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Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has appointed longtime Managing Director Paul Yett to the role of Director of ESG & Sustainability.
Hamilton Lane has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to ESG, sustainability and responsible investing, and Yett will focus on expanding and formally spearheading the firm’s ESG integration strategy going forward.
His responsibilities will include managing ESG integration throughout the investment processes across the Fund, Direct Investment, Secondary, Real Asset and Direct Credit teams; driving ESG policy development and advising deal teams during due diligence; supporting clients, government entities and other stakeholders in regards to ESG and sustainability
BMS Group, an independent specialist (re)insurance broker, has appointed Jason Stone as Managing Director, BMS Canada Private Equity, M&A division, effective immediately.
Stone will report to Brian Gomes, President & CEO of BMS Canada, and will be based in Toronto.
Stone will lead the Canadian Private Equity and M&A team and focus on expanding BMS’s global private equity and M&A platform and will sit on the BMS Global PEMAT Executive Committee.
Stone joins BMS from Aon, where he most recently served as senior vice president at the M&A and Transaction Solutions team, specialising in placements of transaction liability
Alantra has expanded its Investment Banking team with the addition of César Ciriza as Managing Partner and will head of its infrastructure and energy activity.
Ciriza is a renowned banker specialising in infrastructure and energy transactions and brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to the role. Before launching his own investment boutique in 2019, Ciriza founded and led Evercore’s Iberian operations for seven years as Managing Director. He has successfully advised on transactions worth over EUR150 billion including M&A, sales, acquisitions, restructurings, IPOs, debt issuances and debt and equity advisory.
Alantra has advised on infrastructure and energy transactions
On Thursday 5 and 12 November, 2020, Playfair Capital and 70 of the UKs’ leading venture capital funds, including Seedcamp, Balderton, Notion and Passion Capital, will be holding a remote office hours event, giving female founders, from anywhere in the UK, the opportunity to meet four investors during the course of one hour to discuss their tech business idea, ask for advice, pitch for investment and find a mentor.
The event is being held jointly by Playfair Capital and Tech Nation as part of an ongoing commitment to hold three events a year specifically for female founders. The previous three
Finance Durham Fund, which was established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, has invested GBP250,000 in Power Roll, a developer of ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage.
The investment through Finance Durham, which is managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven), will support construction of a solar film pilot plant in County Durham, further improve the efficiency of Power Roll’s solar film technology and help commercialise its capacitor technology with its joint venture partner.
Headquartered in Sunderland, Power Roll has developed a unique, flexible, lightweight solar film capable of producing ultra-low-cost green electricity
Fircroft Group, a technical recruitment business backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has integrated with NES Global Talent (NES) to create a combined global human capital solutions organisation.
NES is a specialist in workforce solutions, providing staffing across the oil and gas, power, renewables, chemicals, life sciences and mining sectors worldwide. The firm has grown significantly in the last five years, both organically and through seven strategic acquisitions. It currently has over 66 offices in 33 countries, with more than 1,000 employees.
Warrington-based Fircroft was founded in 1970 to service oil and gas companies in the North Sea and
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on European dealmaking activity. However, opportunities remain for those willing to take risks, according to the eighth edition of the European M&A Outlook, published by CMS in association with Mergermarket.
The report is a comprehensive assessment of dealmaking sentiment in the European M&A market. It canvasses the opinions of 230 senior Europe-based executives, from corporate and private equity firms, about their expectations for M&A in the year ahead.
According to Mergermarket data, in H1 2020, European deal volume fell 31 per cent to 2,800 transactions and aggregate value dropped by 29 per
Hg, a European investor in software and tech-enabled services businesses, has made an investment in The Citation Group (Citation), a provider of tech-enabled, subscription-based HR and Employment law, Health & Safety, and ISO services to SMEs.
Citation provides tech-enabled compliance and quality related subscription services to over 40,000 SMEs across the UK. Citation helps these SMEs to comply with relevant regulations and ensure certain levels of quality and standards are met, in areas such as Health & Safety, HR/Employment Law, ISO and industry specific rules and standards by providing a combination of expert advice, software tools and audits/assessments, mostly on
Hunter Street Partners (Hunter Street), a Minneapolis-based alternative investment management firm, has launched a scalable platform to invest in equipment rental companies.
Hunter Street has acquired All-Star Equipment Rental of Naples (All-Star), a single-site operator based in Southwest Florida, and will work closely with the company’s management team to evaluate other opportunities for expansion in the region.
All-Star rents, sells, and services equipment including but not limited to forklifts, boom lifts, mini-excavators, skid steers, scissor lifts, and an extensive offering of small equipment. All-Star serves a range of commercial end-markets including construction, renovation, landscaping, energy, milling, and agriculture companies in
VNX Exchange, a Luxembourg-based digital asset investment platform, has completed the first VC deal in Europe utilising blockchain tech.
The deal sees the issue of EUR1.1 million of asset-backed tokens linked to the investment into Streami Inc, a South Korean blockchain company.
Issued on the Ethereum blockchain ERC-20, the asset-backed tokens represent claims on the future cash flow from the investment.
“This digital solution was very useful for fundraising when faced with the new reality brought by the pandemic, lockdown and travel bans,” said Junhaeng Lee, co-founder and CEO of Streami.
Streami is a parent company to a South Korean
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