Sub-Saharan Africa

Second deal for Bain Capital

The US private equity firm has made its second carve-out acquisition in three days with the E200m purchase of Trespaphan from Celanese.

Shore Capital hits £20m first close

Shore Capital and Dawnay Day’s property venture fund is looking to raise up to £100m for property investments in the UK.

Deal round up 23/09/02

Bridgepoint acquires stake in Western Wines; TVM leads German pharma round

Shore Capital sees property opportunity

The UK investment bank has teamed up with Dawney, Day to raise a £100m leveraged commercial property investment fund.

Barclays PE in Italian chemicals MBO

The firm has backed the E16m management buyout of an Italian chemicals group from Italian conglomerate Montedison.

Barclays Private Equity leads cosmetics MBO

Deal worth £47m enables manufacturing outsource business to buy itself out of South African VC and expand its UK business.

PR lands £20m from Bridgepoint and BoS

Bridgepoint Capital and bank of Scotland have put about £20m into a new pan-European PR firm to be headed up by Michael Murphy, formerly of Shandwick International. The new firm has already made its first acquisition.