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A consortium of private equity investors led by The Carlyle Group is considering a acquiring California’s Heritage Provider Network in a deal that could be worth up to $10 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
Eurazeo has held the first close of the Eurazeo Transition Infrastructure Fund (ETIF) at €210 million in capital commitments from the European Investment Fund (EIF), which has made a cornerstone €75 million investment, and a range of other institutional investors.
To date, the fund has made three investments in three different sector across three countries.
The objective of the fund is to invest in transition infrastructure, including the energy transition, the digital transition, clean transport, and circular economy. The fund is classified as an Article 9 fund under the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
EIF’s investment is backed
UK-based mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has appointed Matt Jacobs as its new head of services. Based in London, Jacobs will oversee the investment strategy for the services sector team.
Jacobs joined Livingbridge in 2016 and has taken a leading role in its investments in Adarma, Sykes Cottages, and Carousel Logistics. He currently sits on the board of Quorum Cyber, one of the UK’s leading managed security service providers.
Services is a key sector for Livingbridge, with 14 companies currently in the portfolio and more than 50 services investments over the last 20 years. Recent services investments include Imagesound,
FogPharma, a Cambridge, Masachussetts-based biopharmaceutical company developing helicon polypeptides, has raised $178 million in a Series D funding round.
The round includes new investors ARCH Venture Partners, Milky Way Investments, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and existing investors VenBio Partners, Deerfield Management, GV, Cormorant Asset Management, T Rowe Price Associates, Invus, Farallon Capital Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, Casdin Capital, and PagsGroup.
Led by CEO Gregory Verdine, FogPharma is advancing a broad pipeline of Helicon polypeptide therapeutics against important and biologically validated cancer targets with the goal of providing new targeted treatment options for significant cancer patient populations.
In connection with
Alchemy has sold one of Italy’s leading providers of portable sanitary solutions, YLDA, to Germany-based trade buyer Toi Toi & Dixi Group, a business which has been owned by Apax Partners since 2019. The transaction has resulted in a 4x MM return for Alchemy.
YLDA is a Tuscany-based specialist in the rental and manufacturing of a wide range of portable toilets and other sanitary solutions in Italy. It also has operations in France and the US. The group has two brands: Sebach (the rental business) and Armal (the manufacturing business).
Alchemy invested in YLDA in June 2018, identifying an opportunity
Investec Bank has appointed Jason Quinn as head of European sales. Based in Dublin Quinn will lead Investec’s European institutional client strategy in Europe, managing the distribution of UK equities to European institutional clients.
Oak Group, a provider of corporate, private client and fund services, has made two senior appointments in Guernsey – Belinda Ridout as Director of Client Accounting and Hannah Crocker as Company Secretary, (subject to regulatory approval).
BluPine Energy, a renewable wind and solar power generation and storage business and a portfolio company of Actis, has completed the acquisition of a 404MWp operating pan-India solar portfolio from the Atha Group.
The acquisition will enable BluPine to support India’s energy transition by targeting 4GWs of portfolio capacity over the next four to five years.
Actis has committed to invest up to $800 million in BluPine through Actis’ Energy 5 Fund, which represents $6 billion of investable capital, and is focused on investing in global energy transition opportunities. Working with Actis’ in-house Sustainability team, BluPine will implement world-class
With US VC firms hotfoot in pursuit of new opportunities in sectors as diverse as tech and fintech or energy and life sciences, billion-dollar start-ups are blossoming in overseas hubs that offer a springboard into targeted geographic markets.
A group of private equity firms led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira have completed their $10.2 billion deal to take software company Zendesk private following a long campaign from activist investor Jana Partners, according to a report by Reuters.
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