Insect Farm Lures Robert Downey Jr. in $224 Million Fundraising

Insect Farm Lures Robert Downey Jr. in $224 Million Fundraising

Investors are pouring money into Ynsect SAS, a French startup that will breed mealworms to feed fish and pets. A total $224 million of newly pledged funds will bring the company’s Series-C funding round to $372 million, one of the largest rounds for an insect farming...
Goldman Eyes $14 Billion for Its Largest Fund Since 2008 Crisis

Goldman Eyes $14 Billion for Its Largest Fund Since 2008 Crisis

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted the size of a new credit fund to $14 billion in what is shaping up to be one of the largest debut investment vehicles ever raised. The bank, which set out with a target of $5 billion to $10 billion, is now expecting to finish...
France’s Engie sells €3.4bn stake in Suez

France’s Engie sells €3.4bn stake in Suez

Engie has agreed to sell the vast majority of its stake in French water and waste group Suez to Veolia, putting an end to the first phase of an acrimonious takeover attempt and teeing up the next. After first bidding for 29.9 per cent of Suez held by Engie at the end...
Warburg Pincus-backed Sequoia raises $179 million in Brazil IPO

Warburg Pincus-backed Sequoia raises $179 million in Brazil IPO

Brazilian logistics company Sequoia Solucoes Logisticas raised 1 billion reais ($179.39 million) in an initial public offering priced on Monday, the country’s securities regulator CVM said. The company, whose controlling shareholder is U.S. private equity firm...