David J. Urbach

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC takes majority stake in ENTRO Service GmbH to build European technical services leader. Founders Claudio Tubach and Philipp Westphal will continue to lead the business alongside CEO Sonja Foremny and COO Jan Ingo Buschmeyer. The investment underscores LLCP’s focus on route-based service platforms and strengthens its presence in the European technical services sector. Josh Kaufman, Head of Europe at LLCP, added: “We identified ENTRO as a highly attractive platform based on our extensive experience of investing in route-based service businesses and look forward to supporting the management team with our sector expertise and value creation playbook.” Explore how LLCP’s value creation playbook will guide ENTRO here: https://lnkd.in/d2FKqAR2 #PEInsights #privateequity #acquisition #tech

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🇨🇭 From research giant to venture champion? #Switzerland is closer than you think. A new report from Schroders Capital shows what many of us in the ecosystem have long believed: Switzerland has all the ingredients to become the Massachusetts of Europe — but it’s time to scale our venture ambitions to match our innovation pedigree. 🔍 The data is striking: ***ETH Zürich & EPFL are comparable in talent density to Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard Business School (~38,400 vs. ~36,500 students) ***Yet Massachusetts generates 8x more venture investment and 6x more unicorns ***Why? Local capital. In MA, 85% of large rounds include local VCs. In Switzerland? Just 40% ***And for every CHF 1 invested by a Swiss VC, CHF 3 in foreign capital follows. With stronger local backing, Swiss venture funding could quadruple to CHF 11B annually 💡 At redalpine, we see this not just as a data point, but as a mission. Our long-term goal is to help elevate the Swiss and European venture ecosystems to global top-tier status — with founders, investors, and institutions building lasting value at home. Let’s not settle for exporting our talent and IP — let’s scale it. 📈 The multiplier effect is real. Let’s activate it. Thank you Nils Rode, Rainer Ender, Chad Brokopp #VentureCapital #SwissTech #DeepTech #Redalpine #Startups #Innovation #Europe #Funding #Unicorns #ETH #EPFL #ResearchToRevenue #MassachusettsOfEurope Link to article in comments section.

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A Gleiss Lutz team led by Martin W. Hitzer and Katharina Bein has advised the Dutch Ministry of Finance on the strategic investment of a consortium in German transmission system operator TenneT. The consortium comprises APG (on behalf of the pension fund ABP), the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management and the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC. The investors have agreed to invest up to EUR 9.5 billion for a stake of up to 46%. The strategic investment was preceded by a dual-track process, during which both an IPO and a private sale of a stake were prepared and assessed as possible options. Read our full press release: https://lnkd.in/eTRjg85N Martin W. Hitzer I Katharina Bein I Dr. Cornelia Topf I Dr. Antonius Mann I Dr. Jacob von Andreae I Dr. Lars Kindler I Dr. Johannes A. Hieronymi I Mark Grutzeck I Dr. Felix Lichtenhagen I Prof. Dr. Christian Arnold I Dr. Lisa Deckers I Eva Schiebsdat I Dr. Stefan Mayer I Dr. Dominik M. I Dr. Helge Kortz I Birgit Colbus #GleissLutz #Corporate #Advisory #MandA #MergersAndAcquisitions #Infrastructure #Energy #NautaDutilh

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We introduce a massive dataset on #ESG transparency and performance and new machine learning framework for extraction in a recently released paper "Assessing Corporate Sustainability with Large Language Models: Evidence from Europe" with Kerstin Forster, Lucas Keil, Victor Wagner, Thorsten Sellhorn, and Stefan Feuerriegel. We apply a large-scale machine learning framework to extract 2.9 million quantitative ESG indicators from the annual and sustainability reports of the 600 largest listed European firms over 2014–2023. Our open-source framework enables systematic, indicator-level tracking of both ESG transparency and performance in line with ESRS standards. 🔍 Key insights: – Firms with top ESG ratings disclose 22% more indicators than bottom rated peers, but this gap is narrowing – Scope 1 & 2 emissions dropped sharply, while scope 3 increased 5.6x, likely due to improved transparency around value chain emissions – Gender equality indicators show progress; other social indicators stagnate – Our open-source dataset and ML pipeline democratize access to ESG data 👉 Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/ezF6Y-dn 📊 Explore the data: https://lnkd.in/eXxcwznT 💾 Download the data: https://osf.io/q2jpv/ 🛠 Code & framework: https://lnkd.in/eEi67_Dg We hope this helps researchers, policymakers, and financial actors monitor and drive progress toward sustainability goals. A key insight from our work is that transparency and performance must be analyzed together as increasing transparency can reveal previously hidden poor ESG performance. While we validate our framework and find high agreement overall, accuracy varies across indicators. The method is likely better suited for analyzing trends across larger samples, not necessarily for high-stakes decisions at the individual firm level, where manual validation or tagged data remain important to ensure precision. Sustainability Reporting Navigator TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency #ESG #AI #SustainabilityReporting #MachineLearning #CSRD #Transparency #OpenScience #LLM

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