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Alternative investment specialist Aquila Capital has mandated KlimaInvest Green Concepts, a Hamburg-based energy and climate protection agency, to offset all CO2 emissions related to this year’s Global Summit 2019 by PEI Alternative Insight in Berlin, one of the world’s biggest conferences on infrastructure investments.
The emissions, caused by travel and accommodation of the participants as well as the venue’s consumption in terms of water, heating, catering, and others, will be compensated by targeted investments in certified climate protection projects. The event’s CO2 footprint will amount to approximately 1,100 tons.
Roman Rosslenbroich, Co-Founder and CEO of Aquila Capital, says: “As
BlueGem Capital Partners portfolio company The Private Clinic Group has acquired acquisition of The Cosmetic Skin Clinic (CSC) to create a high-end invasive and non-invasive cosmetic treatment provider in the UK and leader in Europe.
The combined group will have revenue of approximately GBP30 million, with approximately 20 per cent EBITDA margin in 2019.
The Private Clinic operates out of 12 clinics nationwide with undisputed leadership in specific areas such as hair transplants, plastic surgery and liposuction. The Company’s emphasis on providing a 5- star experience and absolute confidentiality has gained them a following amongst VIPs flying to their Harley
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a partnership-focussed investor, has appointed Liam Bennett as Investment Executive.
Bennett joins GCP from KPMG, where he spent several years based in both their UK and Australian offices. While at KPMG Liam provided transaction services to a range of private equity and corporate clients, including both sell-side and buy-side assistance with a focus on mid-market transactions.
Bennett says: “I am excited to join the team at GCP who have a strong track record of supporting entrepreneurial management teams and their businesses in achieving their growth ambitions. I look forward to contributing to the continued success
Time is Limited, a productivity software analytics company, has raised a EUR3 million investment led by Mike Chalfen with participation from Accel.
The investment will be used to continue building the platform for big enterprises that want to approach productivity by recognising the key patterns that drive it.
Productivity is often top of mind for companies and employees alike. For example, according to a study by HBR in 2017, 71 per cent of meetings are deemed unproductive by CEOs and top managers. This has created a wave of productivity software tools over the past few years, with each one
Global law firm Goodwin is to open a new office in Santa Monica, California, which will focus on the technology and private equity industry verticals. It will be the firm’s second in Southern California, the fourth in the state, and the eleventh globally.
The new office will be located in a modern, state-of-the-art space at 520 Broadway in Santa Monica. It will initially take up more than 20,000 square feet over the building’s entire fifth floor. AJ Weidhaas, Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity practice, will serve as the Santa Monica Office Chair. The office will be home to approximately
New venture capital fund, King River Capital (KRC), has held first close of its initial fund and the completion of its first two investments in FinClear and Cover Genius.
KRC provides early stage Australian and overseas-based software companies with the capital, knowledge and international relationships to enable global expansion opportunities.
Based on this initial early stage fund close, KRC will be looking to invest in 15-20 companies with an average investment of AUD10 million, over three to four years. Though stage-agnostic, KRC will be focusing on late-Series A and Series B investment opportunities in the technology and software sector.
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, has appointed a new Head of Funds, Lorna Robertson.
Lorna Robertson (pictured), joins from Invesco where she was responsible for managing relationships with investment and private banks and developing strategic partnerships. Her role covered a range of fund strategies including fixed income, equities, alternative assets, bespoke solutions and fund linked structured products.
Previously she was Head of Capital Market Sales at Raiffeisen Bank International, and a Director at Deutsche Bank specialising in Benelux and UK Structured Credit.
At Connection Capital, Lorna will take charge of the on-going development of its
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Bruno Bagnouls as Managing Director and Head of Private Equity and Real Assets of Mitsubishi UFJ Investor Services & Banking Luxembourg.
Bagnouls will oversee Private Equity and Real Assets for Mitsubishi UFJ Investor Services & Banking Luxembourg MIBL, and will lead the strategic market and competitive analysis for private capital across all geographies, with an emphasis on Luxembourg. He will lead the development of the Private Capital Client Line, including private equity, real assets and debt solutions. He will also oversee the management of a
TPA Capital has completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Pallet-Track Limited, a provider of services to the palletised freight sector. Pallet-Track comprises almost 90 haulier members who leverage the network to provide nationwide coverage to their customers.
Established by Nigel Parkes, Managing Director, in 2002, the business now processes circa 3.5 million pallets a year through its main central hub in Wolverhampton and its two regional hubs in Wigan and Welwyn Garden City.
Pallet-Track was recently named as the fastest growing business in BDO’s ‘The Black Country Growth Barometer’ report as well as one of the UK’s
Investment bank GCA Altium has expanded its senior deal team in Frankfurt with Raiko Stelten and Thorsten Weber, employees of the bank for many years, promoted to Managing Directors as of 1 March 2019.
They will further develop the technology, M&A and financing areas of the firm. Stelten joined Altium in 2013 and most recently worked as a Director with a focus on the software, technology and healthcare M&A sectors. For over 12 years he has been part of the team originally set up at Close Brothers/DC Advisory. Throughout this time, Stelten advised on over 40 M&A transactions.
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