Snehal Shah

The deal for consultancy ERM – which marks an exit for OMERS PE and AIMCo – values the business at $2.85bn.

What we can learn about how private equity firms respond to climate risk from PwC’s 2021 responsible investment survey.

Fourteen investment consultants including Meketa and Willis Towers Watson have launched a US sustainable investing alliance to ensure the speak with ‘a common voice’ that carries more weight with the regulator.

European fund manager Capza will link loan costs and its own carried interest to ESG KPIs for its sixth private debt fund, says managing director Laurent Benard.

Acre Impact Capital is poised to launch a series of African export finance debt funds and may open an office in Nairobi following investment into the firm by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Private Infrastructure Development Group’s GuarantCo.

Amsterdam-headquartered private equity firm Goodwell Investments has launched its fifth impact fund with a €50m target for fast-growing African businesses.

A Canadian energy investment firm will try to raise $500m for its seventh fund, says a market source, as it shifts its strategy to carbon capture and storage.

The private markets giant is beefing up its ESG team with a raft of new hires, including four external professionals and one in-house transfer from London, New York, Washington, DC and Sydney.

The listed firm raised its largest ever private fund in a year in which the global pandemic focused investors' ESG thinking, says private equity co-head Per Franzen.

French asset manager Tikehau has launched a north American energy transition fund with $300m in commitments from itself and Total, Tikehau co-founder Mathieu Chabran tells New Private Markets.