The all-share private equity deal has arrived in Italy with the sale of Cantieri Itama, the speedboat maker owned by Opera, the luxury goods investor, to Permira-backed Ferretti Group.
Borden Chemical, a specialist resins supplier owned by US private equity firm Apollo Management, has acquired Germany’s Bakelite from Rütgers for an undisclosed sum.
Responding to an earlier report about merger talks between HarbourVest and Merrill Lynch, HarbourVest senior managing director Brooks Zug called the information 'absolutely untrue.'
Innova Capital, the Warsaw-based private equity firm focused on Central Europe, has recruited Andrzej Bartos as a managing director.
Vestar Capital Partners has agreed to sell Sheridan Healthcare to Boston private equity firm JW Childs while simultaneously agreeing to sell Swedish Sab Wabco in a €310 million deal.
Citigroup Venture Capital, CVC Asia Pacific and Francisco Partners have purchased a non-memory division of South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor in a carve-out valued at $828m.
For investors looking for exposure to emerging markets, investing in private rather than public markets is often the better option, argues Actis’ Jonathan Bond.
David Wyndham Jones has joined Allianz Capital Partners to co-lead a newly established alternative energies investment division.
BS Private Equity, the Italian mid-market private equity firm, has completed the seventh and eighth investments from its Italian Private Equity Fund IV (IPEF IV), which closed in July 2003 on €550m.
Duke Street Capital Debt Management, the leveraged loan specialist, has changed its name to Babson Capital Europe following its acquisition by Babson Capital Management in May.