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Sky9 Capital has completed the final closing of Sky9 Capital Fund III, with total capital commitments of USD200 million.
With support from a strong group of world-class institutional investors, family foundations and entrepreneurs, the fund invests mainly in China-based businesses with a focus on early-stage companies in the internet, enterprise, and deep technology sectors. Ron Cao, Founder & Managing Director, has over 18 years of extensive experience in venture capital and a track record of investing and growing successful China-based companies.
The Sky9 team includes an experienced group of technologists, entrepreneurs and investors who have participated previously in
Magnaghi Aerospace Group (MAG), a provider of landing gear systems and composite aerostructure components to helicopter and medium-sized aircraft platforms, has completed the acquisition of US-based Blair-HSM (Blair) with the support of Three Hills Capital Partners (THCP).
MAG was founded in 1936 as a provider of landing gears to the Italian air force, and has diversified significantly over time under current owner and CEO, Paolo Graziano. Today the group manufactures landing gears, hydraulic components and actuators to the rotary and fixed wing markets globally, composite aerostructure components, and Sky Arrow, a carbon fibre aircraft with multiple applications across law enforcement,
Vista Equity Partners, an investment firm focused on software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has invested in Allocate Software (Allocate), a provider of healthcare workforce management software.
The investment will support the company’s next phase of development product innovation and global expansion.
With over 800 customers and one million staff rostered daily, Allocate serves the largest public and private healthcare institutions around the world by supporting the operational and administrative needs of professionals across all healthcare settings. Allocate’s best-in-class solutions enable the delivery of safe and effective care at optimal cost by helping healthcare organisations have the right people in the right place at the
Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Ivan Kachkovski as an Equity Research Analyst covering the banking sector and finance institutions in Russia, as well as in frontier and emerging markets across the CIS and emerging Europe.
Kachkovski will be based in London and report to Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, at Renaissance Capital.
Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, says: “We are pleased to welcome Ivan to the team. He is an experienced and professional analyst, well recognised by corporates and clients alike for the strength of his analysis. We believe Ivan’s longstanding expertise
SANNE has promoted Sean Murray to Managing Director, Alternative Assets for its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Based in SANNE’s Luxembourg office, Murray (pictured), has been with SANNE for just over a year. In his new position he will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the EMEA Alternative Assets platform, which includes Private Equity, Private Debt & Capital Markets, Real Estate and Hedge.
Murray had joined the firm from Orangefield in Luxembourg, where he was Managing Director and a member of the global alternative investments management board. He also sat on the board and management team
The rated global infrastructure sector has experienced essentially uninterrupted growth over the past 20 years, according to a new report by S&P Global Ratings, with the majority of the sector rated ‘A’ or ‘BBB’ by the company.
However, the proportion of speculative-grade ratings has increased in the past decade.
The report – 25 Years of Rated Infrastructure Corporates and Project Finance – reveals that default rates were highest for infrastructure during the 1990-1991 US recession and again during the 2000-2003 period. The first period saw a broad contraction across most industries, while the second was largely due to the
Specialist investment advisory firm Gravis Advisory has expanded the team focusing on the VT Gravis UK Infrastructure Income Fund and VT Gravis Clean Energy Fund, with hires from Columbia Threadneedle and Fidelity.
Nick Winder will take on the role of Sales Director. He has worked in the investment industry for 30 years, initially for 10 years with GT Asset Management as Sales Director-Discretionary Sales. For the past 20 years Winder has worked for Columbia Threadneedle, heading up Third Party Distribution, and was responsible for the UK advisory market as well as life company and platform distribution.
Lexi Diggins who
The GBP1.275 billion GLIL Infrastructure platform (GLIL) is looking to bring the benefits of its leading infrastructure capabilities to a wider range of investment partners, following strong growth in the three years since its launch.
The platform has also been re-launched under a regulated structure.
GLIL’s successful track record is based around a collaborative partnership between like-minded institutions in the local government pensions sector, with a common interest in increasing exposure to UK infrastructure and delivering long-term liability matching returns.
Formed in 2015 by the Greater Manchester Pension Fund and the London Pensions Fund Authority with an initial
Prytania Asset Management has appointed Fahd Basir (pictured), as a Managing Director. Basir’s broad structured credit experience over 14 years includes both agent and principal transactions across the capital structure over a wide variety of asset classes.
He will be based in Prytania’s newly opened New York City office.
Previously, Basir was a Director at 25 Capital Partners, where he was instrumental in launching a closed-end mortgage opportunities fund. Before that he was a Senior Vice President at Atlantic Asset Management and portfolio manager for its TALF Fund, where he managed a USD1.1 billion ABS portfolio. Prior to moving
Warren Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity fund, closed its acquisition of the solid waste subsidiaries of Meridian Waste Solutions (MRDN).
The acquired entities which comprise MRDN’s integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services business, primarily operating in Missouri and Virginia, will maintain and operate under the name Meridian Waste post-closing.
“Warren Equity has a successful track record of investing in infrastructure service companies,” says Steven Wacaster, Managing Partner at Warren Equity. “The acquisition represents an excellent opportunity for us to partner with management to build an industry-leading waste services platform through optimization of Meridian Waste’s existing assets, as well
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