Toby Mitchenall
Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, at PEI Media. He is responsible for New Private Markets, a dedicated intelligence source on impact investing, sustainability and ESG in private markets, and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
Nokia’s in-house venture arm has partnered with Chinese investor Gobi Ventures, a VC in which Nokia has already invested via its fund of funds programme, to back mobile advertising network Madhouse.
The energy-, health- and media-focused US growth investor has once again partnered with US oil and gas specialist EnCap Investments. The latest investment comes three months after the two firms invested $245m in Gulf of Mexico JV Royal Offshore.
Goldman Sachs, Coller Capital and Lexington Partners are reportedly among the groups considering bids for Lehman Brothers’ investments in US and European private equity funds.
Qatari Diar fended off two French trade bidders and an unnamed Russian private equity suitor to complete the tertiary buyout of technology systems company Cegelec from LBO France.
The AIM-listed accountancy firm has launched a fund management business, TenonCap.
The Spanish fund of fund manager will next year raise a fund that for the first time will have a special situations component. In September the firm increased to 32 its headcount with eight new hires.
Worsening economic conditions are turning up more opportunities for private equity investment than Mercapital’s chief, Javier Loizaga, has ever seen. The former EVCA chairman says the next two years will be the ‘best vintages ever’.
The German and US alternative investment manager is joining forces with Cukierman & Co, an Israeli investment banking group, to launch a €200m private equity fund.
The Nordic buyout firm is joining the likes of IK Partners, Candover and Advent as it seeks to take a slice of the Central and Eastern European market. Piotr Czapski, a technology specialist, will lead the push.
The private equity arm of UK banking giant Barclays has paid NI Partners an undisclosed sum for The Aerocan Group, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of aluminium aerosol cans.