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Octopus Energy Group has entered into a major strategic partnership with Generation Investment Management, a firm established in 2004 to back businesses driving sustainability and the fight against climate change, in a deal that valued the UK entech pioneer at USD4 billion pre-deal, and up to USD4.6 billion post-deal.
The agreement, which has been several months in the making, will see Generation’s Long-term Equity strategy take a stake of up to approximately 13 per cent in the business. Octopus will use the proceeds of Generation’s strategic investment to turbo boost its mission to drive the renewable revolution globally.
Octopus’s technology
Morrison & Foerster, a global law firm, has released the results of its annual Tech M&A Market Survey, which show that dealmakers foresee 2022 sustaining a high level of M&A deal volume on top of record-setting activity in 2021.
The second quarter of 2021 was especially active, with USD511 billion in aggregate deal value, far outstripping pre-pandemic highs. The new Morrison & Foerster survey report, Fast Forward: How Technology M&A Is Reshaping Industry, in conjunction with Mergermarket, also shows that the top drivers for tech M&A deals over the next 12 months will be scaling up for industry competitiveness, keeping
Mercer Global Advisors, (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) majority owned by both Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Miller Advisors (Miller), a wealth management firm located in Kirkland, Washington.
Miller serves approximately 200 clients with assets under management (AUM) of approximately USD240 million. Miller was founded by Kathleen Miller, CFP, CDFA joined by her daughter Nicole Miller, CFP, CDFA, offering comprehensive wealth management services to its high-net-worth individuals, families, and their businesses, as well as planning for divorcing couples. The entire Miller team will also be joining Mercer Advisors.
Kathleen Miller (“Kathleen”), CFP®, CDFA™,
Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity investors, has invested in Venatus, a global advertising technology platform targeting video gaming and entertainment audiences.
Co-founded in 2010 by CEO Rob Gay and COO Matt Cannon, Venatus is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Seoul. The firm connects advertisers and their agencies with video gaming content and community website owners (“publishers”), giving them access to the hard-to-reach and highly valuable global gaming audience.
Venatus’s commitment to excellence has enabled it to exclusively represent direct and programmatic ad sales for over 250 core publishers – including Rovio, EA,
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a multi-million-pound investment in Marmalade Game Studio (Marmalade), a UK market leading games developer and publisher, to support the management team’s ambitious organic growth strategy and future game launches.
Marmalade is the UK’s leading developer of mobile, console and PC board games. Its catalogue includes classics such as Monopoly, Cluedo and Game of Life, licensed by gaming giants such as Hasbro, with its most recent addition, Jumanji, inspired by the feature film.
LDC’s investment will support the existing management team, led by joint CEOs Michael Willis and Cristina Mereuta, as they invest
JP Morgan Private Capital today announced the appointment of Luke Sikora as a Partner of its Growth Equity Partners platform. Sikora will serve as a member of the Investment Committee and help lead the platform’s investing efforts on the West Coast.
Based in Palo Alto, Sikora joins from Vulcan Capital where he spent the past eight years investing in and being a long-term partner to private, rapidly growing private technology companies across the globe (full bio below). His previous investments include Alibaba, Dataminr, Emotive, Flipkart, Grab, Intercom, Loft, MaintainX, Nelogica, Neon, Signal Sciences, Spotify, TraceLink, Uber, Wildlife Studios and Zuora.
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) is to sell Trace3 to affiliates of American Securities.
Trace3 is a premier provider of IT solutions and services to over 2,500 commercial and enterprise clients across the U.S. Through elite engineering talent, dynamic leadership, an in-house research team, and unparalleled venture capital connections, Trace3 stays on the leading edge of the technology innovation curve and empowers its clients with the most advanced cloud technologies, data center designs, security strategies, and business intelligence solutions in the industry. The Company is headquartered in Irvine, CA with offices across the United States.
HIG invested in the
Golding Capital Partners is driving the strategic expansion of its impact investing division and launching its first institutional impact fund of funds.
With “Golding Impact 2021” the Munich-based asset manager is pursuing a global private equity impact strategy based on environmental and social sustainability targets that are ambitious, quantifiable and integrated. The new fund will focus on companies in Europe, North America and emerging markets with transformative business models in the areas of green solutions (35 per cent), sustainable agricultural technology (35 per cent), and financial services and other sustainable sectors (30 per cent). Golding is aiming for a net
CGE Partners (CGE) has invested in Inspera, a high growth end-to-end e-assessment SaaS provider sold into universities, schools and professional awarding bodies.
CGE is partnering with Bjørn Rustberggaard (CEO) and Håkon Thaulow (CFO) to help Inspera’s international expansion. Inspera launched in the Nordics where the higher education (HE) market was an early adopter of e-assessment. This market is rapidly accelerating worldwide as countries recognise the benefits of saving teachers’ time, capturing and analysing data, and the ability to reach a wider pool of candidates. Covid-19 has contributed to the shift away from paper-based exams and schools, universities and awarding bodies
FLC Credit Partners’ private credit fund has provided a term loan and preferred equity to Goodnight Trail Resources (Goodnight Trail) to fund the purchase of its assets by existing operator RedBud E&P, Inc (RedBud).
Goodnight Trail Resources is an exploration and production company focused on producing, high cashflow conventional assets in the eastern shelf of the Midland Basin. This new financing will allow the existing operator of the assets, RedBud, to purchase the assets from their current owner to continue their low-decline production and pursue selected development opportunities that Goodnight believes are low cost and low risk.
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