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Angel investors Stephen Houston and Peter Cowley are to join Angel CoFund’s 10-strong investment committee.
Houston is best known for his involvement with Halo, the business angel network for Northern Ireland, which in 2010 was named British Business Angels Association’s Angel Network of the Year. With a background in Fast Moving Consumer Goods and property, he brings to the role 25 years of management and start-up experience.
Cowley is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor, who is well known in the Cambridge enterprise scene, where he is a board member of the Cambridge Angels, as well as a Fellow
ACCIONA is to partner with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) to consolidate and develop one of the largest operating international renewable energy portfolios in the world.
Under the agreement, KKR will invest in ACCIONA Energía International (AEI), the international renewable energy generation business of ACCIONA Energía, the Spanish multinational’s energy division. KKR is making the investment from its global infrastructure fund.
KKR is acquiring a one-third stake in AEI at a price of EUR417m and will help to fund future growth of the renewables portfolio. ACCIONA Energía will retain the remaining two-thirds of AEI.
AEI will hold ACCIONA Energía’s
Offshore law firm Appleby has appointed Benjamin Woolf as partner.
Woolf is a member of the corporate and commercial practice group and specialises in structured finance and corporate transactions.
He also works on mergers and acquisitions, asset finance and subscription finance.
Managing partner of the Cayman office, Bryan Hunter, says: “Benjamin is an exemplary lawyer and his recent promotion to partner is in recognition of not only his hard work, skill and expertise but also the impressive growth of Appleby’s corporate and finance team.”
Prior to joining Appleby, Woolf practised at Clifford Chance and Mayer Brown where
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is planning to launch a GBP1 billion fund to acquire equity stakes in operational offshore wind projects in the UK.
GIB is seeking a suitable group of strategic, long-term co-investors to participate in the capital raising exercise.
The fund will be managed by a GIB subsidiary which is currently regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and will be seeking permission from the FCA to become a regulated fund manager.
With 3.6GW of installed capacity, 1.4GW in construction and a number of further projects in the pipeline, the UK sector is set
Private equity house LDC is to exit from UK commercial real estate consultant GVA once its merger with Bilfinger, the EUR8.6bn-turnover global engineering, construction and real estate services group, is finalised.
LDC’s initial investment of GBP40 million for a minority stake in GVA in 2007 supported the company’s growth through acquisition.
The merger will result in LDC, which currently holds a 27.5 per cent stake in GVA, exiting the business following a sustained period of investment that has helped GVA realise its growth plans.
Contracts have been exchanged and there was a 99 per cent shareholder vote –
Huron Capital Partners has formed a platform investment in the dental market and recapitalised Michigan-based Spring & Sprout Dental Holdings.
Spring & Sprout is a dental support organisation (DSO) formed to provide practice support services to dental specialists in paediatric dentistry and orthodontics.
Spring & Sprout will initially provide its support services to dental practices in Ohio, with plans to expand its presence through the Midwest and into the South.
In launching this buy-and-build initiative, Huron Capital has partnered with dental industry veteran and Huron Capital operating partner Michael Schwartz. Schwartz was previously the CEO of Corner Dental, a
Urban&Civic, a portfolio company of private equity firm GI Partner, has completed its reversal into Terrace Hill Plc and the subsequent relisting on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
GI Partners established Urban&Civic with the management team of Nigel Hugill (chairman) and Robin Butler (managing director) in 2009. The company was set up to acquire strategic land sites in the UK and take these assets through the allocation and planning consent process to deliver large scale residential and employment led developments.
Urban&Civic's first acquisition was the 1,432 acre Alconbury Weald site near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, a former
Emerging markets – including Latin America, Africa and China – continue to be the winners of new global sovereign flow, despite a fundamental preference, relative to the total portfolio, for developed markets, a study by Invesco has found.
The second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study also shows that sovereign investors continue to favour alternative investments with allocations increasing across all major alternative asset classes, including real estate and private equity, on a net respondent view basis.
Analysis of data within the study highlights that these geographical and asset class shifts can be attributed to the influence of
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has acquired Global Orthopaedic Technologies, an Australian manufacturer and distributor of orthopaedic implants.
With two research, design and manufacturing facilities in Bella Vista and Seven Hills in New South Wales, Global supplies implants and instrumentation for hip, knee, shoulder and spine surgeries, along with related orthobiologics.
Riverside has partnered on the transaction with Andrew Fox-Smith and Duncan Lilley. Fox-Smith is a former group president – international with Stryker Corporation, and has more than two decades of experience in the global orthopaedic market. Fox-Smith will serve as CEO. Lilley has most recently held senior
MyOptique Group, a European online optical retailer, has secured a GBP16 million (EUR20m) additional investment, bringing the total raised in its current Series C funding round to GBP35 million (EUR43m).
The latest investment came from two new investors, Korys and Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, with additional funding from existing investor Cipio Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.
Together with the initial Series C investment round from previous investors Acton Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Index Ventures, the GBP35m (EUR43m) round is one of the five biggest UK technology venture capital investments of 2014.
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