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Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has added five senior professionals, increasing its specialised global offering in high-growth sectors.
The Group has reinforced its investment banking capabilities by incorporating a Real Estate & Hospitality team in Paris, and two Managing Directors in Frankfurt focused on Industrials and Technology.
Based in Paris, the new Real Estate & Hospitality sector team consists of five professionals, including three partners, each with between 15 and 20 years of experience in the sector. Working together since 2016 in the Capital Markets department of the Babylone Group, the three new
Vision Ridge Partners (Vision Ridge), an investor in sustainable real assets, has appointed Paul Luce, former Senior Investment Leader on Partners Group’s Private Infrastructure Investment Team, as a Managing Director.
A seasoned private equity investor across the sustainable real asset and infrastructure sectors, Luce will be responsible for sourcing and leading investments across key sustainable subsectors in energy and mobility. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he will report to Vision Ridge Co-Founder and Managing Partner Reuben Munger.
“We are thrilled to welcome Paul to the Vision Ridge team,” says Munger. “His significant experience and strong track record of investing across
UK law firm TLT has advised Detectortesters (No Climb Products Ltd), a specialist in the design and manufacture of fire detector testing equipment and a three-times winner of the Queen’s Award for enterprise, on its high-value buyout by Inflexion Private Equity Partners.
Independent, alternative asset investment management company, Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), has launched its second annual ESG Report.
The report highlights the progress of Pollen Street Capital against its ESG priorities and impact agenda over the last year as well as providing more detail on its approach to sustainability and future goals.
“There can be no denying the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all our lives over the past year. Amongst the many changes seen as a result of the emergence of Covid-19 is a sharpened appetite for sustainability at local, national, and global levels,” says Lindsey McMurray,
Plum Guide has secured a USD9 million cash injection in a funding round led by Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, with participation from existing investors Talis Capital, Hearst Ventures and Latitude.
The funding will accelerate Plum Guide’s rapid climb towards boasting the definitive list of the world’s best vacation homes; now with properties in over 500 destinations across 29 countries.
Building on this significant backing from leading institutional investors, Plum Guide is offering its community of hosts, guests and fans a chance to participate in this round via a crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube. The crowdfund invites those who
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in transport management software provider Mandata to Tenzing.
LDC backed Newcastle-headquartered Mandata in May 2018 to support the business’ growth strategy and build on its position as a market leading transport technology provider.
Mandata’s pioneering SaaS-based solution allows the UK’s carrier and haulage businesses to manage workflow and data more effectively, with products including traffic planning and management, tracking, telematics, and invoicing. The company employs 120 people across its offices in Newcastle, Leeds, London and Leicestershire. It supports its loyal base of 2,000 customers with compliance, improving productivity, delivering efficiency
KKR & Co has appointed Evan Spiegel as a new Independent Director, bringing the total of independent directors on the company’s Board to eleven out of fifteen seats.
Spiegel is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Snap Inc, a publicly traded camera company that believes reinventing the camera represents the greatest opportunity to improve the way that people live and communicate.
KKR’s other independent directors include Adriane Brown (Managing Partner of Flying Fish Partners), Mary Dillon (Executive Chair of Ulta Beauty, Inc), Joseph Grundfest (Stanford Law Professor and former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission), Arturo Gutiérrez (Chief
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, has agreed to acquire a majority interest in SOILCO Pty Ltd, a specialist in the organics recycling industry in Australia from its shareholders and has committed a further AUD300 million to support the platform’s growth across the country.
SOILCO has over 30 years of operational experience in waste processing from designing, building and operating facilities that help households and businesses reduce landfill use by transforming organic waste into high quality soil health products for agriculture and urban market applications such as turf, landscaping and gardening. This investment aligns well with
HIG Capital (HIG) has sold its portfolio company, Hart & Cooley (H&C) to DuraVent, a manufacturer of venting products for gas, wood, oil, pellet and fuel burning appliances.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Since 1901, H&C has provided high quality air distribution products designed to make buildings more comfortable, safe and energy efficient. The Company’s product portfolio represents many of the most recognisable and trusted brands within the industry, and includes residential and commercial products such as vents, grilles, registers and diffusers. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, H&C serves a broad base of wholesale distributors, and has
HealthCap, a European life sciences venture capital firm, has appointed Dr Mårten Steen, MD, PhD, as Co-Managing Partner alongside Founding Partner Björn Odlander.
Mårten became a Partner at HealthCap in 2010 and has been instrumental in many of HealthCap´s most successful investments including Ultragenyx and Wilson Therapeutics. He currently serves as a director of several important new biotech ventures including Hemab and Vivet. Mårten previously worked in business development at Merck Serono, and obtained his MD, PhD, and BSc degree in Business Administration from Lund University.
Kristina Ekberg has joined HealthCap as Partner and General Counsel as of September 2021.
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