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Palamon’s ReD makes £50m saleThe card services business, which was acquired by Palamon in a 2006 take-private, has sold its UK and Irish fuel payment divisions to another private equity-backed company.
- Advent builds Indian presence
P. Jayendra Nayak has joined the firm’s operating partner programme as it works towards the opening of an Indian office in 2010.
- Golden Gate inks €250m German carve-out
The San Francisco-based firm has acquired the wireless communications arm of German tech firm Infineon.
- LP PROFILE
LP PROFILE 2008-10-01 Staff Writer Head office Poststrasse 4Tel: 41 55 415 2820PfaeffikonFax: 41 55 415 2821CH-8808www.shape-capital.comSwitzerlandinfo@shape-capital.comASSETS / FUNDS UNDER MANAGEMENTCHF 250 million as of 30 Jun 2008ALLOCATION TO PRIVATE EQUITY100%YEAR FIRST INVES
- Czech fund collects two-thirds of target
Prague-based Genesis Capital has held a €40m first close with commitments from LPs including the EBRD and Gimv.
- Advent International's Secret Sauce: Insights from Regional Chiefs Gathering
In a year marked by much doom and gloom, Advent International has been on fire. Its deal pace has been dynamic, fundraising feverish and returns impressive. At a recent gathering of its 12 senior managing partners in Boston, Amanda Janis sat down with four regional chiefs who shared some of the ingredients comprising Advent's ‘secret sauce’.
- Grove Street hires top academic
Josh Lerner, the Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, will maintain his post at the university while advising Grove Street Advisors on how it can broaden its client base and product offering.
- GM private equity programme is ‘business as usual’
GM is set to meet its LP obligations and has no plans to sell fund interests on the secondaries market, the head of its private equity programme told PEO.
- The PEI Awards in pictures
We recently hosted an elegant black-tie dinner at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in honour of the winners of the 2008 Private Equity International Awards. Jeremy Coller, the founder and chief executive of secondaries firm Coller Capital, collected the second annual PEI Private Equity Leader award.
- Texas ERS makes $100m commitment to Hellman & Friedman
The $21bn pension committed $100m to Hellman & Friedman’s seventh fund as it looks to invest $1bn in private equity this year.