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Ardian, the independent private investment company, has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with UniCredit for the acquisition of a EUR300 million portfolio of limited partnership interests in European infrastructure private equity funds.
Closing of the transaction is expected in Q3 2017 subject to the approval and rules of the fund manager. This deal represents one of the largest secondary infrastructure transactions in 2017 and confirms Ardian’s leadership in secondary infrastructure Funds of Funds.
UniCredit is a simple successful Pan European Commercial Bank, with a fully plugged in CIB, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern European network to
I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, has signed an agreement, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II, to acquire a 100 per cent interest in Hutchison Global Communications Investment Holding Limited (HGC) from Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH) for approximately HKD14.5 billion.
The transaction is expected to close by October 2017.
HGC is a leading fixed-line service provider to fixed and mobile carriers, OTT service providers, corporate and business, residential and data centres in Hong Kong and around the world. Its over 1.4-million-kilometre fibre network connects to over 14,200 buildings and it is also
By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing IT is a viable option for many private equity firms who are looking for high quality, enterprise grade technology without the headache of managing it in house.
The last Deloitte global outsourcing survey in 2016 indicated that the market for outsourced services would almost certainly continue, but outsourced service providers would need to change and adapt to meet the needs of customers, who expect innovation, and want to see their businesses enhanced and improved by service providers.
Increased regulations and changes to compliance legislation have not dented the trend for outsourcing, as ISG report in
Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) has acquired MDSL, a specialist in Technology Expense Management (TEM) solutions.
SEP, which also owns TEM provider Telesoft, is planning to combine the two companies. SEP has owned Telesoft for nearly one year and believes the combination of the firms will increase scale and global delivery capability.
The two companies will be coming together under the MDSL brand. MDSL’s management team will be comprised of Chairman Ben Mendoza, CEO Charles Layne, CTO Simon Mendoza, CFO Tamara Saunders, COO Daman Wood and Chief Architect Thierry Zerbib.
“MDSL has been succeeding in winning world-class enterprise customers.
AMP Capital’s Infrastructure Debt team has reached financial close on an expansion of its mezzanine debt investment with Alterra Power Corp, a global renewable energy company headquartered in British Columbia, Canada.
Alterra manages eight power plants totalling 825 MW of hydro, wind, geothermal and solar generation capacity in Canada, the US and Iceland. Alterra owns a 363 MW share of this capacity, generating more than 1,500 GWh of clean power annually.
Under the agreement, an additional tranche of USD21.1 million was added to the existing facility the company holds with AMP Capital. The proceeds have been used to partially fund
In Part 1 of our hybrid cloud whitepaper excerpt, we reviewed the primary benefits to public, private & hybrid cloud infrastructures, and reviewed a number of considerations including service & support, availability and uptime, and proximity. In Part 2 below, we dive into additional factors to contemplate, specifically: security, application hosting and cost.
To download the full whitepaper, Is Hybrid Cloud Right For Your Firm?, click here.
Security
While your public cloud provider may provide world-class security for its services, your company is still on the hook for certifying all aspects of information security. For compliance-driven businesses, there
By George Ralph, RFA – How do firms retain 100% of their clients? Firstly, when clients have put their trust into your business and agreed to work with you, that’s just the start of the journey. Many businesses see winning the client as the end goal. Instead see this as the beginning of a long partnership and take a systematic approach to onboarding new clients, which means less errors, and a professional service delivered both before and after the client signs up with you.
A specialist should work through a set of steps starting with initial data gathering, to create
Baird Capital, the direct investment arm of Robert W Baird & Co, has acquired an interest in Prescient Healthcare Group (Prescient), a product strategy consultancy to the global biopharmaceutical industry.
As part of the transaction, Baird Capital Partner Andrew Ferguson and Principal John DiGiovanni will join the Prescient board of directors. Nick Edwards, founder and former Chairman of Kinapse, will chair the board.
Founded in 2007, Prescient is headquartered in London and has offices in the US, India and China. The business provides product strategy services to help its clients make better clinical and commercial decisions, resulting in enhanced
Callsign, an artificial intelligence-based authentication platform, has raised USD35 million in a Series A investment round led by global venture capital firm Accel and early-stage investor PTB Ventures.
Allegis Capital and cybersecurity industry veteran David DeWalt’s NightDragon Security also participated in the round.
With the proliferation of data breaches, advanced threats resulting in stolen user credentials, there is increasing pressure on companies of all sizes around the world to implement better authentication practices. In 2015 alone, cybercrime cost businesses USD500 billion, and this is estimated to rise four times to USD2 trillion in 2019[1]. At the same time, companies
Private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has acquired Lutech from Laserline, the majority shareholder, and 16 other minority shareholders. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Lutech is a mid-sized IT system integration and solutions provider to medium and large Italian private and public-sector clients, with a diversified offering across vertical markets and business models: system integration, proprietary vertical market solutions and next generation IT infrastructure. The company’s software product and associated solutions include innovative technology areas such as fintech, IoT, eHealth and cybersecurity.
Over the past four years, through a combination of organic and inorganic growth,
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