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Luxcara, an asset manager focussed on renewable energy investments, has acquired the Finnish wind power project Välikangas, which has a projected capacity of 100 MW.
The produced electricity will be sold to an off-taker on the basis of a power purchase agreement (PPA).
The wind farm has been developed by and will be built with ABO Wind as construction manager. Connection to the grid is envisaged for summer 2020.
“We continue to be convinced by wind power in the Nordics and are happy to realise this Finnish wind project on the basis of already established business partnerships thanks
French asset management company Anaxago Capital has launched FCPR ANAXAGO SocietyOne, a private equity real estate (PERE) fund specialising in real estate development and renovation.
The company aims to raise EUR30 million to invest in a portfolio of 20 to 40 real estate development, renovation and property trading operations. Its goal is to enable investors to achieve a target return of around 8 per cent (IRR net of all management fees) within a five-year investment horizon (renewable twice for one year at the decision of the management company)
The fund is open to retail investors with investments starting from
LiquidX, a global network for illiquid assets, transacted a record USD7.4 billion in 2018, as year-over-year trading volume soared 40 per cent. The platform handled four times as many unique credits in 2018 than in previous years.
“Our clients transacted hundreds of different credits in 2019, while using multiple structures across 25 different legal jurisdictions,” says Glenn Kocher (pictured), Head of Sales and Client Services at LiquidX. “Whether you are a corporate treasurer, a bank or an institutional investor, having that scope of execution in one place is extremely powerful.”
Novelis, the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminium products and
Mourant has advised a New York-based private equity firm on its takeover of AIM-listed GBGI Limited (GBG).
GBG is a provider of international benefits insurance, operating globally across 120 jurisdictions. Trading principally as GBG Insurance Group, GBG is a fully integrated insurance group providing services from policy sales to claim administration.
The takeover of GBG was undertaken by way of a Guernsey scheme of arrangement and was sanctioned by the Royal Court in Guernsey on Wednesday, 20 February 2019. The aim of the takeover was to return GBG to private ownership thereby enabling enhanced financial and operational flexibility, together
Israeli VC firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), has closed its latest fund, JVP VIII, with USD220 million in commitments.
This new fund aims to invest in early through mid-stage technologies that are transforming key global markets, such as computer vision meets wellness, cybersecurity meets fintech and insurtech, artificial intelligence meets retail and media, big data meets healthcare IT and many more.
With investment hubs located in Jerusalem at the JVP Media Quarter in the heart of the city, home to JVP’s Corporate Headquarters, in Beer Sheva, the Southern Cyber-Epicenter, home to the JVP Labs alongside key universities and international
The SaaS video management platform, Imagen, which holds both current and archive footage for major sporting organisations and news outlets, including Premier League, World Tennis Association and the BBC, has secured GBP6.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Downing Ventures.
The round also included capital from Guinness Asset Management Ltd. and existing investor Cambridge Innovation Capital.
Imagen helps sports, media and enterprise businesses to manage their expanding video and content libraries on its cloud-based technology. Imagen announced 88 per cent year on year growth in 2018 driven by clients including Premier League, World Tennis Association, BP
The UK’s BGF has been named the world’s most active investor in businesses seeking growth and expansion funding in Pitchbook’s 2018 global league tables, following a record year of investment.
Pitchbook’s annual global league tables rank the most active private equity and venture capital investors from around the world. BGF was also recognised as the most active investor in UK and Ireland – a title it has held since 2014 – and the most active global investor in B2C businesses. Most recent B2C investments include in-car technology business Lightfoot, Cornish clothing business Seasalt, dental engineering company Evo and action sports
DealCloud, a specialist in CRM and deal management technology for the capital markets, has partnered with alternative assets data provider Preqin to integrate Preqin’s data with DealCloud’s DataCortex product.
“We believe that modern-day dealmakers, fund managers, and investor relations professionals deserve to have all of their outsourced data accessible in the same hub as their proprietary data. They simply need a unified deal management, fundraising, and data management platform in order to be competitive in today’s market,” says Amit Lalwani, SVP of Global Business Development at DealCloud. “This integration comes in response to our clients’ reliance on Preqin’s market-leading data,
Energy investment firm Exergy Capita, and Dalma Capital Management, an alternative investment fund accelerator in the Dubai International Financial Centre, have established a Sharia-compliant investment strategy to develop the infrastructure and technology required to reshape the energy value chain.
The investment strategy seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing in real assets, infrastructure and companies which have developed innovative technologies, products and services throughout the energy value chain, predominantly in Europe. It pursues a private equity style investment strategy generating capital gains for investors and focusing on uncrowded niches in the energy and interconnected sectors.
The current global
Audax Private Equity (Audax), in partnership with management, has completed the sale of Rogue Wave Software (Rogue Wave) to Perforce Software (Perforce), a Clearlake Capital portfolio company.
Headquartered in Louisville, CO, Rogue Wave is a leading provider of software development tools and code components to Global 5000 enterprises, helping developers tackle the hardest and most complex issues in building, connecting and securing applications. Rogue Wave’s product offering solves problems across a broad portion of the software development lifecycle, spanning Open Source Support, API management, Java Development, and other key focus areas for developers. Known for its commitment to help developers
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