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Fundraising
allplants, the D2C plant-based food company, has secured a record-breaking GBP38 million Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit, backers of Revolut, Cazoo and Trustpilot.
FUND LAUNCH
SWEN Capital Partners, a specialist sustainable private equity, is offering privileged access to the infrastructure asset class, generally reserved for institutional investors, with the launch of SWEN Exclusive Infrastructures.
ALLOCATION TRENDS
US investment consultant, Meketa Investment Group, is witnessing an increase in interest in venture capital strategies, particularly at the late stage, as allocators look to harness their investments to early-stage opportunities.
PARTNER FEATURE
Allocations to alternative asset classes, like private capital, have risen sharply in the past two years. As the interest in such investments broadens to include retail clients, managers are facing growing regulatory and administrative burdens as calls for increasing transparency and reporting become more insistent.
SURVEY
UK dealmakers are equally convinced that the biggest threats to completing deals in the next 12 months will be issues stemming from the pandemic and climate change.
RESEARCH
A new report has revealed a GBP97 billion investment gap to secure key nature-related outcomes in the UK – such as biodiversity protection and restoration – to be between GBP44 billion and GBP97 billion over the next 10 years.
RESEARCH
UK M&A activity slowed in September after a period of increasingly intensive takeover activity between April and August, according to new data release by Peel Hunt.
DEALS
An investment group led by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and also comprising PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media, has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Newcastle United Limited and Newcastle United Football Club Limited (Newcastle United) from St James Holdings Limited.
FUNDRAISING
Churchill Asset Management (Churchill) has closed two new funds totalling approximately USD1.5 billion of committed capital.
RESEARCH
An overwhelming majority (93 per cent) of private equity fund managers expect to make an investment in the energy sector over the coming five years as they seek to capitalise on the post-pandemic rebound in global demand for power and government-backed stimulus programmes.
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