Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The two private equity veterans have acquired 50% of the Spanish lender’s €152bn asset management business.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The £2.5bn growth investor, established less than two years ago to support promising British SMEs, has now backed Scotland-based Petrotechnics.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Amid signs that the European crisis is increasingly taking its toll on Central & Eastern Europe, PEI went to Warsaw to ask three industry experts whether the timing is right to reconsider investing in the region – and found a number of reasons for local GPs to be optimistic.
10 min read · 20 September 2013
The wealth manager has hired Andrew Joy as a senior advisor, in a bid to continue expanding the firm’s private equity business.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The UK firm, which turned to a deal-by-deal approach after abandoning plans to raise a fund last year, is understood to be in talks to sell part of itself to Tikehau.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The Polish firm’s final close – below its €650m target – comes after a string of exits by previous vehicles.
3 min read · 20 September 2013
Buyout firms got less bang for their bucks through asset sales last year, according to fresh research, as the rising share of secondaries continued to put pressure on asset valuations.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Charles Steel, also a former Carlyle executive, will be heading the US firm’s private equity operations across the Atlantic.
1 min read · 20 September 2013
The French firm is considering a sale of Diana Ingredients, which it bought from Cognetas in 2007 for €710m.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
The CEE-focused firm has acquired PKL for €51m, in a bid to capitalise on the country’s expanding leisure industry.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
