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Alpha Real Capital (Alpha), a specialist manager of secure income real assets, has closed its largest solar transaction to date with the acquisition of Innova Energy, a GBP86 million multi-asset operating portfolio.
Précis Capital Partners (Précis Capital), a real estate development lending platform, has entered into a funding partnership with the Global Credit segment of investment firm Carlyle.
The partnership between Précis Capital and Carlyle will finance development loans in the residential asset class, where the acute long-term structural undersupply within the UK’s housing market continues to present compelling investment opportunities, and has already completed its first two loans, with a cumulative value of over GBP330 million.
Précis Capital, with funds and accounts managed by Carlyle’s Global Credit Segment and funds managed by global alternative asset manager Apollo Global Management (Apollo),
Funds advised by Marathon Asset Management are to acquire Kaléo, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Richmond, Virginia.
The total base purchase price is approximately USD310 million in cash, less certain adjustments, and includes potential net revenue-based milestone payments of up to approximately USD70 million in cash for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, in a transaction that will provide liquidity for Kaléo shareholders upon closing. This new ownership structure will accelerate Kaléo’s growth serving patients at risk for anaphylaxis and other serious and life-threatening conditions.
An industry leader in human factors engineering and drug-device combination product development
Hanover Investors has appointed Brett Lankester, the former Chief Executive of UBP London, as a Senior Partner.
Lankester is spearheading the development of the firm’s capital raising and investor relations capabilities. Along with Matthew Peacock, the Founder and Chairman of the specialist investor, and with other Senior Partners, he will also be involved in developing the strategic direction of the firm which operates in under-analysed and illiquid markets.
Lankester is a senior figure in the sector; he was UBP’s London Chief Executive for three years following the Swiss private bank’s acquisition of ACPI Investment Managers, which he co-founded in 2007.
Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, is to develop a coherent standard for how private equity and venture capital firms should report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues – bringing harmonisation and transparency to essential ESG reporting for investors and regulators.
The new reporting standard will be developed and established by summer 2022, and will enable private equity firms to navigate and comply with the rising demands for action and openness on their ESG activities.
In 2021, a wide range of new ESG-related regulatory reporting requirements were
Africa-focused private investment firm Helios Investment Partners (Helios) has secured an ESG-linked capital call facility for Helios Investors IV, LP (Helios IV).
Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Chartered Bank acted as Arrangers and Sustainability Coordinators.
The interest rate of the Helios IV capital call facility is pegged to ESG performance targets, set by lenders Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. Individual ESG ratings of the Fund’s portfolio companies will be determined by independent ratings agency.
Helios will continue its longstanding practice of working closely with its portfolio companies to improve their ESG performance and capabilities on an ongoing basis,
Eleven Ventures, a Bulgarian venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investing in South Eastern Europe (SEE), has held the final closing of ‘Eleven Fund III’ at EUR60 million.
The firm’s latest fund is 10-times the size of its previous 2018 fund.
Some 80 per cent of the new fund’s backers are repeat investors, including EIF; and the funds LP-base includes over 60 individuals who bring a wealth of experience to the table, including deep global networks and decades of entrepreneurial experience. These experts are not ‘passive’ LPs either, with many offering follow-on funding, mentoring, support, and network-access to
Private equity firm Montagu has completed its investment in Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk, and compliance services to the asset management industry, while Hg, a global software and services investor, is also joining as a strategic investor and joint shareholder in the firm.
Montagu first announced its investment in Waystone in July 2021. Hg’s investment is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
Founded in 2000 and based in Dublin, Waystone serves clients with assets under management totalling more than USD1 trillion, delivering the tools and expertise to manage their governance and regulatory requirements, enabling them to
Sustainable growth equity fund Revaia has promoted Morgan Kessous as Partner.
Kessous joined Revaia in 2018 and has since played a key role in the fund’s growth, both in terms of investment strategy, sourcing and monitoring of portfolio companies, as well as in recruiting new team members in Paris and Berlin.
Kessous had previously joined Revaia’s Executive Committee, made up of the fund’s co-founders, Alice Albizzati and Elina Berrebi, and COO Bettina Denis.
Gulf Capital portfolio company, Cedar White Bradley (CWB) Legal Limited, has opened its new headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
The company was awarded a licence by Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM) to operate from one of the most attractive, accessible, and innovative International Financial Centres. CWB Legal is one of the largest intellectual property legal consultancy firms in the region, with footprint in 22 countries.
CWB is a specialist in Intellectual Property services.
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