Private Equity

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan will acquire KKR’s 49% stake in GreenCollar, with the latter’s workers set to share in the windfall through an employee ownership scheme.

Blue Road typically makes investments worth $75m or more to secure its favored controlling or influential minority positions.

Paine Schwartz Partners has reduced its takeover bid for ASX-listed Costa Group to A$3.20 per share, down from a previous bid of A$3.50, after Costa lowered its forecast earnings for H2 2023.

The Sydney-based private equity firm will invest in Pace Farm through its Premium Food Fund, which is the vehicle’s sixth investment.

LeapFrog Investments climate investing team co-head Nakul Zaveri says cross country collaboration in agriculture holds potential for state level leaps forward in innovation.

Co-founder Wayne Ebersole says the firm will pursue conventionally farmed properties that can be transitioned to regenerative practices in the Mississippi River watershed states.

The emergence of frontrunner Javier Milei is a microcosm of the country’s longstanding desire to break free of its shackles as well as the all too familiar upheavals that have been its undoing.

Our first fundraising report for agrifood and forestry vehicles paints a bleak picture but the outlook for H2 and beyond shows signs of promise.

H1 2023 fundraising for agrifood and forestry funds dropped to $1.4bn, which is the lowest half-year figure since H1 2011.

Roberto Viton says financial distress and large asset managers’ demand for nature-based assets are among the factors driving consolidation in GPs focused on food and ag.