nCoTec will offer the software company both financial and operational support.
Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs are rumoured to have paid E700m for the acquisition and to have assumed Aventis's share of Messer's estimated E1.6bn debt.
Schroders’ share in the carried interest on the venture capital company’s existing fund is down to 2 per cent out of 20 per cent.
The fruit developer has axed plans to develop its internet venture worldoffruit and has laid-off half the portal’s 20 staff.
IBM will provide technical support, geared specially to start-ups, for bmp AG and its associated companies.
The fund will focus on investments in Poland, Hungary and other Central European countries.
Chemical e-marketplace ChemUnity.com will use the funds to develop software.
CapVest Equity Partners, part owned by US insurer AIG, is launching a E1bn fund to invest in the European mezzanine market.
Protocol is paying £76m to acquire the two divisions of Spring PLC that provide supply teachers and vocational training services in the UK.
The private banking operation of Schroders intends to offer both its private banking and institutional clients a private equity fund of funds [FoF] in early 2001.