Duke Street today prices Europe’s largest arbitrage CDO fund.
A new company, to be called RVC, and headed by the Greenhouse Fund's co-chief executives, will manage Reuters' corporate venturing fund as well as launch its own new fund.
BC Partners buys the ceramics company for E908m in what could be Scandinavia’s biggest ever public-to-private deal.
Epartners has given back its e-money. The firm has decided it cannot invest $520m of the $650m fund it raised for internet companies last July and will return it to investors including Morgan Stanley and Softbank.
The fund, jointly owned by Atle and six Swedish pension funds, has now committed all the capital at its disposal.
High yield is to play an important role in the refinancing of Messer Griesheim’s LBO from Aventis earlier this year.
Gilde, Omikron, TBG and Athena dig deep.
France’s oldest VC has raised a new fund of E330m for investment in early-stage biotech and IT companies.
Last week's private equity figures showed a steep decline in activity. The value of deals fell 59 per cent to $5.5bn from $13.3bn last quarter. But when PEO quizzed the market, we found PE firms in cheerful mood.
The Munich venture capitalist sells its DM53.5m stake in the Swiss biotech firm after two years. Morgan Stanley placed the shares with institutional investors.