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Specialist business advisory firm FRP has reported a record 12 months during which its corporate finance and debt advisory team advised on 81 transactions with a combined enterprise value of GBP1.9 billion.
The news follows a record period of growth for the firm, which has seen its corporate finance and debt advisory team treble in size following a number of strategic acquisitions and senior appointments. The acquisition of JDC in September 2020 and Spectrum Corporate Finance in March 2021 added further expertise, sector knowledge and capability to the team. Whilst a series of senior appointments added strength and depth across
Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global investment platform leading the transition to a sustainable energy future, has launched the Elevate Future Fund (Elevate), which aims to create a more diverse founder community and inclusive venture capital ecosystem within the broader energy transition.
Elevate is targeting USD120 million in commitments and has already closed on more than half of this goal through strong support from its existing corporate investor network. Elevate has made three investments in companies led or founded by diverse talent and has a strong pipeline of additional opportunities.
The Fund will be focused on investing in companies founded
A medtech company, which has developed a new biomaterial used for 3D printing medical implants, has completed a GBP1.6 million funding round.
The investment into Nottingham-based 4D Biomaterials was led by DSW Ventures and backed by the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, Mercia’s own funds, and existing investor SFC Capital.
The funding will be used to develop a range of products through partnerships with medical device companies and expand its team with the creation of five new jobs at its premises in MediCity.
Open Road Integrated Media (OR/M), a leading marketing technology company, has acquired Bloodhound Books, an independent publisher specialising in eBooks.
Bloodhound Books has the ability to get the best fiction to market and has sold over six million books worldwide with top 10 best-sellers across the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. With this acquisition, the independent publisher will bring a unique network to the OR/M community and independent, successful authors to the partner content program, which will help fuel growth of the company.
OR/M powers a global eBook publisher network whose catalogue includes legendary authors such as William Styron, Alice
Just two weeks after its global launch, the Automotive Transformation Group has completed the acquisition of automotive industry software supplier SalesMaster.
Connecting consumers and vehicles, automotive ecommerce has thrived and accelerated in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, when many dealerships were closed around the globe. Having a strong online retail presence, from taking online deposits all the way through to fully end-to-end transactions, has become a prerequisite, along with seamless and integrated back office systems. The Automotive Transformation Group came to market earlier this month to drive such digitalisation even further, by revolutionising the entire vehicle sales process, with a
Multi-family investment office Arete has expanded with the launch of Arete Zero Carbon aimed at helping businesses to achieve net zero carbon.
Arete Zero Carbon has been formed in response to UK government’s legislation, which requires all UK businesses to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. Arete Zero Carbon will be led up by one of the UK’s leading authorities on zero carbon design, Dr Stephen Finnegan.
Finnegan has over 25 years of experience in developing low and zero carbon strategies for numerous public and private sector businesses. He joins Arete with plans to build out a new team
A new global study has found that 70 per cent of private equity firms plan to invest in LatAm in the next five years – ahead of Asia Pacific – while over nine out of ten North American-based GPs are set to commit capital to the region by 2026.
According to the report ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalizing on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, commissioned by Auxadi, 90 per cent of US-based private equity firms said they are interested in doing deals in LatAm. Auxadi provides accounting and tax services to private equity, real estate and multinationals.
The research was based
Macquarie Asset Management has held the final close of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP V) after reaching USD6.9 billion in commitments.
MIP V is Macquarie Asset Management’s sixth Americas-focused, unlisted infrastructure fund. It continues the investment strategy of the MIP platform, which spans nearly two decades of local operational expertise and long-standing sector relationships in the Americas. Consistent with previous vintages, MIP V will seek to invest in high-quality infrastructure assets and will be primarily focused on the transportation, communications, waste management, utilities and energy sectors.
“We greatly appreciate investors’ strong support for MIP V as part of our
Westbridge portfolio company APEM Ltd has completed its first acquisition since receiving investment from the private equity firm in March 2019 to support a management buyout.
Following significant investment in support functions and material organic growth over the past 18 months, APEM has created a strong platform to support its planned buy and build strategy. Its acquisition of Woodrow, an environmental and sustainability consultancy based in County Sligo, Ireland will extend its geographic reach and expand its service offering. Headquartered in Manchester, APEM employs over 200 staff in 12 locations and provides environmental consultancy to public and private sector organisations
TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform TPG Rise, has held the first close of USD5.4 billion in subscriptions to its inaugural fund.
With the fund’s first close, TPG Rise Climate is bringing together a unique blend of capital from some of the world’s largest institutional investors and over 20 leading companies to invest in the entrepreneurs and businesses building climate solutions around the world. TPG Rise Climate has set a hard cap of $7 billion in total capital commitments and expects to hold a final close in the fourth quarter of 2021.
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