Robert Venes
UK technology innovation firm Cambridge Consultants has re-launched its spinout operation and has plans to partner with venture capitalists. Robert Venes reports.
Linklaters partner Charlie Jacobs will take responsibility for the firm’s London private equity practice following the departure of global private equity head Graham White and partner Raymond McKeeve.
The independent private equity arm of Germany’s Buchanan Capital Group has launched a €150m private equity fund aimed at growing family-run companies.
3i and European private equity firm L Capital have generated gains of €44m and €76m respectively from the flotation of portfolio company Gant on the Swedish Stock Exchange.
The London-based division of Cazenove Capital Management is to spin out from its parent and form a new group through a merger with Prelude Ventures later this year.
Boston- and Munich-based venture capital firm TVM Capital has named three partners in its German office.
The former London MD of AXA Private Equity’s fund of funds arm is understood to be joining the US-based firm to launch a European co-investment fund.
The French cable operator acquired by London-based investor Cinven last year is set to purchase UPC France from Liberty Global for approximately €1.2bn.
The global investor has generated around $1.2bn in total from its investment in pharmaceutical group Zentiva, which it acquired in 1998.
US-based Stryker has paid a venture capital consortium led by Israel’s Vitalife Life Science Ventures $50m for Sightline Technologies, a surgical products manufacturer.