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Infinedi Partners (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on partnerships with founder-owned businesses, has appointed Henry Blynn as a Senior Associate.
Blynn, who will execute and manage new and existing private equity investments on behalf of Infinedi, was most recently an Associate at Harvest Partners.
Jay Hegenbart, Founder of Infinedi, says: “I am thrilled to announce the addition of Henry to the Infinedi team. He is a talented professional and a proven leader, and we were fortunate to be able to recruit him to our growing platform in this competitive market. Henry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington), a middle market private equity firm, has secured a passive, non-voting, minority equity investment by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s (GSAM) Petershill programme.
The investment follows a multi-decade relationship between Goldman Sachs and Arlington in which GSAM has been a limited partner investor in Arlington’s funds. The transaction will have no impact on the day-to-day operations or management of Arlington. The additional capital will facilitate the continued strategic growth of Arlington as it expands an existing first-class base of global limited partners, utilises its unique sector expertise to provide additional highly differentiated investment vehicles to its investors,
Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed infrastructure asset and private equity investment manager specialising in ESG-oriented strategies, saw the NAV of its three OEICs, FP Foresight UK Infrastructure Income Fund (FIIF), FP Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) and FP Foresight Sustainable Real Estate Securities Fund (REF), break through GBP1 billion in January 2021.
FIIF, launched in December 2017 which targets an annual income of 5 per cent through the active management of UK-listed renewable energy and infrastructure investment companies, recently celebrated its third anniversary, having delivered strong performance of 29.76 per cent since launch (FTSE All share 0.98 per cent)
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On-demand laundry and dry-cleaning platform Laundryheap has raised USD3.5 million as part of Series A round led by Sova VC, the firm’s second deal since launch following its investment of USD2.5 million in the Series B round of translation platform Smartcat.
Secure Trust Bank’s Commercial Finance division has provided more than GBP70 million in funding to private equity-backed businesses in 2020.
Despite the challenges faced across the sector in 2020, this figure reinforces Secure Trust Bank’s continued appetite to write new business and support existing clients. Of the GBP70 million of new facilities provided, GBP20 million related to CBILS and CLBILS support provided to existing PE-backed clients.
Key transactions across the country included a GBP7 million asset-based lending facility for Moda Furnishings, completed in October. The high-quality garden furniture provider, backed by Endless LLP, required funding to increase inventory and
The Maples Group has appointed Yuri Schuurman as Senior Vice President and head of the Netherlands office.
Licensed and regulated by the Dutch Central Bank as a trust office, the Group’s Netherlands office provides a range of fiduciary services including registered office, directorship and other corporate administration services to special purpose vehicles and Dutch holding companies.
Since establishing operations in Amsterdam in 2015, the business in the Netherlands has experienced consistent growth and now serves as a cornerstone of the firm’s wider European and global offering. The Netherlands financial sector remains favourably positioned as a result of its strong economy,
Elysian Capital, an independent Private Equity Fund investing in the UK and Ireland lower mid-market, has appointed Apex Group (Apex) to provide full ESG Ratings & Advisory services.
The Clarison Group has been formally launched, bringing together four leading companies in the façade industry, Alucraft Limited, Alucraft Systems Limited, Williaam Cox and EAG, to create a new force in the design, manufacture and installation of architectural glazing and façade systems in the UK & Ireland.
Alucraft Limited and Williaam Cox are based in Ireland and Alucraft Systems
and EAG in the UK.
The Clarison Group is majority owned by Elaghmore, a UK-based private equity fund, which acquired the Alucraft and Williaam Cox businesses in 2018 and EAG in 2019.
The combined group has over 400 employees and operates
Nordic Capital has expanded its tech and payments track record, with the highly successful IPO of Cint Group AB (publ) (Cint).
Cint, a global software leader in digital insights gathering, today announced the outcome of the initial public offering of its shares on Nasdaq Stockholm. The offering was substantially over-subscribed, attracting very strong interest from large Swedish and international institutional investors as well as the general public in Sweden. The market capitalisation of Cint, based on the IPO price of SEK72 per share, is approximately SEK9.8 billion.
In 2016, Nordic Capital invested in Cint with the ambition of creating
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