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Global investment firm KKR has launched Stellar Renewable Power (Stellar), a new platform that will source, develop and operate utility-scale solar plants and storage facilities on behalf of KKR’s Asset-Based Finance (ABF) strategy. Stellar will source opportunities through greenfield development and acquisitions of early-stage assets from other developers.
Vijay Venkatachalam, a renewable energy expert with extensive experience developing utility-scale solar energy projects, will lead Stellar. Venkatachalam has spearheaded the development of nearly seven gigawatts of utility scale solar capacity in the United States and India, and he will be building out Stellar’s team of talented solar energy professionals over the
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Cicely Yanxia Sun as a managing director and co-head of the firm’s Beijing office.
Sun, who has more than 15 years of experience in finance and joins HarbourVest from Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), where she was Head of China Institutional Business, will be responsible for enhancing and building relationships with institutional investors in China.
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has led a strategic investment of approximately USD100 million in NZXT, a specialist in in PC gaming hardware and services.
In addition to Francisco Partners, strategic investors in NZXT also include leaders and entrepreneurs across multiple industries. This group of investors includes: Kevin Lin – Co-Founder of Twitch; Vanessa Dew – Co-Founder & CSO of Health-Ade Kombucha; Patrick Lee – Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes; James Lin – Co-Founder of CrunchyRoll; Eddie Hartman – Co-Founder of LegalZoom; James Park – Co-Founder & CEO of Fitbit, Inc; Kevin
Figure Technologies has launched a blockchain-powered solution that allows private companies to raise, manage, and trade equity on a single platform.
Figure Equity Solutions is a full-stack equity management platform that supports seamless primaries and secondaries with automatic cap table updates pre-and-post-event.
To showcase the technology, the company successfully closed a secondary offering through its SEC-registered trading platform. Shares traded bilaterally, with instant settlement and minimal counterparty risk. The transaction also leveraged USDF, a new bank-backed, digital marker that allows for real-time settlement of securities transactions on the Provenance Blockchain.
Evercore has appointed Benjamin Eldredge as a Senior Managing Director in the Industrials Advisory {practice of the firm’s Investment Banking business based in New York.
Eldredge joins from Credit Suisse, where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Basic Materials & Distribution within the Investment Banking Division, will lead Evercore’s efforts across Building Products, Distribution and Basic Materials.
Eir Ventures Partners AB, a Nordic Life Science Venture Capital manager, has held the final close of its fund Eir Ventures I AB of EUR122.3 million.
Eir Ventures I AB is the firm’s first dedicated life sciences venture capital fund which was launched in 2020 with support from a strong investor syndicate comprising the European Investment Fund (EIF), Novo Holdings, Saminvest, Vækstfonden, as well as a group of prominent Nordic universities, family offices and the founding partners of Eir Ventures.
Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, is to sell RWS Facility Services (RWS) to Quest Resource Holding Corporation (Quest), a specialist in environmental waste and recycling services.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
RWS, which was acquired by Atar Capital in September 2017, delivers hands-on managed solutions for waste management, commodity recycling and facilities services.
Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, has formed a strategic partnership with Mirador to help limited partners (LPs) including endowments, foundations, and pensions better manage their technology and operations.
Mirador offers independent reporting services, data management, and technology advisory, utilising best-of-breed third-party reporting tools to help clients identify opportunities and risks within their portfolios.
Through this partnership, Allvue’s clients will have the option to leverage Mirador’s data management and financial reporting expertise. LPs who leverage Allvue’s technology solutions can optimise their data collection and aggregation systems through Mirador’s managed service, enabling them to increase their operational efficiencies
Addleshaw Goddard is advising JP Morgan Cazenove in relation to the recommended GBP1.2 billion acquisition of Clinigen Group plc by Triton Funds.
JP Morgan Cazenove is acting as financial adviser to Triton. The AG team is led by Simon Wood and Peter Crichton, assisted by Jayne Gallagher.
Clinigen is a global pharmaceutical services and products company focused on providing ethical access to medicines. Triton is a leading European private equity investment firm with a focus on four core areas: healthcare (including pharmaceuticals), consumer, business services, and industrials.
Actis has exited its investment in Mouka Limited (Mouka), a Nigerian provider of branded mattresses and bedding products, to Dolidol for a transaction value of around USD70 million.
Dolidol, a Moroccan bedding sector specialist, will become a pan-African operator as a result of this transformational acquisition.
The investment in Mouka dates back to 2015, with a 90 per cent stake in the company being owned by the fund in partnership with the founding Moukarim family, who continued to hold a 10 per cent stake in the business and remained committed to its success
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