GMT Communications Partners

GMT Communications Partners’ third fund is 75% invested after its recent maritime training deal, with a new €350m fund set to be launched in the next few months.

The network’s Peacock Equity Fund and GMT Communications Partners have purchased a majority stake in Hamburg-based Bigpoint, which will produce games for NBC-affiliated websites.

Pepcom, a German cable operator owned jointly by UK-based private equity firm GMT Communications Partners and VS&A Communications Partners, has acquired a Munich-based cable television company.

GMT Communications Partners has announced the acquisition of 65 percent of Swiss-headquartered publishing company Docu Group and the sale of French-based Media Publications to the Marie Claire magazine group

The sector specialist has appointed Massimo Prelz Oltramonti as senior advisor to focus on telecommunications and electronic media investments.

UK firm GMT Communications Partners and US-based AIG Global Investment look set to become the latest participants in the French conglomerate's disposal program.

GMT Communications Partners and VS&A Communications Partners have teamed up to back PEPcom, a German cable company.

Growth capital firm VT partners, which was co-founded earlier this year by a 12-year Carlyle veteran, will look to pool its resources and network with the US-based cyber-security focused VC firm.

Turkey has been tipped for some time to become a hotbed of private equity activity, given its geographic position between Europe and Asia and its strong supply of founder- and family-owned companies ripe for expansion. Now, nearly a decade since Turkish private equity got its start, and with GDP growth forecast to hit 5% in 2013, PEI talks to four of the market’s key players to find out if Turkish private equity is finally set to take off.

Industry veteran Maxwell has been hired as a senior advisor for the TMT-focused private equity firm just as it is attempting to raise €350m for its fourth buyout fund.

Hitherto a largely angel investor and venture capital-dominated sector, there is an increasing role for private equity to play within the social media industry, writes GMT partner Natalie Tydeman.

Craig Butcher has stepped down as senior partner at CEE-focused buyout firm Mid Europa to become a senior advisor. The firm has promoted two to partner as a result.

Marco Sodi left the mid-market firm in the spring after it ‘deferred’ fundraising on a European fund that had collected $105m.

PEPcom, which GMT co-owned with VSS, has grown into Germany’s sixth largest cable television operator.

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