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Legal firm Orrick has appointed French M&A and private equity advisor Olivier Jouffroy as a partner, based in Paris. Jouffroy joins Orrick from Clifford Chance.“Olivier is an up-and-coming M&A talent. His practice and experience are an excellent match for our focus in Paris and globally on serving the tech and innovation, energy and infrastructure, and finance sectors,” says Patrick Tardivy, co-head of Orrick’s Paris office.
Jouffroy advises on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions in the energy, infrastructure, finance, and real estate sectors. He acts for listed companies and financial institutions on both public and private M&A matters, corporate reorganisations and
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has made an investment in Genespire, a Milan-based gene-therapy company developing best-in-class therapies for patients affected by genetic diseases. This is the third investment for the Sofinnova Telethon Fund, bringing the total financing of Italian startups by Sofinnova Partners to EUR25 million over the past six months. The Sofinnova Telethon Fund is the largest fund in Italy dedicated to biotechnologies, making early-stage investments in Italian companies targeting cures for rare and genetic diseases.
Genespire was spearheaded by the renowned gene therapy pioneer Professor Luigi Naldini. This
YFM Equity Partners-advised funds have sold their shareholding in GroupBC to Bentley Systems Incorporated, a global provider of software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, generating a return well in excess of three-tims its original investment.GroupBC is a leading provider of enterprise-scale information management systems for construction-related projects and asset owners. Its UK-hosted Common Data Environment makes it easy for teams to collaborate, manage and share documents and data from a central, secure cloud-based platform.
YFM has been supporting the transformational growth of UK SMEs since 1982. GroupBC was backed by British Smaller
ZEDRA Fund Services has won a new mandate to provide comprehensive fund administration and corporate governance services to IG4 Capital’s latest USD231.5 million blind-pool Private Equity II Fund, which will focus on special opportunities in Latin America. Ryan Taylor, director of ZEDRA Fund Services, explains: “We have proven and significant experience in the small and mid-tier alternative funds administration sector, where we can bring our particular skills and experience to bear for the benefit of our clients. As well as all the traditional threshold services expected, this would include benefiting from our experience in value-added areas such as fund governance, meeting
Holland Capital has sold its portfolio company Inno4Life, a manufacturer of machines for the pharmaceutical industry, to Dec Group, a Swiss powder handling and process containment equipment provider.
Inno4Life’s management will remain actively involved in the company after its acquisition, which will continue to operate under its own name following the deal.
Inno4Life is a manufacturer of complex filling and packaging machines for the pharmaceutical industry. The company delivers tailor-made solutions to its customers, which include large pharmaceutical companies.
Inno4Life searched for a strong partner to team up with in order to enable further international growth, and found this partner
When it comes to investing in Latin America’s private markets, Brazil leads the way, accounting for 58 per cent of all Private Equity and Venture Capital investment in 2019, according to the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA).
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
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