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SANNE has appointed San-Marie Greeff as Head of Sanne Group (Luxembourg) . and Christian Hertz as Head of LIS – a SANNE company. The appointments follow consistent growth as interest has continued to increase around the attractiveness of doing business in Luxembourg.
Effective 1 January 2020, San-Marie and Christian will be responsible for the strategic direction, management and delivery of the SANNE and LIS-AIFM Luxembourg business with specific focus on the on-going development of SANNE’s offering to ensure that clients receive superior service excellence and technical expertise.
San-Marie and Christian will lead the operations in the Luxembourg business which
Paris-based private equity investor Omnes has acquired a minority shareholding interest in Danish solar PV provider Better Energy for EUR30 million. This deal marks the first investment of Omnes’s fourth-generation fund dedicated to renewable energy, Capenergie 4, currently being raised. Omnes has announced on this occasion the first closing of Capenergie 4 at EUR380 million (EUR500 million in target size).
Omnes received strong support from its existing investor base as well as from new French and international institutional investors. The European Investment Bank is supporting Capenergie 4 as a cornerstone investor with a EUR75 million commitment, up from EUR45 million
TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired the Automated System Management (ASM) product platform and related products (Industrial Defender) from Capgemini America, Inc. Industrial Defender provides cybersecurity and compliance software solutions for critical infrastructure providers globally. The software offers a management platform purpose-built to address the overlapping requirements of cybersecurity, compliance and change management for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Industrial Defender serves Fortune 500 clients across the utility, oil & gas and chemical processing verticals. TELEO’s investment will support continued product innovation and expansion of global brand awareness.
“The market for operational technology cybersecurity is rapidly expanding and Industrial Defender, with
The Kempen Global Impact Pool has broken the EUR100 million barrier in assets under management. Launched in January 2018, the pool invests exclusively in funds that make a positive contribution to society and climate and in doing so aims to earn a financial return in line with the market. Kempen launched the Global Impact Pool in 2018 to introduce impact investing to its clients. The pool invests in high impact funds that aim to make a positive contribution around four themes: affordable and good healthcare, reliable financial services, a more sustainable food chain and affordable and clean energy in countries that
Bloc Ventures Limited (Bloc), a venture capital company focussed on early stage European deep technology investment, has raised over GBP20 million in equity funding from UK industry leaders. The latest funding round was led by Michael Spencer’s investment company IPGL Limited and supported by a number of other industry leaders including Warren East, Christopher (Jock) Miller, Gavyn Davies, Stuart Roden, and Stephen Catlin, who also serves as a non- executive director on the Bloc Board. As part of the round, Samantha (Sam) Wren, CEO of IPGL, also joins as a non-executive director.
Bloc was founded by CEO Bruce Beckloff, CTO David
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed Joe Greenwell as Associate Director of Business Development.Based in the Group’s London office, Greenwell will be responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities in both the real assets and private debt sectors. In this position, he will work closely with client-facing teams and product specialists across the Group, playing a central role in determining strategy and commercial focus in these sectors.
Greenwell joins the Aztec Group with more than 10 years’ experience supporting private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private equity clients. He is a Fellow of the Association
Duff & Phelps has acquired Lucid Issuer Services, Lucid Agency and Trustee Services Limited and Fluyd (Lucid Companies), European providers of securities solicitation and loan and bond services solutions. The deal builds on Duff & Phelps’ business services offering following the firm’s 2019 acquisition of Prime Clerk.
“This transaction further expands Prime Clerk’s securities solicitation global presence, with the addition of Lucid Issuer Services, Europe’s leading restructuring and liability management agency platform,” says Shai Y Waisman, Head of Business Services at Duff & Phelps and CEO of Prime Clerk. “It also enhances our service offerings with Lucid Agency and Trustee Services,
After a decade of investor caution towards Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), is the recent switch to net labour inflows to the region heralding a newborn appetite from international LPs
While CEE fundraising levels are still far from the levels seen before 2008, a fresh study by CMS shows that private equity investments reached a record high of 318 deals in emerging Europe in 2019, accounting for 16 per cent of all deal-making there.
Private equity firm Ironwood Capital has appointed Patrick Patrell as an analyst. Patrell, who will be working on the firm’s Connecticut-focused investment activities is ,responsible for reviewing new investment opportunities, conducting research, performing financial modelling and due diligence, and ongoing portfolio management.
Carolyn Galiette, president and chief investment officer at Ironwood Capital, says: “Prior to joining Ironwood as an analyst, Patrick served as an intern with both Cigna Investment Management and Ironwood. We are pleased that his internship with us has turned out so well for Patrick and for the firm.”
Patrell, who graduated from the University of Connecticut in May 2019 with
Whittard joined the firm as Investment Director from BGF plc in September 2017. Since then, he has been responsible for the AJ Mobility investment in 2018 and the Aptus Utilities transaction in December 2019.He also joins the firm’s investment committee.
Founding partner Guy Davies says: “Tim joined WestBridge as we were approaching the first close of WestBridge II. Since his arrival, he has confirmed his strong origination skills and investment judgment. He is making a significant contribution to the DNA of our business and is a welcome addition to the partner group as we continue to develop over the next decade.”
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