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Foresight Group has secured co-investment from a syndicate of four institutions investing alongside Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners to finance a greenfield onshore wind project in Sweden.
Distributed solutions specialist Applied Blockchain has completed a GBP2 million funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital firm QBN Capital. The newly-injected funds will be invested in developing a platform using privacy enhancing technologies to help companies to collaborate and generate meaningful outcomes together, without having to share any of their data.
Companies face increasing cybersecurity risks and regulatory requirements in regards to their data, and these are further exacerbated as data leaves an organisation and is shared with others. Recent events mean that businesses are going to become even more digital, and this means that companies will have
Aurelius Equity Opportunities, a pan-European mid-market investor, has hired three new team members to its growing investment team in London. James Sharp joins as principal, and Kayan Kanga and Prakash Rajani as investment associates, bringing the total investment team in London to 10.
All three new hires will work with UK managing director Tristan Nagler, and an investment team that has undertaken a number of Aurelius’ recent equity investments. Since its inception in 2014, the Aurelius UK investment team has grown year-on-year and this continued expansion demonstrates that the UK remains a key market for the firm.
Sharp, who joins Aurelius
Albion Capital has refinanced Albion Community Power, a GBP105 million renewable energy portfolio, by raising GBP57 million of debt across the portfolio of onshore wind, hydro, solar and battery projects.The successful refinancing demonstrated Albion’s ability to raise, deploy and return institutional funds within a five year period. The portfolio of FIT and ROC wind, hydro, rooftop solar and battery storage projects delivered unlevered returns of 15-20 per cent for shareholders; more than 30 per cent above the target returns.
The refinancing required raising long-term, non-recourse, institutional, RPI-linked debt from funds managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments. The debt was secured
New McKinsey research has shown private equity operating groups are playing a vital role in responding to the challenges created by Covid-19.Operating groups are employed by private equity firms to provide strategic direction and support to portfolio companies.
For PE firms, which often own businesses in multiple industries and geographies, the pandemic has meant there are complex decisions to be made, as they strive to safeguard employees, customers, and their companies.
Over April, McKinsey interviewed 12 heads of portfolio company operating groups at leading private equity firms and institutional investors across Asia, Europe, and North America. The picture that emerges
YFM Equity Partners has hired David Wrench as an investment director, as it continues to expand its investment team.Wrench is joining the team to invest in growth capital and buyout opportunities, and his appointment follows the recent raising of a new GBP80 million YFM buyout fund, the investment to support the buyout of Worcestershire-based Innovative Safety Systems, and the recent trade sale of Business Collaborator in Reading.
Wrench joins YFM from BDO, where he was managing director in the firm’s Reading office and focused on advising growing businesses in the UK lower mid-market. He led various transactions whilst at BDO
Taxfix, a digital tax app aimed at simplifying the process of filing a tax return, has raised USD65 million in a Series C round from investors including Index Ventures and Creandum.
The company will use the funds to grow its 200-strong team by another 100 people, as it broadens its range of products and expands into new countries later this year, including its operations in Europe.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with partner Neil Rimer joining the Taxfix board. Existing investors Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participated in the round.
Taxfix was founded in 2016 in Berlin by Mathis Büchi
Fortino Capital Partners has held a first close on EUR45 million for the successor of its first VC-fund, Fortino Capital Venture II.
The fund, which will be focussing on early stage European software and tech companies with a regional bias to the Benelux, has a target size of EUR80 million. Including this fund Fortino Capital Partners now has three funds in its portfolio.
“We are living through uncertain and tough times and as an investment company we would like to, more than ever, send out a sign of hope and trust to young entrepreneurs. With our new fund we would
SANNE has announced three new senior appointments, including the promotion of Jason Bingham from Managing Director of Product Development to Chief Strategy Officer.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Legal & General Capital (LGC) announces that it has taken a 36 per cent stake in The Kensa Group, one of the UK’s largest players in the ground source heat pump technology sector, as it scales up its investments in addressing decarbonisation. Complementing Legal & General’s existing clean energy investment portfolio, which now includes low carbon heat, transport and power generation, the deal follows Legal & General’s increased stake in Pod Point, one of the UK’s largest electric vehicle charging companies, alongside EDF. Investing in sub-scale industries that it can use its platform to grow rapidly in the post-crisis period, the
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