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Speedcast, a communications and IT services provider, has successfully closed on a new USD350 million USD Credit Facility.
PSP Investments Credit USA LLC (PSP Investments) led the transaction, which was comprised of a USD300 million Term Loan B and a USD50 million Priority Revolving Credit Facility, both of which were privately placed with a select group of direct lenders.
The transaction re-capitalises the March 2021 equity investment by Speedcast’s owners, Centerbridge Partners, L.P. (Centerbridge), a private investment firm, and provides additional balance sheet capital for growth.
Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, has acquired Sword GRC, a UK-based software company that specialises in project and enterprise risk management solutions, from Sword Group.
The acquisition advances Riskonnect’s IRM approach by incorporating project risk into its platform and enabling customers to bring all aspects of enterprise risk under one roof.
Bryan Garnier & Co acted as financial advisor and Mayer Brown acted as legal counsel to Sword Group, and Kirkland & Ellis acted as legal counsel to Riskonnect.
DoveVivo, the largest co-living company in Europe, has acquired ALTIDO, one of the largest short-term property management groups in Europe.
The transaction, which involves the reinvestment of capital by ALTIDO’s management team in DoveVivo, leads to the creation of the largest residential management platform in Europe with more than 2,500 properties and apartments under management in 40 cities, in 6 countries (Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, UK and Scotland).
DoveVivo was advised on the transaction by Lazard as Financial Advisor, by Linklaters as Legal Advisor, by Wepartner as Strategic Advisor and by Alberto Picariello as Fiscal Advisor.
ALTIDO was
Good-Loop – a global ad tech company that converts people’s attention to ads into donations to good causes – has closed a Series A round of USD6.1 million.
The round was led by New York-based investment fund, Quaestus Capital Management (QCM), with additional backing from Scottish Enterprise, impact investor SIS Ventures, European ad tech fund First Party Capital and investment raised on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs – bringing total investment into the ad tech for good platform to USD8.2 million since it was formed in 2016.
The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s product roadmap, including the
Infinedi Partners, LP (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on innovative partnerships with founder-owned businesses, has completed its investment in LaSalle Network (LaSalle or the Company).
Wallife, an Italian insurtech startup focused on protecting the individual from risks arising from technological innovation and scientific progress in the three areas of genetics, biometrics and biohacking, has raised USD4.8 million in its first round of funding.
The company now ranks sixth in Europe within the insurtech sector for the value of seed investment raised according to Crunchbase, one of the leading global databases of financial information on private companies, especially Start-Ups.
Founded in 2021 by Fabio Sbianchi, entrepreneur and founder of Octo Telematics in 2002, Wallife has attracted the interest of more than forty investors including Wellness Holding
Hiro Capital, a specialist European VC focused on video games, metaverse technologies, creator platforms and gamified fitness, has launched Hiro Capital II, a EUR300 million (USD340 million) fund focused on backing the world’s emerging gaming and metaverse innovators.
Hiro II will be announcing its first investments in April.
Hiro’s new fund invests in entrepreneurial teams at Seed A and B across the UK, Europe and North America (and selectively ROW), building innovative and disruptive leaders in Games, Esports, Creator Platforms and Gamified Fitness.
Experienced compliance professional Jen Townshend is the latest recruit to join the expanding team at YFM Equity Partners (YFM), taking on the role of chief compliance officer.
Over the last 14 years, Townshend has held a number of compliance and regulatory positions, most recently at Great Point Media where she spent the last three years as head of compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). Prior to that, she was a compliance consultant with Sturgeon Ventures for two years, as well as having been compliance manager and assistant MLRO with Ingenious Media for two years. Jen is a member of
The European asset management platform of Mediolanum Banking Group, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), has appointed Dermott Aspell asSenior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Marco Meijer as Fixed Income Portfolio Manager.
Aspell will join the firm’s multi-manager portfolio management team and will report to the firm’s Head of Multi-management, Bish Limbu. His primary responsibility will be to construct and manage the firm’s multi-manager fixed income portfolios, while collaborating with the manager research team.
Meijer joins as a Portfolio Manager in MIFL’s Fixed Income Investment Team responsible for internally managed fixed income portfolios and will report directly to Charles Diebel, MIFL’s
UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) has made the first investment for its Infrastructure Debt Platform High Yield strategy (IDP HY).
The transaction comprises a EUR35 million green loan to pan-European green energy firm Pacifico Renewables, which will be used to refinance the Group’s portfolio of operational renewable energy projects. The investment rationale and focus of the transaction underlines the wider strategy of IDP HY in deploying capital in mid-market infrastructure assets, alongside a focus on sustainable investment opportunities.
Pacifico Renewables, headquartered in Grünwald, Germany, operates a diverse portfolio of generating renewable energy assets across
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