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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.
The investment bank’s Asian private equity arm has agreed a ¥15.5bn take private, the first Japanese deal from its latest fund. At the same time the bank is reportedly seeking more investment from CIC.
The UK investment firm has added Lorenzo Russo and Daryl Cohen to its investment team and converted to a limited liability partnership in what is becoming an extremely promising market for private equity secondary investors.
As British bank Barclays snaps up Lehman’s core investment banking businesses, the fate of the bankrupt bank’s investment management division including its private equity and real estate portfolio has yet to be sealed.
As British bank Barclays snaps up Lehman’s core investment banking businesses, the fate of the bankrupt bank’s investment management division and private equity portfolio has yet to be sealed. Reports that CVC is bidding for the investment management division are false, PEO has confirmed.
In a sale involving both trade and private equity bidders, Merrill Lynch spin-out HgCapital has offloaded its German accounting software company for £123m after investing £33m into the business.
The London- and Paris-based secondaries shop has closed its latest fund and is looking forward to the ‘attractive opportunity’ for the secondaries market caused by credit market dislocation.
As part of a frantic weekend on Wall Street, Bank of America has agreed to acquire Merrill Lynch. A spokesman said it is ‘too early’ to tell whether the deal will include the investment bank’s private equity portfolio, or if it will spin out as an independent firm, as did Bear Stearns Merchant Banking.
The global buyout group is in exclusive talks with credit checking giant Experian to buy its French electronic payments business, in a week in which the firm has already executed two Latin American deals and a Japanese fund close.
The European Parliament’s proposal to regulate private equity seems unlikely to change things much at all, writes Toby Mitchenall.
Having completed the buyout of an €80m offshore marine parts supplier for its first fund, the Danish lower mid-market firm has widened its investor base for its second fund and already surpassed its €200m target.
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