Private Equity

The Chilean firm is launching its second agri-food fund and its first is 60 percent invested.

Detlef Schoen, principal at DS Assets and chairman at Aquila Capital Farms Australia, explains how he looks at the risk-return profile of farmland investing and why institutional investors are sometimes forced to invest at the top of a food commodity cycle.

The investment is part of ADM's strategy to improve efficiency for another portfolio company, Yeeda Pastoral.

The Paine & Partners investment in UK dairy Meadow Foods appears to be the first from a US private equity firm since Britain's Brexit vote.

Philip Cummins has said the case for international institutions to invest in agri is 'very compelling' and highlighted some reasons Australian investors won't take the plunge.

The deal marks the Sydney-based private equity firm’s fourth investment from the A$180m Allegro Fund II, which is about 40 percent deployed.

The agribusiness and food-focused firm, which has invested 20 percent of its $893m Fund IV, has appointed former Potash chairman as strategic advisor.

The firm's newly appointed president Angie Davis says the firm sees a deep pipeline of opportunities in Brazil as it analyses opportunities in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Just joins Aquila's advisory board just a few months after Olaf Huth, the former chief executive of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, became a member.

The advisory scope for potential candidates includes private equity, credit, real assets and opportunistic investments.