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Vauban Infrastructure Partners (Vauban), an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has acquired a majority stake in Progeni, a special purpose vehicle that manages the concession contract for the provision of non-medical services for the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy. The sellers were mostly composed of Italian industrial players (CMB, Gemmo, Coopservice, CIRFOOD, BPER Banca, Servizi Italia and CCC).
The project is regulated by a concession agreement signed in 2006 between Progeni and ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda. The project consists of the initial redevelopment of the hospital and the management of follow-on services during the operating phase. The construction
London-based investment firm, Twenty20 Capital, has appointed a new partner to strengthen its growing team.
Katie Folwell-Davies joins Twenty20 Capital as Investment Partner to drive forward investment strategy and operational leadership. Folwell-Davies joins from Deloitte LLP where she led the firm’s Human Capital Services M&A practice in London for 20 years. During her tenure at Deloitte, Katie developed a long-standing and trusted relationship with the founders of Twenty20 Capital advising on several of the investment firm’s transactions.
Folwell-Davies says: “I’m delighted to be joining Twenty20 Capital. This is an amazing opportunity to join such an ambitious team at such
NVM Private Equity (NVM) has sold its stake in Agilitas IT Solutions Limited (Agilitas) to international private equity investor Perwyn, providing NVM funds with an 8.4x return.
The International Accounting Standards Board (Board) has launched a public consultation on possible new accounting requirements for mergers and acquisitions involving companies within the same group – business combinations under common control.
IFRS 3 Business Combinations set outs reporting requirements for mergers and acquisitions—referred to as business combinations in IFRS Standards. However, that Standard does not specify how to report transactions that involve transfers of businesses between companies within the same group. Such transactions are common in many countries around the world.
As a result of this gap in IFRS Standards, companies report similar business combinations in different ways. In some
FreeFlow Technologies (FFT), the developers of what is claims is the world’s lightest power to weight e-Bike motor, has secured GBP1.85 million from a heavily over-subscribed funding round.
The new investment will support a move to a new headquarters and R&D facility in East Kilbride and further strengthen the team with senior technical positions and assembly engineers recruited.
FFT’s “novel” patented e-Bike transmission system is more lightweight, compact and provides a higher power density than other products, with the motor and battery easily assembled into the bicycle frame rather than an oversized attachment as is common with current electric
Ekimetrics, a European specialist in data science solutions, has secured fresh investment from two minority shareholders: Tikehau Capital – via its growth capital fund, which was recently awarded the “Relance” label – and Bpifrance – via its MidCap fund.
The founders of Ekimetrics, who will retain a controlling stake, hope to invest the combined total of EUR24 million in fuelling the company’s international growth, enhancing its technological assets, and setting a new standard for the sector worldwide.
Ekimetrics provides industrialised corporate data science solutions to meet its clients’ most pressing business needs. Specifically, it uses data to maximise companies’ return on
Cinven, an international private equity firm, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, are to acquire Compre, a specialist global consolidator of closed books of non-life insurance policies, from CBPE Capital LLP.
Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Compre is focused on the acquisition and management of discontinued (also known as run-off) non-life insurance portfolios and has operations in the UK, Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta and Switzerland. The global non-life insurance run-off market is growing steadily, driven by insurers’ increasing focus on balance sheet optimisation, capital efficiency and disposals of non-core
By Gregory Bowes, co-founder and managing principal and Irene Rivera Calderón, associate at Albright Capital – Thoughtful investors will want to pursue investment strategies that can potentially achieve the equivalent to baseball’s rare “triple play,” ie, (i) attractive risk-adjusted returns, (ii) portfolio diversification benefits, and (iii) positive social impact. Providing restructuring support and/or private credit to EM companies suffering from macro events outside of their control may be such a strategy.
Experienced investors understand that major credit dislocations offer the prospect of attractive returns and positive portfolio diversification benefits, as was the case with the Latin American Debt Crisis of
Innovative investment technology platform Vauban, which has seen over 120 digital Funds launched on its platform, has raised GBP1.6 million in Seed funding from leading tech investors.
Europe’s most active proptech VC company, Pi Labs, is joined by Kima Ventures, Westloop Ventures, Argonautic Ventures and UFP Fintech, as Vauban leads the digitisation of the fund management industry.
Founded in 2018, the scaling business, which has over GBP200 million managed through its platform, is set to launch a real estate product in 2021, in addition to its current digital Funds focusing on investment from venture capital funds, hedge funds and SPV’s.
Newable Ventures and Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) have secured GBP10 million in new funding from British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, to fund early stage businesses across the UK.
The GBP10 million commitment from British Business Investments’ Regional Angels Programme will be invested by Newable Ventures, in partnership with BPEC, to deliver around GBP25 million of new funding. The commitment will be split between Newable’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund, which supports a diversified UK-wide portfolio of knowledge intensive businesses, and a separate pool to back entrepreneurs and businesses specifically across the South West.
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