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Evercore has appointed Jason Fournier as a senior managing director in the firm’s Equity Capital Markets (ECM) practice. Fournier is based in Menlo Park, California and will lead and expand Evercore’s Consumer & Retail ECM business.
Fournier joins from JPMorgan, where he previously led the Consumer & Retail ECM practice, and served in senior roles in Technology ECM, Equity Private Placements and Technology & Disruptive Consumer Commercial Banking. Over his twenty-year career, he has focused on structuring and marketing IPOs, follow-ons, convertibles and private placements, working with emerging high-growth companies as well as well-established incumbents.
Fournier holds a BS in
Eurazeo has exceeded its fundraising target for the Eurazeo PME IV Fund by attracting more than €1 billion, 50% more than its previous fund.
Since 2006, the small-mid buyout strategy’s assets under management have grown from €50 million to more than €1 billion. In 2011, these investments were financed solely by Eurazeo’s balance sheet, but now more than 60% of assets come from institutional and private investors, as opposed to 38% for the predecessor fund.
Partner-investors include top-tier institutional investors – asset managers, sovereign funds and insurance companies – and family offices originating in France (64%), other European countries
B Capital, a global multi-stage investment firm, has closed Ascent Fund II (Ascent II), its first dedicated early-stage fund, with $250 million capital commitments.
Ascent II will invest in pre-seed through series A rounds globally, with an emphasis on the US and Asia.
The Ascent team was founded by Chair and General Partner Howard Morgan, firm Co-Founder and Managing Partner Eduardo Saverin, General Partners Gabe Greenbaum and Karen Page, and Partner Karan Mohla. Leveraging their decades of experience as active partners of early-stage companies, they target founders leading the next wave of innovation across digital healthcare, enterprise software, fintech and
Arrow Global, a European investor and alternative asset manager in credit and real estate, has opened a new office in Luxembourg City.
In conjunction with Arrow’s ACO 1 Fund vehicle, which is already located within Luxembourg, the opening of this local office will allow the group to deliver optimum infrastructure to this and future investment vehicles. This is supported by Luxembourg’s position as an economic and trading centre of global importance with a strong network of specialist service providers.
The new office will initially be made up of a Fund Treasury team with Arrow keen to build a multi-disciplinary
AM Ventures has closed to oversubscribed seed and early-growth fund at its hard cap of EUR100 million.
Besides multi-million investments from well-established family offices, asset managers, SMEs and multinational corporations, startup founders who have already been supported by AM Ventures also join the strong investor lineup.
AM Ventures manages a seed portfolio of 17 companies in six countries on three continents. In 2021 alone, the venture capitalist not only led three investment rounds in Germany-based companies MetShape and Headmade Materials as well as Switzerland-based Scrona, but also participated in four follow-on financing rounds with existing portfolio companies, including a $50
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has launched Rezolv Energy (Rezolv), an independent clean energy power producer focused on Central and South Eastern Europe.
Rezolv, the latest investment from Actis’ Energy 5 Fund, which represents $6 billion of investable capital, will provide subsidy-free clean energy at a long-term, stable price for commercial and industrial users, and other off-takers, operating across the region. This will include supermarkets, breweries, telecoms and other large businesses.
Rezolv aims to build a multi-gigawatt portfolio of wind, solar and energy storage. This will help companies and countries across the region meet their energy needs in
A fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets has acquired Vanguard Renewables, a US specialist in organics-to-renewable energy, from Vision Ridge Partners.
BlackRock Real Assets will partner with Vanguard Renewables’ management team to build upon the company’s market-leading track record and drive its next phase of growth, including its plans to commission more than 100 anaerobic digesters to produce renewable natural gas across the country by 2026.
Since its founding by John Hanselman and Kevin Chase in 2014, Vanguard Renewables has been changing the perception of US food waste and how that waste can be recycled into renewable energy to benefit
Abris Capital Partners (Abris), an ESG transformation specialist private equity investor, has supported GreenGroup, a circular economy specialist in Central Europe, in acquiring SIGAD, a Romanian developer of environmental reporting software.
The acquisition marks the launch of GreenGroup’s ‘Circular Innovations’ division, which will invest in start-up and scale-up companies with a significant contribution to developing the circular economy in Europe.
Central European investor Abris first invested in GreenGroup in 2016, and has since partnered with the firm’s management team to expand the business organically and through acquisition, and to build the leading circular economy player in Europe. The acquisition of
abrdn, one of Britain’s biggest fund managers is preparing to sell its private equity business according to a report by Sky News. The move is part of an ongoing streamlining of the firm’s operations under chief executive Stephen Bird.
The report says that abrdn, which managed close to £550 billion in assets at the end of 2021, has hired bankers at Rothschild to sell the unit which manages roughly £14 billion in private equity assets.
Bird, who joined abrdn two years ago when the company was still known as Standard Life Aberdeen, has been simplifying the sprawling company by exiting
Tani Dulay, chief executive of property investor and developer Woodbourne Group, has unveiled a new early capital and pre-seed accelerator fund which will support other talented entrepreneurs.
Woodbourne Ventures has £1 million allocated to back promising Birmingham-based businesses. Its aim is to help the city’s entrepreneurs build successful businesses that will generate jobs and attract further investment to the region.
Four companies have received funds to date – a clean-tech business that produces net zero concrete, a sustainable loungewear company, a fintech trading business and the fourth is a web3 based company which is to be announced shortly. For
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