Investment Summary

Warburg Pincus Invests In Omega Geração

On September 22, 2010, private equity firm Warburg Pincus invested in renewable energy company Omega Geração

Investment Highlights
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 4th transaction in the Renewable Energy sector.
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 1st transaction in Brazil.
Investment Fate
  • Omega Geração went public in 2017.

Investment Summary

Date 2010-09-22
Target Omega Geração
Sector Renewable Energy
Investor(s) Warburg Pincus
Deal Type Venture

Target

Omega Geração

Barro Preto, Brazil
Omega Geração SA is a Brazil-based early-stage developer of small hydro power and wind projects. Omega continues to transition from an early-stage entrepreneurial start-up to a large-scale operation with complex project management and development capabilities.

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Investor

Warburg Pincus

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1966
PE ASSETS 83.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Warburg Pincus is a mega-sized, global private equity firm focused on investment opportunities across North America, Asia, and Europe. Warburg will consider investing at various company stages, from early-stage opportunities to distressed situations. Warburg Pincus is organized by industry groups. Verticals include financial services, healthcare, technology, media & telecommunications, energy, consumer & industrial, and real estate. Within financial services, Warburg will consider asset/wealth managers, banks, exchanges, financial technology, insurance, transaction processing, private banking, and specialty/consumer finance. Within healthcare, specific areas of interest include medical devices, healthcare services, and biotech/pharmaceuticals. Within technology/media/communications, Warburg targets software, media/internet/information, financial technology, telecom, business services, and systems/semiconductors. Within energy, specific areas of interest include oil/gas exploration, power generation/transmission, and alternative energy. Warburg Pincus raised its first fund in 1966 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 172 of 492
Sector: Renewable Energy M&A 4 of 5
Type: Venture M&A Deals 26 of 70
Country: Brazil M&A 1 of 13
Year: 2010 M&A 21 of 32
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-09-07 Cortview Capital Securities

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Cortview Capital Securities LLC (“CCS”) is a fixed-income focused broker-dealer, based in Richmond, VA, with offices in New York, Charlotte, NC and Boca Raton, FL, dedicated to providing superior, regionally-focused sales, trading, origination, securitization and advisory services to a national, middle-markets client base. CCS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cortview Capital Holdings, Inc., which is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-09-29 Sophiris

La Jolla, California, United States

Sophiris is a late-stage, clinical biopharmaceutical company developing topsalysin (PRX302) for the treatment of patients with urological diseases. Sophiris was founded in 2002 and is based in La Jolla, California.

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