Snehal Shah

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.

'Do what you say you’re going to do': Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and Akin Gump talk to New Private Markets about the SEC, fiduciary duty and whether ESG will enter US law.

PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.

The US Impact Investing Alliance launches a proposal calling on the Biden-Harris administration to create a more inclusive economy.

Jaime Prieto, founding partner at the firm, says the growing appetite for private debt funds that meet ESG criteria is 'clearly noticeable'.