Private Equity
The New Jersey-based clean energy firm is integrating Helium Energy into a new portfolio company as part of a strategy to expand its overseas presence in wind and solar production.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The sale of minority stakes in Brazilian electric transmission assets represents a cash value of $7 per share for shareholders of the publicly traded infrastructure fund, which launched in January. Analysts estimate the proceeds will give it $550m of asset purchasing power.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Magnesita, a company backed by Brazilian private equity firms GP Investments and Gavea, will buy Rhone Capital's LWB Refractories in a deal including €277m in equity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The global buyout group is having a week of firsts, having closed what it says is the first industrially-focused, mid-market Japanese private equity fund raised by an international firm just a day after making its maiden investment in the Dominican Republic.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The AIG Brazil Special Situations Fund II will put in place a team to pursue investments in Colombia and Peru before the end of the year. Separately, the fund has invested R$60 million in Brazilian engineering services company Advento Participações.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The global buyout group is in exclusive talks with credit checking giant Experian to buy its French electronic payments business, in a week in which the firm has already executed two Latin American deals and a Japanese fund close.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The £132.5m sale comes as the UK’s Competition Commission is threatening to force the Spanish infrastructure investor to sell three airports owned by the British Airport Authority, which it acquired in 2006.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The energy specialist has completed its acquisition of Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Saxon Energy Services for C$7 per share, partnering with Canadian oilfield services company Schlumberger.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A Series C funding round for Spring Wireless represents NEA's first foray into Latin America. Goldman Sachs was also among the backers of the telecom company, which anticipates an IPO in 2009.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The New York-headquartered boutique asset manager, currently raising $1bn for its third mid-market fund, will sell to Mizuho Corporate Bank $120m in debt and warrants while collecting up to $150m across its funds.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
