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Polaris is to divest its majority shareholding in Designers Company to Design Holding, a global high-quality design group jointly controlled by Investindustrial and The Carlyle Group, that brings together industry-leading brands such as FLOS, B&B Italia, Louis Poulsen, Arclinea, FENDI Casa, Maxalto, Azucena and the US e-commerce platform YDesign Group.
Designers Company has developed strongly in partnership with Polaris since the initial acquisition of MENU in 2018 and the subsequent foundation of a design group, which is today comprised of e.g. MENU, The Audo, by Lassen and Brdr. Petersen. During the period, significant progress has been made with a tripling
A mid-cap green fuel Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ fund, CI Advanced Bioenergy Fund I, has closed at $375 million, with investments from Nordic pension funds, PensionDanmark, Industriens Pension, AP2 and AP4, according to a report from IPE Real Assets.
The fund is looking to hit a €1 billion target and so far has received €100 million from PensionDanmark, €60 million from Industriens Pension, with commitments from CIP itself and Vestas, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer.
AP2 and AP4 declined to disclose their respective commitments to the fund.
Cebile Capital has released its H1 2022 Secondaries Outlook Report, which summarises key trends witnessed in 2021 and early 2022, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. Active secondaries investors globally were surveyed to gain insight into their investment activity.
Yamaha Motor Ventures, the strategic business development and investment arm of Yamaha Motor Co, has led a $7.5 million Series A funding round for Verge, developers of the world’s first AI-powered interactive software that enables farmers to plan, simulate, and validate the movement of equipment in the field and execute field operations efficiently.
The funding round also included participation from the Fall Line Capital, SP Ventures & Artesian/GrainInnovate.
Following the latest raise, Verge Ag is developing the digital twin of the farm that will help farmers assess the dependencies between land and equipment when planning field operations. This provides farmers
SwanCap has held the final close of its latest private equity opportunities Fund (Swan V), which was oversubscribed with aggregated commitments in excess of €400 million.
The Fund received strong support from a large number of existing investors as well as a wide range of new investors internationally. The LP base of Swan V includes many institutional investors, public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations as well as HNWs and large family offices.
Swan V continues the Firm´s proven investment strategy and provides diversified exposure to best-in-class private equity in the European and North American Midmarket via
Pay2Day Solutions (Authvia) has closed a $7 million Series A financing led by Red Door Capital Partners (Red Door), an independent private equity firm.
Omaha National Group, a tech-enabled provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has secured a $20 million unsecured senior debt financing facilitated by Cohen & Co, a financial services company specialising in fixed income markets.
The notes carry a fixed rate of 6.8% with a 10-year term.
This latest funding follows Omaha National’s $45 million Series B round in 2021, which was led by Accomplice and included investors High Sage Ventures and Tull Investments. Agman, a Chicago-based investment firm, remains the principal and founding investor.
ModusBox, an infrastructure and integration technology company for financial services, has closed a $7.5 million Series A funding round led by Patamar Capital, a social impact fintech venture fund.
Choice Bank co-led the round while BankTech Ventures and American Capital Partners also participated.
ModusBox will use the new funds to accelerate the development of its PortX products, drive key partnerships with advanced fintech solutions, and continue its contributions to the Mojaloop real-time payments ecosystem. The funds will also scale the company’s recruiting, marketing, customer success, and engineering groups as ModusBox responds to rapidly growing demand.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean) has added Bradley Belt to its private equity Executive Board as an Operating Partner.
In his role on the Executive Board, Belt will work closely with the firm’s leadership and portfolio companies on corporate strategy and growth initiatives.
Belt has over three decades of experience leading and growing high performing organisations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He most recently served as Vice Chairman of Orchard Global Asset Management, having previously served as Executive Director and CEO of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in the Administration of President George W Bush, as Senior Managing Director of
Global investment firm KKR is to make a tender offer for the common shares of Hitachi Transport System Ltd (HTS) through HTSK Co, Ltd, an entity owned by the investment funds managed by KKR.
Hitachi Transport System is a specialist in the third-party logistics business (3PL) in Japan. The Company provides supply chain solutions for customers who outsource logistics functions such as logistics system integration, inventory and order control, logistics centre operations, factory logistics, and transportation and delivery services.
HTSK Co has entered into an agreement with Hitachi to acquire Hitachi’s 39.91% holding in a share buyback. Hitachi will then
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