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The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group (EIB), has closed a commitment to invest EUR50 million in Overawed Renewables Europe V FCR, a Spanish-based Fund managed by Everwood Capital devoted to investing in renewable assets in Southern Europe.
Everwood Fund V will invest in developing, constructing, and operating a portfolio of new renewable projects, primarily photovoltaic assets.
Everwood Fund V is also one of the first Spanish funds to classify under Article 9 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the highest classification under the new directive. This implies that the investments under Everwood
Global venture capital firm 83North has led aa EUR14.5 million Series A funding round in Samotics, a provider of real-time actionable insights to eliminate industrial energy waste and unplanned downtime.
83North has a proven track record in building category leaders across multiple domains including Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
Isotropic Systems, a provider of multi-link satellite terminals, has appointed Nigel Fox as Chief Finance Officer, effective immediately.
Fox will lead Isotropic Systems’ finance and corporate development activities in preparation for scaling into manufacturing, operations, and global service delivery of Isotropic Systems’ ground-breaking technology.
Investors in Isotropic Systems include Boeing HorizonX Global Ventures, SES and Promus Ventures through its Luxembourg based space investment fund, Orbital Ventures, Seraphim Capital, Firmament Ventures, Space Angels and family office investors such as Waterlow Management Limited.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software specialist Cooper Software has made two senior appointments with Richard Lewis taking on the role of chair and Paul Bosson becoming a non-executive director following a multi-million pound investment backed by private equity firm YFM Equity Partners (YFM) in November 2021.
Cooper Software is an independent provider of products, consulting services and 24/7 support for ERP, helping businesses manage day-to-day functions and bringing the flow of data between these processes into a unified platform. The business has provided more than 1,500 enterprise solutions for over 300 clients worldwide.
Law firm, Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP (Katten) has appointed partner Christopher Harrison to the firm’s capital markets group in London.
Harrison joins Katten from Vedder Price where he was a partner. With over 25 years’ experience in advising financial institutions, funds, corporate and government entities on complex capital markets and leveraged finance transactions, he brings with him a client-centric approach to the most elaborate equity and debt matters.
Prior to joining Vedder Price, Harrison was a partner at some of the largest law firms in the world including Latham & Watkins, Weil Gotshal and Manges, and Morgan Lewis.
Inflexion Private Equity Partners (Inflexion) has launched a Healthcare Advisory Board to help shape its investment strategy and drive value across healthcare investments, both in the UK and internationally.
The Board is comprised of:
Mukhtar Ahmed, President of Clarivate’s Science Group and previously held senior leadership roles with Oracle and Parexel
Dee Athwal, pharma and biotech adviser for over 15 years, CEO of Complement Therapeutics and previously held senior roles at Capella Bioscience and UCB
John Beighton, Chair of Acino and Advanz and previously a board member at Zentiva and CEO of AMCo and Mercury Pharma
Jan Egberts, Chair of Viroclinics,
CVC has has appointed Jiri Zrust as Partner and Head of Infrastructure.
Jiri joins from Macquarie Group’s infrastructure funds business in London where he spent 10 years. Most recently he was a Senior Managing Director and Head of Energy Transition and was leading country coverage and origination across infrastructure and real assets in Europe. Before joining Macquarie, he worked for 17 years in the transport and logistics sector. Jiri will join in March 2022.
CVC’s Strategic Opportunities platform invests in high-quality, stable businesses with longer investment horizons. The strategy focuses on corporate private equity investments with a lower risk
Circularity Capital has continued to build its portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, with an GBP8 million investment in P2i – a global leader in liquid repellent nanotechnology products.
Founded in 2004, P2i works with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to enhance devices by making them liquid resistant, providing waterproof protection, improving their reliability and enabling them to survive liquid exposure from everyday accidents. P2i’s range of innovative coating solutions delivers up to IPX8 lifetime protection without the need for mechanical seals or gaskets.
More than 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, the P2i coating
Perseus Group SA (Perseus) has secured senior and mezzanine facilities totalling EUR93 million. The loans, from funds managed and advised by Cheyne Capital (Cheyne), will be used to finance the conversion of the Hôtel du Couvent in Nice and refinance the existing debt of the Hotel Le Pigalle in Paris.
The financing has enabled the successful exit of Platina International (Platina), Perseus’s long-term investor, which has been supporting the group since 2011. Valéry Grégo, Perseus’s founder and CEO, becomes majority shareholder.
Regnan and J O Hambro Capital Management Limited (JOHCM) have launched an offshore vehicle for the Regnan Sustainable Water and Waste Fund.
The Regnan Sustainable Water and Waste Fund will be managed by UK-based Bertrand Lecourt and Saurabh Sharma, who are pioneers in combining exposure to both water and waste-related companies. The team previously managed the Fidelity Funds – Sustainable Water & Waste Fund, which Lecourt launched in 2018.
The aim of the fund is to generate capital growth over rolling five-year periods and to pursue a sustainable objective by investing in companies which provide solutions to global water and/or
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