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Finverity, a mid-market supply chain finance platform with a focus on emerging markets, has appointed Brett Downes as its Chief Risk Officer.
At Finverity, Downes will be in charge of overseeing the risk function, enhancing the risk management processes and contributing to the development of the platform’s risk functionality, putting his vast experience of trade and supply chain finance into action. The appointment comes at a time when growing investor interest in the attractive investment features of supply chain finance combined with Finverity’s robust and scalable processing technology platform are propelling Finverity to enter a growth phase in its development
Exus Management Partners (Exus), a specialist in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, has facilitated the financial close of the EUR500m sale of a 450MW portfolio of 11 Spanish wind farms, owned in partnership by Spanish family office Corporation Masaveu (Masaveu) and Belgian investors Korys, to Chinese clean energy developer China Three Gorges Europe (CTGE).
The deal, which was initially agreed in February 2021, see’s CTGE take ownership of 11 wind farms and one photovoltaic field across two portfolios – Cefiro and Windrose – located in the Castilla y León region of Spain.
Despite the rapid growth of renewable energy
ZEDRA has appointed Damien Fitzgerald as Head of Funds for Guernsey. In the role, he will lead the firm’s fund solutions offering and will be supported by the recently appointed Head of Fund Operations, John Donnelly, an industry veteran with considerable experience in client service management, financial reporting and fund accounting.
Fitzgerald has accumulated a wealth of knowledge with 23 years of fund administration, corporate governance, accounting and audit experience, including 17 years in Guernsey’s financial services industry. Prior to joining ZEDRA, he was Head of Funds at another renowned fund services administrator in Guernsey, leading a team of 70
VIVA Investment Partners AG (VIP), a multi-manager investment platform headquartered in Zurich with offices in Athens and London, and AnD Ventures Fund LP (AnD), an Israeli venture capital fund based in Herzliya, have created a partnership to scale AnD’s new model of venture capital harnessing their networks and expertise, and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Private equity firm OpenGate Capital’s portfolio company, Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems (Kongsberg PCS) has acquired MultiCam, a US manufacturer and distributor of Computer Numerical Code (CNC) cutting machines, and a leader in digital finishing processes.
MultiCam was acquired from Rosewood Private Investments. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
The acquisition of MultiCam highlights OpenGate Capital’s strategy of pursuing add-on investments as means of growing and creating meaningful value in its portfolio companies. MultiCam is the seventh add-on investment completed for platform companies within OpenGate’s Fund II portfolio.
Kongsberg PCS is recognised as the leading provider of high-speed, precision
LeapFrog Investments, a Profit with Purpose investment firm, has acquired a 16.94 per cent stake in Ghana’s largest privately-owned bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited from Amethis, an investment fund manager dedicated to the African continent, and Edmond de Rothschild Equity Strategies (ERES), a mid-cap growth and buy-out franchise affiliated with the Edmond de Rothschild Group, with a global investment mandate.
It is expected that LeapFrog will leverage on its decade of investment experience across Africa’s financial services sector to build upon the outstanding success achieved by Fidelity Bank in financial inclusion and general business growth.
Following the investment from Amethis
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III and ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund, has invested approximately USD200 million as a first tranche of a USD300 million equity raise in AG&P City Gas.
AG&P City Gas is a Singapore-based company that is developing twelve city gas distribution networks, or concessions, in India under the brand name AG&P Pratham, across 280,000 square kilometers, an area approximately the size of Italy. AG&P City Gas was previously owned wholly by the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Group (AG&P), a Singapore-based downstream LNG business.
In its twelve concessions, AG&P City Gas is responsible
Lord Wei of Shoreditch has joined the Board of Fortunis Capital as a Non-Executive Director.
Wei’s background makes him the ideal partner both to promote the Fortunis mission and development, attracting the best technology and innovation from around the world and developing it here in the United Kingdom, whilst at the same time reinforcing his own strong positive social change agenda.
Wei started as a McKinsey & Company consultant specialising in technology with a subsequent shift towards venture capital and social enterprise as a catalyst for influential positive change. Most recently, his focus has been primarily concerned with
Dentotal, a Romanian dental distributor, backed by the Central European private equity investor Abris Capital Partners (Abris), is to acquire Dentatechnica, a dental distributor in Bulgaria.
The agreement is conditional upon securing clearance from the relevant antitrust authorities.
Founded in 1991, Dentatechnica is the largest distributor of materials and digital equipment for the dental care market in Bulgaria, providing a comprehensive selection of high-quality products. The company has a strong track record for technological innovation in the Bulgarian dental market, delivering its products to more than 3,000 dental clinics and laboratories across the country.
“At Abris we remain committed
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