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Prevail Partners, an affiliate of Prevail CInfoWorks, has led a USD10 million Series A funding round in PolyPhotonix Limited, a developer of a noninvasive treatment for diabetic retinopathy.
Napier Park Global Capital (Napier Park) and Ethical Power Group (Ethical Power) have formed a joint venture, Lynher Energy, to invest in large-scale solar and battery storage assets in the UK and Europe.
Ethical Power will act as servicer to the joint venture, including the provision of services relating to development, construction, operations and maintenance, and asset management.
The partnership intends to invest in development assets to which Ethical Power can bring its extensive experience in the design, optimisation and construction of renewable energy projects to build high-quality, valuable assets.
Napier Park plans to fund the investment in the venture
Pegasus Asia, Tikehau Capital’s third sponsored SPAC globally and its first to be listed in Singapore has successfully raised SGD170 million (cEUR111.2 million) in its initial public offering.
Similar to Pegasus Europe and Pegasus Entrepreneurs launched in 2021, Pegasus Asia was launched by Tikehau Capital alongside co-sponsors Financière Agache, Jean-Pierre Mustier and Diego De Giorgi. The sponsors collectively have an extensive proprietary network and resources to search and evaluate targets.
Tikehau Capital and its co-sponsors were the only European sponsors to successfully launch two European SPACs in 2021. Pegasus Europe, which raised approximately EUR483.6 million in April, is among
BigTime Software, a provider of cloud-based software for professional services firms, has secured a USD100 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners has agreed to sell its 52 per cent stake in Trastor REIC (Trastor), a real estate investment company, to Piraeus Bank for EUR98 million. The deal will take Piraeus Bank’s total shareholding to 97 per cent.
Trastor owns a portfolio of 59 real estate assets in Greece with a gross asset value of over EUR315 million across the retail, office and logistics sectors, comprising more than 238,000 sq m of total leasable area.
Värde Partners initially bought its stake in June 2016, in a deal that formed part of Piraeus Bank’s wider restructuring
StepStone Group, a secondaries investor across private markets, has recapitalised early-stage venture capital investor Vertex Ventures Israel’s (Vertex Israel) Vertex Israel Fund IV (Fund IV).
StepStone was the sole investor in the GP-led strip sale transaction, valued at approximately USD160 million, inclusive of future commitments.
The transaction provides partial liquidity to existing Fund IV limited partners while allowing both Vertex and its fund investors to realise further upside as the portfolio’s assets mature.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has invested in Augusoft, a specialist in enrolment management for continuing and corporate education programmes.
The RMA Group of Companies (RMA), a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has merged with Western Technologies, Inc and Enviro-Drill (collectively, Western Technologies or WT).
The combined group will provide technology-enabled laboratory testing, inspection, and quality management services for critical infrastructure end-markets.
Ed Lyon, RMA’s President and CEO, will lead the newly combined business, supported by an experienced management team consisting of leaders from both RMA and WT. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a premier New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in alternative credit investments and middle-market private equity, has appointed Jamil Nathoo as a Managing Director of MidOcean Credit.
In this role, he will be responsible for expanding MidOcean’s institutional relationships and CLO platform.
Nathoo recently served as Head of Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) and Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Syndicate at Goldman Sachs, where he managed the global marketing and distribution process for CLO and ABS issuance. Based in New York, he will report to Dana Carey, Chief Investment Officer of MidOcean Credit.
Harris Williams, a global investment bank specialising in M&A advisory services, has appointed Dr Julian Feneley as Managing Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS).
Feneley brings close to 30 years of healthcare and life sciences industry experience to Harris Williams, and will lead HCLS’s European efforts, building on the firm’s expertise across the group’s key verticals, including pharma services, medical devices, and numerous healthcare provider segments.
Feneley was most recently Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Europe at Macquarie Capital (investment banking division of Macquarie Group).
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