AXA Private Equity has invested in Brainsonic, a European producer of media content and corporate WebTV portals, to help drive growth.
As the final week of voting for our Global Private Equity Awards 2006 begins, the competition is hotting up, with the industry preparing to reward the biggest winners of 2006.
CVC Capital Partners has promoted Marc Boughton, head of its Cordatus debt management division, to managing partner, and also promoted six other dealmakers in its European offices.
German venture capital firm Wellington Partners has held a final close of its third life science fund on €50m and expects to hold a final close by the summer on €120m.
In a deal that stretches the term ‘private equity’ and furthers a trend toward large PIPEs, the Euronext-listed affiliate of KKR will invest $700m in an atrophied Sun Microsystems through two convertible senior notes.
The sale of skin care product maker HDS Cosmetics Lab is the ‘healthy aging and wellness’ specialist firm’s fifth exit since February of 2006.
Roger Holstein joins Vestar Capital Partners, while Michael Ascione was promoted at Berkshire Partners.
The San Francisco-based firm will acquire Blair Corporation for $173.6m and merge it with its portfolio company Appleseed’s Topco.
Swift & Company has decided to look into ‘strategic alternatives’ one month after an immigration raid on six of its pork and beef processing facilities.
Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR have signed up to the BVCA, a UK trade body, as the industry continues its charm offensive.