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Capital Law has appointed partner James Butters to its Banking & Finance team.
Butters, who joins after over 20 years at Clifford Chance, where he was a partner in the firm’s London and Paris offices. He has acted for major corporates, private equity investors, and international financial institutions on all types of transactions, and brings a depth of expertise across finance, structured and corporate debt — in particular M&A financing and private equity sponsor-led leveraged buy-outs; all with significant emphasis on cross-border transactions.
Butters’ new role will support the growth of the business as Capital continues to enhance its reputation
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership (Border to Coast), one of the largest public sector pension pools in the UK with total assets of cGBP55 billion, has raised an additional GBP2.7 billion of commitments for its Private Markets investment programme as it continues to deliver new investment opportunities for its local government Partner Funds.
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Actis has promoted Abhishek Bansal and Nicolas Escallon, both Directors in its Energy Infrastructure team, to its Partnership.
Bansal joined Actis in 2012 from the International Finance Corporation and has played a key role in establishing Actis as a leading energy investor in India, providing leadership on sustainability. Abhishek was instrumental in setting up Actis’ first renewable energy business in India, Ostro Energy which was sold in 2018 as the largest renewables deal in India till date. He has played a key role in establishing subsequent renewable energy businesses in India including Sprng energy which is targeting 2GW of capacity.
Ikigai, a UK fintech company which combines digital banking with wealth management, has received pre-seed funding of GBP4.1 million through an oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign.
By Kyle Burrell, US FSO Assurance Partner, Ernst & Young LLP – Over the years, private equity fund managers have bolstered their firms’ reputations as the asset class of choice for investors, building strong value for their portfolio companies and fuelling job growth across a wide swath of industries.
VAM Funds (VAM), a Luxembourg SICAV fund management company, has partnered with Foresight Capital Management to launch the VAM Global Infrastructure Fund (GIF).
FCM brings a strong track record in investment management, having generated consistent outperformance for Foresight’s Global Real Infrastructure Fund, which reached a Net Asset Value of GBP500 million within two years of launch.
The fund’s investment strategy will focus on globally-listed asset-owning infrastructure and renewables businesses, tapping into the growth potential and attractive risk-adjusted returns available to investors.
The new Fund complements VAM’s range of funds ranging from single strategy to discretionary funds. GIF will be distributed
Tactus Group, a specialist in the development of consumer technology products, has expanded into the US market with an investment into pi-top, a coding and robotics firm that specialises in improving digital skills in education.
The investment will strengthen Tactus Group’s capabilities in coding and robotics, and bolster its offering in the education sector, following success on previous projects with the UK’s Department for Education. The deal will also enable pi-top to tap into Tactus’ supply chain expertise, providing greater access to markets including China and the UK.
Founded in 2014, pi-top is one of the fastest-growing ed-tech
Investment vehicle Pario Ventures based in Brussels, London and New York has launched a new product designed to open up exit opportunities for companies and investors.
The new product called endInSight is focused on companies that have been trading a number of years and have a solid foundation but the shareholders and founders may be looking for exit routes.
David Murray-Hundley, co-founder of Pario Ventures, says: “Everyone assumes sometimes that companies have to be SEIS/EIS in order to be interesting. The reality is that there are far more companies out there that have traded for 10,20 years and due to
A company which has designed a software platform that helps businesses optimise online recruitment has raised GBP630,000 to support its growth plans.
Smart Recruit Online secured the funding from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), and private investors.
Smart Recruit’s system combines the latest technologies with insights from behavioural science and tried and tested recruitment processes. It enables companies to address the problem of how to attract the best talent online quickly and at low costs.
The funding will allow the
Luminate Capital Partners has closed Luminate Capital Partners III, LP with USD1 billion of committed capital from a broad group of global institutional investors.
The oversubscribed fund closed at its hard cap and above its USD700 million target, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to USD1.7 billion.
Since inception, Luminate has built a portfolio of 13 market-leading enterprise software companies, most recently adding Axonify, the leader in frontline employee training software. The firm has completed a number of exits and recapitalisations in the past year, including the recapitalisation of Oversight Systems with TCV, the recapitalisation of StarCompliance
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