Chris Janiec
Having received a $3m debt investment from the UK institution, the US firm hopes to attract equity investors to the portfolio.
Following a pilot program, the AMERRA Capital Management affiliate will target impact investors for a vehicle it plans to raise in 2019.
The investment by an unnamed Canadian pension brings Fund IV’s total haul to C$130 million.
Paine Schwartz partner Angelos Dassios says Verisem will look to acquire peers as it seeks to fill a niche overlooked by breeders and distributors.
The Dutch lender has invited other financial institutions to contribute to the facility, which is likely to become operational next year.
Less active as competitors for land and facing succession issues, US farmers are giving a jolt to the market by divesting assets, panelists said at the Agri Investor Forum.
A series of transactions sees the collaboration between several LPs and Silver Creek Asset Management add the pension to its ranks, along with an additional 121,000 acres of timberland.
At the Agri Investor Forum this week, experts examined the factors that keep farmers from adopting new technologies and the emergence of early 'winners' in agtech.
An examination of global agriculture reveals both encouraging signs of near-term opportunity and large uncertainties about the future, according to panelists at the Agri Investor Forum in Chicago on Wednesday.
The emerging markets specialist hopes to benefit from increasing acceptance of private-label food among consumers in the region.