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The EQT Ventures fund has made a EUR23.4 million investment in BIMobject AB, a Swedish technology company with a global presence operating at the forefront of digitising the building industry.
Hjalmar Winbladh, Partner and Head of the EQT Ventures advisory team at EQT Partners, will join the company’s board.
BIMobject provides a cloud-based platform and powerful technology to make digital product information available for Building Information Modelling (BIM). This ensures that digital representations of each component can be used early in the building process for visualisation, specification, and analysis. Every element can be digitally built, checked and issues identified
5Oceans Partnership, an international investor and advisory firm in sports and entertainment, has appointed Giles Morgan as its Chief Executive Officer.
Morgan joins 5Oceans Partnership from HSBC, where he was Global Head of Sponsorship and Events for more than twelve years.
Acknowledged as an authority on sports sponsorship, Morgan created a global programme at HSBC that spanned over 30 countries, including building one of the world’s biggest international golf portfolios with over 60 tournaments, inaugural sponsor of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, two British Lions tours to South Africa & Australia (2009 & 2013), the recently announced HSBC
EFG Fund Services has been selected as full service provider to Index Ventures’ two latest funds, extending a relationship that dates back to 2000.
Index Ventures IX, a Jersey Expert Fund, has closed at a hard cap of USD650 million in commitments and will continue Index Ventures’ seed and venture investment in technology start-ups.
Index Ventures Growth IV, also a Jersey Expert Fund, has closed at a hard cap of USD1 billion in commitments to continue Index Ventures’ investment in growth phase technology companies. These are the tenth and eleventh funds to which Index has appointed EFG Fund Services
The partners of Bedell Cristin have announced a plan to merge with Cayman-based law firm, Solomon Harris. It is hoped that the deal will complete by the end of August, and Solomon Harris will rebrand as Bedell Cristin at a later date.
Founded in 1998, Solomon Harris is a full service law firm employing 28 people in Grand Cayman. It has been awarded recognition for its legal expertise across a broad range of services including as a premier firm for captive insurance and investment funds, capital markets, inward/local investment, private client services, corporate/residential real estate, immigration, litigation and insolvency &
Constellation Brands has acquired Dallas-based brewer Four Corners Brewing Co producer of a range of premium products including Local Buzz Honey-Rye Golden Ale and El Chingón IPA.
Four Corners, which will join Constellation’s Craft & Specialty Beer Group, was founded in 2012 by longtime friends George Esquivel, Greg Leftwich and Steve Porcari. The founders and their team will all remain involved with Four Corners following the acquisition.
“We like to say that Four Corners Brewing is our collective beer journey, and partnering with Constellation continues that journey by opening amazing possibilities of where our brand and company can go,”
Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital have their entire stake in DATA4 to AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, acting on behalf of AXA France.
DATA4 is a European specialist in dedicated and colocation data centres that offers services to Cloud providers, digital service companies and large and medium-sized firms. DATA4 finances, designs, builds and operates its own data centres, in order to offer its customers hosting solutions that are flexible, scalable, high-performing and secured. The company currently operates 15 data centres in Paris, Milan and Luxembourg.
Founded in 2006 by Colony Capital, DATA4 was one of the first
Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), a specialist sustainable and impact investor, has completed a second fundraise for Bridges Evergreen Holdings (Evergreen), its permanent capital vehicle, hitting its GBP50 million target three months ahead of schedule.
Evergreen is a new kind of investment vehicle, designed specifically to be a long-term partner for ambitious mission-led organisations. By providing a permanent source of capital, as well as hands-on strategic and operational support, Evergreen supports the growth of these organisations and enables them to increase their impact over a longer time-frame – helping to tackle entrenched social challenges at scale. It launched in December 2016,
Brevet Capital Management (Brevet), an investment management firm focused on creating customised, value-adding financing solutions, has appointed Vikram Sodhi as Chief Financial Officer.
Sodhi joins Brevet from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he was a Partner in the Banking and Capital Markets Assurance practice providing assurance and advisory services. In his 24 years at PwC, he served financial institutions across banking, capital markets, and alternative asset management. Sodhi received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and a Master of Arts in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is a NYS licensed CPA.
Alcentra Limited (Alcentra), an alternative fixed income specialist for BNY Mellon Investment Management (IM), has appointed Sarah Madore, Maria Garcia Diego and Joanna Layton to new roles within its European Direct Lending team.
Sarah Madore and Maria Garcia Diego join as Associates. In addition to the two external appointments, Joanna Layton was hired internally and promoted to Head of European Direct Lending Portfolio Monitoring. Consisting of 12 nationalities, the now 22-strong-person team has an average of nine years’ experience within the European Direct Lending space.
In their roles as Associates, Madore and Garcia Diego will provide additional resource and
The partners of Ironwood Capital have successfully completed a USD400 million capital raise for Ironwood Mezzanine Fund IV LP and its affiliated funds (IMF IV), with commitments from over 40 domestic insurance companies, banks and pension funds.
This new fund will enable Ironwood to continue investing both subordinated debt and equity in buyouts, growth investments, full and partial recapitalisations, generational transitions and other transactions in support of business owners and sponsors.
“This was the largest raise in our history and it came together through the combined efforts of our ad hoc internal fund raising team and the support of
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