AMJPE invests in North Sea oil; ISIS exits Media Holdings; Hg Capital invests in Broadband Britain; Segulah buys home installations business
Quester leads £4m injection in OD2; The Custom Factory takes $600,000; Comareg up for sale.
Funds advised by the two buyout firms have backed Yell, their joint UK investment, to acquire McLeodUSA Publishing, the directories business, for $600m.
The technology venture capitalist has reduced its commitment to Kennet II, the E280m fund aimed at high tech companies.
The global private equity house has made a series of promotions in both its London and Paris offices.
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Barclays Private Equity has declined an offer of joint investment made by Pierre Bergé for the Parisian auction house.
The investment group's sixth management buyout in 2001 was also its biggest at E87m.
By Joseph Bartlett and Colleen M. McIntoshThe news stories about employees, including but not limited to key executives, who have taken a bath in the stock of their own companies have been plentiful since the NASDAQ meltdown. Take one example (not the Enron case).[1] An executive is granted a non-qualified stock option to acquire 1,000 […]
The Swedish venture capitalist has bought the remaining 30 per cent of wireless technology developer Åkerströms.