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Slate Asset Management (Slate), a global alternative investment platform targeting real assets, has launched an impact investment strategy focused on infrastructure and appointed Christian Schmid as Managing Director and Global Head of Infrastructure.
Schmid will lead the firm’s new Cities and Communities Impact Infrastructure Strategy, which will target infrastructure assets that advance the global energy transition and drive reductions in carbon emissions associated with our cities and communities.
Schmid has more than 15 years of experience in public and private infrastructure investments, having led the origination and execution of infrastructure transactions valued at approximately USD40 billion across Europe, North America
Vitesse PSP (Vitesse), a global payment, liquidity and treasury management platform, has raised USD26 million in a Series B funding led by Prime Ventures.
The round also includes investments from Octopus Ventures – one of Europe’s largest and most active venture capital investors – who led the 2020 Series A funding, as well as Hannover Digital Investments, the corporate venture capital fund of HDI Group, one of Europe’s largest insurance companies.
Additional participants include existing angel investors and industry heavyweights such as Ron Kalifa, OBE, former Worldpay CEO and author of the Kalifa Review and Shane Happach, CEO of Mollie,
Amati’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) VCT has sold out within five days of launching its offer, raising GBP25 million from private investors, GBP13 million of which was in the first 90 minutes and GBP21 million was raised on the first day.
This beats its previous record of raising more than GBP7 million within the first 90 minutes of its fund raise in February 2019. It comes in a record year for VCTs sales with more than GBP821 million sold, with six more weeks until the tax year end.
The offer launched at 10am on Wednesday 16th February and one
UK space firm, Satellite Vu – one of Seraphim Space’s lead portfolio companies – has signed a launch deal with Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, to launch the world’s highest resolution thermal imaging satellite in early 2023.
Satellite Vu will be part of a rideshare launch on one of SpaceX’s Transporter missions aboard Falcon 9, which has proven to be the most reliable rockets to launch satellites into orbit in recent years.
The mission will launch the first of Satellite Vu’s seven UK built satellites into a low earth orbit. Satellite Vu has been well funded, so far raising
Onex Renewables (Onex), low-carbon subsidiary of privately led infrastructure investment group Onex Holding, has confirmed the closing of a 221MW Portuguese wind portfolio transaction.
Onex has appointed Exus Management Partners (Exus), leading experts in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence – across a 9GW global portfolio – to deliver expert support and strategic advice in the sourcing, structuring and execution of the deal, including the syndication process and financing provided by Banco Santander.
Previously owned by EDP Renewables, the portfolio consists of five wind projects and comes with an 18-year PPA attached. Announced in July 2021, the conditions precedent have been verified
Ocorian, a provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets, and regulatory and compliance services, has developed and launched Optics, a reporting and interactive dashboard tool to improve the efficiency of capital markets transactions globally.
Capital markets transactions are traditionally very complex and include many different parties, with access to transactional data often very restricted. With Ocorian Optics, clients can now break down transactions and loans per user and present the data in visual, completely customisable reports and dashboards. This gives full oversight of the transaction and the user’s individuals commitments, assets, loan and debt types in a user-friendly form.
O’Melveny has represented Earnipay, a fintech company that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners in Africa, in a USD4 million in a Series Seed Preferred Financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan.
Multi-disciplined engineering company, WHP Engineering, has secured a GBP2 million facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance to support growth, following a surge in demand as a result of the pandemic.
Gateshead-based WHP is a specialist in the supply of design and build services for cleanrooms, clean manufacturing solutions and complex process systems. Working across healthcare, life sciences and personal care cosmetics, the business has seen significant growth since it was supported by transformational private equity investor Enact in 2016.
Recent contracts include the Oxford Biomedica facility, completed in 2019, which has since been used to produce the first
Pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has agreed to sell Pumpenfabrik Wangen (Wangen), a designer and manufacturer of progressive cavity and twin-screw pumps, to Atlas Copco Group.
Completion of the transaction is subject to customary anti-trust approvals and is expected to occur in Q1 or Q2 2022.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Silverfleet acquired Pumpenfabrik Wangen in 2017, having identified the potential to further internationalise the company based on its highly attractive product portfolio and leading product innovation capabilities. Since then, Silverfleet has backed Wangen’s acquisition of the Germany-based business unit for Progressive Cavity Pumps
European mid-market private equity firm Gilde Buy Out Partners is rebranding as Rivean Capital (Rivean).
The firm’s team and strategy remain the same.
With offices in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, Rivean has taken a local-for-local approach to delivering creative growth solutions for aspiring business leaders for four decades. As one of the most established private equity firms in Europe, the team manages over EUR3 billion of assets and has completed more than 250 investments.
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