Jonn Elledge
The UK venture capital firm is teaming up with Asian consultancy Intralink to provide its portfolio companies with expertise on the region.
The German buyout firm is raising $120 million for its second Russia-focused fund, which is backed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, amongst others.
The Norwegian venture firm has raised $125 million to invest in secondary direct transactions.
The value of buyouts during the first three quarters of this year already exceeds the total for the whole of 2004.
Permira may not target North American companies - but as the hiring of Tom Lister shows, that doesn’t mean it has no business in the US market.
Lok Lee is taking up a new role as managing director responsible for the bank’s European high-yield business.
The Dutch lower midmarket firm has backed the spin out of the payment processing company from mail company TNT.
Homegrown firms operating in the European LBO market account for the bulk of fees paid to investment banks so far this year, according to figures from Thomson Financial and Freeman & Co.
The Boston-headquartered firm has hired two new vice presidents to boost its financial services offering.
CVC faces a battle for the €1.4 bn Spanish retailer with Permira, the firm it outbid for UK department store Debenhams in 2003.