GLSV leads E12m round for Pieris; Optillion takes fundraising to $70m; Opto Speed completes E30m financing round
Former MGPE director Colin Brown has set up Transparent Capital, a UK-based placement and advisory firm which has already secured a mandate from Lexington Partners.
The US private equity firm has made its second carve-out acquisition in three days with the E200m purchase of Trespaphan from Celanese.
Pressure from US LPs over fund performance has led French private equity house Galileo Partners to cut its E250m Fund III to E158m.
CSFB’s private equity division has acquired Nordic Capital’s Danish pharmaceutical business in one of Europe’s largest secondary transactions.
The two international fund of funds managers are sharing an E84m private equity mandate from Sweden’s Seventh National Pension Fund.
Nuova Holdings, a fund targeting the less industrialised region of Southern Italy, has raised E100m for investments in small and medium size enterprises in the Mezzogiorno.
Coller Capital has closed its fourth secondary private equity fund at $2.5bn at a time when banks alone are looking to offload $25bn of private equity assets.
The UK private equity house is in exclusive talks with Ontex's family owners over the sale of its E1bn stake in the hygience products manufacturer.
Nordic Mezzanine is looking to raise E200m for its second mezzanine fund targeting investments in Germany and the Nordic region.