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24 Apr 2024

Riverstone Credit Opportunities proposes managed wind down

[Apologies that we didn’t spot this earlier but it was buried in the company’s AGM announcement] After talking to the manager (Riverstone Investment Group LLC), its sub-manager, Breakwall Capital LLC, its advisers and certain significant shareholders, Riverstone Credit Opportunities’ board has determined that a managed wind-down of the portfolio at this time is in the […]

24 Apr 2024

Biopharma Credit makes new $100m loan

BioPharma Credit is lending $100m to Trasus Pharmaceuticals. BioPharma Credit Investments V will lend an additional $100m alongside this. Based in the US, Tarsus is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company with a current market capitalisation of about $1.2bn (Ticker: TARS – NASDAQ). Tarsus currently markets XDEMVY® (lotilaner ophthalmic solution), a treatment for Demodex blepharitis. XDEMVY® […]

24 Apr 2024

US Solar cuts dividend as implements new tender offer

US Solar Fund is planning a fixed-price tender offer at $0.764 per share (equivalent to the 31 December 2023 NAV of $0.78 per share, less 2% for the costs of administering the tender offer). Shareholders may choose to tender for sale some or all of their shares, subject to an upper limit of $19m being […]

24 Apr 2024

Nvidia bet pays off for Martin Currie Global Portfolio

Martin Currie Global Portfolio managed to beat the return on the MSCI All Country World Index over the 12 months ended 31 January 2024, returning 11.2% to the index’s 10.9%. A stable discount (the result of its zero dividend discount mechanism) meant that the return to shareholders was 11.1%. The company declared dividends totaling 4.2p […]

24 Apr 2024

QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 April 2024 – APAX, ORIT, CAT, CATC, GRID, OCI

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 April 2024: Apax Global Alpha (APAX) is investing about €8m (through its investment in Apax Digital II) into IANS, “a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services in the information security industry”. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2024. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT) has signed a power […]

23 Apr 2024

Temple Bar’s manager speaks out against Royal Mail bid

Ian Lance, co-manager of Temple Bar, had this to say: We note the statement from the Board of IDS confirming that on 9 April 2024 it received a preliminary and conditional non-binding proposal from EP Group regarding a possible cash offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of International Distribution Services […]

21 Apr 2024

Blackstone starts bidding war over Hipgnosis

There is no announcement to the stock exchange on this yet, but Sky, the FT and other news outlets have a story that Blackstone is proposing to buy Hipgnosis Songs Fund  for $1.24 in cash (about 99.6p per share), trumping the $1.16 per share offer from Chorus that was announced on Thursday. $1.24 is an […]

18 Apr 2024

Discount ignores good progress at HydrogenOne 

HydrogenOne Capital Growth has published results for the year ended 31 December 2023. We’ll be publishing a note on these shortly, so here is a quick summary: The NAV increased by 5.8% from £125.4m at 31 December 2022 to £132.7m at 31 December 2023 due to valuation uplifts in multiple portfolio companies. The NAV per […]

18 Apr 2024

HydrogenOne announces HH2E restructuring

HydrogenOne Capital Growth has announced a change to the corporate structure of its invetsment in HH2E (the German developer of hydrogen production plants). HH2E is backed by HydrogenOne and Foresight Group (including JLEN Environmental Assets). They have investments in HH2E itself, and separately into project-specific special purpose vehicles (SPVs) managed by HH2E. HydrogenOne has invested […]

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