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Swiss energy operator Repower, through its Italian branch, Repower Italia, and Omnes, a Paris-based European investor in private equity and infrastructure, via its Capenergie 3 fund, have formed a joint-venture Repower Renewable, aimed at managing the portfolio assets and at developing new generation projects in the renewable energy sector.
Repower Renewable’s portfolio is made up of hydro, solar and wind assets for a total capacity of about 90 MW built in the last 15 years by Repower or by Elettrostudio Energia. All the assets and the future activities of Repower Renewable are based in the Italian market.
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TigerRisk Partners, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has adopted AIR’s cyber risk modelling platform, ARC (Analytics of Risk from Cyber), to better understand clients’ exposure to cyber loss.
ARC is a cyber risk analytics and modelling platform that informs risk selection, pricing, portfolio management and risk transfer.
Nathan Schwartz, Head of Analytics at TigerRisk, says: “Cyber is not only the fastest growing risk for many of our clients, it is also one of the most challenging to understand. AIR’s new probabilistic cyber model will help us analyse our clients’ cyber exposure
Silverfleet Capital-backed 7days, a specialist workwear supplier to the healthcare sector based in the Westphalia region of Germany, is to acquire the Danish company Praxis Herning A/S, which supplies the same end markets in the Nordic region.
Managing directors, Jesper Rasmussen and Søren Wortmann, who are the majority shareholders of Praxis will continue to manage the business and are acquiring an interest in 7days as part of the transaction. It has been agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed.
Praxis was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Herning, the textile capital of Denmark. The company
Engineering and environmental services company the RSK Group Ltd has raised a new funding package in the form of a unitranche senior debt facility from funds managed by Ares Capital Europe (Ares).
RSK will use the funding to finance its strategic planned doubling in size over the next few years through development of new businesses and the acquisition of bolt-on complementary businesses. It has today announced the acquisitions of tree surgeons the BTS Group and the TBF Contracting businesses TBF Traffic and TBF Scaffolding.
These are the seventh and eighth acquisitions that RSK – a privately owned company with 36 international offices, 2500
CONMED Corporation is to acquire privately-held Buffalo Filter for USD365 million on a cash-free, debt-free basis.
The transaction is expected to be financed through a combination of new convertible notes and an expanded and amended credit facility. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of US regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.
Founded in 1991, Buffalo Filter, part of Filtration Group, is the market leader in surgical smoke evacuation technologies. The company’s comprehensive product portfolio includes smoke evacuation pencils, smoke evacuators, and laparoscopic solutions.
“This acquisition is a strong
Private equity deal value in continental Europe has significantly increased in 2018, while the UK has struggled to maintain its position as the largest European market by deal value, according to provisional full-year data from CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking.
The number of private equity-backed acquisitions in continental Europe has risen for each of the last five years to 523 in 2018, with a total value of EUR79.3 billion for 2018 representing a 15 per cent increase on 2017.
By contrast, while the number of UK buyouts
Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co, a pan-European, mid-market special situations investor, has added Paymon Daneshpay to its team in London. Daneshpay joins Aurelius’ ‘Task Force’ as an Operations Manager with immediate effect.
Daneshpay’s appointment follows that of Peter Wood, Daven Chopra and Philip Stoner, who joined earlier in 2018 as Principal, an Operations Manager and Investment Associate respectively, and further bolsters Aurelius’ UK capabilities providing additional strength to its specialist team of operations experts.
Prior to joining Aurelius Paymon Daneshpay was a Consultant at KPMG, where he led operational improvement projects specialising in process, performance and decision
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Gregory Laï as a Partner of the firm.
Since joining the Firm in 2007, Laï has been actively involved in sourcing and evaluating investments across Europe, as well as working with portfolio company management teams on post-acquisition value-building strategies. He has played a leadership role with several of the Firm’s investments, including B&M Retail (2013), BUT (2016), Exova (2008), HD Supply (2007), Motor Fuel Group (2015), and Rexel (2005). In recent years, he has contributed to building CD&R’s Consumer/Retail franchise, as well as broadening the Firm’s coverage in France.
Laï worked in the
Co-investing in private equity has more than doubled in a decade and accounted for approximately USD40 billion in US private investment activity last year, according to research by Cambridge Associates. That figure represents about 20 per cent of total US private equity investment.
Co-investment allows institutional investors or high net worths to invest directly into an investee company alongside a private equity fund without having to pay the fees that they would normally have to.
Andrea Auerbach, Head of Global Private Investments at Cambridge Associates explains one of the major advantages of co-investment is allowing investors to materially reduce
Private equity-owned portfolio companies show positive growth in employment, investment, productivity, revenue, profits and returns to investors, according to a new report from the BVCA complied by EY.
The aggregated data the BVCA’s 11th annual report into the performance of private equity portfolio companies, covers 91 per cent of the total population of UK PE portfolio companies.
The report reveals that compared to relevant public company and UK-wide private sector benchmarks, the performance of the portfolio companies on employment, investment, compensation and productivity growth is in-line or ahead of the comparators, indicating some benefits of the private equity ownership
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