Jonn Elledge

Industri Kapital has made its second investment from its 2004 fund to acquire home decoration company SIA Group in a secondary buyout from 3i.

ISIS Equity Partners is spinning out of F&C Asset Management to become a management-owned UK mid-market private equity firm.

ISIS Equity to open Leeds office 2005-07-21 Jonn Elledge <P>Publicly-listed <FONT color=#99926b>ISIS Equity Partners</FONT> (ISISEP) has announced its plan to open an office later this year in the Yorkshire city of Leeds, headed up by <FONT color=#99926b>Andy Lees</FONT>. </P

A new survey has found that 2004 saw increased IPO activity in all markets, particularly Asia, with a rise in the number of global flotations and capital raised for the first time since 2000.

The volume of European venture capital investments increased last quarter while the total number of deals decreased, according to figures from VentureOne and Ernst & Young.

ISIS Equity Partners, led by Wol Kolade, will soon cease to be a captive operation – a move prompted less by a hunger for independence than a pragmatic view on hindering accounting rules, writes Jonn Elledge.

The former Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein executive will take on a management role at the firm chaired by entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.