INSTARAGF ASSET MANAGEMENT INC

InstarAGF Acquires PRT Growing Services From TriWest

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Thursday, April 1, 2021

TORONTO, April 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today announced it has acquired PRT Growing Services Ltd. (PRT or the Company), a leading reforestation logistics provider with operations across North America, from TriWest Capital Partners (TriWest).

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TORONTO, April 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today announced it has acquired PRT Growing Services Ltd. (PRT or the Company), a leading reforestation logistics provider with operations across North America, from TriWest Capital Partners (TriWest).
PRT is the largest commercial-scale containerized growing provider in North America for a wide range of forestry seedling species.
We also wish to thank TriWest, as our partnership with TriWest has played an important role in the growth and success of PRT over the past 2.5 years.
For more information: www.instaragf.com
The PRT Group, through affiliates PRT Growing Services Ltd and PRT USA Inc., is a forest seedling propagator and the largest producer of container-grown forest seedlings in North America, currently growing more than 300 million seedlings annually and operating a network of forest seedling nurseries in the U.S. and Canada.

InstarAGF Completes Acquisition of LS Networks

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Thursday, April 1, 2021

DENVER and PORTLAND, Ore., April 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today completed its previously announced acquisition of LS Networks (the Company), a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider in the Pacific Northwest, from a collective of Oregon rural electric cooperatives.

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DENVER and PORTLAND, Ore., April 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today completed its previously announced acquisition of LS Networks (the Company), a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider in the Pacific Northwest, from a collective of Oregon rural electric cooperatives.
This acquisition represents an exciting phase of growth and connectivity for the LS Networks family, said Byron Cantrall, President and Chief Executive Officer, LS Networks.
LS Networks delivers essential digital reliability, quality and capacity to large and small commercial and individual customers in rural and urban communities to support business growth and sustainability.
For more information: www.instaragf.com
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, LS Networks operates the largest locally owned and operated fiber-optic network in the Pacific Northwest.

InstarAGF Agrees to Acquire LS Networks

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

LS Networks is a premier essential digital infrastructure platform with an established operating history, deep, diverse customer relationships and attractive growth profile, said Jack Bittan, Partner, InstarAGF.

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LS Networks is a premier essential digital infrastructure platform with an established operating history, deep, diverse customer relationships and attractive growth profile, said Jack Bittan, Partner, InstarAGF.
Central Electric Cooperative and InstarAGF share a mutual interest in seeing LS Networks reach its full potential, said Dave Markham, President and CEO of Central Electric Cooperative and Chairman of LS Networks.
We are very excited to welcome InstarAGF to the LS Networks family, said Byron Cantrall, President and Chief Executive Officer, LS Networks.
For more information: www.instaragf.com
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, LS Networks operates the largest locally owned and operated fiber-optic network in the Pacific Northwest.

InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund II Achieves Final Close

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Monday, June 8, 2020

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TORONTO, June 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF), an independent private capital management firm focused on North American middle-market infrastructure, today announced the final closing of its latest flagship infrastructure fund, the InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund II (Fund II), with approximately USD$1.2 billion in aggregate equity commitments from institutional and high net worth investors across Canada, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.

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TORONTO, June 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF), an independent private capital management firm focused on North American middle-market infrastructure, today announced the final closing of its latest flagship infrastructure fund, the InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund II (Fund II), with approximately USD$1.2 billion in aggregate equity commitments from institutional and high net worth investors across Canada, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.
Fund IIs predecessor fund, the InstarAGF Essential Infrastructure Fund I, closed in 2017 with CAD$740 million in commitments.
InstarAGFs robust co-investment program has also delivered approximately CAD$1.0 billion in co-investments to its fund investors across its growing, diversified infrastructure platform.
We are delighted to close our second infrastructure fund with strong continuing support from our investors, for which we are grateful, said Gregory Smith, President and CEO of InstarAGF.

InstarAGF Asset Management Acquires Oilfield Water Logistics

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Monday, October 28, 2019

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TORONTO and DALLAS, Oct. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today announced it has acquired Oilfield Water Logistics (OWL) alongside its Canadian and international co-investors from NGP Energy Capital Management and NGP Energy Technology Partners and other private shareholders.

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TORONTO and DALLAS, Oct. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InstarAGF Asset Management Inc. (InstarAGF) today announced it has acquired Oilfield Water Logistics (OWL) alongside its Canadian and international co-investors from NGP Energy Capital Management and NGP Energy Technology Partners and other private shareholders.
E&P companies increasingly face operational and logistical challenges related to produced water, said Jonathan Stone, Partner, InstarAGF.
We are delighted to partner with OWL to address North Americas growing water management demands through safe, sustainable solutions.
InstarAGF, which makes direct investments and co-investments with like-minded investors and strategic partners, is an independent alternative asset management firm focused on North American middle-market opportunities in the infrastructure sector and other alternative real asset categories.