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Victory Hill Capital Advisors LLP (Victory Hill), manager of the cGBP250 million VH Sustainable Energy Opportunities plc fund listed on the London Stock Exchange, has appointed Eleanor Fraser-Smith as Vice President and Head of Sustainability and Jean Yeo as Vice President, Senior Finance Manager.
In addition to the new appointments, Victory Hill is also opening its newly refurbished London office located at 4 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4GA.
As Head of Sustainability, Fraser-Smith will be responsible for developing and implementing the firm’s sustainability strategy, as well as environmental, social and governance reporting and engagement.
Yeo meanwhile will assume responsibility for
Cheyne Capital has entered the French logistics sector by financing ARA Europe’s acquisition of a state-of-the-art XXL logistics platform in France.
ARA Europe was formerly InfraRed Capital Partners Real Estate.
The platform has a surface area of 117,000 sq m and will consist of 10 storage cells for standard products and two Seveso storage cells, all of which will be equipped with loading rooms, offices and social premises, allowing for a high degree of flexibility for its future tenants.
The location is in the heart of the Haut-de-France region, close to the Ile de France and the port
BGF has invested over GBP165 million in London and the South East in 2021, including 18 new investments, while continuing to provide growth capital and follow-on funding for its existing portfolio.
Maven 11 Capital, an Amsterdam-founded blockchain and crypto asset investment firm, has appointed Martijn van Veen as a partner and director for its asset management business, effective 1 January of this year.
Van Veen brings over two decades of trading and fund management experience and has held several senior roles in portfolio management and business development, including positions at hedge funds and investment boutique Dasym.
Van Veen will lead Maven 11’s development as an asset manager in digital assets with products like open-end funds, managed accounts and others.
Palatine-backed Suntera Global has enhanced its presence in the Channel Islands with the acquisition of specialist fiduciary services provider, Nedgroup Trust Limited.
Suntera says the deal strengthens its offering and extends its reach into an additional tier one jurisdiction in Guernsey.
Nedgroup Trust Limited has a 70 strong team of staff across the Channel Islands, with 50 of those based in Guernsey, a new jurisdiction for Suntera, and supports a significant international client base including a substantial proportion based in South Africa.
Currently owned by Nedbank Private Wealth Limited, Nedgroup Trust provides a full suite of fiduciary services to high-net
Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has recruited a Maritime and Offshore investment banking team within its Investment Banking division.
The new Maritime and Offshore team comprises four members, including two managing partners: George Giannakis and Nicholas Petrakakos. The team plans to further grow by adding another two members in the short term.
The team offers a unique combination of financial, technical and commercial experience in the maritime sector, consolidating both deep investment banking and strong marine engineering backgrounds within its members.
Giannakis and Petrakakos bring more than 20 years of Investment Banking and Capital
Payflow, a financial wellbeing platform that allows employees to get paid on demand, has closed an EUR8 million financing round to continue its growth in Spain and its internationalisation plans, which have already started in Chile and Colombia.
In 2022, the company plans to start operations in two additional countries and to launch at least two more products.
After closing this round, the total funding raised by Payflow to date exceeds EUR12 million, with the company having previously raised EUR2 million inn a seed round EUR2 million in a debt round.
This new fundraising attracted renowned national and international investors.
BGF invested GBP600 million, including 67 new deals, over the course of 2021, a 55 per cent increase in the total amount invested compared to 2020.
Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of the total sum invested – was with companies based outside of London and the South East, demonstrating an enduring commitment to ensuring growth capital reaches the full breadth of the UK and Ireland, a core differentiator of BGF’s approach delivered across 16 local offices.
At the same time, total investment since 2011 passed the GBP3 billion milestone as BGF celebrated its 10th anniversary with the most
ELYSIA, a decentralised project linking has raised a strategic investment (USD1 million) from FBG Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture capital firm.
The ELYSIA Foundation plans to utilise FBG Capital’s network to preoccupy the global market and accelerate technological advancement through this investment.
ELYSIA is a protocol that makes real assets into asset tokens (NFTs) to be used on-chain, and the asset tokens created in this way can be used in ELYSIA’s DeFi, ELYFI. ELYFI is the first DeFi project to utilise real assets brought on-chain through the ELYSIA protocol. Participants in the ELYFI Protocol can obtain investment
Annualised figures from October 2021 put private debt assets under management (AUM) near USD1.21 trillion for the full year, off the back of a decade of 13.5 per cent annual growth, according to the 2022 Global Private Debt Report, published by Preqin.
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