Private Equity
ECI Partners has completed two deals in three days, investing £15m in an electronic archiving company and £35m in a sports online and mail order retailer.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
In the first exit from its debut fund, West Private Equity has sold its interest in Southern Cross Healthcare to the New York-based firm for 3x money.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Since the technology crash first began to take its toll several years ago, European venture has been in the doldrums: a new report indicates the first tangible evidence of recovery.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
Inversiones Ibersuizas has joined a consortium to acquire a 25.7 percent stake in a Spanish construction company from French utility company Veolia Environnement.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
CVC Capital Partners, the pan-European private equity firm, has acquired the printing inks and printing plates unit of Germany’s BASF and will merge it with a Swedish rival.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Clessidra Capital, the debut fund launched by former Fininvest chief executive Claudio Sposito, has completed its second investment as part of a consortium acquiring Sirti, the Italian telecom equipment group.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Carlyle Group has realised its investment in Honsel International Technologies, which it bought in 1999 in Germany’s first ever private equity backed PTP.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
Private equity buyers need to re-evaluate their approach in dealing with environmental risk, say Daniel Lawrence and Paul Watchman of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
10 min read · 30 December 2012
While the use of mezzanine funding in non-buyout deals increased by 60 percent, the overall European level of mezzanine investment dropped to €985m in the first half of 2004.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The London-headquartered law firm has appointed Monique Sentilles-Dupont, the latest in a raft of high profile private equity moves in Paris.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
