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IFC, with the support of the Government of Canada and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is helping BMR Jamaica Wind build, operate and maintain a 36.3 MW capacity wind farm about 90 km west of Kingston.
This will be the largest renewable energy project developed by the private sector in Jamaica.
“The private sector, with support from long-term lending partners like OPIC, IFC and the government of Canada, is keen to develop Jamaica’s renewable energy potential,” says Bruce Levy, BMR’s Director. “With this initiative we plan to bring cleaner, cost competitive energy to the Jamaican electricity sector.”
The USD62.7
Money Dashboard, the personal finance platform, has raised a further GBP2.5 million as part of its Series A funding round led by private equity fund manager Calculus Capital.
The round also included investment from Ariadne Capital, Par Equity, and The Scottish Investment Bank, and adds to the initial GBP2.7 million investment made in November 2013. The investment brings the total Series A funding raised by Money Dashboard to GBP5.2million (USD8.3m) in 12 months.
Over the last two years Money Dashboard has grown its user base by more than 300%, equating to hundreds of new users a day, and now has
Bravia Capital has acquired a significant minority stake in Thotakã Tecknologies India Private Limited (“Thotakã”), a Hyderabad, India based Engineering Services Company.
Thotakã is a business focused on high-technology product engineering and value added pilot manufacturing. The emergence of multi-Giga Hertz data-rates at chip and system level and modern communication technologies using radio frequencies, are creating new categories of devices and large-scale middleware systems development. Thotakã is focused on these developments across industrial and consumer appliances, automotive electronics, telecommunications devices and other strategic electronics.
Sriram Subramanian, Director Operations at Thotakã is bullish about the international markets in this field of
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has appointed Ivo Lurvink as a Partner in the firm’s Amsterdam office. He will join the company on April 1, 2015.
Most recently Head of ING Group Investments and Global Head of Group Acquisitions and Divestment, Lurvink has over 25 years of experience in senior executive and banking roles. Prior to joining the ING Group in 2007, he held a number of senior leadership positions at Royal Philips Electronics. He has also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston and Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Geert Duyck, Managing Partner, says: "We are delighted to
New research from Intralinks predicts M&A deals in EMEA in the first half of 2015 will increase by 18 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Europe is now a major driver of worldwide M&A deal volume, which is predicted to increase by 12 per cent globally.
The figures come from the Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), which tracks the volume of early-stage merger and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. It has been independently verified as a reliable predictor of future M&A activity.
The Q2 2015 DFP shows particularly strong performances in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Glennmont Partners has completed the purchase of the Margam Green Energy Project from ECO2 and Western Logs Group on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II in a GBP160m deal.
The Margam Green Energy Project will see a new biomass power generation plant built in Port Talbot, Wales, providing 40 MW of renewable energy to the Welsh and UK Energy market.
The purchase and further construction of the Margam Green Energy Project is being supported by debt arranged by Deutsche Bank with the support of Eksport Kredit Fonden, the export credit agency of
CVC, Apax and TPG buyout funds were the most desired secondaries in 2014, according to Cebile Capital, a firm that advises buyers and sellers of private equity secondary stakes.
The results are from Cebile’s List of Most Demanded Secondaries 2014, which assesses the secondaries market demand of US and European buyout funds.
Cebile use two measures to compile the list – The Cebile Liquidity Rating and the Cebile Demand Gauge – which seek to measure how easily a firm’s funds would trade on the secondary market, based on the interest level and demand from secondaries buyers. Cebile rates the demand
Andreessen Horowitz – the venture capital firm created by Netscape and Opsware founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz – has led a Series C USD58m round in Europe’s leading financial tech start-up TransferWise.
TransferWise’s existing investors, including Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Index Ventures, IA Ventures, and Seedcamp, also participated in the round.
The start-up will use these funds for global expansion. It opens its US office next month and will be opening offices in Germany and in Australia in the next few months. The company plans to open 300 further currency routes in the next year.
Some 61% of London AIFMs feel the AIFMD has opened up new opportunities in Europe, according to research by KNEIP. By contrast, only 35% of New York AIFMs agree with their European counterparts.
The research also shows that Luxembourg firms share London’s sentiment, as well over half of firms based in the region agree that the AIFMD has been beneficial in opening new business opportunities in other European markets, thus demonstrating a contrast to the way the AIFMD has benefited non-European and European firms.
The findings come from a survey, now in its third year, of AIFMs domiciled in
Preqin launched its 2015 Preqin Global Alternatives Reports last week, revealing significant growth in assets held by private equity, hedge fund, private debt, real estate and infrastructure fund managers. Total industry assets now stand at USD6.91tn*, up from USD6.22tn as of this point last year.
Real estate as an asset class has been an important contributor to this growth, as improving valuations of unrealised assets have seen the value of private real estate industry assets rise by USD85bn over the 12 months to June 2014. However, rising prices have also led to tougher competition in the marketplace.
The 2015 Preqin Global Real Estate Report provides a comprehensive review of
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