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A fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent interest in an operational wind project in the UK from innogy.
The 18-megawatt Batsworthy Cross wind farm is located in Devon and is now fully operational.
The project benefits from Senvion technology with a long-term Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreement in place. REG Power Management has been appointed to undertake the operational management of the project.
Following the investment in Batsworthy Cross, funds managed by BlackRock Real Assets own over 40 renewables projects in the UK across onshore wind, offshore wind and
Salvepar is to make an additional investment of EUR35.5 million in Les Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques (DRT), bringing its total investment from EUR5 million to EUR40.5 million.
The equity investment, alongside the founding families, brings additional resources to DRT to finance its ambitious growth plan in line with the company’s roadmap when Salvepar became a shareholder in 2014.
The funds will allow DRT to fund the USD150 million acquisition of Pinova from Symrise. Pinova, headquartered in Georgia, US, is active in DRT’s core business and is one of the leading manufacturers of plant-based resins.
Christian de Labriffe, chief executive
Palatine Private Equity has appointed Zoe Clements as a partner in the London team as the firm looks to back businesses that have a focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
Clements joins from Electra Partners where she played a leading role in its investment in Photobox Group, a digital consumer service for personalised products and gifts, and its exit of Daler-Rowney, a supplier of fine arts materials.
She spent most of her private equity career at LGV Capital where she worked on a number of deals across a range of sectors. Her board seats included ABI, Air
Asset management firm Barings has acted as co-lead arranger of a unitranche facility to support Bridgepoint Development Capital's acquisition of Inspiring Learning.
Barings' role in the buyout marks the third transaction for the former European private finance group of Babson Capital Management since Babson consolidated its operations with the former Baring Asset Management and rebranded the new firm under the Barings name in September 2016.
Inspiring Learning is a UK provider of residential learning activities and travel programmes for school-aged young people, operating 10 residential activity centres in the UK and France.
"We are very pleased to support
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners is to invest up to GBP2 million in Chic Lifestyle, a technology company which operates the B2B Chic Retreats marketplace.
The marketplace enables independent and boutique hotels and luxury villas to optimise their distribution of rooms, rates and availability online.
The investment will enable Chic Lifestyle to complete the development of its core technology platform, enhance its web and mobile offerings and expand its footprint into new geographies.
Chic Lifestyle, developed on Google Cloud, targets the offers a distribution solution which allows hotels and villas to manage inventory in real time
James Hall, who joined private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) a year ago, has been promoted to the position of partner.
Based at the firm’s Leeds head office, Hall has been working alongside partners Peter Armitage and Owen Trotter to source investment opportunities in profitable, dynamic SMEs across the North of England following the first closing of KCP’s latest fund.
The team specialises in the smaller buyout market, backing growing businesses with GBP3 million to GBP15 million of equity finance to fund MBOs, equity release and development capital deals.
With 17 years’ experience within the sector, Hall
IK Investment Partners’ IK VIII Fund is to acquire ZytoService Group, a compounder of pharmaceuticals for patient-individualised infusions, from the founders and Capiton.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2002, ZytoService is based in Hamburg, where it runs a compounding facility.
“We are delighted to be working with IK going forward. ZytoService operates in an industry in which IK has extensive expertise, and with their support we will be well placed to further expand our competence and provide the best service to our customers,” says Enno Scheel, co-founder of ZytoService.
“We firmly
The South African and Kenyan offices of pan-African law firm Bowmans, together with international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Nigerian law firm Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, will launch their inaugural African Private Equity Academy in Sandton this week.
Over 100 delegates from across Africa will attend the launch of the academy.
John Bellew, the head of private equity at Bowmans, says the academy is targeted primarily at junior to mid-level private equity deal executives and is intended to highlight important legal and commercial issues that should be addressed in negotiating private equity transactions, both in South Africa and more broadly within the rest
BC Tech Fund, which is managed by Kensington Capital Partners, has made an investment in Vancouver's Vanedge Capital II.
The commitment to Vanedge II is the first investment by the BC Tech Fund into a BC-based venture capital fund.
Vanedge II is continuing the investment strategy pursued by Vanedge in its first fund, focusing on emerging technology companies in Cloud computing and infrastructure, SaaS, cybersecurity and digital media.
"This is the second investment from our CAD100 million BC Tech Fund and part of government's plan to grow BC's tech sector," says Amrik Virk, Minister, Technology, Innovation and Citizens'
Private unlisted infrastructure can act as a hedge for corporate bonds, while significantly outperforming on returns, according to a report by CEPRES.
Using PE.Analyzer to analyse thousands of privately held Infrastructure assets, CEPRES found that since 2002 there was a beta (co-movement) to the US corporate bond market of -0.9 and an alpha of 19.5 per cent.
The results were derived from the new PE.Analyzer Alpha Beta Framework that uses regression analysis to calculate the risk adjusted return (alpha), together with the correlation (beta) to an underlying market – in this case US corporate bonds.
“Infrastructure, as a
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