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Foresight Group has made a significant investment into software and sensor business Ekkosense, the fifth investment completed by the firm during November.
Ekkosense specialises in developing and delivering expert software analytics, low cost innovative sensors and vendor agnostic thermal expertise for optimising the performance of data centres, server rooms, power transmission sites, solar plants and telecoms equipment.
The investment will enable the business to continue to develop its software functionality and sensor technologies for further applications within critical built environments, enabling its customers to reduce operational risk, benefit from energy savings and release unused or unavailable capacity.
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CVC Capital Partners has appointed Fazle Husain as a partner and head of US healthcare.
Husain will be based in CVC’s New York office and will join the firm in January.
Husain joins CVC from the private equity firm Metalmark Capital where he was head of healthcare investing, having joined in 2007.
Prior to joining Metalmark, Fazle was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in the private equity business, where he spent 18 years. He has a track record of investing in healthcare companies for over 25 years, including investments in the healthcare service, medical device, specialty pharmaceuticals
KKR is to acquire a majority stake in cyber security specialist Optiv Security from a group of private investors, including a private equity fund managed by Blackstone.
Blackstone will maintain a minority interest in Optiv along with Optiv management.
Other selling shareholders include Investcorp and Sverica. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
Over the past three years, Optiv has served more than 7,500 clients in 76 countries, including 71 of the Fortune 100 and 604 of the Fortune 1000. Optiv was named to the 2016 Inc. 5000 as one of North America’s fastest-growing private companies
Kirkland & Ellis has advised CD Capital, a London-based specialist natural resources and mining private equity manager, on the closing of the CD Capital Natural Resources Fund III.
The fund was closed with aggregate capital commitments of USD355 million.
The fund, which will make investments in global natural resources and mining companies and projects, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, family offices and fund of funds.
The Kirkland team was led by London-based investment funds partner Christopher Braunack and associates Jennifer Feng and Aisling Campbell and New York-based tax partner David
Alternative asset manager Atalaya Capital Management has closed its third Asset Income Fund (AIF III) at its USD525 million hard cap, exceeding its USD500 million target.
AIF III held its first close in June 2016. AIF III’s investors are primarily public and corporate pension plans, foundations, and endowments.
In the first six months of the investment period, AIF III has called close to 50 per cent of its capital commitments.
Like previous Atalaya Asset Income Funds, AIF III will primarily originate loans to financial asset and real estate borrowers. Targeted investments include specialty finance rediscount loans against small
Peer-to-peer finance platform Assetz Capital has appointed Rob Pailin as its chief commercial officer and member of the board of directors.
Pailin joins from RBS Corporate, where was managing director of the bank’s corporate business in the north. As a senior executive at RBS for more than 10 years, Pailin was also chief operating officer for RBS Corporate EU divestment team, responsible for a wide range of functions including business risk and controls, change management, customer insight, regulatory reporting and management information and analytics.
He has recently been preparing for RBS’s re-brand to Williams & Glyn ahead of its planned
Polaris has agreed to sell Avanti Wind Systems to Alimak Group, marking the private equity firm’s sixth exit in the past 18 months.
With Polaris as its owner since 2011, Avanti, a specialist in service lifts as well as ladder and safety systems for the wind turbine industry, has doubled revenue and expanded its global sales and production platform during the period.
The company today has more than 400 employees, six production units and service units in 9 countries. Avanti is headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark.
The positive development has entailed a doubling of revenue from EUR47 million in
Private equity firm Cinven has agreed to sell Host Europe Group (HEG), one of the largest privately-owned web services providers in Europe, to GoDaddy, a cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures.
Cinven acquired the core business within HEG in August 2013 for an original consideration of GBP438 million.
The transaction marked the first platform acquisition of an overall consolidation strategy, originated by Cinven’s TMT team who had identified web services as an attractive and fragmented market.
The Cinven team worked closely with the HEG management team and key achievements include: implementing a buy and build strategy including
Reducing the carbon footprint of buildings and enhancing sustainability are fast becoming business critical issues for institutional real estate investors. But in order to implement an effective green strategy to lower one's carbon footprint, having access to detailed building performance data and analytics is vital. This report discusses how Siemens is able to achieve this to help investors enhance the value of their real estate portfolios.
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On average, energy consumption accounts for 40 per cent of the lifecycle costs of buildings. For those wishing to optimise their real estate and demonstrate green credentials, and compliance
Clessidra SGR has signed a definitive agreement to sell all outstanding shares of ABM Italia to funds advised by BC Partners through their participation in Keter Group.
ABM Italia is one of Europe's leading manufacturer of high-end resin storage systems for domestic/office applications such as cabinets, shelves and storage boxes.
Matteo Ricatti, managing director at Clessidra, says: “We are delighted to have reached this agreement. We also feel privileged to have accompanied ABM Italia in its transformation from an entrepreneurial to a managerial organisation. This acquisition by BC Partners marks a new era for the company.”
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