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Glennmont Partners has successfully raised EUR850 million at the final close of its Third Fund investing in clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe significantly in excess of the fund’s original EUR600 million target.
Based in London, Glennmont focuses exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure with assets of over EUR2 billion currently under management. Glennmont has experienced robust growth over the past 6 years and is planning new products for investors seeking sustainable solutions.
Over 70 per cent of Clean Energy Fund III will be invested in projects in the Eurozone with the UK also being an important market. The
UK private equity fund Elaghmore has acquired Gardners, a designer and manufacturer of large format visual displays for world-famous brands and leading UK retailers. Elaghmore has bought Gardners from its management, who will remain with the business.
Based in Cardiff and employing over 100 people, Gardners was an early pioneer in digital print technology. Today, from its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, Gardners now provides large format graphic solutions to leading brands, retailers and agencies. Gardners offers a full end to end solution, from creative design, through to complex installation. Gardners works with customers across the retail, logistics, construction and leisure sectors.
Silverbear, a member of the ClearCourse Partnership and a membership and CRM solutions provider for professional organisations, trade associations and the wider Not-for-Profit sector, has acquired Decisions, a provider of CRM solutions, application development and support for membership associations.
The deal was financed by ClearCourse and represents the first acquisition made by one of its companies since the Partnership was set up seven months ago.
Decisions provides configurable, integrated management software and consultancy and events management services to member-driven associations, societies, clubs and professional institutes, such as the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and the Society of Genealogists.
BGF has invested GBP10 million in Extentia Group, the property services business formed through the acquisitions of Styles & Wood Group and Southerns.
BGF previously invested in Styles & Wood PLC in 2015 to support the management team’s successful growth strategy whilst listed on the AIM market.
Headquartered in Greater Manchester, Extentia Group comprises 11 specialist businesses, uniquely placed to deliver integrated end-to-end services both nationally and internationally across the full lifecycle of real estate assets – from design, project management and delivery, to optimisation, FF&E solutions and facilities management. Extentia creates productivity-enhancing environments for people to prosper.
Extentia is
Augnet, a London-based technology start-up looking focused on he SMS and messaging space, has secured GBP1.3 million in an investment round led by riple Point Venture.
Triple Point has invested in Augnet alongside a number of industry experts and investors and the funds will be used by to further develop the platform, support the testing stage and invest in its sales and marketing channels.
Augnet has developed a technology that enables SMS messages to be tracked and ensures a 100 per cent delivery rate through a patent-protected, encrypted solution. This means that for the first time, it will be possible
Activa Capital has sold Atlas for Men, a European specialist in multi-channel sales of outdoor clothing for men, created in 1999, to Latour Capital.
Latour Capital is now the new majority shareholder of Atlas for Men, alongside company president Marc Delamarre and his management team.
The exit of Activa Capital, Initiative et Finance and Indigo Capital, comes less than three years after they bought the company in a spin-off from the De Agostini group, alongside Delamarre and his team.
Over the last three years, Atlas for Men has seen its turnover increase from EUR130 million in 2015 to
By Lisa Shea, Manager, Fund Governance Solutions – While some may have dragged mutual funds out to the cart to be hauled away, they remain a sizeable and still growing presence in our industry. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are also growing, but it’s important to look at the full picture. As of 31 March, 2019, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) reports that there are more than USD19 trillion in assets in open end mutual funds, compared to USD3.77 trillion in ETFs, with AUM growing for both categories.
Furthermore, the ICI’s 2019 Investment Company Fact Book notes that there were more than
Small cap LBO funds are more profitable than funds that focus on target companies of larger market capitalisation, according to new research from eFront. In addition, small cap funds deploy capital at a faster rate and reinvest a significantly higher proportion of fund sizes than other funds.
They also continue to invest significantly until year eight of the fund cycle, against a normal investment period of five years, and distribute capital much earlier than medium, large and mega cap LBO funds.
Given these findings, it could be tempting to conclude that smaller cap LBO funds are more attractive than large
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, and offshore law firm, Carey Olsen (Guernsey) (Carey Olsen), have supported Inflexion Private Equity Partners (Inflexion) with a GBP1 billion double fundraise.
Domiciled and administered in Guernsey, the two private equity funds, Inflexion Enterprise Fund V and Inflexion Supplemental Fund V, have secured commitments at their hard cap of GBP400 million and GBP600 million respectively.
Focused on the UK lower mid-market, Inflexion Enterprise Fund V will make investments of GBP10 million to GBP35 million in established businesses. Inflexion Supplemental Fund V will support the firm on larger investments, investing primarily alongside
Dentons Boekel has strengthened its Banking and Finance practice in Amsterdam with the recruitment of Jacqueline Bell as a partner. She joined the Firm on 1 June, 2019.
Bell is a finance lawyer who advises banks, financiers, leasing companies and borrowers on English law governed transactions. She is particularly well known for her capabilities in transport financing – including aviation, shipping and offshore financing – as well as commodities trading. Over the past four years, she has led a successful freelance advisory business, providing consulting services to clients such as ABN AMRO Bank, Dutch development bank FMO, and IPF Partners,
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