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BGF has appointed Roshni Bandesha to the role of head of ESG and Sustainability.
In her role at BGF, Bandesha will be responsible for embedding its sustainability strategy and integrating ESG within new and existing portfolio companies. She will report directly into executive chairman, Stephen Welton.
Bandesha has spent the last decade working with global organisations to harness the power of ESG and purpose. Most recently, she led the impact and ESG strategy at LeapFrog Investments, one of the largest dedicated impact investors, reaching over 170 million low-income people across 11 emerging markets.
In her role, Bandesha led
Sustainable Development Capital, SDCL, that it has now raised over USD2 billion for investment in energy efficiency, announced at Built Environment Day for COP26 in Glasgow.
SDCL manages the SDCL Energy Efficiency income Trust plc (SEIT), which is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, which has grown to over GPB1 billion equity market capitalisation. Through a combination of growth of its private equity infrastructure platform and the IPO of the SDCL EDGE Acquisition Corporation (SEDA) on the New York Stock Exchange in October, SDCL has now raised over USD2 billion for investment in energy efficient projects
The Riverside Company, a private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle-market, has appointed Allison Cole as Managing Director & Global Head, Fundraising and Investor Relations, leading Riverside’s expanding global fundraising and investor relations team.
Cole will build and cultivate Riverside’s relationships with investors and oversee the firm’s capital raising efforts.
“From our first interactions with Allison, she impressed us as a person and professional, and she’s a great cultural fit,” says Riverside Co-CEO Stewart Kohl. “We are excited about having her lead our expanding Fundraising and IR team as we grow our USD13.5 billion of assets under
Marc Shore and Dennis Kaltman have formed Max Solutions, Inc (MS), a differentiated packaging platform serving customers’ needs for quality, service, next generation innovation and sustainability.
Shore and Kaltman have a long history of success in the packaging industry, most recently at Multi Packaging Solutions and Westrock. Prior to that, Shore was the CEO of Shorewood Packaging. The funding for MS will be provided by Jefferson Capital Partners, Ltd (JCP) a private equity firm located in Richmond, Virginia. JCP recently closed Jefferson Capital Partners V LP, a fund solely dedicated to investing in MS.
Shore, Chief Executive Officer of
Content Llama, Ireland’s leading content configuration technology (CCT) platform, has secured EUR2.5 million (USD2.9 million) in fundraising to further expand its presence globally and broaden its reach to potential customers.
DLA Piper has launched a global, dedicated end-to-end Investment Management and Funds practice offering to support to the entire investment management and investment funds value chain.
Co-led by International partners, Catherine Pogorzelski and James O’Donnell and US partners, Jesse Criz and David Parrish, the global dedicated practice builds upon the firm’s already well-established investment fund and investment management capabilities in the US, Europe and Asia by offering a global “one-stop shop” to serve the legal needs of asset managers, investment fund sponsors and investors across all industry sectors, geographies, asset classes and investment strategies covering:
• The full investment fund
When venture capital investor Kate Bingham was appointed to lead the UK’s coronavirus vaccine procurement effort in May 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tasked her with delivering “speed, not perfection”.
By December that year, the UK had approved its first Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.
Since then, 80 per cent of the UK population over the age of 12 have received at least one vaccine, and the jabs are working “much better than anyone expected”.
“To get any vaccine from identification of pathogen through to a vaccine, the quickest historically has been five years, but that was 50 years ago,” says
By Andrew Millar (pictured), Corporate Partner, Shoosmiths – Private equity interest in the UK’s property sector continues to see exponential growth. McCarthy & Stone, St Modwen Properties and Sigma Capita were just a few of the UK companies acquired by private equity investors in 2021. This pool of capital continues to flood the nation’s housebuilding sector and some of the biggest players in it.
With reports indicating that Bridgepoint is putting Miller Homes up for sale for over GBP1 billion, compared to the GBP650 million it paid in 2017, it is perhaps unsurprising that private equity is increasingly recognising that UK
Pollen Street Capital has agreed a sale of Aryza Holdings Limited (Aryza) to Atlas Bidco 1 Limited – a company owned by Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, Pollen Street, and Aryza senior management.
Aryza is a global provider of case management and process automation software solutions for regulated industries serving the insolvency, credit, and debt recovery sectors.
Pollen Street first invested in Aryza (originally known as Vision Blue) in 2017. Since then, Aryza has grown rapidly in size, breadth of offering and geographical footprint, now operating from six countries across three continents. More recently, Aryza has developed a platform for M&A
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Healthcare team has advised Veramed, a specialist biostatistics and programming Contract Research Organisation (CRO) serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients across the UK, Europe and US on its partnership with Livingbridge.
Founded in 2012 by Matthew and Emma Jones and headquartered in London, Veramed provides statistical consulting, programming and study reporting, and market launch and commercialisation services to clients globally. The business has since scaled both nationally and internationally through establishing offices in multiple locations across the UK and international offices in mainland Europe, the Ukraine and the US. Alongside this, investments in new services and continuing to build
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