarie Asset Management’s sixth Americas-focused, unlisted infrastructure fund. It continues the investment strategy of the MIP platform, which spans nearly two decades of local operational expertise and long-standing sector relationships in the Americas. Consistent with previous vintages, MIP V will seek to invest in high-quality infrastructure assets and will be primarily focused on the transportation, communications, waste management, utilities and energy sectors.
“We greatly appreciate investors’ strong support for MIP V as part of our
Westbridge portfolio company APEM Ltd has completed its first acquisition since receiving investment from the private equity firm in March 2019 to support a management buyout.
Following significant investment in support functions and material organic growth over the past 18 months, APEM has created a strong platform to support its planned buy and build strategy. Its acquisition of Woodrow, an environmental and sustainability consultancy based in County Sligo, Ireland will extend its geographic reach and expand its service offering. Headquartered in Manchester, APEM employs over 200 staff in 12 locations and provides environmental consultancy to public and private sector organisations
TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform TPG Rise, has held the first close of USD5.4 billion in subscriptions to its inaugural fund.
With the fund’s first close, TPG Rise Climate is bringing together a unique blend of capital from some of the world’s largest institutional investors and over 20 leading companies to invest in the entrepreneurs and businesses building climate solutions around the world. TPG Rise Climate has set a hard cap of $7 billion in total capital commitments and expects to hold a final close in the fourth quarter of 2021.
TPG
Relief Therapeutics Holding (Relief), a biopharmaceutical company seeking to provide patients therapeutic relief from serious diseases with high unmet need, has closed a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of AdVita Lifescience (AdVita), a Germany-based, privately held pharmaceutical company developing effective products and strategies to improve the treatment and diagnosis of rare lung diseases.
With the acquisition, Relief has gained additional pending intellectual property rights that may cover RLF-100TM inhaled formulation specifications and the potential application of inhaled aviptadil for the treatment of lung diseases such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pulmonary sarcoidosis and checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis (CIP).
Pollen Street Capital and DBAY Advisors have confirmed that the previously-announced recommended offer for Proactis Holdings Plc (Proactis) has been accepted by a majority of shareholders, and as a result the Company has now been acquired by Cafe Bidco Limited and will be de-listed from the AIM sub-market of the London Stock Exchange.
OMX Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm investing in companies that operate at the intersection of biology, big data, and engineering, has appointed Swetha Murali, PhD, as a Senior Associate based in Boston.
Working closely with the OMX Ventures partners, Murali will be involved in all aspects of the OMX Ventures investment process from deal sourcing and diligence to investment monitoring at the board level. She will also be instrumental to the team’s activities in new company creation, especially through the application of emerging technologies that can address historically overlooked or under-appreciated areas of biology.
Murali joins OMX with
NewQuest Capital Partners (NewQuest), a dedicated secondary private equity platform focused on the Asia-Pacific region, has acquired a minority interest in Kids Clinic India Private Limited, operator of the Cloudnine chain of hospitals across India.
The stake has been acquired through a combination of a primary investment and acquisition of a secondary stake from existing investors and other shareholders.
Cloudnine is India’s premium birthing centre for maternal, childcare and fertility care. The Company is headquartered in Bengaluru with 16 facilities spread across in Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Panchkula, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.
Amit Gupta, Partner and Head of India and Southeast
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