The Swiss private equity house has completed the sale of its wholesale heating products business in a £52m (SFr118m) deal with UK building material products business Wolseley.
The UK-listed private equity firm has agreed to pay just over £46m to acquire the regional newspaper businesses of Trinity Mirror in the North of Ireland.
The firm’s Central European fund has sold Ultex, the oil-seed crushing business of restructured portfolio company Topway Industries.
The US firm’s real estate group has agreed to pay $1.2bn to acquire a 51-site real estate portfolio in a sale and lease-back agreement with Deutsche Bank.
The European mid-market private equity firm has backed a $40m management buyout at the UK security business of US group ArmorGroup International.
The EVCA fears that a post-Enron regulatory backlash could see International Accounting Standard 27, which stipulates consolidated accounting, applied to private equity funds in Europe.
Claus Stenbaek has moved from Danske Private Equity to Keyhaven Capital Partners as a managing director.
The Austrian vaccine developer has landed the largest biotechnology financing round for two years with lead investments from MPM Capital and Global Life Science Ventures.
Global Life Science Ventures leads $13m biotech round; VCs back French semiconductor company; UK Web filtering firms lands £7.3m round; DVC leads $8.5m Klotz Digital investment; NBG exits Bulgarian DIY chain;
The US buyout firm has paid just over £100m to acquire the UK-listed support service company’s £850m turnover business.