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Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt and minority equity investment in American Residuals Group (ARG), an Arkansas-based environmental services company. Funding was provided by Ironwood Mezzanine Fund IV LP and its affiliated funds.
Ironwood Capital President and Chief Investment Officer Carolyn Galiette, says: “ARG is one of the largest wastewater collection and disposal companies in the country. The investment thesis is to continue to grow organically into new geographies and explore additional acquisitions.”
“ARG has a proven track record of providing quality services to the municipal and industrial food processing market and we’re excited to partner with the
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4 (MEIF4), and Wren House Infrastructure are to sell part of Viesgo to Repsol in a deal valued at EUR750 million.
Repsol will acquire the majority of Viesgo’s unregulated assets including Viesgo Supply, which has electricity and gas contracts with 750,000 households and businesses, as well as 700MW of conventional generation hydro power (both pumping storage and run-of-river); and two Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plants with a total installed capacity of 1650MW.
MIRA and Wren House will retain Viesgo’s regulated entities including the electricity distribution network business
MPC Capital’s investment platform for renewable energies in the CARICOM region, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund, and Trinidad and Tobago conglomerate ANSA McAL, are to acquire an operational 21 MW windpark Tilawind, located in Tilarán in the Guanacaste province, Costa Rica.
With a wind turbine capacity factor of 45 per cent, Tilarán represents an excellent location for the wind farm, which has been operational since 2015 and has the potential to expand its capacity to 40 MW in the future. Tilawind and the expansion were developed and constructed by the local project developer Gruman Resources, who currently operates the wind farm.
NewAlpha Asset Management, a Paris-based global emerging manager acceleration specialist and Private Equity firm, has appointed Adrien Auric as Chief Operating Officer.
In addition to operational due diligence, Adrien Auric is now also responsible for coordinating the Legal, Internal Control & Compliance, Operations and Information Systems functions with NewAlpha’s service providers.
The company intends to adapt its organisation and strengthen its operational efficiency to cope with the growth and diversification of its investment and advisory activities.
Prior to joining NewAlpha in June 2017, Adrien Auric was in charge of Investment Due Diligence at Reinhold & Partners, a
Pathway Capital Management, has closed Pathway Private Equity Fund CV-B (PPEF CV-B), a USD602 million private equity co-investment fund formed in partnership with a US-based institutional investor.
PPEF CV-B will focus on identifying and investing in co-investment opportunities globally alongside high-quality private equity managers across a variety of strategies.
PPEF CV-B represents a continuation of Pathway’s successful 27-year track record of investing in private equity, which includes more than USD1.2 billion invested in private equity co-investments.
Since the inception of the firm in 1991, Pathway has participated in the development of more than 85 private market portfolios, committing
Chelverton Asset Management Limited (‘Chelverton’), a specialist investor in sub-FTSE 100 quoted equities and unquoted SMEs, has completed its third transaction of 2018 on behalf of Members of its Investor Club service, with a GBP1 million growth capital investment in Reading-based iDefigo.
iDefigo initially developed its Internet of Things (IoT) surveillance platform in New Zealand before relocating to the UK in 2013. The company’s offering, combines power management, mobile network optimisation, and intelligent cloud image capture and processing which it says provides organisations with a viable solution for protecting remote assets. The iDefigo camera can be self-installed, without the need
Puppet has secured USD42 million in funding led by Cisco Investments along with EDBI, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, and VMware.
The DevOps and automation company recently closed its second acquisition, adding multiple products to its portfolio in the process, and opened new global offices.
“Our rapid growth and international expansion is a testament to the rising demand for DevOps transformation, software automation and the pressing need for enterprises to navigate the new world of software delivery. That’s why we’ve been so focused on expanding our product portfolio—to empower customers to discover, deliver and operate software across their cloud and
Jared Jensen has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the firm’s global Private Equity practice. Jensen, who will be based in the San Francisco office, was formerly a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP.
Jensen has extensive experience advising private equity and venture capital firms, their sponsored companies, and other clients on public and private M&A, tender and exchange offers, recapitalisations, management buyouts, going-private transactions, carve-out transactions and minority growth investments. He represents clients in a wide array of industries, including software, information technology, financial services, life sciences, consumer products, education and business services. Jensen also provides guidance on public
Signal Media, an AI-powered reputation management and decision support platform, has raised USD16 million (GBP12 million) in a Series B round led and priced by GMG Ventures LP, the independent VC fund whose limited partner is The Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian news organisation.
MMC Ventures was the largest investor in the round, which included a debt facility from Kreos Capital. Other investors include Frontline, Hearst Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures and LocalGlobe.
Signal tackles the information overload facing executives as they seek information they need to help shape their decisions. Signal applies a layer of machine learning to
Harmonic Fund Services has gone live with Finastra’s Fusion Loan IQ solution. The independent fund administration and alternative asset fund servicing firm will use the platform – traditionally employed by banks and service providers to service their bilateral, specialised and syndicated loan portfolios – to provide a new loan administration and agency service to its diverse alternative investment funds client base.
“Our customers have sophisticated needs, and when it comes to loan admin servicing that is no exception,” says John Wolfe, Director, Harmonic Fund Services. “With Fusion Loan IQ, we will be able to expand our services to meet the
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