Matthieu Favas
Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The bank has committed €27m to Avallon’s second vehicle, as it seeks to plug the CEE funding gap.
Pascal Heberling has decided to ‘take a break’ ahead of the closing of Fund V, which is 85% raised and expected to close in mid-March.
The French firm, which is targeting €2bn for Fund V, helped the valve supply company achieve double digit growth during its two years of ownership.
The mid-market firm has held a £240m first close on Fund III.
The niche secondaries investor - which has helped firms including SVG with refinancing needs - had a 75% re-up rate for a fund that's more than double the size of its predecessor.
The Eastern European manager, which sold its stake in one of Latvia’s largest IT distributors, sees the recovering Baltics as ripe with opportunities for investors.
The appointment of ex-SVG exec Marta Jankovic comes as PGGM, a fellow Dutch pension manager, continues to build up its own private equity management team.
The firm’s acquisition of Cimbria, a manufacturer of food processing equipment, is the third Danish buyout since December.
Vincent Briançon is the latest addition to the French firm's investment team, after a year that saw it postpone the launch of its latest fund.
Epi-V, which sold i-Tec Well Solutions to trade buyer Trican, hopes to tap the fast-growing shale gas industry with further investments.