Index Ventures, the pan-European venture capital fund, has recruited two new senior executives and a venture adviser to its life sciences team.
Palamon Capital Partners, the pan-European investor focused on the services sector, has completed its second major deal in Scandinavia with an investment in Stockholm-based start-up Nordax Finans.
The US venture trade group fails to endorse guidelines proposed by the Private Equity Industry Guidelines Group in yet another blow to standardising company valuation techniques in the private equity industry.
Healthcare specialist William Kane has left New York buyout firm Harvest Partners for MTS, a healthcare merchant bank run by the former top professionals from Bear Stearns’ investment bank and private equity firm Welsh Carson.
Another exit gushes profits in the energy sector as the Irving, Texas energy investment specialist strikes a 3.2 times realization on the sale of Cortez Oil & Gas to publicly traded Encore Acquisition.
ERP-EIF Dachfonds, a new €500 million fund of funds, has been established in Germany to invest in German high-tech venture capital funds.
German private equity firm Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG) has announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in axle manufacturer Otto Sauer Achsenfabrik Keilberg (SAF).
After 21 months on the fundraising trail, Terra Firma has closed its debut fund on €2bn and is now preparing to invest it in up to ten deals over the next three years.
The return of strategic buyers in the US is giving a long-awaited boost to exit opportunities for private equity firms. Conditions for exiting appear particularly compelling for smaller portfolio companies.William Kan, CFA and Georgiana Fung, strategists with Merrill Lynch Small Cap Research, dissect the changes that newly acquisitive corporations have brought to the US private equity landscape
In March, Blackstone's €3.1bn landmark public-to-private of German chemicals group Celanese almost hit a wall when hedge funds refused to tender their shares. PEI's Deal Mechanic explains why