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Exclusive: Mid Europa to seal €600m first closeThe firm will be holding an official first close in January, as it works towards its €850m target for Fund IV.
- Mid Europa seals 3x exit to KKR
The exit comes as Mid Europa seeks to raise €1bn for its fourth buyout fund, which is expected to hold a first close before the end of the year.
- Mid Europa gets on board with Polish ski lifts
The CEE-focused firm has picked up a majority stake in lift operator Jaworzyna Krynicka, as it looks to capitalise on Poland’s expanding leisure market.
- Firms stay busy during holiday ‘break’
There was no rest for several firms during the holidays that spent the allegedly ‘slow’ final week of the year closing landmark acquisitions and exits.
- Mid Europa in €200m high yield bond refinancing
The Central and Eastern Europe-focused firm joins a list of other private equity groups that have recently opted for high-yield bonds as an alternative to senior debt financing.
- Turkey roundtable 2013: Maturing nicely?
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.
- CEE roundtable: Eastern promises
Amid signs that the European crisis is increasingly taking its toll on Central & Eastern Europe, PEI went to Warsaw to ask three industry experts whether the timing is right to reconsider investing in the region – and found a number of reasons for local GPs to be optimistic.
- Mid Europa buys Poland’s largest mountain tour operator
The CEE-focused firm has acquired PKL for €51m, in a bid to capitalise on the country’s expanding leisure industry.
- Mid Europa sets sight on first close
The Eastern European-focused firm, which is targeting €1bn with a €1.25bn hard-cap, is likely to reach a first close in the next few months.
- CEE deal flow up, fundraising down
While private equity firms backed more companies in Central and Eastern Europe than last year, deal volume was down by nearly 20%, according to an EVCA study.