Greentech Capital Advisors  served as financial advisor on the largest investment by a Chinese corporation into a venture-capital funded, US-based company. It advised GreatPoint Energy, Inc., a US developer of coal gasification projects, on its $1.25 billion investment from China Wanxiang Holding Co., Ltd., a major China-based industrial conglomerate. The partnership included an investment commitment of over $420 million and a project equity and credit support partnership commitment of $830 million from Wanxiang Holding to GreatPoint Energy.

Martin Midstream Partners LP announced May 10 that it has increased the size of its revolving credit facility to $400,000,000. This represents an increase of $25,000,000 as it has added ABN AMRO Capital USA LLC to its syndicate of lenders. The revolving credit facility is the partnership’s primary source of liquidity and matures April 15, 2016.

The National Energy Board of El Salvador will establish a geothermal training center thanks to a $2 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank.

Private equity firm Avista Capital Partners announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Top-Co Inc., a privately-held, designer and manufacturer of specialized casing cementing products used in the drilling and completion of oil, natural gas and geothermal wells. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012, were not disclosed. 

A report released today by the London Environmental Investment Forum reveals increasing venture capital investment activity in companies that are providing innovative water solutions to the oil and gas and mining industries.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has authorized a $2.95 billion direct loan to support US exports to the Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The transaction is Ex-Im’s second-largest single-project financing in history and is also the Bank’s first LNG project in Australia.

Environmental Drilling Solutions, LLC, a provider of solids control, cuttings processing and zero discharge services, has received a growth equity investment from Element Partners and CSL Capital Management.  

Dahlman Rose & Co., LLC announced today that its parent company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell an additional $10 million of equity to affiliates of Lovell Minnick Partners LLC, a private equity firm that specializes in the global financial services industry.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP, announced April 25 that it has signed a definitive agreement with an investment vehicle affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, whereby KMP will purchase from KKR its 50 percent interest in the joint venture that owns the Altamont gathering, processing and treating assets (Uinta Basin in Utah) and the Camino Real Gathering System (Eagle Ford shale in Texas) for $300 million in KMP common units.