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Rand Capital Corporation’s portfolio company GiveGab has acquired substantially all of the assets of Kimbia.
Best known for its nation-wide giving day events, Kimbia has supported the fundraising efforts of thousands of nonprofits across the country through their everyday giving products and Giving Days.
“Kimbia is a pioneer and has been the leader in the giving day space, with more than USD1 billion raised online for tens of thousands of nonprofits around the world,” says GiveGab’s Chief Executive Officer, Charlie Mulligan. “We’re thrilled to add their legacy and experience to our modern, secure, and user-friendly platform, and to continue
Modern Energy Management (MEM), a specialist in delivering project lifecycle certainty to renewable energy developers, financiers and investors, has appointed Marc Wright as Senior Resource Engineer.
With extensive international experience, Wright will lead project development from Bangkok, as the business expands its prospecting operations throughout key emerging markets.
As opportunities for renewable energy development across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America proliferate, investors must ensure all project risk profiles remain low, to guarantee bankability. This, combined with continued market expansion anticipated in a series of fast-growth markets throughout Africa and Asia, provides specialist developers embedded in these territories with
Glennmont Partners has expanded its investment capacity in the clean energy infrastructure space and now has three funds under management – these are Fund I (2010) and Fund II (2013), which are fully invested, and now a new third Fund (2017).
Opportunities are being sought for a portfolio of clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe. Glennmont is one of Europe’s largest investors focusing exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure. This announcement follows the successful refinancing of Glennmont’s 245MW Italian wind portfolio in October and the refinancing of the Sleaford straw-fired biomass plant in September – amounting to around EUR340m
Centricus has completed the acquisition of a 20 per cent stake in Chalayan, a luxury fashion label which has a strong following within the film and music industries including Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and numerous other leading artists.
The investment is Centricus’ first in the fashion industry, and sees the firm launch a fourth investment vertical – fashion, entertainment, media and sports (FEMS) – to sit alongside existing portfolios in financial services, technology and infrastructure.
Hussein Chalayan is known as fashion’s storyteller, his multi-disciplinary approach bridging the gap between design, art and technology. From his future-gazing influential approach
Direct lender Beechbrook Capital has provided a mezzanine loan to funds managed by HIG Capital, to support its acquisition of a majority interest in Beinbauer Group. RM Secured Direct Lending PLC, a specialist in tailored debt solutions, acted as co-investor to Beechbrook.
Beinbauer Group is a leading provider of complex machined metal parts for the European on- and off-highway commercial vehicle industry, mainly serving leading original equipment manufacturers. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Büchlberg near Passau, Germany, it has four production sites across Germany and over 700 employees. With HIG’s investment, Beinbauer will look to grow organically within the
Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its restructuring team with the appointment of Phil Reynolds as partner based in the firm’s London office.
Reynolds has 23 years’ restructuring experience gained within a number of ‘big four’ professional services firms both in London and internationally.
Reynolds has a focus on providing advisory and insolvency services to both corporates and their lenders principally within the mid-market and has deep experience in the retail, technology and leisure sectors. He has also more recently been closely involved with the charities and wider not-for-profit sector, having undertaken restructurings to resolve pensions issues, or
UK private equity-owned companies are driving growth against a backdrop of uncertainty as they boosted revenues by 12 per cent in the last year, according to research by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.
BDO reveals that the UK’s private equity-owned companies (from a sample of 902 portfolio companies where private equity firms together own between 50.01 per cent and 100 per cent) have seen revenues increase by 12 per cent from GBP37.4 billion to GBP42 billion in the last year.
These private equity-owned companies are also boosting the UK labour market. Now employing 311,833 people in the UK,
Maranon Capital, an alternative investment management firm focused on private credit investments in middle market companies, has appointed Laura Albrecht as Managing Director and Partner.
“Laura’s promotion reflects her increasing leadership roles within Maranon in addition to her outstanding contributions underwriting and managing investments and her overall dedication to Maranon’s success,” says Tom Gregory, Maranon’s Co-Founding Partner. “We are deeply committed to the development and advancement of experienced investment professionals and are excited to have Laura as our Partner in the continued growth of Maranon.”
Laura earned an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an investment firm focused on middle-market debt and equity investments, announced today that Todd Kushman joins as a principal and head of capital markets. Kushman is based in New York.
Kushman will lead the firm’s capital markets initiatives, which includes optimising and identifying new alternative investment product offerings.
“Todd’s deep experience in structured finance at leading financial institutions is additive as we look to further optimise the financing options for our investment vehicles,” says Richard Levy, CEO and Founder of VPC. “We have confidence that his leadership in capital markets will assist the firm in expanding our
The Tages Helios Fund is to acquires a portfolio of more than 51 MW comprising 35 plants distributed throughout Apulia, Sicily and Emilia Romagna effective from SECI.
The plants in the portfolio use first-rate technology and were built directly by Enerray, a company managed by SECI Energia – the market leader in Italy. The acquired portfolio generates around 74 GWh a year, which is an energy output capable of meeting the electricity demand of 27,000 families and results in an annual saving of 30,000 tonnes of CO₂ from being released into the atmosphere.
With this latest acquisition, the entire
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