The US law firm has appointed former Luther Menold partner Hans-Jürgen Lütt as a partner at the firm’s private equity M&A practice in Frankfurt.
Following last June’s successful listing of the UK bookmaker, Cinven and CVC have placed a further 55 million shares with institutional investors.
ABN AMRO, the Netherlands-headquartered bank has launched a specialist subsidiary that will invest several hundred million euros in financial services opportunities in Europe and Asia.
The UK private equity firm has provided portfolio company Just Learning with funds to acquire Scotland-based CareShare.
The European private equity firm has agreed to pay E22m for a majority stake in Scholz & Friends, the German advertising and marketing unit of struggling Cordiant.
Terra Firma has agreed terms on a £315m recommended offer for Waste Recycling Group, below the £340m indicative offer made in March.
Three years after first investing in Churngold Holdings, UK mid-market investor Sovereign Capital has sold the waste management and recycling group to a trade buyer for £22.5m.
Jean-Bernard Schmidt will focus his agenda for the coming year on promoting harmonisation and transparency in order to make European private equity a more investor-friendly place.
According to figures released by EVCA at its 20th Annual Symposium in Vienna, European private equity and venture capital groups in 2002 raised E27.5bn while investing E27.6bn.
The UK mid-market investor has invested in the £20.5m buyout of communications software maker Securicor, now renamed Vivista, whose main client is the UK government