Aloe Private Equity

Aloe Private Equity is a French investment management company with offices in London, Paris, Beijing, Mumbai and Hyderabad. It has a proven track record in the environment sector and is a pioneer in social and environmental corporate responsibility. It manages a number of environment funds that invest in companies that seek to make a positive contribution to society, both socially and environmentally, while providing high financial returns to investors.

 Aloe Private Equity’s culture and strategy emphasize investments where it can not only make a significant strategic value contribution to the investee but also help promote environmental and social sustainable growth. Aloe has a particular interest in companies with proven products or solutions that wish to expand their businesses in India and China. For more information, visit www.aloe-group.com

Green Investment Group Limited (GIGL)

GIGL, Mauritius based, manages Green Investment Asia Sustainability Fund I (GIASF) which is a fund promoted by the International Finance Corporation, the private equity arm of the World Bank Group, Swedfund, wholly owned by the Swedish State and Proparco, majority owned by the French State.

The primary investment objective of GIASF is to achieve a long-term financial, environmental and social return on investment through privately-negotiated equity and equity-related investments in companies engaged in a business activity that has a beneficial impact on the environment or is involved in environmental technologies or services or more generally companies that are working to sustain, restore or improve the global environment directly or indirectly. GIASF invests exclusively and directly into companies located in the developing world, with a focus on the ASEAN market.

Leading Environmental Solutions and Services

LESS Limited (LESS) is a strategic fund of funds focused on investing in environmental companies, services or solutions that are beneficial for India and China. LESS acts as a sponsor and lead investor for Asiawest Funds I & II, China Environment Fund (CEF 2002 and CEF 2004) and Aloe Environment Fund I and Aloe Environment Fund II. Nautilus Holdings is LESS’s investment vehicle for aquaculture in China and LESS’s consulting team in Shanghai was expanded into Envirovision which now also makes direct investments on the mainland.

LESS is committed to triple bottom-line returns and provides business development support in Asia to the portfolio companies of its affiliate funds. This business support includes local partner identification and selection, market research and conducting social and environmental audits. For more information, visit www.lesslimited.com

Our investors have existing investments within the following sectors:

• Clean energy
• WEEE recycling
• Battery recycling
• Energy efficiency & energy management solutions and services
• Ecological forestry and organic agriculture
• Water, waste water, sludge treatment and sludge incineration
• Coal and waste gasification
• Air pollution control
• Industrial resource recovery
• Combined heat and power
• Mixed plastics recycling

These investments have a combination of suitable social and environmental applications as well as strong return on investment potential.