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Finnish buyout fund raises €50m

Sentica Partners’ third lower mid-market buyout fund is halfway to its €100m target with backing from investors, including government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

OMERS eyes large global assets

Corporate finance lawyer Jacques Demers will lead OMERS Strategic Investments, a new investment division tasked with making very large investments for the pension in 'global asset companies' including airports, real estate and energy projects.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

GFI, Oaktree exit energy efficiency company

The $1bn joint venture has sold Noresco to heating and air conditioning giant Carrier after acquiring the company for $82m less than three years ago.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Paul Capital hires former GE lending executive

The New York-based secondaries firm has hired Sabina Sammartino to head up due diligence in London and promoted two in Paris.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

General Atlantic hires executive to lead Brazil team

The US-based growth investor has brought on Fernando Marques Oliveira as managing director to spearhead the firm’s ramped-up investment activity in Latin America. General Atlantic last month invested in Brazilian healthcare insurance group Qualicorp.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Apollo Investment shakes up senior staff

The publicly listed affiliate of mega-buyout firm Apollo Global Management has promoted two senior executives as the result of its chairman stepping down from his role as CEO.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

EQT, ATP to buy Danish IT company for $341m

European buyout firm EQT will own 85% of KMD following the buyout from Local Government Denmark to be completed in early 2009.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Blackstone to launch Indian outsourcing company

The buyout firm has partnered with CMS Computers to spin out two of its divisions into a new company with Blackstone as the majority owner.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Blue Wolf makes first investment from new fund

The New York-based mid-market buyout firm has acquired two hospital laundry companies to form Healthcare Laundry Systems in a ‘conservatively financed transaction’ that was more than a year in the making.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Venture-backed Better Place launches $1bn electric car effort

Better Place, backed by Morgan Stanley and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will begin building charging ports and battery exchange stations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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