The UK venture firm has changed its management structure to help it raise another materials science and medical technology fund. It will be the firm’s second fundraising this year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The European firm has raised its first early stage clean tech fund nearly two years since its first close. The firm quintupled the size of its last capital raising in 2001 in an effort to avoid dilution by larger investors in later funding rounds of successful companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Investors provided the bank with €2bn of funds as it continues to look towards a flotation after postponing its IPO last year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Halliburton is mulling a counterbid as Expro’s share price jumped well above Candover’s £1.75bn agreed offer.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Dubai Holding-owned buyout firm and the Egyptian firm have partnered sealing another private equity deal in the increasingly active Egyptian buyout market.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK bank has ruled out financial sponsors as bid candidates for its sale of insurance assets such as Direct Line and Churchill. The bank is thought to be worried about buyout firms’ ability to finance such a bid.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity-backed media company has recruited Ynon Kreiz, who left Balderton Capital, a European venture firm, last year. Endemol’s banks are reportedly selling their €2.6bn loans at nearly a 20 percent discount.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The group had substantial rises in reported sales at Europcar, a car rental company and at ANF, a real estate company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The captive arm of the emerging markets fund manager has tapped increasing demand to invest in emerging markets, nearly quadrupling the size of its previous fund and raising more than 60 percent from new investors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The underwriting banks have provided buyers of quantities of more than £100m with a financing package which could secure them an internal rate of return of around 20 percent over four years.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
