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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
Generational Equity, a mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, has advised Prime Cable KC on its sale to private investor, Todd McCullough.
Prime Label KC (PLKC) was founded in 1993 to provide custom pressure sensitive labels and sheets to customers throughout the United States. Through increasing production capabilities and offerings, the Company has been able to establish itself as a local leader in the industry.
Generational Equity Executive Managing Director of M&A – Central Region, Michael Goss, and his team led by Senior M&A Advisor, Lorry Nelson, with support from Vice President, M&A Madison Buckley, successfully closed the
Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has closed a senior secured term loan commitment of USD75 million to VertexOne, a specialist in SaaS platforms for critical business processes of utilities across North America.
VertexOne is an example of a private equity-backed company utilising venture debt to help achieve its growth goals. Runway is being increasingly called upon by private equity firms to structure flexible debt solutions that enable their portfolio companies to develop their businesses.
Argonaut Private Equity has held the first closing of Argonaut Private Equity Fund V, which is targeting USD400 million in commitments, and made the fund’s first investment with the acquisition of Miller Contracting, a family-founded company providing specialty mining, industrial, and civil contracting services across the United States from its headquarters in southern Illinois.
Fund V will continue Argonaut’s disciplined investing in founder-led manufacturing and industrial businesses in Middle America where shared values brings strong relationships.
The Miller family will continue its leadership in the company post-acquisition.
BOOST&Co, an alternative lender which provides fast, flexible funding to UK SMEs, has appointed Rebecca Blaymires as a principal based in the company’s Birmingham office.
Blaymires will be joining the firm’s growing South and Midlands team, with a focus on supporting the needs of SMEs across the Midlands.
The appointment follows a period of significant growth for BOOST&Co, with the firm tripling the size of its front office in 2021 in its commitment to offer funding support to more businesses across the UK. Blaymires is the second addition to the Birmingham team, following the appointment of Matt Vincent who
The Private Equity fund of Gilde Healthcare, a specialist healthcare investor, has acquired EUROPIN, a leading international developer and manufacturer of customised pen cannulas and lancet needles for diabetic use.
Funds advised by Apax Partners are to acquire a controlling stake in Alcumus, a specialist in technology-led risk management and compliance solutions, from Inflexion.
Eco Material Technologies, a producer of sustainable cementitious materials, has acquired Boral Resources (Boral), Boral Limited’s North American fly ash business, and Green Cement Inc, a manufacturer of near-zero carbon cement alternatives.
Eco Material is a newly-formed company dedicated to decarbonising the materials industry through scalable and proven technological solutions. As part of the combination, Eco Material received significant investments from One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and historical Green Cement shareholders.
Along with these investments, the Company priced and closed USD525 million of Green Bonds to facilitate the combination
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