Oliver Smiddy

Sun European Partners has bolstered its London-based team, seven months after senior managing director Michael Kalb moved to the UK capital to oversee the European operation.

EQT and Goldman’s sale of Danish services group ISS has collapsed after shareholders in G4S, the acquirer, vetoed the £5.2bn deal.

Thibaut de Chassey (pictured) and Edouard Thomazeau, two former partners at AtriA Capital Partenaires who left the group in April, have launched their own firm, Atlon Capital Partners.

Four of the Nordic region’s most prominent private equity groups have delivered an average IRR of 18% since 1993 and significantly outperformed the public markets, according to new research produced in partnership with the SVCA.

Citadel Capital has experienced turmoil this year, and while this week's second quarter results showed a net loss of $4.2m, a rights issue has helped bring the group back onto an even keel.

US buyout firm General Atlantic has acquired a stake in distressed debt specialist Oak Hill Advisors in a further sign of private equity’s appetite for debt investments.

Nova Capital Management, which today booked a 3.5x return on the sale of EIS Optics, is closing in on the take-private of UK-listed software company Parseq.

Apax has brought its troubled investment in Thomas the Tank Engine rights-owner HIT Entertainment to a close after selling it to Mattel for $680m – less than it paid for the business in 2005.

Warburg Pincus, KKR and Centerbridge Partners have injected $1bn into Santander Consumer USA, a car financing subsidiary of Grupo Santander.

Buyout firms Cinven and BC Partners have sold their remaining shares in travel company Amadeus.