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Monk’s Hill Ventures (MHV), a Southeast-Asia early-stage tech venture capital firm, has appointed Michele Daoud and Justin Nguyen as Partners, effective immediately.
“Michele and Justin bring unparalleled operating experience in the tech and venture capital as former entrepreneurs and operators themselves. They join us as Partners during a transformative time in Southeast Asia tech where we are seeing a boom of inspiring entrepreneurs who are tackling real problems and transforming millions of lives,” says Kuo-Yi Lim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures.
As the first female Partner at the firm, Daoud has built a successful track record of
The Midlands Engine investment fund, through Maven Capital Partners, has provided Aurelius Environmental (Aurelius”), an environmental management and materials recycling business, with a GBP1.5 million debt funding package.
The funding will be used by Aurelius to purchase new machinery to improve efficiencies, reduce the company’s carbon footprint and help to support its sustainable development strategy and strong social and economic ethos.
Black Country-based Aurelius recycles lead acid batteries using an energy positive process that deals with the hazardous chemicals in lead acid batteries to produce enhanced products for re-use in the battery manufacturing industry. Working in partnership with Cambridge
Glennmont Partners has completed the divestment of a portfolio of five car park canopy solar PV projects in northern France. With a total operating capacity of 55MWp, the solar projects have been sold to the global solar independent power producer (IPP), Sonnedix.
The five solar PV car park canopy projects; Batilly (10.4MWp), Douai (11.9MWp), Flins (10.6MWp), Maubeuge (11.8MWp), and Sandouville (10.4MWp), commenced operations between December 2011 and January 2012.
The sale continues to demonstrate the successful divestment of Glennmont’s Clean Energy Fund Europe I (“Fund”), which was fully invested in 14 onshore wind, solar PV and bioenergy assets across
Foresight Group (Foresight) has made a GBP5 million growth capital investment into Northern Ireland’s largest private healthcare business, 352 Medical Group Limited (3fivetwo).
The investment was made via a new fund managed by Foresight in partnership with 57 Stars, dedicated to investing in businesses with the potential to boost the economy of Northern Ireland.
Founded in 2004 by NHS Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Suresh Tharma, 3fivetwo began by providing services such as health screening, 3D obstetrics and gynaecology scanning. Since then the Company has grown significantly, first and foremost as a service provider for private patients and also as a
Eldridge Industries (Eldridge) has closed USD1.36 billion of common equity issued to a partnership owned substantially by Swiss businessman and philanthropist, Hansjörg Wyss, and Eldridge Co-Founder, CEO and controlling-member, Todd Boehly.
This marks the second investment the Wyss and Boehly partnership have made into Eldridge. The new proceeds will further capitalise Eldridge and will drive strategic growth across the Company’s businesses.
“The new capital raised is a testament to our Company’s positive trajectory, strengthens our balance sheet, and positions us to further invest in our initiatives,” says Boehly. “We believe this additional capital will benefit all stakeholders of our businesses
Estera, a leading global fund administration and fiduciary services provider, has successfully advised Bluefield Solar Income Fund on its application for accreditation as a Guernsey Green Fund.
Bluefield Solar is the first London-listed investment fund to successfully achieve Guernsey Green Fund status. Estera is one of Guernsey’s leading fund administrators, and has an experienced and sizeable team overseeing a full service provision to a wide variety of funds.
Estera is the fund administrator for long-standing client Bluefield Solar Income Fund, and has extensive experience in administering London-listed funds. In addition, Estera has a wealth of specialist experience in renewables and
BakerHostetler has appointed Douglas Eingurt as a partner resident in its Atlanta office, where he will continue his work representing public and private companies in a wide range of transactions. He was previously a partner with Dentons.
Eingurt’s practice chiefly focuses on advising companies of all sizes on M&A and corporate finance transactions. He has worked with public and privately held clients across numerous industries and has particularly deep experience advising on middle-market M&A matters within the healthcare and sports and entertainment sectors and in assisting private equity funds in fund formation and portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions.
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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,
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