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PEI Staff
Legal & General Ventures and Royal Bank Private Equity have acquired France’s fifth-largest casino operator in a secondary buyout.
AMPJE has invested £3m in the purchase of 15 managed public houses by Mercury Inns.
Baring Private Equity funds under management rose by 10 per cent in 2001 despite a ‘difficult year’.
As the government looks for a private equity investor for its MoD research body, the BVCA chairman says there needs to be a relationship of trust between the public and private sectors.
US biotechnology company Agensys raises $43m from international venture capital firms.
Sovereign Capital has added to its healthcare portfolio by backing the £20m management buyout of Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education.
The US venture capital firm has appointed a former Amazon director for European expansion.
22 members form alliance to advance private equity investment in Poland.
Abingworth, Apax and Burrill are co-leaders in the first round funding for the Belgian/Dutch genomics company.