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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.
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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,
Private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has entered into exclusive negotiations with Weinberg Capital Partners (Weinberg) for the acquisition of Bruneau.
The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval and consultation with employee representative bodies.
Bruneau is one of France’s leading online distributors of office furniture and supplies. Founded over 60 years ago, the Group offers a wide range of products for all professionals. Based in Villebon-sur-Yvette, Bruneau employs approximately 750 people and generated sales of EUR312 million in 2016.
Grégoire Châtillon and Grégoire Schlumberger, Partners at Equistone Partners Europe, says: “We were attracted to Bruneau by the
Flybondi, Argentina´s first Ultra Low Cost Airline, has completed an investment round of USD75 million with major investors from the aviation industry.
The company expects to transport 10 million passengers in five years and double the air travel market in Argentina. Among the highly-experienced groups and executives investing in Flybondi are Cartesian Capital Group LLC, Yamasa Co. Limited, Michael Cawley (former COO at Ryanair Holdings Plc), Michael Powell (former CFO at Wizz Air Holdings Plc), as well as other European and Argentinian private investors.
Julian Cook, former CEO of Swiss airline Flybaboo, is the CEO of Flybondi. Alongside him
Newgate Private Equity has agreed to acquire Arle Capital Partners Limited (ACPL), manager of the Candover 2005 and Candover 2008 Funds, as well as various co-investment vehicles.
Following completion ACPL, under Newgate’s ownership, will continue to manage the remaining investment in Expro International Group Holdings Limited (Expro), and oversee the orderly wind- down of the Funds. The Expro investment is to be managed within a newly-established special purpose entity on a basis that provides a materially reduced cost base and greater alignment with investors.
Newgate has been advising the advisory boards of the Funds since October 2016, when ACPL
StarCompliance, a provider of enterprise compliance and regulatory software solutions for the financial services industry, has secured an investment from Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, to support its global growth strategy.
StarCompliance’s software platform helps financial services institutions manage, prevent, detect, report and resolve employee conflicts of interest by providing an unmatched 360-degree view of employee activity across the enterprise. StarCompliance’s platform monitors critical regulated employee activities such as personal trading, gifts and entertainment, political contributions and outside business activities to ensure ongoing compliance and mitigate the operational and reputational risk of non-compliance.
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