Lower-mid market private equity firm NorthEdge is celebrating a successful year-long partnership with global healthcare business, the Helios Global Group. NorthEdge announced its investment into the medical communications and strategic consultancy firm back in January 2021 and has noted several key milestones with the business since the collaboration began.     Over the last twelve months, the Helios management team has implemented several initiatives for the company, including opening two new offices in the UK, diversifying its client base, and launching a US agency – all whilst continuing to keep its people, culture and values at the heart of the company.

Apex Group Ltd has been appointed to provide fund administration services to Adit Ventures’ new Irish Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) fund structure. Apex is providing Fund Administration Services including fund accounting, investor services and audit assistance.   Adit Ventures is a venture capital investment firm with over 1,000 LPs, USD500 million in AuM, offices in California, Florida, and New York. Adit acquires shares in category-leading, high-growth private companies via direct investments in primary rounds or early employees and investors seeking liquidity. 

HRL Morrison & Co (Morrison & Co) has extended its presence in Asia by opening a Singapore office. Nicole Walker, Morrison & Co’s Chief Commercial Officer, has relocated from Sydney to establish the regional base.   Jonty Palmer, Director of Energy Operations, has also relocated from London to support the firm’s growing Asian renewable energy development platform. Morrison & Co manages Infratil Ltd and the Utilities Trust of Australia, two of the world’s first infrastructure funds, as well as other large infrastructure funds and multiple private mandates.

Marktlink, an independent fast-growing international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm, has chosen Manchester as the home of its UK HQ as it continues its ambitious international expansion. The new HQ is the ninth office in the Marktlink network and will bring several job opportunities to the region. It is anticipated that the establishment of the Manchester office will be a springboard to other offices opening across different regions in the coming years as the business embarks on its growth journey in the UK.   Established in 1996 with its head office in Amsterdam, the company provides expert advice to

SUSI Partners, through SETF, has set up a platform for solar PV projects in Italy in partnership with a dedicated senior management team from an experienced clean energy developer. The platform was established in late 2021 and will see SUSI Partners working closely alongside the management team for the development and operation of utility-scale solar PV assets. While the Italian solar PV market experienced slower growth following the expiration of government incentives after 2013, a new expansion phase is expected throughout the 2020s, as the country gears up to meet 2030 emission reduction targets. With rising carbon and gas prices

Active investment manager Allianz Global Investors’ infrastructure debt platform, first launched in 2012, has reached EUR20 billion in cumulative investments. The platform has closed more than 100 investments in 20 countries across three strategies, with 95 of these transactions being inaugural investments into individual infrastructure projects or companies, whilst the remaining 6 transactions have been upsizing or tap investments into existing borrowers.   AllianzGI’s infrastructure debt platform has provided financing around the world across greenfield/construction projects, brownfield projects, acquisition financing and corporate refinancing, covering the full range of infrastructure sub-sectors.    AllianzGI is one of the leading investors in private

St Andrews-based investment firm Eos Advisory’s portfolio has reached a total valuation of GBP121 million based on latest investment rounds, and its first two exit events in 2021, including when Genus Plc acquired a large stake in aquaculture specialist Xelect. In January 2021, Eos announced that it had led a GB{1.24 million investment into RAB-Microfluidics, an Aberdeen-headquartered R&D company developing cutting-edge microfluidic technology to diagnose engine and turbine wear in real time.  Founded by CEO Rotimi Alabi, RAB-Microfluidics has since grown the team and gained significant sales.  In February 2021, Eos secured its first strategic investment partnership with US-based Kineticos

Private capital secondary market investor Coller Capital, and international law firm Akin Gump have hosted their first quarterly Women in Secondaries networking event for 2022, a fireside chat with Priya Lakhani OBE. Lakhani is a serial entrepreneur who has founded a food business, a social enterprise and now leads CENTURY Tech, a company developing, for use in the education sector, the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology to understand how the brain learns.  Lakhani’s session discussed the background to her career and various businesses, the cutting-edge work her company is carrying out and the lessons for training and

Bay Bridge Ventures and its strategic advisors have launched a purpose-built, institutional ESG and Sustainability focused venture capital firm.