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As part of its efforts to expand its investment management business in the Americas and enhance its overall offering, Nomura Holding America Inc. (NHA) is establishing a new business line and has appointed Robert Stark, former CEO of Alterum Capital Partners, as Head of Investment Management in the Americas.
In his new role, Stark will lead the growth and development of the investment management business with a particular emphasis on private markets.
The first strategy to be brought to market will focus on providing a diversified exposure to private credit sectors. The initial distribution focus will be towards Registered
Horizon Capital, a US private-equity firm investing in high growth export-oriented and domestic companies primarily in Emerging Europe, has acquired a minority stake in Miratech, becoming its largest finance investor in the process, via its $200 million Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, LP (EEGF III).
Horizon Capital will help Miratech to accelerate its ongoing global expansion in providing digital product engineering and customer experience design services to renowned global companies.
Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont), a clean energy infrastructure investment specialist, has divested its Margam Green Energy Plant (Margam) to Greencoat Capital (Greencoat).
Margam is an operational 41.8MWe bioenergy plant located in South Wales near Port Talbot, which is fuelled by waste wood and generates renewable power. It benefits from accreditation for 1.4 ROCs per MWh and has 15 years of ROC life remaining.
The plant was originally acquired by Glennmont in 2015 during the construction phase and has been operational since 2019. Margam has been an important element of the local community, which is evidenced by the Margam twenty-year
PE activity softened in the first three months of 2022 but remains robust, according to EY Private Equity’s Q1 PE Pulse report.
The report recaps Q1 2022 private equity activity following a record year of dealmaking and amidst market volatility and geopolitical tension.
PE firms announced deals valued at $221 billion, declining 27% from the first quarter of last year. The also highlights that the first quarter of 2021 saw 719 deals announced valued at more than $300 billion, making it the second-most active quarter on record.
The secondaries market also thrived with GP-led deals being key drivers and
Evanston Capital Management (Evanston Capital), an alternative investment management firm, has completed the final close of ECM Blockchain Fund I LP with $58 million in capital commitments.
The fund closed above its original target of $50 million.
Evanston Capital believes that blockchain technology has the potential to contribute to breakthrough advances in a variety of business applications globally across industries. The fund provides investors with access to what Evanston Capital believes are leading blockchain venture capital managers that are primarily focused on early-stage investing. The fund intends to provide global exposure across blockchain investment verticals, including infrastructure, gaming, NFTs, Web3,
Mozart Data, an all-in-one modern data platform, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Craft Ventures.
Goldcrest Capital, Spearhead, Apollo Projects, and Valor Equity Partners also participated in the round.
Mozart Data provides a Snowflake data warehouse, ETL, transformation, and other no-code tools to consolidate, organise, and clean company data before the analysis stage. Mozart’s all-in-one data platform decreases company time and resources spent on building and maintaining data infrastructure. The new funding brings the company’s total funds raised to $21M.
Since raising its seed round in 2020, Mozart Data has had more than
CoVenture, an asset management firm investing across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies, has made two additions to its team.
Meghan Hillery joins CoVenture as Director of Business Development. Prior to CoVenture, she was a Technology, Media & Telecom Leveraged Finance Senior Analyst at Capital One.
Additionally, Rajinder Singh joins CoVenture as a Credit Associate. Prior to CoVenture, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Guggenheim Partners.
Galileo Technologies, a company that deploys a unique technology to capture natural gas from any source and convert it into Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) on-site, has secured a major cornerstone investment from Helmerich & Payne (H&P), North America’s largest land drilling solutions provider.
Galileo is backed by private equity firm Bluewater.
H&P invested $33 million into the Company in the form of a convertible note. The convertible note bears interest of 5% per annum and is due April 2027. If exercised, the note would convert into common shares of Galileo at an enterprise value of $1.35 billion.
Apis Growth Fund I, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners (Apis Partners), a UK-based asset manager that supports growth stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses, has successfully partially exited its position in off-grid solar energy company Sun King, formerly Greenlight Planet.
Sun King thas competed a $260 million Series D capital raise, with investment led by BeyondNetZero, the climate investing venture of General Atlantic.
As part of this transaction the fund sold the majority of its stake in the Company. The fund continues to hold a stake in Sun King and Apis Partners will remain supportive of
Hazeltree, a provider of treasury and liquidity management solutions for the asset management industry, has appointed technology industry leader Tushar Amin as the company’s president, chief executive officer and board director.
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