Lauritz Stræde Hansen’s Post

✒ BOOSTING DISTRIBUTED SOLAR POWER GENERATION IN BRAZIL ✒ Órigo Energia, one of IFU’s investees in Brazil, has secured💰USD 400 million in additional capital from I Squared Capital. This will further accelerate the construction of solar farms and expand services to thousands of customers across more than 20 states in the country. “We are very pleased to welcome I Squared as a co-investor in Òrigo Energia. This will further boost solar power in Brazil and speed up the growth trajectory of the company, which has more than doubled its generation capacity and customer base, since IFU invested in 2022. With the current expansion of the equity base, we can take Òrigo Energia to the next level,” said Natalia Svejgaard, Investment Director at IFU.   Currently, Origo Energia owns more than 300 MWp of solar power assets, and services more than 100,000 residential customers as well as small and medium enterprises. 👉 Read the full story on IFU's website. Link are in the comments 👉 Further reading from I Squared Capital is also available in the comments: #impactinvesting #solarpower #brazil

Nordic Brazilian Capital wishes all our clients, partners and friends a very Happy New Year - hoping you all have the opportunity to relax and unwind with family and friends before 2024 comes roaring around the corner ☄️ 2023 was a fantastic year - the best yet for NBC both in terms of revenue, profit, number of clients and assignments - among many highlights we can mention that we onboarded a number of new clients with a special focus on the FinTech sector 💳 We solved numerous complex tasks on behalf of existing clients and maintained or grew every single mandate in our client portfolio 🫱🏼🫲🏻 It should also be mentioned that we hired Legal Wizard 🧙 Leonardo Stange who immediately showed his great worth to both clients and our operations - great working with you Leo 🙏🏼 you and Guilherme Petrosino form a fantastic team and we are proud to be both your colleagues and friends 🤗 In a year with many successes we do want to highlight our partnership with Bexs Group which took a quantum leap in 2023, meaning we grew the total amount of BRL transacted with 179% compared to 2022 ending at BRL 81 million transacted 💰a special thanks to Ingredy Rodrigues Santos and her team for the partnership 🚀 As Bexs has been acquired by Ebury we look forward to growing the partnership even further and offering our clients more competitive financial services including in a number of other markets besides our beloved Brazil 🇧🇷 We look forward to seeing you all in 2024 - Happy New Year 🎆 🍾🥂 Christian David Christensen & Lauritz Stræde Hansen

Very glad to be part of this panel today at the 14th Private Equity Latin America Forum, a Markets Group event in São Paulo. Interesting discussion around the secondaries, directs and fund of funds opportunities globally and in Latin America! Thanks Paloma Lima-Mayland and Roberta Dalla for the invite #brazil #marketsgroup #privatequity

DFI MAKEOVER After years of neglect, IFU emerges as key Danish player in aid and climate investment The aid-funded impact investor IFU is about to move to the frontline of Danish aid following a government decision to multiply capital injections and loans for the fund. By 2030, it is expected to manage DKK 36 billion, an amount that could exceed the Danish aid budget. In an interview with Development Today, the leadership says IFU has been through a massive transformation and key to this has been the untying of the fund. #dfi #impactinvesting #climateinvestment #sdgs2030 #greenfinance #africainvestment Torben Huss Søren Peter Andreasen Rune Nørgaard Finnfund Swedfund International Norfund European DFIs - EDFI Laure Blanchard-Brunac https://lnkd.in/dFtHcZZ3

Thanks so much to ABVCAP for hosting a fantastic event in São Paulo this week and inviting me to participate in two panels. Was a pleasure participating in the DFI session on the main stage moderated by Piero Minardi, and with my fellow panelists: Goldie Shturman, MBA from U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Julius Landell-Mills from IDB Invest and Lauritz Stræde Hansen from IFU As well as the LP-only morning session bright and early with Ricardo F. from Signal Capital to share some of our lessons learned and how we plan our investment program for funds in #Brazil #IFC, IFC Disruptive Tech, VC & Funds

  Breaking News. A ground-breaking reform of IFU will lead to increased investments in the developing countries of up to EUR 2bn. Based on new capital, IFU can increase its efforts significantly within financing of the green transition, development in Africa and fragile states, as well as the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals towards 2030. The reform also opens the fundraising for the Danish SDG Investment Fund II in cooperation with Danish pension funds and private investors. #sdgsummit #impactinvesting #dkpol #parisagreement #dkgreen #dkmedier