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Stephen Yates examines Preqin’s latest data on wind power deals, including aggregate deal value, average deal size and the most prominent regions for wind power deal activity.
Preqin’s Infrastructure Deals module on Infrastructure Online includes extensive information on over 11,200 completed transactions in infrastructure assets globally. These deals encompass a wide variety of investors, ranging from infrastructure fund managers and direct institutional investors to developers, contractors and other industry-specific trade investors. Over 8,100 infrastructure transactions have been completed since 2006, worth an estimated deal value of approximately USD1.8 trillion. Renewable energy is a prominent sector within the asset class, with
Cim Fund Services, one of the largest fund administrators in Mauritius, is going live with the eFront’s flagship FrontInvest solution.
Cim Fund Services will use the automation capabilities of FrontInvest to provide premium administration services for sophisticated alternative investment funds around the world through gains in efficiency and accuracy.
Cim Fund Services is part of the Cim Group, a large financial services firm headquartered in Mauritius. Now among the largest fund administrators in the island nation, Cim Fund Services sought to reduce its dependency on manual processes, reduce human error, save time and produce reports more efficiently. With very
A Fitch Ratings analysis of three of the largest US alternative investment managers shows that each firm should be able to sufficiently cover outstanding debt obligations, including 30-year bonds, under a 10-year runoff scenario.
This would be achieved through fee-related cash flows and discounted asset realisations.
The runoff analysis complements Fitch's standard, going-concern evaluation of alternative investment managers, which takes into account franchise strength, management quality, performance strength and ability to continue to raise additional assets under management.
In Fitch's opinion, The Blackstone Group, LP (Blackstone, A+/Stable) has the most flexibility when it comes to debt repayment under the runoff
Rightpoint, a digital agency and technology consultancy, has secured a USD55 million equity investment from New York-based Stella Point Capital.
This investment has been committed to fuel geographic expansion, grow capabilities in key areas including digital marketing and CRM, and augment professional services with product-based solutions. Stella Point’s investment will also support future strategic acquisitions. Rightpoint co-founders, Ross Freedman and Brad Schneider, and the Rightpoint leadership team will remain in their positions and continue to manage the strategic direction and growth of the company.
Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Detroit and Denver, Rightpoint is an award-winning, hybrid digital agency
D E Shaw Renewable Investments and Bright Plain Renewable Energy (BPRE) have acquired two solar projects with a combined capacity of 7.1 MW-DC located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The projects were developed by Community Energy, Inc (CEI) and acquired by an affiliate of DESRI in partnership with BPRE. The sites are located on industrial property owned by Citizens Energy Group (Citizens), including a former monofill landfill.
groSolar will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the projects, and provide operations and maintenance services to the facilities once they are operational later this year. The projects are expected to produce
Research firm Cerulli Associates has found that close to 70 per cent of European pensions plan to increase allocations to various alternative investment classes, principally infrastructure, in their search for diversification.
The institutions realise that the yields from their core holdings are inadequate and that markets for some mainstream assets are expensive. However, Cerulli warns that alternative managers still face myriad challenges winning new institutional business.
The firm found that some pensions are co-investing directly, thereby largely bypassing asset managers in some lucrative asset classes. “In addition, Europe's insurers must weigh up the value of alternatives in light of
Venture capital investor Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, has invested GBP2.7 million in waterproof outdoor accessories specialist Sealskinz Ltd.
Sealskinz has over thirty years' experience in developing and manufacturing endurance accessories. The company’s patented processes create clothing that is waterproof, breathable and, uniquely, stretchable. It works in partnership with some of the world’s greatest athletes including mountaineers, explorers, cyclists, skiers, runners, sailors and horse riders to ensure its products deliver the very best in comfort and performance.
The funding from the ProVen VCTs will be used to support the company’s further growth into international markets and strengthen product development
The Quoted Companies Alliance, an independent membership organisation for small to mid-size quoted companies, has appointed Judith MacKenzie to its Board.
MacKenzie is a Partner of Downing LLP and is responsible for the Public Equity Division which predominantly focuses on Micro-Cap investments of under GBP150 million market capitalisation. In this role she is known for her selective approach, researching companies thoroughly before investing and holding them for long periods.
Prior to joining Downing in October 2009, MacKenzie was a partner at Acuity Capital, managing AIM-quoted VCT and IHT investments and a small-cap activist fund. Previously Ju MacKenzie dith was for
Alternative investments firm QIC has formed a USD764 million (AUD1 billion) Asia-Pacific infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
The partnership represents CalPERS' first Asia-Pacific infrastructure commitment and adds another of the world's largest pension funds to QIC's infrastructure client base. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific infrastructure assets for the partnership.
Ross Israel, Head of QIC's Global Infrastructure says: "We are very pleased to have entered into this partnership with a pension fund of CalPERS' stature and for an investment mandate of this scale. CalPERS has
Noerr has advised on the sale of Kunze Folien GmbH to a strategic investor. The company which is based in Oberhaching near Munich is taken over by the US Aavid Group.
A Noerr team led by the Frankfurt corporate partner Dr Thorsten Reinhard acted on the side of the sole shareholder and company founder Burkhard Kunze.
Kunze Folien specialises in heat-conducting interface materials and films used in the dissipation of heat of electronic components. The takeover by Aavid, one of the world’s leading providers of heat management solutions and heat sinks in the electronics industry, is intended to develop new
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