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ADIA and SC Capital have formed a new partnership to invest up to $2 billion in data centres across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report by Bloomberg, with the investment programme to be managed by SC Zeus Data Centres, a pan-Asian platform developed by SCCP in February.
In addition, ADIA will also invest in SC Capital’s pan-Asian opportunistic investment strategy fund.
The investment programme will focus on investments in Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Australia.
ADIA, one of Abu Dhabi’s two sovereign wealth funds, manages assets in excess of $708 billion, while SCCP has been investing across the Asia
Private funds partner Ajay Pathak has been appointed as the next London co-chair at law firm Goodwin Procter, according to a report by Law.com. The appointment comes as the firm is seeking larger premises to accommodate its expansion in the UK capital.
Pathak, who succeeds Paul Lyons who is standing down after a long tenure, will join current co-chair private equity partner Gemma Roberts who took on the role last year.
Pathak joined Goodwin as a partner in the private equity group in 2017 from King & Wood Mallesons, having spent 15 years at KWM, until the firm collapsed in
Stefano Cocirio, an associate portfolio manager at Elliott Advisors is to quit the US activist hedge fund to take up the role of chief financial officer at Italian Serie A football club AC Milan, according to a report by Il Sole 24 Ore.
The appetite for private assets is insatiable and the current confluence of factors in the marketplace means it will continue to remain so for the foreseeable future. In this context, managers are looking to rely more heavily on their service partners, especially in the realms of automation and cross asset class services to support their deeper foray into this space.
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.
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