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Europe’s largest funds seek €21bn ahead of bumper 2020Carlyle Europe Partners V and KKR European Fund V are the biggest in market, seeking €5bn each.
Lion bites into food sectorLion Capital is backing the food sector for growth in a secondary transaction, which marks the culmination of CapVest’s acquisitive run building one of Europe’s largest frozen food manufacturers.
- Lion Capital acquires bakery in tertiary buyout
European buyout firm Lion Capital, which specialises in branded consumer businesses, is buying Scandinavian baking company Vaasan & Vaasan from rival CapVest.
- Latham & Watkins lures German partner
Law firm Latham & Watkins has strengthened its Frankfurt office with the appointment of Christina Ungeheuer, a partner in the leverage finance group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
- KKR cuts Demag offering to €271m
Market conditions appear to have impacted upon another private-equity backed flotation, with KKR and Siemens slashing the amount they plan to raise for German crane maker Demag by €192m.
- CapVest, Blackstone in talks over £1bn Unilever unit
The two private equity firms are reportedly considering forming a consortium to make a £1bn bid for Unilever’s frozen foods business, which includes brands such as Birds Eye and Iglo.
- EQT announces €2.5bn final close
EQT, the Nordic-based private equity firm, has closed its latest fund on €2.5bn just six months after launch and in excess of an original target of €2bn.
- EQT sells Dahl to Saint-Gobain
Nordic private equity firm EQT has agreed to sell Swedish heating and sanitation wholesaler Dahl to French glass and building materials group Saint-Gobain.
- EQT sells bakery to CapVest
Nordic buyout firm EQT has sold Finnish baker Vaasan & Vaasan for an undisclosed sum to another equity house sum following a limited auction led by Deutsche Bank.
- UK buyout activity still bumping along bottom
Q1 2002 data from KPMG sees quiet times but talk is of increase.