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LA-based private investment firm Atar Capital has acquired Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) through its portfolio company, Recycling and Waste Solutions (RWS).
RWS provides US supply chains with managed solutions for commodity recycling and waste services.
SSG provides and manages recycling, waste and sustainability programs for regional and national companies throughout North America. Atar says consolidating the two companies into a single firm expands their ability to deliver sustainable, economic waste solutions and broadens opportunities for growth. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
Robert Lezec, senior managing director at Atar, says: “We strongly believe in the future
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) for an enterprise value of GBP50 million.
Comprising 64 turbines in locations across the UK and Ireland the SEP portfolio contains all five of the wind farm investments made by the Environmental Capital Fund (ECF), a specialist infrastructure fund managed by SEP. The portfolio ranges from single-turbine sites across the Orkney and Shetland Islands to utility-scale turbines in Curraghderrig, Ireland and the Port of Tilbury in London.
The acquisition will supplement PiP’s existing wind assets including Aura, one of the largest stand-alone Feed
BMO Global Asset Management has appointed Stewart Bennett to the newly created role of Global Head of Alternatives.
Bennett will oversee BMO Global Asset Management’s newly formed Global Alternatives offering, incorporating its existing private equity, real estate and real estate securities businesses, which will provide investors with a broader range of innovative real asset investment solutions.
Bennett has been charged with developing and executing BMO Global Asset Management’s alternative investments global growth strategy, building on the track record of delivering superior risk-adjusted returns by effectively leveraging synergies across the three businesses and significantly expanding its reach globally.
Bennett,
Ingenious, an alternative investment manager that specialises in the Media, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Education sectors, has expanded its institutional funds business with the appointment of Luke Burdess as Business Development Director.
Ingenious, which has been growing its network of relationships in Asia and the Middle East for the last few years, will offer innovative institutional strategies for domestic and global institutions. The team will leverage their deep sector knowledge to access investment opportunities usually unavailable to institutional investors.
Burdess joins from Daiwa SB Investments where he was Business Development Manager in the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. Prior
Canadian alternative asset manager Ninepoint Partners has acquired the assets of LOGiQ Global Partners, a global institutional advisory business, from Flow Capital Corp.
The LOGiQ Global Partners team has a long history of helping institutional investors achieve greater portfolio diversification by providing strategic access to differentiated global asset managers.
With this acquisition, Ninepoint Partners adds seasoned sales and client service professionals, CAD3.5 billion of institutional contracts and almost 20 years of longstanding relationships with Canadian Institutional investors. The combined platforms will further enhance Ninepoint’s ability to bring innovative alternative solutions to Canadian retail and institutional clients.
“This is a great
Funds advised by specialist debt investor Permira Debt Managers (PDM) are acting as senior secured lender to Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) in its acquisition of Valantic, a DACH-based digital consulting and software provider.
Valantic was founded in 2012 as DABERO Service Group and renamed in 2017, after nine acquisitions in six years. It now has more than 800 customers across DACH, based in 13 locations and employing circa 1,100 staff. The business has developed into a fully integrated technology enterprise platform providing services in the areas of financial services, enterprise software, business and predictive analytics, logistics and supply chain management.
The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone. In simple terms, if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over.
Against this growing tsunami of data, investment managers and service providers alike are looking for ways to ingest and make sense of it all. To find information that they can translate into insights and turn into knowledge, that if done correctly, could lead to improved business performance and enriched customer relationships.
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Private equity firm M/C Partners has appointed communications infrastructure and services specialist, Travis Keller as a Partner in the firm.
Keller joins M/C from Altman, Vilandrie & Co (AV&Co) a technology, media and telecom focused strategy consulting and investment advisory firm where he served as a Director. While at AV&Co, Travis led hundreds of engagements with investors to develop investment theses, identify acquisition targets, perform investment due diligence, integrate acquisitions and improve portfolio companies’ performance. Recent diligence targets included commercial fibre operators, retail and wholesale colocation providers, managed cyber security companies and UCaaS platforms. In addition, Travis worked directly with management
Gide has advised Idia Capital Investissement, a subsidiary of group Crédit Agricole, on its investment in the share capital of Maison Chapoutier, a wine producer and merchant in the Rhone valley and whose vineyards cover 450 hectares in France and abroad (Australia, Spain and Portugal).
This transaction is part of a more global reorganisation of Maison Chapoutier’s shareholding, alongside the Chapoutier family and its longstanding partner Sofina.
This investment will boost the development of the family-owned vineyard’s activities, in particular as regards biodynamic growing methods and wine tourism.
In continuing its investment strategy in the wine sector, Idia thus
Hatteras Venture Partners has held the first closing of Hatteras Venture Partners VI, LP (HVP VI),says with USD94 million in deployable capital toward an ultimate target fund size of USD200 million.
“The pace and quality of our deal flow has grown tremendously during the past several years,” said Clay Thorp, Co-founder and General Partner of Hatteras. “With HVP VI, we will continue to partner with innovative, driven entrepreneurs to launch and build world-class health care companies, many of which will be based upon leading-edge research stemming from the renowned academic centres in the southeastern U.S. In addition, we will continue
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