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Houston-based ESG Enterprise, a US provider of ESG software as a service (SaaS) and a data analytics platform covering NGOs and governmental bodies, has partnered with specialist ESG data and scoring platform GaiaLens.
ESG Enterprise is an SaaS application with ESG data on over 40,000 public, private, municipal and non-profit organisations. Much of this data goes into assessments and reports covering organisations’ activities in more than 100 countries.
GaiaLens analysis covers over 16,000 public companies, with market leading insight into ‘hard to identify’ social and governance data as well as environmental data. This includes data on themes linked to the
Arcano Partners, an independent financial advisory firm specialising in alternative asset management, has expanded into the Italian market with the opening of a new office in Milan.
The firm has hired Paule Ansoleaga Abascal as the new Managing Director of Arcano alternative asset management in Italy to head up the new office, which is in via Dante No7, at the heart of Milan’s financial district. The company already has a presence in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, New York and Los Angeles.
Abascal has 17 years of international experience in capital markets and asset management in Spain, France, the United Kingdom,
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) which manage two debt funds on behalf of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) across the West, East and South East Midlands, has now deployed over GBP60 million of MEIF loans, to 116 businesses, creating 420 new jobs in the region.
Working with the region’s 10 Local Enterprise Partnerships, Maven’s Birmingham and Nottingham-based teams have seen a high level of demand for funding from businesses, which they have been able to support through MEIF with additional backing from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and subsequently the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS), also provided by the
Monk’s Hill Ventures (MHV), a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Southeast Asia, has appointed Susli Lie as Partner, expanding the form’s senior leadership team.
As a firm focused on building a strong partnership of entrepreneurs and operators, she will be responsible for building MHV’s Indonesia business, spearheading the firm’s ESG program, and supporting portfolio companies on the ground.
Lie is also a seasoned finance professional, having built a career with global experience at the cross-section of finance, international development, and technology. Born and raised in Jakarta, she has spent the last decade in Indonesia advising, investing,
The Scottish Dental Care Group – a national dental provider, offering the full range of NHS and private treatments – has secured a multi-million pound minority investment from BGF.
With a turnover of GBP11 million, Scottish Dental Care Group currently operates 15 clinics across the central belt, Dumfries and Galloway, the Highlands and Grampian. This includes the recently acquired Castle House clinic in Inverness, and the Grandholm and Granite City clinics in Aberdeen. BGF’s multi-million-pound investment will enable the growing dental group to implement ambitious growth plans in the coming years through the continued acquisition of high-quality clinics across Scotland.
Exponent has agreed to acquire a majority stake in H&MV Engineering (H&MV), a specialist in high voltage (HV) electrical engineering.
An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capita has acquired an interest in Titan Storage Solutions (Titan).
Titan is a self-storage operator and owner of five assets which provide a total of space 142,000 sq ft.
Riccardo Dallolio, Managing Director and Head of HIG Europe Realty in London, says: “We are delighted to complete this transaction in line with our strategy of investing in platforms with strong underlying secular trends. With platforms in the cold-storage, film-production and life-sciences sectors, we are focused on building best-in-class businesses which can achieve critical mass.”
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure and SME investment manager, has completed a significant investment in Connect Fibre, a community minded, full fibre network provider based in Cambridgeshire.
This will accelerate the installation of a full fibre network across the East of England, bringing superior digital connectivity to households and businesses across the region.
Foresight has an established track record across sustainable infrastructure, real assets and SME investing, delivering financial returns while making a positive contribution to the regions in which it operates. With a regional office and investment team located in the heart of Cambridge, since 2019, Foresight
Novus Capital Corporation II has completed its business combination with Energy Vault (Energy Vault), a company developing sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions.
In connection with the completion of the business combination, Novus has been renamed Energy Vault Holdings, Inc (the “Company”) and its common stock and warrants are expected to commence trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, 14 February, 2022 under the ticker symbols “NRGV” and “NRGV WS” respectively.
Ballybunion Capital Limited (Ballybunion) and INDOS Financial (Ireland) Depositary Limited (INDOS) will provide AIFM and Depositary services respectively to Adit Global Growth, ILP.
This is the first ILP product to be supported jointly by Ballybunion and INDOS since both companies joined JTC Group. Dillon Eustace provided legal services for this ILP. The investment partnership, which will be distributed to a number of European countries and the UK, is expected to raise up to USD50 million.
The ILP regime in Ireland was updated in 2021 to attract increased private capital into the country with managers obtaining a number of benefits including
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