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Venture capital and small business finance firm Advantage Capital Partners has been awarded a USD80 million allocation in the highly competitive federal New Markets Tax Credit program. This latest allocation brings the firm’s total awards since the program began in 2002 to USD524 million.
Through prior state and federal New Markets program allocations, Advantage Capital has invested more than USD650 million in private capital into 147 businesses, which, in the aggregate, employ more than 8,000 people and have attracted more than USD900 million in follow-on capital to support their growth.
Announcing the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program allocation awards
Catella has acted as adviser and arranger for Sefyr Värme AB, the parent company of the district heating company Värmevärden AB, in the issue of a senior secured note in excess of SEK 900 million, directed at selected Nordic institutional investors. The bond carries a 7% coupon and has a tenor of five years.
“This is the first major transaction resulting from Catella’s endeavours within the financing area. We see clearly that companies nowadays have a major need for alternatives to traditional bank financing,” says Johan Ericsson, CEO Catella AB.
“We are witnessing strong interest in the corporate bond market
Gordon Pan has been named as a managing partner of Baird Private Equity. Pan succeeds Paul Carbone, who recently joined the Pritzker Group.
Pan has more than 20 years of finance and private equity experience, including the past seven years as a Partner with Baird Capital Partners and, before that, three years as a partner with Baird Venture Partners. He also has been very active in the development and management of Baird Private Equity’s Asia capabilities.
Prior to Baird, Pan served as a principal with One Equity Partners. He was also founder and CEO of an international consulting firm specializing
Symphony International Holdings’ portfolio company, Minor International Pcl (MINT), has posted strong full year results for 2011.
MINT saw year-on-year profits soar by 133% to 2,880 million baht, despite the disruption caused by some of the worst flooding on record in Thailand and the uncertain global economy.
The profit growth has been attributed to an improvement in the performance of MINT’s hospitality and restaurant businesses and a 1 billion baht extraordinary gain following the reclassification of an investment in the S&P restaurant and bakery business during the third quarter. However, MINT’s core net profit still grew by 55% even
Halfpenny Technologies has secured USD2.25 million in venture capital funding co-led by Connecticut-based Vital Financial and Philadelphia-based Emerald Stage2 Ventures. Existing investors including Pennsylvania-based Osage Venture Partners, New York-based Milestone Venture Partners, and LORE Associates, a Philadelphia-based angel, also participated in the round.
"We are very pleased to have the backing of investors who share our vision of delivering innovative clinical data integration solutions to hospitals, laboratories, and payors," says Tim Kowalski, CEO of Halfpenny Technologies. "This round of financing positions the company to provide its Lab Hub platform to a broader range of clients."
The Lab Hub platform enables
Agribusiness and food company Bunge Limited is to acquire Climate Change Capital Limited (CCCG), a UK-regulated sustainable asset manager and advisor.
The transaction was approved by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) on 20 February, 2012, and CCCG has obtained the required shareholder approvals to proceed. The transaction is expected to close in the coming weeks; financial terms will not be disclosed.
Daniel Rudolph, Managing Director, Bunge Financial Services Group, says: "Bunge’s Financial Services Group has been active in carbon markets since their inception, both as a buyer of carbon credits and an advisor to other market participants. The transaction
NewWorld Capital Group, a leading private equity firm in the environmental opportunities sector, has announced an environmental infrastructure investment initiative to complement the firm’s growth equity investment activities.
NewWorld Environmental Infrastructure, LP, which will be funded by a commitment from North Sky Capital’s CleanTech Alliance Fund, will provide project equity and asset-backed structured equity to clean infrastructure projects and companies. This initiative will allow NewWorld to leverage its deep understanding of the environmental sector, draw on its broad relationship base to originate attractive investment opportunities, and use the team’s structuring skills to generate attractive risk-mitigated returns.
"Environmental infrastructure is a rapidly
Tamar Energy Limited, a newly-launched company focused on producing energy from organic waste matter, is planning to develop a network of over forty Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants in the UK to generate 100MW of green electricity over the next five years.
The project brings together UK and international blue chip partners and investors whose input and expertise will be critical in developing the business. Tamar’s investor group is led by RIT Capital Partners plc and Fajr Capital, alongside the Duchy of Cornwall, Lord Rothschild’s Family Interests, Sustainable Technology Investments, Low Carbon Limited, the management team of Tamar Energy and other
GCP, a provider of blended equity and debt to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses, has boosted its deal team with the appointment of Kirsty McDonald (pictured), who joins from 3i, as an Investment Director.
McDonald says: "Businesses have an increasing need for flexible, patient capital, suited to achieving their growth plans. This is key to the economic recovery. I wanted to join an investor that works with a business to help to deliver value and GCP takes an innovative approach to this. Its funding structures do not rely on third party bank debt, as it provides the majority
Law firm Bedell Cristin has acted on the establishment of the first Private Placement Fund in Jersey following the introduction of the streamlined regulatory regime at the end of last month.
The fund, which invests in European real estate, primarily smaller structured co-investments in real estate projects and real estate related operating companies aims to raise GBP150 million. It is the promoter’s third Jersey investment vehicle and is designed to provide investors with diversified exposure to smaller European real estate assets.
The legal team was headed by Bedell Partner Martin Paul (pictured) assisted by Associate Heather Hiram.
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