Private Equity

Co-founder Adam Waglay says the firm’s ability to offer a menu of co-investment options has played a key role in helping Butterfly become a ‘partner of choice’ for leading LPs.

Managing director Stavros Koutsantonis says the firm’s first farmland strategy overlaps with its participation in the AIM for Climate collaboration between the US and United Arab Emirates.

Sector Program Manager Margarita Lysenkova writes that the Global Reporting Initiative’s new reporting standard can help companies respond to growing scrutiny on business practices that can potentially impact food security.

Horizon is an affiliate of Denver-headquartered Resource Land Holdings that sold vineyards in Washington and Oregon to the Nasdaq-listed REIT in a $37m deal last month.

Tariffs of up to 218.4% on Australian wine have all but eliminated exports to mainland China, which could not be replaced by growth in other markets.

Ukraine’s removal from global markets has driven food and ag to the top of public agendas, raising questions on which foreign investors are welcome and where.

Vehicles backed by GCC countries and Singapore have been the main drivers of a doubling of SWF participation in food and ag deals over the past five years, says IE University’s Javier Capapé.

The New York-headquartered firm has secured at least two commitments for a follow-up to the $1.45bn Fund V, to focus on an agribusiness sector it says has outpaced all others since 2006.

The private equity industry must decide how its long-established fiduciary duty fits with a crisis like this.

Despite the inherent risks global investors face when trying to tap into Asia’s agri-food sector, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to avoid the continent during the next decade.