Robert Venes

A new name in the lower UK mid-market private equity space MST Capital launched its operations last November. As it completes its first transaction, Robert Venes talks to co-founder Fred Mendelsohn.

Finnish fund of funds manager Amanda Capital has held a first close of a new fund of funds, which has already acquired an interest in a Russian fund managed by Siguler Guff.

London and Cambridge-based technology VC Amadeus Capital Partners has received £6.5m of capital from the UK government to support a new £20m enterprise capital fund.

The French secondary placement agent has opted to pursue a flotation on France’s Alternext in order to fund geographical and technical expansion.

European private equity investor CVC Capital Partners has launched Cordatus, a debt management business with the recent appointments of two former Deutsche Bank execs.

The London-listed private equity firm has announced its plans to launch new Beijing operations in the autumn, focused solely on growth capital investments.

EQT and its founder Investor AB have increased their share offer for Swedish medical technology business Gambro by Skr1.2billion.

A new report from Ernst & Young suggests that confidence is slowly, but surely, returning to the European venture capital scene. Robert Venes reports.

German venture capital firm Wellington Partners and German/US VC Earlybird portfolio company NoemaLife has seen a 37% increase in share price since floating on the Milan Stock Exchange at the end of last week.

Global private equity house Carlyle and Dutch buyout firm Oranje-Nassau Groep have stumped up €160m to acquire Dutch specialty chemicals business Stahl from Investcorp in a €520m transaction.