The Geneva-headquartered buyout firm has passed its €250m target for Euroknights V, raising €267m for its second closing.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Bedminster Capital Management has reached its original $200m target with the first closing of SEEF II, a new vehicle focused on investments in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Croatia and other south eastern Europe markets.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Sir Ronald Cohen and John Moulton have warned that the aggressive levels of debt being put into European buyouts could trigger a market correction.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
PPM Capital may reportedly spin out from Prudential as part of a management buyout of the UK mid-market private equity firm.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Lawrence Dean has moved from the investment banking division of the NBGI Group to its London-based private equity subsidiary.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
London-based Benchmark Capital Europe has hired Klaus Hommels, formerly of BV Capital, Apax Partners and AOL, as its first European venture partner.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Strategic Recovery Fund, an SVG Capital vehicle applying private equity techniques to public companies, is fully invested. The firm has now begun marketing for a larger second fund.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
European buyout firm Bridgepoint has sold its five-year investment in Swedish car park operator Carpark for approximately €325m.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
European mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group also put a record amount of capital to work in the fourteen months to 2005, arranging or providing £899m of debt financing.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Many professionals remain confident that the M&A market will remain busy, with over 70% of European private equity firms mulling concerns that overleveraged buyouts will reduce returns in the future.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
