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Westwind Capital, a new European private equity real estate investment platform targeting Life Sciences & Innovation real estate and the Living sectors, has appointed Mark Terry as chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
With Daniel Gorzawski as founding partner and CEO, Terry joins Tristan Capital Partners, bringing over 20 years of experience in finance and real estate investment management. He will play an active role in capital raising, debt origination, investor reporting and portfolio management, as well as governance and compliance.
Terry spent 11 years at Tristan Capital, having been one of the business’ early hires and the
Motive Partners (Motive), a specialsed private equity firm focused on financial technology, has held the successful final close of its second flagship fund, Motive Capital Fund 2, with total capital commitments of $2.54 billion for the Fund and its affiliated co-investment vehicles.
Investec Aviation Finance (Investec) has completed a senior secured debt facility with ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company KSCP (ALAFCO).
Investec has provided $15 million of senior debt financing against an aircraft being operated by a low-cost carrier in Southeast Asia that is currently undergoing restructuring.
Established in 1992, ALAFCO began as an aircraft leasing arm of Kuwait Airways, before being acquired by Kuwait Finance House in 1999. It was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (now Boursa Kuwait) in 2006 and has established itself as a leading name in aircraft leasing, currently operating out of both Kuwait and Dublin.
IK Partners’ (IK) IK IX Fund (IK IX) is to acquire a majority stake in leading Dutch consultancy and technology firm IG&H from its founding management team who are reinvesting alongside IK.
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset manager, has partnered with NOVAFRANCE Energy, a specialist in the development of renewable energy projects, to finance an programme of 5,000 photovoltaic poultry shelters.
Launched at the end of 2018, NOVAFRANCE Energy specialises in agrivoltaics to design agricultural solutions for animal welfare by producing renewable electricity. The investment programme will look to deploy €50 million over the next few years for a potential photovoltaic capacity of 300 Megawatts peak[1] (MWp).
The funding is being provided by Tikehau Capital’s Green Assets strategy, one of its impact private equity strategies, which finances, builds and operates
Collingwood Lighting Group (UK) (Collingwood), a platform company of Ambienta SGR (Ambienta), one of Europe’s largest asset managers entirely focused on environmental sustainability, has completed its acquisition of Nobile Italia (Nobile).
Nobile, founded in 1966 and headquartered in Rome, is a leading Italian designer, manufacturer and distributor of LED luminaires focused on the Italian wholesale and export markets. Nobile is positioned at the premium end of the market, has excellent service levels, well established customer relationships, strong R&D capabilities and is a market leader in LED strip. The business is led by Fulvio Nobile (CEO, Owner) and Davide Jurisic (General
Inflexion has further strengthened its ESG commitments during the first half of 2022 by signing the United Nations Global Compact and formalising its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals whilst also joining the ILPA’s Data Convergence Project.
These commitments come a year after achieving carbon-neutral status and becoming a signatory of the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment. Inflexion has also joined the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability.
The Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact are derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Labour Organisation’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the
QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has appointed Courtney Christianson as head of investor relations.
Christianson will be responsible for increasing the global scale of QRD’s investor relations function and the scope of its sources of investment capital. She will develop and strengthen relationships with new and existing investors as well as design and manage future fundraising strategies from inception to outcome.
Christianson joins QED most recently from KSL Capital, a leader in travel and leisure investing, where she oversaw investor relations and fundraising efforts across equity, opportunistic and credit vehicles,
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has acquired a majority equity stake in Budderfly, an energy-as-a-service (EaaS) provider in the US, and committed further growth capital totalling more than USD500 million.
Partners Group aims to transform Budderfly into a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure platform by investing to expand its customer base and solutions offering. Budderfly’s experienced management team has invested and partnered alongside Partners Group to capture this large market opportunity.
Founded by its chief executive officer Al Subbloie, Budderfly offers EaaS solutions for the measurement, reduction, and management of energy demand and consumption. This involves designing, integrating, installing, and fully
Partners Group, a global private markets firm, has appointed Wolf-Henning Scheider as partner and head of its Private Equity Department.
Scheider will join Partners Group at the conclusion of his current contract and will be based in the firm’s global headquarters in Baar-Zug, Switzerland.
Scheider will succeed David Layton, Partners Group’s chief executive officer (CEO), as head of Private Equity. Layton had retained leadership of the Private Equity Department after being appointed co-CEO in 2018 and sole CEO in 2021.
Scheider is currently CEO and chairman of the Board of Management at ZF Group, a global technology company that manufactures
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