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The ICMA-NAFMII Working Group, which brings together experts from financial institutions in China and the UK to share expertise on processes, practices, and the associated market infrastructure in debt capital markets, has issued its first report: ‘Practices and procedures in the Chinese and international primary debt capital markets’.
The report is issued today as Vice-Premier Ma Kai and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne meet in Beijing as part of the 7th UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue.
In the 2014 6th UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue, Vice-Premier Ma Kai and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne agreed that further
Glennmont Partners has completed the purchase of the Port Clarence Energy Project from ECO2 and Temporis Capital on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II, in a GBP160m deal.
The Port Clarence Energy Project will see a new biomass power generation plant built at Port Clarence, Stockton-on-Tees, providing 40 MW of CHP enabled renewable energy to the UK Energy market. The plant is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2018.
The purchase and further construction of the Port Clarence Energy Project is being supported by debt arranged by Deutsche Bank
Charles Yoon (pictured) is to join family-backed investment firm Bregal Partners as Managing Partner. Yoon will continue to focus on investing in growth-oriented companies with proven business models in the consumer, food, specialty retail and healthcare retail space.
Yoon has spent the past twenty years in the middle market private equity space, most recently as Partner at Monitor Clipper Partners. Prior to Monitor Clipper, Charles was a Principal with the LA-based private equity firm, Brentwood Associates. He began his private equity career in 1995 at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the investment process
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has joined Lazard as a Senior Advisor, with a focus on sovereign advisory.
Okonjo-Iweala, a specialist in economic development and international finance, was until May 2015 the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Honourable Minister of Finance of Nigeria.
“Dr Okonjo-Iweala has built a remarkable international reputation over more than three decades in leadership positions in government and at the World Bank,” says Kenneth M Jacobs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lazard. “She will be a strong addition as a Senior Advisor to our firm.”
“We are proud to welcome Dr Okonjo-Iweala as a Senior Advisor
TouGas Oilfield Solutions has completed its Series D investment round. Broadscale Group, a New York based investment and advisory firm, has joined the Series D round as a new investor and shareholder.
"I am very excited to welcome Broadscale as a new shareholder in the company. The deep and longstanding expertise of Broadscale and its partners in supporting growth companies will help us to further accelerate the growth of the company," says Dr Tore Land, CEO of TouGas Oilfield Solutions.
"TouGas's proprietary technology solutions can dramatically improve the productivity and sustainability of the oil and gas sector. By enabling hydraulic
Nexxus Capital Private Equity Fund III has sold it sold its holding in Diagnósticos de México, Diamex (Olab), a diagnostic healthcare provider offering diagnostic imaging and clinical analysis through a network of 40 branches in Mexico.
Nexxus III invested in Olab when the Company had 22 units (12 regular, 2 mobile and 8 on-site sampling), while today Olab has almost doubled its network, operating 40 units (23 regular, 8 mobile and 9 on-site sampling). In addition, the administration of the Company focused on diversifying its revenues by focusing more in the retail sector as well as in the institutionalization of
Indian home healthcare company Portea Medical has secured USD37.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Accel. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; Qualcomm Ventures and Ventureast also participated in this round.
Portea will use the latest investment to fuel the company’s expansion in India where it currently operates across 24 cities and handles 60,000 visits in a month to patients’ homes. It will also utilize the funding to grow in other markets elsewhere in the region including in Malaysia where it already provides services in four cities.
Portea has more than
CEPRES has appointed Karl-Heinz Floether (pictured, ex-International Chairman Accenture) and Iain Stokes (ex-Head of EMEA Private Equity State Street Bank) to the Company's Advisory Board.
Both are respected thought-leaders in the future of FinTech and will help set strategy to continue CEPRES’ rapid growth in North America, Europe and Asia. Floether was previously Chief Executive Financial Services and Group Chief Executive Technology & Delivery at Accenture, and is member of Supervisory Boards for Deutsche Boerse AG and Commerzbank AG. Stokes was previously Group Managing Director at Mourant and Senior Manager Private Equity at Barings and holds non-Executive Directorships with prominent
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Cybera, a provider of secure virtual application network solutions, on its strategic investment from Sumeru Equity Partners and existing investor Adams Street Partners.
Following the transaction, Sumeru Equity will hold a majority equity stake in Cybera, and existing investor Adams Street and senior management will retain significant equity interests and board representation. This transaction highlights Mooreland Partners' position among the most active M&A advisors to the Enterprise Security segment, having completed four transactions in the sector during the second half of 2015 alone.
Based in Nashville, Cybera provides a simple
Dechert advised US venture capital firms Accel Partners and LeadEdge Capital in the USD200m fund raising by BlaBlaCar, the French ride-sharing start-up.
This new fund raising, the largest to date for a French tech company, will help the company to continue its growth in countries where BlaBlaCar is already well established, accompany the launch of the carpooling in countries where the French startup has just launched and extend its international expansion to new territories.
With more than USD300million raised, BlaBlaCar is now one of Europe’s best-funded start-ups. Blablacar is the latest French Unicorn (i.e. Start up worth more than
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