Private Equity
Listed UK mid-market private equity firm Inflexion has raised £21 million and acquired a portfolio of interests from London Merchant Securities in exchange for a stake of at least 53.7 percent.
3 min read · 30 December 2012
Techno Venture Management, the German-US venture capital firm, has promoted Stephen Hoffman to general partner and Josef Moosholzer to venture partner.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Southern European private equity firm has hired former Citigroup and Morgan Grenfell Private Equity (MGPE) professional Dante Razzano as a principal.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Carlyle Group and Russian industrial giant Alfa have shelved talks to launch a joint venture Russian fund following the arrest of two of Carlyle’s advisors in Russia last week.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The private equity units of Allianz and Goldman Sachs have sold their majority interest in the German industrial gases company to French group Air Liquide in a €2.68bn deal.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Candover has sold its interest in Baxi, returning just under two times its investment, while joint owner Electra has agreed to stay in the deal alongside new owners BC Partners.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Russell Investment Group, the international money manager based in Tacoma, Washington, has acquired London-headquartered Pantheon for an undisclosed consideration.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Hermes Private Equity has completed the management buyout of trust and company services firm Walbrook – the first buyout from its HPEP I fund, which closed recently on £200m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Close Brothers Growth Capital Fund II, which invests in UK SMEs using hybrid debt and equity structures, has raised £50m from four institutions.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Actis, a newly established investment manager spinning out of emerging markets investor CDC Capital Partners, is planning to raise $500m from third party investors.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
