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Gresham House’s infrastructure & housing investment platform, the British Strategic Investment Fund, is acting as the sole outside investor in the financing of 30 megawatts (MW) of operational grid-scale energy storage assets.
The transaction is the first investment for the Fund which held a first close in 2017 with GBP150 million of commitments raised from institutional investors including Local Government Pension Schemes (“LGPS”).
The Fund has invested through a combination of senior cash paid loan notes and equity in a dedicated project company. The project involves 30MW of battery storage assets spread across three sites in Nottinghamshire, Bristol and
Four Springs Capital has hired Gregory Kammerer as Senior Vice President on its capital markets team. Kammerer will focus his efforts on representing Four Springs transactions primarily with family offices and institutional investors.
Kammerer brings nearly a decade of experience working with family offices and institutions within the real estate and private equity sectors. Prior to joining Four Springs Capital, Kammerer worked at a private equity real estate fund, working on nearly USD500,000,000 of value add real estate transactions. Kammerer rejoins Four Springs Capital where he originally started his career.
“We are pleased to welcome Greg back to the
Greencoat Renewables an Irish renewable infrastructure company, is to acquire Lisdowney, a 9.2MW wind farm situated in County Kilkenny, for a total consideration of EUR22.5 million.
Lisdowney wind farm consists of four Enercon E82 turbines. The wind farm was commissioned in November 2016 and its revenues are contracted under the REFIT 2 scheme until 2031, guaranteeing a minimum floorprice for the electricity generated. Following the acquisition Enercon will continue to manage the wind farm’s O&M contract.
The acquisition will be subject to an adjustment mechanism that will assess actual energy production over an 18 month period and the acquisition
The launch of a multi-million pound investment fund has been hailed as a significant milestone for Guernsey’s economy; signalling that the island is very much open for business.
As seed investor in the Guernsey Investment Fund, to the tune of GBP25 million, the States of Guernsey has shown its commitment to supporting and facilitating innovation, while also displaying high levels of confidence in the island’s economic outlook.
The Fund has dual objectives: to generate profits for investors; and to invest in projects and companies with a Bailiwick focus.
The Policy & Resources Committee, which has delegated authority over
Private equity firm Horizon Capital has backed the initial public offering (IPO) of Purcari Wineries (Purcari) which is now trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange under the ticker WINE.
The offering was well received, with retail investors oversubscribing more than four times over, despite heavy turbulence on global markets as the Dow recorded its two largest point-drops on record. As a result of this successful public launch, Horizon Capital, on behalf of its fund EEGF II, has sold a 40.9 per cent stake in Purcari, realising a 3.2 times gross cash-on-cash return on the sale of these shares. Horizon Capital remains an active
Bain Capital Ventures, a seed-to-growth stage investor focused on enterprise software and technology, has appointed Adam Levin as a partner in Boston, focused on growth stage investing.
Levin will be responsible for identifying and cultivating investments in enterprise software and data services companies.
Levin most recently worked as a vice president in growth private equity at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in Los Angeles, where he focused on software-as-a-service and enterprise companies. While there, he led investments in DiCentral, Proficio, Azalea and Cryptzone (acquired by BC Partners) among others. Before Kayne Anderson, Levin was a venture associate at Crosslink Capital
Bertram Capital has closed Bertram Growth Capital III with USD500 million of total capital commitments from limited partners.
This is the third fund for Bertram, a middle market private equity firm focused on control transactions that leverage its highly differentiated value creation strategy.
The Fund closed at its target and hard cap, receiving commitments from over 30 top-tier investors, including endowments, insurance companies, multi-manager funds, consultants, public pensions, corporate pensions and family offices.
Like its two preceding funds, Fund III will continue Bertram’s demonstrated model of accelerating growth and driving operational improvements to transform under-optimised businesses into market
Imbiba, a specialist leisure and hospitality investment group, has closed the Imbiba Growth Fund at its hard cap target of GBP50 million.
With an investment of GBP30 million provided by the British Business Bank, the Imbiba Growth Fund will provide growth capital and operational support to young and dynamic UK leisure businesses seeking to scale.
The GBP30m contribution comes from the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme, which combines private and public money to make equity investments in high growth businesses. Since inception, around GBP1.14 billion (including third party investment) has been committed through the programme. The
Overall European private equity deal volume cooled in Q4 2017 compared to the previous quarter, dropping by 10 per cent to 434, according to preliminary figures in the Q4 2017 Private Equity Barometer, published by unquote” in association with Aberdeen Standard Investments.
The combined value of European private equity backed deals slid 6.0 per cent but remains well above the average of the last 10 quarters
Average deal value in Q4 2017 was EUR94.7 million, up 4.9 per cent on the EUR90.3 million posted in Q3.
The aggregate value of European buyout deals edged down to EUR35 billion,
A growing number of Jersey-registered fund managers are opting to future-proof their strategies and market into Europe through national private placement regimes (NPPRs) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), according to the latest figures from Jersey’s regulator, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).
As at December 2017, 149 alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) had been authorised in Jersey to market into Europe through NPPRs, up 17 per cent compared to December 2016, clearly highlighting that the use of private placement continues to work well as a means of marketing funds into the EU.
Over the same period,
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