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 French fund manager has brought in €900m from first-time LPs with re-ups from existing investors exceeding the €1.45bn raised for its previous fund.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
The move, announced by the government today, aims to cut costs and fees and to deploy more funds into infrastructure.
3 min read · 05 October 2015
The US buyout firm, which started marketing the fund in mid-2013 with a target of $1.5bn, has enlisted support from 160 investors
2 min read · 20 March 2015
The transatlantic firm has acquired the bakery supplies business of Dutch group CSM, less than a year after closing a €1.1bn fund.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
The UK firm is preparing a float of Belgium’s postal service this summer, in what would be the first listing in the country since 2009.
1 min read · 23 January 2014
Mid-market fundraising remained flat last year, with low levels of realisations impacting new allocations to the asset class, according to a study by placement firm Acanthus.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
The UK firm, currently on the trail to raise its Fund VI, has fully repaid its investment after selling half its stake in the cable and fastener producer.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
The UK-listed group has sold its minority stake in the insurance business to General Atlantic, chalking up its fifth realisation since the beginning of the year.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
Syntegra Capital, formerly a captive arm of Société Générale, could make more than 10x on the Italian listing for the notebook maker.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
The investment is likely to be the last by the firm’s Expansion Capital Fund II, a 2007 vintage now close to 80% invested.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
