Managers
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterprise value of GBP50 million.
Comprising 64 turbines in locations across the UK and Ireland the SEP portfolio contains all five of the wind farm investments made by the Environmental Capital Fund (ECF), a specialist infrastructure fund managed by SEP. The portfolio ranges from single-turbine sites across the Orkney and Shetland Islands to utility-scale turbines in Curraghderrig, Ireland and the Port of Tilbury in London.
The acquisition will supplement PiP’s existing wind assets including Aura, one of the largest stand-alone Feed
Canadian alternative asset manager Ninepoint Partners has acquired the assets of LOGiQ Global Partners, a global institutional advisory business, from Flow Capital Corp.
The LOGiQ Global Partners team has a long history of helping institutional investors achieve greater portfolio diversification by providing strategic access to differentiated global asset managers.
With this acquisition, Ninepoint Partners adds seasoned sales and client service professionals, CAD3.5 billion of institutional contracts and almost 20 years of longstanding relationships with Canadian Institutional investors. The combined platforms will further enhance Ninepoint’s ability to bring innovative alternative solutions to Canadian retail and institutional clients.
“This is a great
Funds advised by specialist debt investor Permira Debt Managers (PDM) are acting as senior secured lender to Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) in its acquisition of Valantic, a DACH-based digital consulting and software provider.
Valantic was founded in 2012 as DABERO Service Group and renamed in 2017, after nine acquisitions in six years. It now has more than 800 customers across DACH, based in 13 locations and employing circa 1,100 staff. The business has developed into a fully integrated technology enterprise platform providing services in the areas of financial services, enterprise software, business and predictive analytics, logistics and supply chain management.
Gide has advised Idia Capital Investissement, a subsidiary of group Crédit Agricole, on its investment in the share capital of Maison Chapoutier, a wine producer and merchant in the Rhone valley and whose vineyards cover 450 hectares in France and abroad (Australia, Spain and Portugal).
This transaction is part of a more global reorganisation of Maison Chapoutier’s shareholding, alongside the Chapoutier family and its longstanding partner Sofina.
This investment will boost the development of the family-owned vineyard’s activities, in particular as regards biodynamic growing methods and wine tourism.
In continuing its investment strategy in the wine sector, Idia thus
Hatteras Venture Partners has held the first closing of Hatteras Venture Partners VI, LP (HVP VI),says with USD94 million in deployable capital toward an ultimate target fund size of USD200 million.
“The pace and quality of our deal flow has grown tremendously during the past several years,” said Clay Thorp, Co-founder and General Partner of Hatteras. “With HVP VI, we will continue to partner with innovative, driven entrepreneurs to launch and build world-class health care companies, many of which will be based upon leading-edge research stemming from the renowned academic centres in the southeastern U.S. In addition, we will continue
Touch Biometrix, a fingerprint technology company, has received a GBP2 million investment from Deepbridge Capital.
The Series A funding through the Deepbridge Technology Growth Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund follows initial seed funding of GBP150,000 last year.
North Wales based Touch Biometrix is developing a new class of fingerprint sensor for application to consumer electronics such as smartphones and laptops.
Based on proprietary sensor designs and algorithms, the Touch Biometrix platform will enable fingerprint sensors of any shape or size that can be integrated easily into a wide range of consumer electronics and smart objects.
The user
Private equity firm TA Associates has completed a significant minority investment in Indira IVF, an India-based infertility treatment provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2014 by Dr Ajay Murdia, Dr Kshitiz Murdia, Nitiz Murdia, Ashish Lodha and Manish Khatri, Indira IVF is one of India’s largest network of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres. The company offers a wide variety of infertility treatments, including advanced IVF technology. Indira IVF currently operates 59 centres across 16 states in India and has completed nearly 27,000 IVF cycles in the last 12 months. Indira IVF has a staff of
Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity investor, has acquired Munch’s Supply (Munch’s) alongside the Company’s existing management team, led by CEO Bob Munch.
Munch’s is a wholesale distributor of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, parts and supplies. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Munch’s was founded in 1956 and supplies HVAC equipment to residential and commercial customers in the Midwest, Great Plains and Mountain states through 27 branch locations. Munch’s Supply distributes products from more than 100 leading HVAC equipment, parts and supplies manufacturers, including Trane, American Standard, Rheem and Mitsubishi.
“Specialty distribution
Quilam Capital, which provides both debt and equity solutions to companies in the speciality finance sector, has secured a multi-million-pound leverage facility from Natwest, which will be used to fund new and existing balance sheet investments.
Quilam was founded by Kieran McSweeney and Marc Sefton in late 2017 and the duo has developed a unique advisory approach which capitalises on the team’s wealth of industry experience and insight to help businesses develop and grow over the medium to long-term. The firm will support management teams on all aspects of their business, from operations and risk through to strategic direction, funding and development.
Green Arrow Capital SGR Private Equity Team has finalised its eighth acquisition, acquiring a majority holding in Labware, a specialist provider of integrated point of sales systems in the foodservice and retail business.
The company, which started out as a hardware producer, has, over the years, developed an integrated system of hardware and software, including all the devices needed for point of sales (cash register, handheld terminals, printers) to support management applications for point of sale management. Labware also offers a series of customisable APPs for monitoring the point of sale, and the retention and analysis of customer data (data
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