Matthieu Favas
Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The appointment of six dedicated investment professionals, headed by former Petroplus co-founder Marcel van Poecke, paves the way for a $1.5bn energy-focused vehicle.
The Alberta-based pension system, which aims to shift all its private equity activity to direct investments, is the latest Canadian pension to set up shop in the UK.
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The vehicle, part of the £56m investment commitment announced by Big Society Capital last year, will target education, housing and employment improvements for vulnerable young Britons.
The music recognition mobile app developer, which counts Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Institutional Venture Partners as investors, could seek a public listing as early as next year.
The turnaround specialist is to invest £40m in the courier company, whose fortunes are said to be slowly recovering after five years of significant losses.
The French firm has bought Europe’s largest own-label ice cream maker for €850m, the latest deal by its 2008-vintage Fund V.
The UK development finance institution, which made £169m worth of new commitments last year, has recently established a presence in the direct equity and debt investment realms.
The French manager has converted €700m of bonds it issued in 2009 to Danone equity, allowing it to divest the dairy group it started backing 25 years ago.